"Last Lecture" Series Continues at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross continues its "Last Lecture" series on Tuesday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library with a lecture by Helen Whall, associate professor of English. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Funded by the Lilly Endowment Vocation Initiative, the pretext of the lecture is that the speaker is about to retire and has been asked to sum up in a final lecture to students what they believe has made the work they've dedicated themselves to meaningful and worthwhile. Given a "last" chance, what's worth saying? What wisdom would be most important to pass on? What challenges have to go unfulfilled?

Helen Whall earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Yale University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1976, she teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance drama and modern drama. She has published on these and other subjects both in scholarly journals and the popular press. Whall lectures extensively throughout the New England Library System and has also written numerous program notes for the Trinity Repertory Theater in Providence, R.I.