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Wednesday, April 21, 1999

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 Weinberg to Speak at Costa Lecture

The Ohio University History Department will host its annual Costa Lecture with guest lecturer Gerhard Weinberg speaking on "World War II in Postwar Politics" in Room 194 of Irvine Hall at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 22.

The William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Weinberg is an authority on the history of World War II-era Germany and has worked on several war documentation projects. Awards for his books include the George Louis Beer Prize, the Halverson Prize of the German Studies Association, the Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History and the 1994 Herbert Hoover Book Award. Weinberg has served as vice president for research of the American Historical Association, as a consultant to the committee on war documents of the American Historical Association and as president of the World War II Studies Association.

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Notes of Interest...

• A boil order is in effect until 12:30 a.m. Thursday for the Athens area including Northwood Drive, Columbia Avenue, Orchard and Cable Lanes, and Peach Ridge, Old Peach Ridge and Strouds Run Roads.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will lecture tonight. He will speak about the private lives of public officials as part of Ohio University's Kennedy Lecture Series tonight at 8 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church on College Street.
• "Adapting Care to the Physical and Psychological Changes of Aging" will be the topic of the spring 1999 Geriatric Education Series seminar sponsored by Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM). Marlene Blackford, M.S.N., R.N., C., will speak on the topic at the Holzer Medical Center in Gallipolis today from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. The workshop fee is $40.
• Free childhood immunizations will be offered by the mobile health unit of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine according to the following schedule: April 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mac-N-Bec's in Albany. Free immunizations also will be provided at area kindergarten registrations as follows: Morrison,today, 8 to 11 a.m.; today, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; The Plains, April 26, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and Coolville, April 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 1-800-844-2654.
• Hookfin signs with Atlanta. Ohio University tailback Steveland Hookfin (Arkadelphia, Ark.) reached an agreement to sign as a free agent with the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday evening. Read more about it.
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus is available. Click here for details.
• The Ohio University Calendar of Events is now available online. Visit http://redbud.cats.ohiou.edu/calendar/ to access.
  

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