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Journalism professor, legendary sports journalist to read excerpts from new book

For more than five decades, author and journalist Roger Kahn has written about some of the most famous people in America - from Willie Mays to Muhammad Ali to Robert Frost. Now the best of Kahn's observations and insights, taken from his books and magazine articles, has been collected in an anthology that has been edited and organized by journalism professor Robert Miraldi.

The book is titled "Beyond the Boys of Summer: The Very Best of Roger Kahn" and will hit bookstores in March. Miraldi and Kahn will read excerpts from the new book at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, at Ariel Booksellers in the Village of New Paltz.

The anthology showcases Kahn's work from his days as a star newspaper reporter in New York City; his years as an award-winning magazine columnist; and his third life as one of America's most highly regarded writers of nonfiction books.

Miraldi, a New Paltz faculty member since 1982, has written two books of his own and edited a third. The latest book, which includes his in-depth essay on Kahn's life and work, began in part when Miraldi collaborated with Kahn, who was the college's James H. Ottaway, Sr. Endowed Professor of journalism last year.

University Writing Board holds annual spring symposium

The University Writing Board will hold its annual spring symposium, titled "Diversity, History, Memory," at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in the Coykendall Science Building Auditorium.

Spelman College professor and historian Anne C. Bailey, author of "African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame," will deliver the keynote address. The symposium panel also includes three SUNY New Paltz scholars: education professor Laura Dull will present "Friendly Africans, Deceptive White Men: Ghanaian Narratives of the Nation"; Black Studies professor Albert Williams-Myers will present "Silencing the Silencers: Reconstructing Memory in the African Burial Ground"; and art professor Patricia Phillips will present "Making Memory."

In addition to the Writing Board, event sponsors include the departments of Black Studies, Communication and Media, English and the Honors Program.

For more information about the event, contact Pauline Uchmanowicz, chair of the University Writing Board, at x2755. The event is free and open to the public.