Tag: Barbara Cole Peters
NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women invites the campus community to its Friday, Oct. 21, luncheon and presentation on “Creating Lady in Red and Black.” Diners will learn more about “Lady in Red and Black,” a web-based exhibit inspired by Barbara Cole Peters. The exhibit was produced by an experiential learning team through...
The NIU University Women’s Club invites all women with an NIU connection – faculty, staff, spouses and retirees – to the annual fall open house. Wine, cheese, savories, fruit and sweets will be served from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7, at the home of President John and Mrs. Barbara Peters, 901 Woodlawn Ave....
Join President and Mrs. Peters to kick off the holiday season at the annual Altgeld Holiday Family Celebration, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10. After dinnertime, return to historic Altgeld Hall to enjoy festive bedtime snacks and stories that celebrate the magic of the holiday. Listen as professional, award-winning storyteller Linda Gorham...
Join your colleague for the annual holiday luncheon hosted by President John and Mrs. Barbara Peters. This complimentary luncheon will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. For more information, contact the Office of Special Events at (815) 753-1999 or ellena@niu.edu.
The NIU Digital Convergence Lab is recruiting students for a spring 2011 project that will create an interactive, online exhibition of vintage fashions that tells about NIU’s history and culture in the 20th century. The team will include six undergraduate and graduate students with backgrounds in computer science, art, history, women’s studies, museum studies, communications,...
“The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod,” wrote Helen Hunt Jackson, a 19th century American journalist and novelist, “and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.” Jackson’s quote — along with several others like it, all in celebration of fall — adorns a wall of the NIU...
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