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4/7/95                   Janet McCoy 

WHITE TO GIVE SHERMAN LECTURE AT AUBURN ON APRIL 11
     AUBURN -- Jesse White Jr., federal co-chair of the Appalachian
Regional Commission, will give the 1995 Sherman Lecture in Public
Administration at Auburn University on Tuesday, April 11. 
     White will speak on "The New Model of Economic Development" at
4 p.m. at Pebble Hill. He also will speak to political science
classes on April 12. 
     Prior to his ARC appointment, White was a lecturer, consultant
and writer in the fields of economic development, public policy and
strategic planning. In 1992, he was secretary and managing
consultant to the Commission on the Future of the South. From 1982
to 1990, White was executive director of the Southern Growth
Policies Board, a economic development "think tank" for 14 Southern
state governors. 
     White has been a fellow of the Institute for Politics at
Harvard University, where he taught a class on modern Southern
politics. 
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     CONTACT: Lewis Cannon, 334/844-5371.