At 3:00pm on Monday, March 31st, we will be hosting local authors Betsy Hester and Robin Couto for a presentation with Q&A on their recent book: Twenty-One Boxes: Robin’s Story and the Tragedy of the Edenton Seven. We would like to invite and encourage you to attend. The case is fascinating on many levels and continues to serve as a cautionary tale of misinformation, social contagion, and faulty law enforcement procedures. Robin Couto’s first-hand experience as one of the defendants is deeply moving.

About the book:

In 1989, the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. One day, the owner’s husband disciplined a boy at naptime, and soon an angry mother suggested that it was more than just a slap. Rumors quickly morphed into charges of unimaginable crimes against dozens of little children. Panic consumed the town, as the police, therapists, and parents relentlessly pressured the children who attended the day care to name their teachers responsible for multiple allegations of abuse. The Edenton Seven were caught up in the accusations, including nineteen-year-old teacher Robin Boles Byrum. She spent nearly a year in jail under an enormous bond meant to pressure her to “tell the truth” while she had a new baby at home. Eerily reminiscent of the hysteria that gripped Salem, Massachusetts, during the witch trials of the seventeenth century, the Little Rascals case ultimately became the longest and most expensive criminal trial in North Carolina history.

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Join us for our Honors Convocation as we recognize students who have achieved excellence in academics, leadership and/or service to the University and the community.

Thursday, April 3, 2025

5:00 p.m.

Garner Lobby in the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts

Please join us for The Wesleyan Singers performance as they present their Spring Concert. New music, new faces and new performances.

WHEN: Monday, April 7, 2025 @ 6:00 pm

WHERE: Leon Russell Chapel

Join us as Dr. Gail Marsal will be giving her Jefferson-Pilot Lecture on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm in Powers Recital Hall of the Dunn Center. There will be a reception immediately following the lecture in Mims Gallery.

Please mark your calendars, and plan on attending this event!

On Thursday, April 17 2025, Wesleyan will host the 15th Annual Wesleyan Cup event at one of the finest golf courses in the state, Belmont Lake Golf Club in Rocky Mount, NC.  All proceeds from this event will support various efforts to help Wesleyan students in their journey for lifelong learning and achievement as they prepare to make a difference in the communities where they’ll live and serve.

Sponsorship of the Annual Wesleyan Cup also gives you the chance to enjoy a day of fun in the great outdoors while entertaining special clients, vendors or potential clients and strengthening those relationships in a unique and unforgettable atmosphere.

Join us for our 2025 Baccalaureate Service to be held at the First United Methodist Church in Rocky Mount. You are invited to come and worship as we thank God for bringing us through another year and, more specifically, celebrate the Class of 2025. Public is Invited.

Location:
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
100 S. CHURCH ST. ROCKY MOUNT, NC 27804

Showing: May 14 – July 10, 2025

Mim’s Gallery

Art collection by artists Shelly Currin and Laura Beth Currin  

Reception  May 15, 2025  
5-7pm

FREE, open to the public.

Showing: July 17 – September 12, 2025

Mim’s Gallery 

Reception: July 17, 2025
5-7pm

FREE, open to the public.

Showing: September 17 – November 12, 2025

Mim’s Gallery    

Art collection by artists Denise White, Devanshi, and Ada Ghuman  

Reception: September 18, 2025
5-7 pm

FREE, open to the public.

On Thursday, October 9 2025, Wesleyan will host the 5th Annual Sporting Clays fundraising event at one of the finest clay shooting courses in the state, Rose Hill Farm Sporting Clays and Hunting Preserve in Nashville, NC.  All proceeds from this event will support various efforts to help Wesleyan students in their journey for lifelong learning and achievement as they prepare to make a difference in the communities where they’ll live and serve.

Sponsorship of the PULL! for Wesleyan Bishops Sporting Clays Classic 2025 also gives you the chance to enjoy a day of fun in the great outdoors while entertaining special clients, vendors or potential clients and strengthening those relationships in a unique and unforgettable atmosphere.