The main birthday observance, in conjunction with the Walker County Historical Commission, is scheduled for Sunday, March 2. A medical perspective will be provided by Dr. Tobi Karchmer, who has been involved in AIDS research and is now a fellow at the University of Virginia Health Science Center's Division of Infectious Diseases. The seminar itself is an innovative joint effort between Sam Houston State University and the John Cooper School in The Woodlands. For more details and registration information, contact Dr. Joan Coffey at 294-1485. Currie is the third of four distinguished criminal justice academicians and practitioners to appear this spring at SHSU as part of the Beto Chair Lecture Series.
Admission is free.
Currie has also been a consultant to a wide range of organizations, including the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity, and serves as vice chair of the Milton Eisenhower Foundation, which supports innovative crime and delinquency prevention programs in America's inner cities. He is the recipient of the Donald Cressey Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. The Beto Chair Lecture Series is presented in conjunction with the Beto Chair Professorship, created in 1980 by the Houston Endowment Inc. in honor of George J. Beto. The final lecturer of the spring will be Peter Reuter, head of social policy in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, who will speak on April 17. Family and Consumer Sciences Week March 3-7.