Lecture series again features local expertise

The biweekly presentations, which will feature five speakers from the Chadron area, are set for 7 p.m. in room 108 of the Reta King Library for Tuesdays in September, October and November. Dr. Gary White, CSC dean of Business, Entrepreneurship, Applied and Mathematical Sciences and Sciences, will open the series Sept. 14 with “Cultural Experiences Building International Programs.”

Shawn Hartman, King Library assistant director, said it’s not difficult to come up with a schedule of speakers as library staff often encounters people who have backgrounds in a wide variety of interesting topics.

“The series provides a way to highlight all the intelligent people on campus and the rest of the community,” she said. “It also provides a way for people in the community to become involved with the library.”

The series, which began in fall 2006, is named in honor of Graves, a CSC professor emeritus who was a full-time language and literature faculty member at CSC for 32 years before retiring in 1990.

Each presentation is open to the public free of charge and features light refreshments. The Graves Series schedule:

Sept. 14, Dr. Gary White; “Cultural Experiences Building International Programs; Sept. 28, Dustin Luper, “The Three Ps: Purpose, Passion and People”; Oct. 12, Mike Kennedy, “Educating Fatima”; Oct. 26, Dr. Teresa Zimmerman, “History of Bighorn Sheep in the Northern Great Plains”; and Nov. 16, Don Podobnik, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- Adventures in New Guinea.”