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Show !THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2000 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS PAGES Baseball and Am·e rica are topics. of today's Convo A baseball devotee, historian, and author with an impressive variety of published books will speak at today's presentation in the SUU Convocations Secies. Charles C. Alexander, a recently retired professor of American intellectual and cultural history at Ohio University, will speak on "Wtfoever Would Know the Mind and Heart of America Had Better Learn-Baseball?" The free lecture is open to the general public and will start at 11 :30 a.m. today in the SUU Auditorium. "Professor Alexander is a respected author on a broad spectrum of subjects," Neal Cox, director of the convocations series, said. "General topics that he addresses with authority include the Ku Klux Klan, space exploration. mid-20th century American government, contemporary nationalism and the arts, and historical baseball." This is a lecture which is expected to demonstrate the many connections between baseball and the evolution of tastes, values, and institutions in the United States, according , · to Cox. In addition to books covering the lives of such baseball stars as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and John J. McGraw, Alexander has also written "Our Game: an American Baseball History· which r I compar~s baseball and American life. 1/Vhile at Ohio University, Alexander taught a variety of upper division and graduate level courses in American intellectual and cultural history, the United States in the 20th Century, and American baseball history. He has made presentations at · international conferences in Poland, Turkey, the former USSR, England, the Ukraine and the Netherlands. He has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Mainz, Bremen, Hamburg and Leipzig in Germany and at many U.S. universities. Alexander has served on the editorial board of the Journal of American History, the executive council of the Ohio Academy of History, and the Historic Site Preservation Advisory Board and the Board ·of Trustees of the Ohio Historical Society. He earned a bachelor's degree at Lamar University and was awarded M.A. and Ph.D. degrees by the University of Texas. Prior to his nearly 30-year career at Ohio University, Afexander taught at the University of Houston, University of Georgia, and University of Texas. He was named Ohio Univecsity's Edwin L. and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of History in 1989. r- - - - - - -- - - - - - - - .. .I 227 S. Main St. • Cedar City • 867-4545 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 'Breaifast on Sun. 9-2 I Lunch Wed..-Sat. 11-2 I I , • ~inner 'Tfiu.-Sun. 5-9 - ! l .. ______________ .. Bring .in your ad for a 10°/o discount. . 1 \ • |