Fall Lecture Series

Alice Ozma presents "The Reading Promise"
When Alice Ozma was nine years old, her father made a promise: to read to her every night, without missing a night, for one-hundred nights. But once the pair met their goal, they couldn't stop. 100 became 1,000, and eventually, they decided to read as long as they possibly could. The Reading Streak, as they called it, ultimately lasted 3,218, finally ending on Alice's first day of college. The story of their amazing commitment to reading, and to each other, is chronicled in Alice Ozma's book The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared.

The Reading Streak changed their lives so profoundly, Alice has made a commitment to spread the word about reading and the importance of making a reading promise. The reading promise is simply a promise to read to yourself, read to someone else, and protect and defend reading in your community. It's a promise anyone can make, and a movement you'll feel good about. Improve your life and the lives of those around you - make your own reading promise today.

The Fall Lecture will occur in Carter Hall on October 17, 2011 at 7 p.m., and is free for anyone to attend. After the lecture, Ozma will sign copies of The Reading Promise. 

The 2010 Fall Lecture is co-sponsored by Student Development Programs and the USI Foundation.

About the Fall Lecture Series 
Every fall the Office of Student Development Programs, with assistance from the USI Foundation, sponsors the Fall Lecture Series.  The purpose of the Lecture Series is to bring a speaker to campus that will be of interest to students and cause them to challenge their beliefs.

 

Past speakers include the following:

    2010 - Bill Strickland - Make the Impossible Possible 

    2009 - Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith 

    2008 - Alan Lightman - The Diagnosis

    2007 - Kevin Roberts - The Food Dude 

    2006 - Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle

    2005 - Ethan Zohn - Character: The Ultimate Survival Tool

    2004 - Brent Scarpo - Journey to a Hate Free Millennium

    2003 - Clifton Taulbert - Eight Habits of the Heart