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ST. BONAVENTURE LIBRARIAN TO LECTURE ON WORK OF C.S. LEWIS

A librarian and professor at St. Bonaventure University will give a guest lecture at Gannon on the work of the late C.S. Lewis.

Paul Spaeth will give a presentation entitled “The World through the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia,” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 21. Spaeth will discuss Lewis and the literary and religious underpinnings of his classic fantasy series, in advance of the December opening of the film version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held in room 219 of the Waldron Center, 124 West Seventh Street. For more information, contact the Gannon University English department at 814-871-7725, or call 814-871-5497.

Spaeth, director of the Friedsam Memorial Library of St. Bonaventure University in Olean, N.Y., is a frequent speaker on “The Inklings,” the group of writers that includes C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their friends.

Spaeth is also curator of the Thomas Merton and Robert Lax archives at St. Bonaventure and he has edited a number of books of poetry by Robert Lax, including Circus Days and Nights (2001) and A Thing That Is: New Poems (1998). He also is a trained classicist who has translated the Collations on the Ten Commandments of St. Bonaventure (1995).

In 2003, Spaeth lectured at Gannon on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

More about C.S. Lewis

The mission of the C.S. Lewis Foundation is to advance the renewal of Christian thought and creative expression “throughout the world of learning and the culture at large.” According to the foundation’s web site (cslewis.org), Clive Staples Lewis was born in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 1917, he was a student at University College, Oxford, and enlisted in the British army upon the outbreak of World War I.

The year 1933 marked the beginning of Lewis' convening of a circle of friends dubbed “The Inklings.” For the next 16 years, they continued to meet at Magdalen College on Thursday evenings and, just before lunch on Mondays or Fridays in a back room at “The Eagle and Child,” a pub. The members included J.R.R. Tolkien, Warnie, Hugo Dyson, Charles Williams, Dr. Robert Havard, Owen Barfield, Weville Coghill and others.

In 1935, Lewis agreed to write the volume on 16^th Century English Literature for the Oxford History of English Literature series. Published in 1954, it became a classic.

Lewis died in 1963.

OUR EVENTS

Tuesday, November 15 – Hunger and Homeless Global Banquet: Offered at 5 p.m. in the Yehl Room. The banquet is designed to raise awareness of worldwide hunger. The students, faculty, and staff who attend randomly will be assigned a country designation, and their meal, including quantity of food, will be based upon standards of living in that country.
Thursday, November 17 – Box City: Volunteers will collect monetary donations from passersby in A.J.’s Way from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. All monies collected will be donated to area organizations like Kid’s Café, Second Harvest Food Bank, the Martin Luther King Center, Erie DAWN, and St. Patrick’s Haven. This is one of the events for Hunger and Homelessness Week.
Thursday, November 17 – Community Mass: Offered at 11 a.m. in the Chapel. The service will be a memorial mass for Edwin Gregorek, brother of Fr. Joseph Gregorek.
Saturday, November 19 – Financial Aid Workshop: Provides an overview of the entire financial aid process. Offered at 10 a.m. in room 1200 of the Palumbo Center.
Monday, November 21 – Thanksgiving Prayer Service: Offered at 7:30 p.m. Location to be announced. For info call ext. 7435.
Tuesday, November 22 – Faculty Scholarship Celebration: Scheduled for 3 p.m. in the Yehl Room. Faculty will be honored for their work during the past year.
Tuesday, November 22 – Pie for All: Will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Waldron Center. The event is sponsored by the Social Work Club. Slices of pie can be purchased for $1 or $10 for a whole pie. Donations of pies from the Gannon Community are welcomed. To donate a pie, send email to fye@gannon.edu. All money raised from the event will support the 28th Annual Social Work Club Christmas Dinner and Wellness Fair.
“Our Events” is intended to serve as a random sample of campus events. For a more complete listing, refer to Eventcal.

THE PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE

Monday, November 14 – Villa Maria Academy visit. Tuesday, November 15 – Gannon women’s basketball vs. Slippery Rock; Gannon men’s basketball vs. Penn State Beaver. Wednesday-Friday, November 16-18 – Meetings with southern Connecticut alumni.

CURRENT BIRTHDAYS

Fred Showalter. Soban Jalil. Grady Smith. Christian Kramer. Susan DePaul. Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch. Laura Brown. Michael Ferralli. Holly Jodon. Mary Beth Earll. Susan Chessario. Jill Chelko. Ross Jones. David Groh. Chuanhou Yang. John Lyons. Laurie Curlett. Mary Karg. Daniel Tingley. Alan Swigonski. Carmen Toscano. Michael Walmsley. Dave Arnold. Michelle Zimmerman. Catherine Oakley. Sharon Thompson. Susan Black-Keim. Marilyn Konieczny. Parris Baker. Thomas Stolarski. Jennifer Pearson. Julie Iacobucci. Valerie Bacik. Sheryl Guy. Linda Kish. Kyle Witt. Leo Gruber. Cynthia Fiske. Judith Quinlan. Sandra Trocki. Sheryl Tyzinski. Jennifer Hardy. Patrick O’Connell. Rick Prokop. Patricia Schlosser. Ralph Griffin.

HEARD ON CAMPUS

Gannon held its 53rd annual Model United Nations this past weekend. More than 500 students from 40 high schools in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Canada participated. A number of local schools were represented, including East, Central, North East, Harbor Creek, Mercyhurst Prep, Iroquois, Cathedral Prep, Fairview, Strong Vincent, Collegiate Academy, Villa Maria, Northwestern, General McLane, McDowell, Cambridge Springs, and Meadville.
The Gannon University Support Staff Association (GUSSA) will hold a membership drive at the next regularly scheduled meeting, Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 12 p.m. in the Founder’s Room of Nash Library. If you are interested in participating in GUSSA, please feel free to attend the meeting. Lunch will be served and we ask that you RSVP to Pam Anderson, ext. 7456. Membership is open to all full and part time office support staff and maintenance.
Gannon University’s Schuster Gallery cordially invites you to view its current exhibit of paintings, “Father and Son,” featuring the work of Vitus J. and Michael J. Kaiser. The gallery is located on the third floor of Nash Library and is open during regular library hours. The exhibit will be on display through Dec. 9. For more information call ext. 5467.