MEDIA ADVISORY
                                                                    May 2, 2002

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

To news directors, editors, producers, and reporters:

U.S. Senator George Voinovich (R-Ohio) will be visiting the Shawnee State University campus on Saturday, May 4 from 11:15 a.m. to approximately 12:15 p.m. The focus of his visit is to meet with SSU officials; tour the Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education (OACHE), the organization that promotes higher education opportunities for high school students in the Appalachian section of Ohio; and visit a Shawnee State University computer lab where displaced workers, business owners, and area residents can improve their technology skills with courses in information technology, professional development, education enrichment, and industrial safety.  This is the kind of program Voinovich sought to expand with his new Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) technology initiative.  Additional information accompanies this fax.

Highlights of the visit will include a meeting with SSU Interim President Michael Field; a meeting with Wayne White, executive director of OACHE; and the Senator’s observation of a Shawnee State University Office of University Outreach Services Microsoft IT Academy MCSE program class.  A press conference will be held at the conclusion of his visit at approximately noon, in SSU’s Administration Building, Room 032 (in the basement).  I have included a campus map to help you find the building.

The entire tour is open to members of the media.  If you need additional information, please let me know.

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