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    Date: 2/5/02
      Contact:                           Christina Chapple   46

SOUTHEASTERN CELEBRATES WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH IN MARCH
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University is contributing to the nationwide
celebration of March as Women's History Month with a community reading and discussion of
the classic "The Good Earth," a lively faculty lectures series, an exhibit by Louisiana women
artists, and an evening of showcasing the talents of women in the performing arts.
     The month-long celebration, "Women Sustaining the Spirit," is sponsored by the
Women's Center, a new service at Southeastern inspired by the success of last year's Women's
History Month activities.  
     One of the highlights of Women's History Month 2002 is a community-wide reading of
"The Good Earth" by Pearl Buck, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature. Late last
year, members of the community were encouraged to "Discover 'The Good Earth' again -- or for
the first time" to prepare for discussions and lectures about the book during Women's History
Month.
     Pearl Buck scholar Xiongya Gao of Southern University-New Orleans will lead two
discussions about the novel at 10 a.m. March 5 and March 12 at the Hammond Regional Arts
Center, 217 East Thomas Street. Elizabeth Lipscomb of Randolph Macon Women's College will
present a lecture about Buck at 7 p.m. on March 19 at Southeastern's Sims Memorial Library.
     From March 6 to April 12, Clark Hall Gallery will feature an exhibit titled "Real Women: 
Louisiana Women Artists Working in the Realist Tradition." An artists reception is scheduled
from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 13 at the gallery. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
weekdays.
     "We can do it! An Evening of Women in the Performing Arts" is scheduled for 6 to 9
p.m., March 27 in the dance studio, Room 153, of the Kinesiology and Health Studies Building.
The entertainment will include Southeastern dancers under the direction of Dana Brewer-
Plazinic.
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The Women's History Month lecture series will feature guest speakers state Rep. Diane Winston
of Covington and Father John Pitzer of Holy Ghost Church and 10 Southeastern faculty,
members who will talk wide variety of topics relating to women.
     The free lectures will be presented at Sims Memorial Library throughout March at noon
on Mondays and 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The schedule includes
     Mondays
     March 4   Foreign languages professor Margaret Gonzalez-Perez, "Women and Islam."
     March 11   Bill Robinson, head of the Department of History and Political Science,
"Queens, Wives, Heretics, and Traitors:  The Royal Women of Tudor England."
          March 18    Father John Pitzer, "Holy Women of the Church."
     March 25 -- History professor Judith Fai-Podlipnik, "Heroines and Martyrs of the
Holocaust."
     Wednesdays 
     March 6   Donnie Booth, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, "Women
in Health Care: From Dreams to Reality."
     March 13   Former Fanfare director Harriet Vogt, "Artistic Women Nurturing the Spirit."
     March 20   Biology professor  Mary White, " A Woman's Place is in the  .. LAB!"
     March 27   English professor Jana Schulman, "Uppity and Bloodthirsty Women."
Thursdays 
     March 7   Kellen Gilbert, head of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice,"
Women Who Swing with the Apes."
     March 14   Marketing professor Teri Shaffer, "Breaking Through Glass Ceilings and
Brick Walls."
  March 21   Rep. Diane Winston, "Sit It Out   or Dance!"
  March 28    Foreign languages professor Katherine Kolb, "Feisty French Poets."
  This year's events are being coordinated by English professor Carole McAllister, whose
women's literature students staged the celebration last year; instructor Susan Johnson, KSLU
news director Mary Pirosko, and graduate assistant Pat Williams.
  For additional information about Women's History Month, contact McAllister at 985-
549-2044.
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