NEWS from
CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (3/97)
Contact; Lynn Stewart, Centenary News Service,
318-869-5120 or 869-5709

Centenary College has changed the location of its Friday, March 14 convocation with Dr. Hoyt Duggan. It has been moved from the Brown Chapel to the Centenary Room in Bynum Commons.

The program will remain at 7 p.m., and will feature Dr. Duggan, professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Dr. Duggan, a 1960 Centenary graduate, will speak on "From Vellum to Video: Old Text, New Technology." The convocation is free and open to the public. It is a part of Centenary's Alumni and Family Weekend, which includes special recognition of the retirement of 43-year English professor Dr. Lee Morgan.

Dr. Duggan will also speak during a symposium at 10 a.m. Saturday in the South Dining Hall. He will join Joe Hardt, CEO of AMX Corp., Dallas; Dr. Don Scroggin, environmental attorney from Washington, D.C., and Jess Gilbert of the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They will discuss the influence of Centenary College and the ways their liberal education has prepared them for a variety of fields.

- 30 -