FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Date: May 23, 2003
Contact: Mary Caroline Mitchell, (217) 206-7395
SPRINGFIELD – The University of Illinois Alumni
Association is sponsoring a St. Louis-area alumni luncheon and star party from
noon to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at the St. Louis Science Center’s Mission
Control Room. Featured speaker will be
University of Illinois at Springfield Professor Charles Schweighauser, whose
presentation is titled “What’s New in the Solar System.”
Following a buffet lunch,
Schweighauser will show slides and discuss how recent satellite exploration has
revealed a great amount of detailed information about the planets that has
added to and changed our concept of the solar system.
Schweighauser, UIS
professor emeritus of Astronomy/Physics, Environmental Science, and English,
served as the first director of St. Louis’ McDonnell Planetarium, from 1960 to
1965. During this time he also taught astronomy
at Washington University, St. Louis University, and the University of Missouri,
St. Louis. Although officially retired
from UIS, he continues to teach and is host of the popular Friday night star
parties held at the Barber Observatory on the UIS campus.
The public is invited to
this event, however reservations are required. Cost for the lunch and lecture
is $8 for U of I alumni and guests, $16 for all others. Make reservations no
later than Monday, June 2, by contacting the Alumni Association at the Springfield
campus by e-mail at alumni@uis.edu or by phone
at (217) 206-7395.
The St. Louis Science Center is located at 5050 Oakland Avenue, in Forest Park.
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