Tuesday, September 24, 2013

IMPORTANT DATES COMING UP!




 MARK YOUR CALENDAR!



 Tuesday, October 15, 2013 AT 6:30 PM will be the date of our second Annual Meeting of the membership of the St. Tammany Library Foundation at the Madisonville Branch in the large meeting room. 

At the meeting you will get a complete update on our accomplishments during the past year and will have an opportunity to ask questions, give the Board your feedback, and to sign up for committee work. 

Most importantly, you will have the chance to elect members of the Board of Directors for 2013-2014.  Our Bylaws calls for a maximum of 15 members.  At present we have 10 members, which, at your pleasure, may be re-elected.

We will have refreshments for our members, but you should let us know if you are coming so we can prepare.

Please respond by Tuesday, October 8.  Send your response to our Secretary


PERCY SEMINAR COMING UP AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY

Some members of the Foundation would be interested in attending the 21st Century Conference on Walker Percy at Loyola University on October 11 and October 12, 2013.  The Seminar is sponsored by the Walker Percy Center for Wring and Publishing.

Inspired by Walker Percy’s book, Lost in the Cosmos, will explore the themes generated by Percy’s lively and satirical analysis of the modern condition.

Paul Elie will be the keynote speaker on Friday evening.  Actor Tom Key will perform a one-person show inspired by the book on Saturday evening.  There will be 15 daytime panels on Friday and Saturday coving topics such as alienation, language, authenticity and the failure of “self-help.”

The name of the seminar is - 

STILL LOST IN THE COSMOS

For further information, or to pre-register go to http://www.loyono.edu/spc/conference OR E-MAIL SPC@LOYNO.EDU

YOU CAN REGISTER AT THE DOOR.  For more information, e-mail wpc@loyno.edu or call (504) 864-7401.


INTERESTED IN A FICTION WRITING COURSE


Stephen Rea, originally from Belfast, and author of "Finn McCool's Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead" is teaching a fiction-writing course at the Walker Percy Center at Loyola University this fall.  Classes are open anyone in the community and are suitable for novice writers and published authors alike. The eight-week-course begins on September 17 and will be held every Tuesday from 7-9 p.m.