Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Schaver Music Recital Hall in the Old Main Building at Wayne State University. The award program honors a community arts advocate and six prominent alumni whose achievements have been widely recognized. President Irvin D. Reid will present the 2000 Arts Advocate Award to Maggie Allesee of Bloomfield Hills .
Most activities are free and open to the public and include displays of art, music and dance.
Allesee has a long history of generosity to Wayne State as well as the arts and education throughout southeastern Michigan. She previously funded WSU's main dance studio, the Maggie Allesee Dance Studio, and has made important grants to the departments of music and theatre. She helped fund the Michigan Dance Archives at the Walter Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs. Allesee graduated from Florida State University in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in English and journalism. She also completed graduate studies in English at the University of London, England in 1949.