FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, January 15, 2009
Contact: Robert Preston, Jr.,
912.260.4276
robert.preston@sgc.edu
Rev. Washington to headline SGC’s Dr. King Day program
Join the South Georgia College community on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 12:30 p.m.
for the college’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration.
This year, Rev. Elices Ellis Washington III will serve as the program’s
keynote speaker. In addition to Rev. Washington, the program will feature a
musical selection by the South Georgia College Chorus and remarks from
students Terrell Andrews, Catherin Ricks and Courtney Baldwin. The program
will take place inside the art gallery at Peterson Hall.
The Rev. Elices Ellis Washington III, a native of Tifton who currently
resides in Cordele, is the 22-year-old son of the Elder and Mrs. Ellis
Washington, Jr. and the older sibling of DeSherika Sharda Washington.
Rev. Washington graduated from Tift County High with superior honors in
2004. In 2006, he graduated from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in
Tifton with an Associate of Arts in political science with high honors and
the seal of distinction from the Honors Program. In 2008, Rev. Washington
finished undergraduate work from Georgia Southwestern State University with
a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in political science with a history minor,
in addition to being the first receiver of the President’s Student
Leadership Award given to a graduating senior. Currently, he is enrolled in
the Master of Science in Leadership program at South University located in
Savannah.
During his undergraduate years, Rev. Washington served as Student Body
President both at ABAC and Southwestern. He was also involved in several
student organizations including Residence Life as a resident assistant,
hosts and marshals, the Interdenominational Council, Mentors Offering
Direction, Encouragement, and Leadership Skills, the Orientation Team, and
the University Music Program.
Rev. Washington is a member of numerous academic, honorary, and social
organizations including Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Gamma Beta Phi
Society, Gamma Beta Mu Leadership Society, Inc., National Residence Hall
Honorary, Order of Omega, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, and
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society.
Currently, Rev. Washington serves as an instructor for the Americus-Sumter
High School Marching Band, better known as the “Pride of Southwest Georgia.”
Finally, as of Jan. 7, 2007, Minister Washington has served as the associate
pastor and the interim youth director at the Beulahland Missionary Baptist
Church in Cordele, where the Rev. Chester Askins is the pastor. Rev.
Washington was licensed into the ministry on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007 and was
ordained on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2007.
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About South Georgia College
South Georgia College (www.sgc.edu)
was founded in 1906 and is a two-year institution in the University System
of Georgia. Located in Douglas, Ga., the college's environment gives
students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close
collaboration with faculty.
