SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY NEWS
Contact: Funda Alp, 203-396-8241, alpf@sacredheart.edu
Tracy Deer-Mirek, 203-371-7751, deer-mirekt@sacredheart.edu
For Immediate Release
September 9, 2008
THEY CALLED ME LIZZY: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM SLATED FOR SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY PERFORMANCE
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut—Sacred Heart University will present a one-woman performance of They Called Me Lizzy, by The East Haddam Stage Company, of East Haddam, Connecticut. It chronicles the life of Elizabeth Keckly, an American slave born in 1818 who purchased her freedom and eventually became First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker. The play will be performed at 3:30 P.M. on Monday, September 22, in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts at Sacred Heart University. It is free and open to the public; no tickets are needed.
They Called Me Lizzy is sponsored by Sacred Heart’s Core Curriculum in its ongoing effort to address the “big questions” of life concerning the meaning of the human journey. For further information, contact Deanna Bradshaw at 203-396-8020 or at bradshawd@sacredheart.edu.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. Approximately 5,800 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its “Best 368 Colleges: 2009,” U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2008” ranks SHU among the best master’s universities in the North, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation’s most “unwired” campuses. SHU fields 32 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu
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