BELMONT, NC --- Belmont Abbey College will celebrate the new school year and officially welcome students back to campus with its annual Presidents’ Ball Friday, September 9, 2005 at 8:00 PM in the Abbot Walter Coggins Student Commons, Belmont Abbey College.
The black-tie, by-invitation-only affair will be attended by the Abbey’s student body, monastery, faculty, and staff. The Presidents’ Ball is the first major event each academic year at the Abbey and is planned by the President’s Office and the Office of Student Life.
“The Presidents’ Ball has become a tradition at the Abbey,” says Karen Van Norman, dean of Student Life. “It’s an event for the students to celebrate a new school year and provide them with the opportunity to get to know one another and members of the College community better. It has most certainly become something they look forward to each year.”
Thierfelder, the Abbey’s 20 th president, will celebrate the beginning of his second year at the College. He succeeded College Chancellor, Abbot Placid Solari, O.S.B., who served as the Abbey’s interim president in 2003.
Thierfelder will co-host the annual affair with Abbey senior, Stefanie Whorton, president of the Student Government Association. Thomas Plecnik is the former President of SGA.
Ranked one of the best comprehensive colleges in the Southeast by U.S. News and World Report and The Princeton Review, Belmont Abbey College celebrates excellence and virtue steeped in its 129-year Catholic Benedictine heritage. The liberal arts College is home to students from over 34 states and 26 countries and welcomes everyone from any background or tradition committed to this vision of excellence and virtue. The campus consists of the College, the Monastery and the Abbey Basilica, which can be found on its sprawling 650 acres of picturesque landscape.
Just minutes from Charlotte, NC, the nation’s second largest banking center, Belmont Abbey College offers students numerous internship opportunities and career placement.
The College believes in development of the whole person – mind, body and spirit. By offering a wide array of clubs and activities including Division II athletics, theatre, publications, and study abroad, Belmont Abbey College invests in the personal growth of its students.
Founded in 1876, the College celebrates its heritage and is inspired by the Benedictine monastic tradition. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the College and Abbey Basilica greet thousands of visitors each year.
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