11/28/01 Janet L. McCoy, 334/844-9999

PEARL HARBOR WITNESS TO TALK ABOUT MEMORIES DEC. 5 AT AU

AUBURN -- Joan Nist, professor emerita at Auburn University and an eyewitness to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, will speak about her memories of that fateful day on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at AU.

Nist will give her account of that day 60 years ago at 3 p.m. in the Department of Special Collections and Archives, ground floor, of AU's Ralph B. Draughon Library. Her lecture is titled "Hawaii, December 7, 1941: An Eyewitness Account."

The event is open to the public and is part of the Alabama Humanities Foundation Speaker in the House program.

Nist, a teenager at the time of the attack, will tell about watching the attack on Wheeler Air Field and the months of blackout and terror that followed.

The Alabama Humanities Foundation creates and encourages public programs for the examination of life through the humanities -- history, literature, philosophy, ethics and other disciplines.

Nist is professor emerita of educational media at AU. A specialist in children's and youth literature, she has spoken internationally on the subject.

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CONTACT: Dwayne Cox, director of RBD's Special Collections and Archives, at 334/844-1707.