Contact: Lisa Stewart 277-2879 Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920

March 28, 2003 AUTHOR, HISTORIAN KENNEDY TO SPEAK AT UNM The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning presents author and historian Roger Kennedy, Monday, March 31, at 5:30 p.m. in Northrup Hall 122 on the UNM campus. Kennedy, the first annual Aldo Leopold lecturer, will present, "Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause." Kennedy has served as director of the U.S. National Park Service, director of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History and vice president of the Ford Foundation. He has served six United States presidents - as an assistant or associate of the Attorney General - and served the Secretaries of Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare, and served on a variety of presidential commissions. He is a founder of both the Library of America and the Guthrie Theater. Kennedy has appeared in many television documentaries including the Discovery Channel series "Roger Kennedy's Rediscovering America," and he covered the White House as news commentator and producer for NBC. Kennedy authored 12 books including "Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause: The Consequences to the Land of the Advance of the Plantation System," "Louisiana Purchase, Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson," and Architecture, Men, Women and Money." Several of his titles will be available for purchase at his lecture, which is free and open to the public. Call 277-2903 for information. # # #

The University of New Mexico
Public Affairs Department
MSC01 1170
Hodgin Hall, 2nd floor
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0011
Telephone: (505) 277-5813
Fax: (505) 277-1981