HAMBLIN WILL READ EXCERPTS FROM SHUMATE BOOK THURSDAY

Robert Hamblin, professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, will read excerpts from his forthcoming book, "Win or Win: A Season with Ron Shumate," Thursday in the Crisp Hall of Nursing auditorium.

The event is scheduled for 4 p.m.

The presentation, which is free and open to the public, is part of an ongoing series of readings from works in progress by faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts.

Hamblin was granted a sabbatical leave from his teaching duties during the spring 1992 semester to travel with the Southeast men's basketball team and chronicle the team's entry into Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference. Ron Shumate is head coach of the Southeast men's basketball team.

The finished book will be "part biography, part history and part commentary," Hamblin said.

The book will contain chapters on Shumate's life and career, including his highly successful coaching tenures at both the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and at Southeast. Also to be included are chapters on the building of the Show Me Center and the University's decision to move to Division I affiliation.

Hamblin is the author of a recent volume of poems, "From the Ground Up," and co-editor of eight scholarly volumes on Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner. His 1991 article on the integration of the Southern Literary Festival in 1965 was awarded the Haskell prize for the best article of the year by the Mississippi Historical Association.

"Win or Win" is projected to be published in November.