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4/7/95              Janet McCoy 

CHILD PSYCHIATRIST COLES TO GIVE AU FRANKLIN LECTURE APRIL 17
     AUBURN -- Robert Coles, one of America's most renowned child
psychiatrists, will lecture at Auburn University as part of the
1994-95 Franklin Lectures series April 17.
     Coles, who teaches in the schools of medicine, law, business
and education at Harvard University, will speak at 2 p.m. at the
Broun Hall auditorium. His lecture is titled "Moral Energy in Young
People: Sources of Idealism in College Students and Others."
     In the past 30 years, Coles has published more than 50 books,
including the multi-volume Pulitzer Prize winner Children of
Crisis, as well as Walker Percy: An American Search; Flannery
O'Connor's South; The Political Life of Children; and The Call of
Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination.
     Coles has recently completed extended studies on the meaning
of children's drawings and paintings, and on the spiritual and
religious life of children. He examined how children from different
backgrounds acquire religious values in different social-cultural
settings and how these values connect with the child's life.
     The Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities, begun in
1967 is sponsored by the John and Mary Franklin Foundation of
Atlanta. 
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     CONTACT: Taylor Littleton, 334/844-4373.