Dr. Lawrence Breeze, professor emeritus of history at Southeast Missouri State University, will examine the role of the civil engineer as this year's speaker in the Harold Holmes Dugger Lecture Series at the university.
The lecture is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. March 28 in the University Center Party Room.
Breeze will look at the role of engineers as instruments of progress in the early and mid-Victorian era.
Breeze, a native of Chillicothe, served as chairman of the history and government department at Jacksonville University in Florida before coming to Southeast.
Reservations for a dinner preceding the lecture may be made through the history department at Kent Library. The cost is $10 per person. The reservation deadline is March 22.
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