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Lake Forest, Ill – Lake Forest College invites the public to attend an evening of events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., on Monday, January 20. The Lake Forest College community, along with students from Carman–Buckner Elementary School in Waukegan, will honor Dr. King during a celebration that kicks off with a Peace and Unity March at 4 p.m., followed by a keynote address at 4:30 p.m. Adrienne Dale Davis, professor of law at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill will be the featured speaker. In addition, there will be singing by the Lake Forest College Gospel Choir Voices of the World and remarks from President Stephen Schutt. The celebration will conclude with a dinner, held at Glen Rowan House. The entire celebration is open to the public and is free of charge. The Peace March will step off from in front of the Johnson Science Center on the College’s Middle Campus and will proceed to the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel for the presentation. Dinner will follow at Glen Rowan House, located on Sheridan Road directly across from Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. For more information call 847-735-6010. Students from Carman–Buckner Elementary School will participate as part of the College’s “Measure of Our Success Mentoring Program” (MOOS). The partnership between Lake Forest College and the Carman Elementary School began in 1994 with the formation of MOOS, an initiative to promote the social and academic development of children living in economically depressed communities within Lake County. The keynote speaker, Adrienne Dale Davis, earned her B.A. and J.D. from Yale. She joined the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in July 2000. From 1994-2000, she was a professor and co-director of the Gender, Work & Family Project at The Washington College of Law at American University. Professor Davis was visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago during the autumn of 2002. She is the recipient of a grant from the Ford Foundation to research meanings and representations of Black women and labor. Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,300 students representing 45 states and 43 other countries.
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