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Dec. 6, 2005

College news

by Evan Silverstein

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Novelist Stephen King and Dennis Lehane, author of
Mystic River, will be featured during the Second Annual "Writers in Paradise"
conference at Eckerd College, which opens on Jan. 21. The nine-day event will
feature workshops, panel discussions, readings, book signings, receptions and
dinners for people who are passionate about writing and reading. Mark Bowden,
author of Black Hawk Down, and writer/director Brian Helgeland, who won an
Academy Award for the screenplay of L.A. Confidential, also will participate.
The conference will start with a reading by King and end with a showing of
Coronado, a new play by Lehane, an Eckerd alumnus. For more information, call
(727) 864-7994, or visit the Web sites https://www.eckerd.edu/stephenking and
www.writersinparadise.com.

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GLENSIDE, PA - Pennsylvania State Sen. LeAnna M. Washington (D-Philadelphia)
has been named to the Arcadia University board of trustees. Washington, who
will represent the class of 2009, was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in a
special election in 2005. Before that, she was in the state House of
Representatives for 12 years, representing a district that includes parts of
Philadelphia and Montgomery counties. She is minority chair of the Senate's
committee on youth and aging, and a former chair of the Legislative Black
Caucus.

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WOOSTER, OH - Patrick Midgley, a junior at the College of Wooster, will star
in Between the Walls, a Christian feature film to be produced in Ohio by
Glowing Nose Productions. The theater and history double major from Terre
Haute, IN, will play Peter, a recently married man struggling to accept God
into his life and overcome an abusive childhood relationship with his father.
The film, produced by Chris and Nick Staron, will be shot in Brunswick
between Dec. 13 and Jan. 6, and may be broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting
Network. 

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ALMA, MI - Alma College quarterback Josh Brehm, of Ithaca, MI, was featured
in the "Faces in the Crowd" section of a recent issue of Sports Illustrated.
Brehm and his teammates set school records in several categories and helped
senior Mat Lambourn, of West Branch, MI, become just the third 1,000-yard
rusher in Alma history. To read more, visit
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/scorecard/faces/2005/11/21/

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SAN ANTONIO, TX - For the sixth year, Coates Library at Trinity University
will house a collection of Christmas books owned by Mary Jane Judd and the
Rev. Raymond Judd, chaplain emeritus of the university and a 1957 Trinity
graduate. The Judds amassed nearly 1,000 Christmas books during their 46-year
marriage. Those to be displayed this year share the theme of "curiosity,"
inspired by Charles Dickens's novel, The Old Curiosity Shop. Judd noted that
curiosity is essential to intellectual growth and to the college experience.

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