PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
                                                   September 9, 2003

Contact:
Terry Hapney, Director of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3112; FAX: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 352-5566
E-mail: thapney@shawnee.edu    

           Gilbert C. Meilaender, Ph.D., Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, will be presenting a free lecture, "The Good of Research and the Worth of an Embryo," at Shawnee State University (SSU) at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, in the Clark Memorial Library's Flohr Lecture Hall.

           Meilaender, one of the pre-eminent theological ethicists in the United States, was asked to serve on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics in August 2001. He will be speaking as a guest of the Jane M. G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series at SSU at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22, in the SSU Clark Memorial Library's Flohr Lecture Hall. For more information, call (740) 351-3447.     

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