TWU Hosts Research In The Archives Lecture

2/20/03

DENTON — Author Sarah Rickman will be the featured speaker for the Research in the Archives lecture series hosted by the Woman's Collection at Texas Woman's University. The presentation will be March 6 at noon in the lecture hall of TWU's Blagg-Huey Library, located at the intersection of Bell Avenue and Administration Drive. A book signing will follow. Admission is free and open to the public.

Rickman's new novel, Flight From Fear, is the story of a woman who joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II. Rickman also wrote The Originals: The Women Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron.

The TWU library has an extensive WASP archive, which is available online at www.twu.edu/wasp .

For more information about the lecture series, contact the TWU library at (940) 898-2665.

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For Further Information Contact:

Roy Kron
Director of News and Information
Tel: (940) 898-3456
e-mail: rkron@twu.edu