November 20, 2008

BASEBALL GREATS CHAMBERLAIN AND LESTER TO HEADLINE SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT LECTURE SERIES EVENT

Fairfield, Conn. –Joba Chamberlain, 23, of the New York Yankees and Jon Lester, 24, of the Boston Red Sox will share the spotlight at Sacred Heart University on Tuesday, January 27^th, 2009. The two pitchers will take part in a “Hot Stove Conversation” in the William H. Pitt Health and Recreation Center on campus at 8 P.M.

Tickets, which will be available after December 3^rd, will be $20, with children under 12 admitted for half-price. SHU students are $5 and staff members, $10. Those in attendance are invited to suit up for the occasion and support their favorite team. To purchase tickets, contact Pam Barnum at 203-371-7846 or barnump@sacredheart.edu.

The University has recently hosted such well known speakers as former New York City Mayor and presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin.

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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 31 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu

For additional Sacred Heart University news, please visit http://www.sacredheart.edu/pressroom.cfm.

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