DC Hispanic Awareness Dinner
and Lecture planned for Sept. 24

DEFIANCE, Ohio – The Defiance College Office of Intercultural Relations will host a Hispanic Awareness dinner and lecture on Thursday, September 24. The guest speaker will be Dr. John Kaiser Ortiz, a professor at Bowling Green State University, who will present “Between You, Me and the Fence Post: Mexico and the United States.”

The dinner will be held in the Serrick Campus Center, Hubbard Banquet Room at 6 p.m. Cost of the dinner is $5 per person, payable at the door. Please RSVP to Mercedes Clay at 419-783-2362 or mclay@defiance.edu.

The lecture will be held in Schomburg Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Defiance College, chartered in 1850, is an independent, liberal arts institution in Northwest Ohio offering more than 40 undergraduate majors as well as graduate programs in education and business. Defiance College has received national recognition for its educational experience of engagement. U. S. News & World Report ranks Defiance in the top tier of baccalaureate colleges in the Midwest. The college website is www.defiance.edu.

September 9, 2009