UMaine Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony Monday April 16
Contact: Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Rosanna Warren, Metcalf Professor of Humanities at Boston University, will be the guest speaker at the 2007 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa annual initiation. The event is scheduled for Monday, April 16, at 3 p.m. in Buchanan Alumni House.
Warren, a highly-regarded poet, is this year’s UMaine Phi Beta Kappa national visiting scholar. Her talk is entitled “Arts and Letters: Conversations Between Poems and Paintings.” It is open to the public, as is her poetry reading at 8 p.m. Monday in Soderberg Auditorium, Jenness Hall.
Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and best known scholastic honor society in the United States, having been founded in 1776. It recognizes academic excellence in the arts and sciences, broadly conceived. UMaine has one of only four chapters in Maine (the others at at Bates, Bowdoin and Colby).