UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 4, Page 3
September 22, 1994
Bulletin board

Olympic fund-raiser
     The Delaware State Olympic Committee will host a contingent of
international skating champions who are associated with the University
of Delaware's Ice Skating Science Development Center at the 1994
Olympic Torch-in-Hand Gala on Sept. 24 at the Sheraton Inn and
Convention Center in Dover.
     The reception begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the reception and
silent auction are $60 per person. For information, call 674-2810.

Author interview
     Ben Yagoda, assistant professor of English, will appear on C-
Span's Booknotes at 8 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 25.
     Host Brian Lamb will interview Yagoda about his biography of Will
Rogers.
     The program will be rebroadcast at 11 p.m. Sunday, and 7 a.m.,
Monday, Sept. 26.

Shuttle change
     The weekly shuttle from the University to the Library of Congress
and the Washington Folger Institute in Washington, D.C., will operate
on Thursdays, rather than Fridays, beginning Oct. 6. Between now and
Sept. 30, Friday departures will remain in effect.
     Because of the change, reservations will have to be made by noon
on Wednesdays.
     For reservations, call Darlene Reynolds or Pat Beazley in the
Department of English at 831-2361.

Faculty meeting
     The semi-annual General Faculty Meeting will be held in
conjunction with the monthly meeting of the University Faculty Senate
at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 3, in 110 Memorial Hall.
     The agenda will include memorial tributes and remarks by
President David P. Roselle.

Memorial reading
     A reading of 17th-century writer Andrew Cowley's Cutter of
Coleman Street, to be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 29, in 110
Memorial Hall, will be presented in memory of Thomas O. Calhoun,
professor of English, who died June 13 at home of heart failure. Prof.
Calhoun devoted much of his life to studying Cowley and his works.
     Donations, to be accepted at the reading, will inaugurate the
Thomas O. Calhoun Memorial Fund, to be used for annual graduate
student awards, especially for students working in Calhoun's field of
Renaissance literature.