September 10, 2009

• Convocation

  • Greg Mortenson, author of the 2009 Summer Reading Book, "Three Cups of Tea," will be the Fall Convocation speaker.  Holmes Convocation Center, 10:00AM

  • Donations through ACT (Appalachian and the Community Together)

    • Many ASU students who have been touched by Greg Mortenson’s work and want to contribute through participating in the Central Asia Institute's Pennies for Peace Program. / As of 2009, Central Asia Institute has successfully established 130 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide (or have provided) education to over 51,000 students, with an emphasis on girls’ education.
      
      Bring your contributions to Convocation where students from the ACT (Appalachian and the Community Together) office will have collection tables.

• Panel discussion and Q&A with Greg Mortenson

  • (New Locatoin) - Farthing Auditorium, 2:00 PM

• Reading and book-signing by author Greg Mortenson

  • Wataugua County Public Library, 4:00 PM (limited seating availalbe)

• Visiting Writers Series reading and book-signing by Greg Mortenson

  • (New Location) - Farthing Auditorium, 7:30 PM  - "Three Cups of Tea" books will be for sale

• Parking and traffic Information:

• Visitors to Appalachian should be aware that numerous construction projects on campus as well as activities associated with the academic year have limited visitor parking. Parking for convocation and the afternoon panel discussion will be available in the Rivers Street parking deck and at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center. A complimentary shuttle will run between the back entrance to the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center and Holmes Convocation Center. Shuttles will begin running at 8 a.m. Disability parking will be available at the Holmes Center parking lot.
  
  Special shuttles buses for the afternoon program will run between the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center and the Raley Hall bus shelter.
  
  Limited parking for the Visiting Writers Series program will be available in the Rivers Street parking deck, along Rivers Street and in any open parking spaces near academic buildings that typically are available after 5 p.m. Disability parking will be available at the Farthing Auditorium parking lot.
  
  For information about parking, call the University Parking & Traffic Department. at 828-262-2878.

Related events

• Susan Roth, illustrator of /Listen to the W/ind will be the featured author at the Friends of the Library dinner   The dinner will be held Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center.
  Ms Roth will also make a public presentation  on Sept. 17 at 11am in Duncan 03.  All are welcome to attend that talk. [MORE]