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| Posted 10.01.05 |
Wesleyan's Board Chair to Kick off First Fridays
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James van Benschoten Dresser, '63, P'93,
chairman of Wesleyan's Board of Trustees, will be among the kick-off
speakers of a new "First Friday" series being sponsored by the Center for
Community Partnerships. The event is open to the Wesleyan community and will
be held from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 at 167 High Street.
The series will feature presentations on the first Friday of every month and
has been created by the Center for Community Partnerships for members of the
Wesleyan and Middletown communities who are interested in town-gown
collaborations.
Dresser's talk, titled "If These Walls Could Talk: A Century of Town Meets
Gown in the van Benschoten House," will focus on the history of the house at
167 High Street, which is the current location of the Center for Community
Partnerships, but which used to be the home of Dresser's grandfather, who
was also a professor of Classics at Wesleyan and a long-time Middletown
resident. Suzy Taraba, University Archivist and Head of Special Collections,
will present a companion presentation after Dresser's talk that will focuses
on the recent history of the building.
Admission to the event is free. |
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David Pesci, director of Media Relations |
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