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) |