The Flagler College Board of Trustees announces John A. Delaney as the fifth president of Flagler College. The announcement follows the retirement of Dr. Joseph G. Joyner in July.
Jan 28, 2021
Late last year, Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne’s godson, Eric Nelson, presented President Joseph G. Joyner with a $100k generous gift from Dr. Kinne’s estate. The gift will be added to an endowed scholarship fund, established in 2003, which bears her name.
A distinguished educator, Kinne was president of Jacksonville University from 1979-1989, Chancellor from 1989-1994 and Chancellor Emeritus until her death in 2019. She received her doctor of philosophy from University of Frankfurt, in Germany, and an honorary degree from Flagler College, for her exemplary service to the college.
The recent gift to Flagler follows a long history of her fondness for and connection with Flagler and its administration, staff, faculty and students. A resident of St. Augustine since 1958, she reported eating with her husband in the Hotel Ponce de Leon dining room, years before the college was founded.
St. Augustine honors Martin Luther King Jr. amid COVID-19 pandemic
As a Black child growing up in North Carolina, Benjamin Chavis Jr. knew that checking out a book from the public library wasn t allowed in his community.
But, at 12 years old, inspired by a preacher who shared that all people are made in God s image, and with a thirst for knowledge and change, Chavis decided that he would do what it took to get a library card ― instead of accepting the hand-me-down, tattered books supplied to the Black annex.
Chavis approached a librarian, who attempted to stifle his efforts to check out a book and get a library card. The police were called, he was told that his parents could lose their jobs over his actions.