She has worked as a teacher elsewhere in this country and in Haiti. Opening the conference will be John E. Morley, M.D., director of geriatric medicine, who, with Joan Smith, brought the concept of the University of the Third Age to St. Louis. The closing event in the conference will be a report by Patricia Rice and Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs on Pope John Paul II's visit to St. Louis. Rice, religion writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covered the visit intensively. Jacobs, who is 90 years old and has been a leader in Hillel and interfaith work, read from the book of Isaiah at the papal prayer service in the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica.
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