Calvin to Celebrate Chavez Day

March 26, 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Summary: Calvin College will celebrate Cesar Chavez day with a number of
events.

Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/chavez.htm
 
Calvin College is celebrating the birthday of labor leader and civil rights
activist Cesar Chavez with three events, courtesy of the office of
multicultural student development.

The events are scheduled to bracket Chavez’s actual birthday, Saturday,
March 31, which is recognized as a holiday in eight states, including Michigan,
and dozens of counties and cities.

“We hope to bring some name recognition to Cesar Chavez because I don’t
think very many people have a clue who he is, let alone what he did,” says
Jacque Rhodes, the assistant dean of multicultural student development at
Calvin.

The first event at Calvin will be a cake and punch reception, to be held from
10 to 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 30 in the Library Lobby of Hiemenga Hall.
With the refreshments, the multicultural student development office also will
pass out a short bio of Chavez.

At 3:30 p.m. on Monday, April 2, in Hiemenga Hall room 320, Calvin English
professor Linda Naranjo-Huebl will share the “Music of the Movement.”

Says Rhodes: “She is a Latina, and she has some interesting perspectives
based on her family’s history. And she’s a musician, so she’s going to
talk about folk music and how the history relates to the folk music. It will be
a combination of lecture and live performance.”

Finally at 7 p.m. in the evening of April 2, Calvin will show the documentary
“Fight in the Fields” in the Robert L. Bytwerk Video Theatre on campus.

Contact Jacque Rhodes at 616-526-6081

Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/chavez.htm

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Received on Mon Mar 26 10:16:59 2007