Honors Lecture of the Year
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The 5th annual Honors Lecture
of the Year will be held on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, at 7:00pm in the ASU
Student Union Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
This year we will be hosting Tori Murden
McClure who is the President of Spalding University in Louisville,
Kentucky. She is best known as the first woman
and first American to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She rowed a
twenty-three foot boat alone and without physical support a distance of more
than 3,300 miles. Tori was one of two women and six Americans who were the
first women and first Americans to travel over land to the geographic South
Pole, skiing 750 miles from the ice shelf to the pole. An avid mountaineer,
Tori has climbed on several continents and she was the first woman to climb
Lewis Nunatuck summit in Antarctica. She is the author of “A
Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean”
which has been selected for the Honors Lecture of the Year.
This event is being co-sponsored by The
Honors College, Office of the Provost, The Graduate School, College of
Agriculture & Technology, College of Business, College of Fine Arts, College
of Humanities & Social Sciences, College of Nursing & Health
Professions, College of Sciences & Mathematics, Continuing Education &
Community Outreach, Dean B. Ellis Library, and the Honors College Association
(HCA).
For more information, please contact the ASU Honors College at (870) 972-2308.
