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Tiger Connection Registration

Have lunch with us on Thursday and listen to Paula Sophia.
It’s at 12:30 on the green between Danley Hall and Horace Mann.

Join us for a Town Hall Meeting on marriage equality at 7:00 in CBCC 221.

Christine Pappas, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science and Legal Studies
East Central University  1100 E. 14^th St., Ada, OK 74820
580-559-5640
Oklahoma Bar Association Attorney 30203

Have lunch with us on Thursday and listen to Paula Sophia.
It’s at 12:30 on the green between Danley Hall and Horace Mann.

Join us for a Town Hall Meeting on marriage equality at 7:00 in CBCC 221.

Christine Pappas, J.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science and Legal Studies
East Central University  1100 E. 14^th St., Ada, OK 74820
580-559-5640
Oklahoma Bar Association Attorney 30203

Oak Hills Golf & Country Club

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ECU Regents' Room

Presenter: Dr. Vivian Williamson Witney
Senior Program Director at Ohio Aerospace Institute
Formerly with ECU OSPR (Grants Office)

“R.V. Burgin: Recollections from America’s Greatest Generation”

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 (7:00 pm) - Event is free and open to the public

Ataloa Theatre in the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center

Ninety-two year old R.V. Burgin is part of what many have called the "Greatest Generation" of Americans.   Mr. Burgin will be the 2015 Louise Young Diversity Lecture’s speaker on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm on the ECU campus.  These Americans lived through the Great Depression of the 1930's, through World War II and returned home to build our great country.  Mr. Burgin will offer his personal remembrances of growing up on a Depression era farm in East Texas and fighting as a U.S. Marine in some of the fiercest battles of WWII in the Pacific.  After the war, Burgin married the sweetheart he met while on an assignment in Australia.   Wanting to ensure that some of his life memories were preserved, he wrote a book, Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific, and was a consultant to several WWII documentaries and to the blockbuster Emmy award winning HBO series "The Pacific", produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, in which a young actor in plays Marine R.V. Burgin in five of the ten episodes.

Members of the Greatest Generation, such as Mr. Burgin, have a unique and important perspective on overcoming adversity in times of extraordinary challenge and danger.  Unfortunately, most of those belonging to the Greatest Generation have either died or are in the twilight of their years.  Don't miss this opportunity to hear from a member of the Greatest Generation who is eager to share his lively stories. Autographed copies of Mr. Burgin's book, Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific, will be for sale after the program.  Price is $20 (cash, check or major credit cards).  If you have special seating or bus parking needs, contact Samantha Dillehay of ECU at 580-559-5598 or sdillehy@ecok.edu.