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Dec. 6, 2005

College news

by Evan Silverstein

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — Novelist Stephen King and Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River, will be featured during the Second Annual “Writers in Paradise” conference at Eckerd College, which opens on Jan. 21. The nine-day event will feature workshops, panel discussions, readings, book signings, receptions and dinners for people who are passionate about writing and reading. Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, and writer/director Brian Helgeland, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay of L.A. Confidential, also will participate. The conference will start with a reading by King and end with a showing of Coronado, a new play by Lehane, an Eckerd alumnus. For more information, call (727) 864-7994, or visit the Web sites https://www.eckerd.edu/stephenking and www.writersinparadise.com.

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GLENSIDE, PA — Pennsylvania State Sen. LeAnna M. Washington (D-Philadelphia) has been named to the Arcadia University board of trustees. Washington, who will represent the class of 2009, was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate in a special election in 2005. Before that, she was in the state House of Representatives for 12 years, representing a district that includes parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery counties. She is minority chair of the Senate’s committee on youth and aging, and a former chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.

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WOOSTER, OH —  Patrick Midgley, a junior at the College of Wooster, will star in Between the Walls, a Christian feature film to be produced in Ohio by Glowing Nose Productions. The theater and history double major from Terre Haute, IN, will play Peter, a recently married man struggling to accept God into his life and overcome an abusive childhood relationship with his father. The film, produced by Chris and Nick Staron, will be shot in Brunswick between Dec. 13 and Jan. 6, and may be broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

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ALMA, MI — Alma College quarterback Josh Brehm, of Ithaca, MI, was featured in the “Faces in the Crowd” section of a recent issue of Sports Illustrated. Brehm and his teammates set school records in several categories and helped senior Mat Lambourn, of West Branch, MI, become just the third 1,000-yard rusher in Alma history. To read more, visit http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/scorecard/faces/2005/11/21/

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