Friday, November 30, 2007

SMU faculty present at Lasallian conference

Dr. Eileen Daily, Dr. Karen Sorvaag, and Dr. Mary Catherine Fox, attended and presented at the annual Huether Lasallian Conference, Nov. 15-17, in St. Louis.

This year’s conference theme was “Literacy The Gateway to a Human and Christian Education.” Dr. Daily presented “Picturacy? Visual Literacy for a Visual Culture”; Dr. Sorvaag presented “Working with Reluctant Readers and Writers in the Middle School”; and Dr. Fox presented “The Significance of Story,” a Lasallian reflection on the conference’s keynote speakers, Reverend James J. DiGiacomo, S.J. and Sr. Kathleen Ross, SNJM, Ph.D., founding president of Heritage University.