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MEDIA ALERT
06-65 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 13, 2006
Contact: Michele Brown, 216.397.1958, mabrown@jcu.edu

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John Carroll University hosts
Cleveland City Councilwoman Fannie Lewis
For a Look Back “40 Years after the Hough Riots”

This event is free and open to the public
WHAT:
 Cleveland City Councilwoman Fannie Lewis will deliver the 2006 Albert and Norma Geller Lecture at John Carroll University on Wednesday, September 20. Her speech, “40 Years after the Hough Riots,” is jointly sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at John Carroll University, and is supported by the Geller Fund.

The Geller Fund was established by Albert and Norma Geller to support the Department of Sociology at John Carroll and its programs concerning all human relations. Norma Geller graduated from John Carroll University with a B.A. in sociology.
WHO:
 Councilwoman Fannie Lewis represents the historic Hough neighborhood, Ward 7 in Cleveland. She is one of the city’s greatest living legacies of public service. She has served on Cleveland City Council since 1980 and is widely respected for her fierce dedication to serving the community and the city. She was a major force in the Cleveland School’s United States Supreme Court case that upheld Cleveland Municipal School students’ right to use vouchers to attend private schools in the community. Councilwoman Lewis is chair of the city’s Employment, Affirmative Action and Training Committee; she is also a member of the Community and Economic Development Committee, the Legislation Committee, and the City Planning Committee.

Early challenges in Ms. Lewis’ life led her to become involved in politics. She became a representative to Community Action for Youth; The Hough Community

Council; The League Park Center; and The Ward Club. She also served as Citizen Participation Director for the Model Cities program, where she supervised a $90-million investment into Cleveland neighborhoods.

WHERE:

John Carroll University
LSC Conference Room, D.J. Lombardo Student Center
20700 North Park Boulevard
University Heights, OH 44118
WHEN: Wednesday, September 20 at 7 p.m.
CONTACT:
 Louise Barmann, Department of Sociology, 216.397.4381