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For Immediate Release					 	 March 3, 1997
 
Direct from Italy:  Lawrence University Professor Presents History of Classics
 
 
APPLETON, WIS. -- Classics Professor Daniel Taylor isn't about to let a mere
5,000 miles stand between him and Lawrence University's year-long
sesquicentennial celebration.

Taylor is spending the 1996-97 academic year in Florence, Italy, conducting
research on the acknowledged Roman classic, "De Lingua Latina" ("On the Latin
Language") thanks in part to a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship.  But he's returning to Appleton Tuesday, March 11 to deliver a
special evening Main Hall Forum as part of the colge's 150th anniversary. 
Taylor's address, "150 Years of Classics at Lawrence:  A Tribute to Maurice
Cunningham and His Predecessor" at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of the Wriston Art
Center, is free and open to the public.  A reception will follow Taylor's
remarks.

Drawing upon his perspective as both a Lawrence graduate and classics  major
himself (Class of '63) and chairman of Lawrence's classics department for  more
than 20 years, Taylor promises an entertaining and informative look at the 
history of classics at Lawrence.  From Romulus Kellogg, the namesake of Rome's
founder who headed the classics program when Lawrence was founded, to Hiram 
Jones, who taught for 44 years and died a true scholar's death -- reading Latin 
at his desk in the room now named after him in Main Hall, to Maurice P. 
Cunningham, one of the leading Latinists in the entire world, Taylor will 
discuss the history of the ever-scholarly, but often eccentric, classicists who 
have enlivened both the Lawrence campus and the Fox Valley community.