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Lecture is Entitled “Learning to Free Ourselves from Fear”
EPHRAIM, Utah—September 9, 2003—Snow College today announced that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach will deliver the Grace A. Tanner Lecture on Human Values Thursday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Eccles Performing Arts Center on the Ephraim campus. Rabbi Boteach’s lecture is entitled, “Learning to Free Ourselves from Fear.” Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
Shmuley Boteach is a world-renowned thinker, author, lecturer and nationally syndicated radio host. He has written 14 books including the international best sellers Kosher Sex, Dating Secrets of the Ten Commandments and Dreams. His most recent relationships book, Why Can’t I Fall in Love, was a finalist for the 2002 Books for a Better Life Award.
Boteach first came to world attention at Oxford University where he was Rabbi for 11 years. He founded the Oxford University L’Chaim Society – an organization of Oxford students, and hosted and debated some of the world’s leading thinkers, entertainers and statesmen. In 1999, Boteach won the London Times Preacher of the Year Competition becoming the first non-Christian to win the world’s most prestigious preaching competition.
“There is nothing I enjoy more than an informative and inspiring lecture,” said Michael T. Benson, president of Snow College. “No one surpasses Shmuley’s ability to blend research, reason and emotion as a lecturer.”
At Oxford, Boteach and Snow College President, Michael Benson (then a Ph.D. student) became good friends. Boteach came to Snow in spring of 2002 to speak at a Snow convocation at President Benson’s request. Boteach lives in New Jersey with his wife Debbie. They have 7 children.
The Grace A. Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Snow College is funded through an endowment established by the O.C. Tanner Foundation. Tanner Lectures are presented annually at many esteemed universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, University of California and University of Utah. Previous lecturers at Snow include George McGovern, Joan Mondale, Jake Garn, Scott Matheson and France Davis.
Snow College
Snow
College, founded in 1888, serves approximately 3,000 students at its Ephraim
campus. The college provides general education and applied technology programs
leading to Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, Associate of Applied
Science and Associate of Pre-Engineering degrees, and certificates of
completion in a number of occupational areas.
Once owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Snow
College became a state college in 1932.
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