The Honors College
           at West Chester University
Dr. Kevin Dean, Director
703 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383
Phone: 610-436-2996
Fax: 610-436-2620 honors@wcupa.edu
  "To be honorable is to serve"

 
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS


The Honors College presents its Third Annual

Aid to South Africa Relay & Fair

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Noon - 6 p.m.
Hollinger Field House
West Chester University


Something for all ages!
Carnival Games, Live Musical Performances, Magic, Crafts & Food

For more details visit: http://www.wcupa.edu/honors/aidtosouthafrica/

Photos of past events:  http://www.wcupa.edu/honors/SAevent.htm

Upcoming Public Lectures
 

Lecture: 
Anne Firth Murray (Founder Global Fund for Women)
Paradigm Found 
Leadership for Positive Social Change 
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Main Hall Auditorium, Room 168

 In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money.  From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born.  The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy.  In her book, Paradigm Found, she shares her wisdom, offering guidelines that demonstrate how anyone can turn a clear vision of a better world into reality.  The founding president of the Global Fund for Women, Ms. Murray serves on the boards and advisory groups of several social change organizations and is a consulting professor at Stanford University.  Her website is www.pardigmfound.org.

*Free and open to the public


Lecture: 
Jim Wooten (Senior Correspondent ABC New's Nightline)
We Are All the Same
A Story of a Boy's Courage and a Mother's Love
Africa's challenge with HIV/AIDS
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 7:00pm
Location: Main Hall Auditorium, Room 168
 From one of America's best known newsmen comes a heart lifting story of the resilience of the human spirit in the face of the worst conceivable tragedy.  Born into poverty in a South African shantytown, Nkosi Johnson entered the world infected with HIV.  He was given only a few years to live.  But his ailing mother managed to cross her country's chasm of race and class and find Nkosi a new home and a foster mother who stubbornly believed that every child's life is important.  Before he died at the age of twelve, Nkosi had become---in Nelson Mandela's words---"an icon of the struggle for life" for millions in Africa and around the world.  In We Are All the Same, Wooten tells the story of these remarkable people and give voice to the too-often-mute human dimension of the global HIV/AIDS crisis.  A senior correspondent for ABC New's Nightline, Mr. Wooten has served as bureau chief, national correspondent, and White House correspondent for The New York Times.  He is the recipient of the 2002 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism and his work celebrating Nkosi Johnson's passion for life is the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.  

*Free and open to the public

Honors Celebrates its 25th Anniversary!
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