GERONTOLOGY EXPERT TO SPEAK AT SEMO

The first recipient of the Margaret Woods Allen Endowed Chair in Nursing at Southeast Missouri State University will speak at 3:30 p.m. April 6 on the university campus.

LaVerne Gallman, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak on "Healthy Aging: It's Not An Impossible Dream" in Dempster Auditorium of the Crisp Hall of Nursing.

Anyone may attend.

"Dr. Gallman has studied and written extensively in this area and has done postdoctoral research with other nationally known experts in the field," said Catherine Taylor Foster, chairman of the nursing department at Southeast.

Gallman, who will be on the Southeast campus April 4-8, was named recipient of the endowed chair in nursing last fall. The endowed chair was established through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation by Mrs. Allen of Sikeston, with a six-figure gift in 1988. The fund is to be used to bring distinguished nurse-scholars to the university.