SHERMAN -- A day of volunteer service and performances by the Austin College Music Department highlight the calendar for November 2006. Lecture and theater events also fill the schedule throughout November.
4 Sat.
Great Day of Service 8 a.m. - Noon
"A caballo sobre dos botes: What it Means to be a Bicultural Writer" Siu Kam Wen - Chinese Peruvian fiction writer
Ida Green Communication Center, Ida Green Theatre Free and open to the public.
(903) 813-2283
Austin College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is an independent, liberal arts college of 1,300 students located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Chartered in November 1849, it is the oldest college in Texas under original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.
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S.News World Report ranked Austin College among the top 100 colleges in the category of "Best Liberal Arts Colleges" for 2006. Austin College also ranked among the "Best 361 Colleges" in the 2006 Princeton Review, was included in Loren Pope's colleges That Change Lives, and was profiled in the 2005 edition of Kaplan's Insiders Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges.
