MEDIA CONTACT: Charles R. Loebbaka at (847) 491-4887 or at c-loebbaka@northwestern.edu

October 3, 2003

Erik Larson Lecture Honors Jeanne H. Kravits

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Erik Larson, author of “The Devil in White City,” will deliver the first annual Jeanne H. Kravits Memorial Lecture for the Arts at Northwestern University.

The lecture, which honors a former Evanstonian, the late Jeanne H. Kravits, will be given at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. Sponsored by Northwestern’s Institute for Learning in Retirement, it is free and open to the public.

Larson was chosen for the lecture because the themes of his work are similar to the interests of participants in the Institute whose peer-led studies include literature, art and architecture, history, social studies and science.

His non-fiction book captures the drama of the creation of Chicago’s Columbian Exposition in the late 19th century.

Ms. Kravits taught Head Start in Cabrini Green in the 1960s and also taught at the McCutcheon and Oscar Mayer schools in Chicago. She was a member of the Women’s Association of the Chicago Symphony and treasurer of the City Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago.

(For information and reservations, call 847-491-7724)