Cancelled Cancellation posted 4/3/03

PLEASE NOTE: Due to illness, Bishop Kelly was forced to cancel this engagement.

BISHOP KELLY TO SPEAK AT ADRIAN COLLEGE CONVOCATION posted 3/28/03

Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly will speak at Adrian College on Wednesday, April 9 at 12:15 p.m. in the Adrian College chapel as part of the Adrian College convocation series.

Her address is titled "When God Intervenes." A main focus of the presentation will be the Underground Railroad, which Kelly first encountered at a young age when she and two of her siblings ran across a passage in her childhood church that was once part of the Underground Railroad.

In 1984, Kelly became the first African American female bishop of any major religion when she was elected by the Western Jurisdictional Conference of the United Methodist Church. She was the second female to be named Bishop behind Marjorie Swank Matthews. As an ordained United Methodist elder, she has served local churches in Virginia as the Associate Program Council Director of the Virginia Annual Conference and supervised the San Francisco Area until her retirement in 1988. Kelly has received numerous honors, including ten honorary doctorate degrees. In 2000 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

For more information, contact Chris Momany at 517-265-5161, ext. 4211.