[Leica] Press Release

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

Break a leg, gal!

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> LUG:
>
> If anybody is in the neighborhood (East of Charlotte, NC), you're  
> welcome to drop in.  This is a LUG-related talk because Ken  
> Lassiter met me on the LUG and wrote an article about my work for  
> Photographer's Forum magazine.  Lex Youngman, photography professor  
> at Wingate University, read the article and asked me to come and  
> speak at Wingate about using photography to make a difference.  You  
> never know where your LUG connections will take you!
>
> NEWS RELEASE                 Contact:   Jennifer Gaskins  704-233-8117
>                                                                        
>       Wingate University
>                                                                        
>       Director of Marketing and Communications
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> <mailto:jgaskins@wingate.edu>jgaskins@wingate.edu
>
>
>                         March 15, 2006
>
> Tina Manley to present slide lecture at Wingate
> Wingate, N.C. ? Wingate University is proud to bring award-winning  
> photographer Tina Manley of Rock Hill, S.C., to campus March 29 for  
> a slide lecture of her photography from around the world. The  
> lecture, titled ?Making a Difference,?  is part of the University?s  
> Women?s History Month observance.
>             The slide show and lecture will take place at 6:30 p.m.  
> in the Recital Hall of the George A. Batte, Jr. Fine Arts Center.   
> The event is free and open to the public.  For more information  
> contact Lex Youngman at (704) 233-8043 or e-mail at  
> <mailto:Youngman@wingate.edu>youngman@wingate.edu.
> Manley has traveled to over 40 countries in her 18-year career.  To  
> capture the local culture, she lives with a family for three weeks  
> and photographs their daily lives. Her photography reveals the  
> similar human sides of people from all over the world. Manley  
> develops her photography into slide shows, brochures and posters to  
> raise funds for self-development programs in the communities she is  
> photographing.
>             In 1988 Manley earned a B.A. in English and Art from  
> Winthrop University.  She was named Featured Photographer of the  
> Year from UNICEF in 1995-96, first place B&W traveling exhibit in  
> 1998 and the Southern Visions traveling show award in 1999.
> Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co- 
> educational institution offering students active learning  
> opportunities through personalized instruction, world travel, faith  
> development, career discovery and community service. Wingate offers  
> more than 37 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business,  
> education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers pre- 
> professional programs, graduate degrees in business, education and  
> the doctor of pharmacy degree. In addition to academics, Wingate  
> student-athletes compete in 17 NCAA Division II sports.
> -end-
> <http://www.wingate.edu/>www.wingate.edu
>
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