Thursday April 15, 10:15 a.m.
Where: Peace Garden. (Media parking: Enter via Lot D southeast of the Madden
Library and park on the sidewalk running along the north side of Library)
Who: President John D. Welty
Peace Garden Selection Committee
Representatives of faculty and Associated Students Inc.
2nd and 5th grade students from Jane Addams Elementary School in Fresno who will sing a peace song. One student will speak.
Backgrnd: Two announcements will be made: The start of a search for an artist to
create a monument in the Peace Garden to Nobel Peace Prize winner (1931) Jane Addams and the beginning of a community fund drive. Design proposals for a bronze sculpture of Addams will be sought first from Fresno State students, faculty, staff or alumni. Proposals are due June 1. The committee hopes to install the sculpture in fall 2005.
A social reformer, writer and international peace advocate in the early 20th century, Addams will be the first woman represented in Fresno State’s Peace Garden, which has statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar E. Chavez and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All of the statues were financed through private giving.
Information: 278-5292 or www.csufresno.edu/peacegarden.
