The winner of the Great Lives contest has been determined! The FIRST person to correctly identify the faces on the display in Monroe Hall is… Jeremy Thompson.
The 17 persons featured in the display who have been the subjects of biographies and film are:
1. Kurt Vonnegut (American novelist)
2. Marie Curie (discoverer of radium)
3. Madam CJ Walker (cosmetics entrepreneur)
4. The Wright Brothers (inventors of the airplane)
5. P. T. Barnum (circus showman)
6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (first President of Turkey)
7. Clarence Darrow (American attorney)
8. Jackie Robinson (first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era)
9. Noah Webster (creator of the first American dictionary)
10. General Marquis de Lafayette (French-born general of the American Revolution)
11. Anne Frank (diarist of her experiences as a Jewish girl in hiding)
12. Mildred Loving and Richard Perry Loving (plaintiffs in landmark case overturning laws forbidding mixed marriages)
13. Aaron Burr (American Revolutionary War general, later Vice President)
14. Louisa May Alcott (author of Little Women)
15. Christopher Columbus (explorer of the New World)
All of the above will be the subjects of presentations in the Great Lives Lecture Series beginning in January 2012. As the winner, Jeremy will have his choice of either dinner for two at the Fredericksburg restaurant of his choice; or, dinner for two with the guest speaker/author of his choice in the spring Great Lives Lecture Series.
Congratulations, Jeremy.
– From Charles J. Shields, associate director of the Great Lives Lecture Series
