MEMBERS NAMED TO SOUTHEAST COMMITTEE

Ten persons have been named to the newly created advisory board of the Southeast Missouri Public Issues Forum.

The forum, sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University, will offer a series of programs on a broad range of topics.

Dr. Bill Atchley, university president, announced the appointments.

Atchley said the forum is believed to be the first effort by a Missouri college to provide regularly scheduled comprehensive programs on major public issues.

The advisory members: Dr. Peter Bergerson, chairman of Southeast's political science department; John Hall Dalton of Kennett, a lawyer and former curator of the University of Missouri; Warren Hearnes of Charleston, former Missouri governor; State Rep. Mary Kasten; Howard Meagle, general manager of KFVS-TV; Veryl Riddle, a St. Louis lawyer and Southeast alumnus; Chris Robertson, Student Government president; Gary Rust, president of Rust Communications; Catherine Mogharreban, Southeast faculty member; and Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president.

The board will hold its first meeting Dec. 7 in the University Center.

The forum will be directed by the school's office of university relations, headed by Jim Biundo, assistant vice president.

The first forum will be scheduled in late January, with regularly scheduled programs to be held through the remainder of the school year.