Wayne State University will celebrate the inauguration of its ninth president, Irvin D. Reid, on Friday, Sept. 18, 1998.
The date coincides with the first day of the Detroit Festival of the Arts, an annual event that attracts several hundred thousand people to the campus and surrounding cultural center institutions.
The inaugural festivities will begin with a concert in WSU's Community Arts Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 17. Other events are in the early planning stage.
Additional announcements about events, times and locations will be released as plans are firmed up.
Dr. Reid was sworn in as the ninth president of Wayne State University on November 24, 1997 in a ceremony in McGregor Memorial Conference Center on campus. He succeeds David Adamany, who will return to teaching assignments in law and political science.
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