FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb. 23, 2007
Contact: Christina Boston
(662) 329-7119

White to speak on medieval feasting customs
  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Jack White, adjunct professor at Mississippi University for Women, will be giving a lecture titled “Using Medieval Feasting Customs to Link the Past and Present.”
   
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Thursday, March 1 at 6 p.m. in the Nissan Auditorium, Parkinson Hall.
   
White’s lecture is generously supported by the Mississippi Humanities Council.
   
He is a retired English teacher and a longtime honors director at Mississippi State University.
   
The MHC is a private nonprofit corporation that is funded by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide public programs in traditional liberal art disciplines to serve nonprofit groups in Mississippi.
   
MHC sponsors, supports and conducts a wide range of programs that are designed to promote understanding of cultural heritage, interpret experience, foster critical thinking, encourage public discourse, strengthen a sense of community and empower Mississippi people with hope for the future.
   
For more information, contact Dr. Eric Daffron, director of The Ina E. Gordy Honors College, at (662) 329-7174 or (662) 241-6850.