Augusta State will be closed on Nov. 25-27 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Texas Lutheran University has named ASU President William A. Bloodworth, Jr., as a Most Distinguished Alumnus. A 1964 graduate, he was presented with the award by the Board of Regents at the annual TLU Salutes dinner on Nov. 6 in Seguin, Tex. A native Texan, Dr. Bloodworth began his teaching career in the Texas public school system. He became president of Augusta State in 1993.

The Watson-Brown Foundation of Thomson has awarded ASU a grant of $20,000 to complete an audiobook library of classic Southern literature. Among the texts to be recorded are works of Edgar Allen Poe, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories, frontier humor by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, George Washington Harris, and their contemporaries, and poetry by Henry Timrod, Sidney Lanier, and others. ASU has already recorded several works including Huckleberry Finn, The Awakening, and Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail. According to project director Dr. Walter Evans, the grant will allow ASU to distribute 1000 copies of the ten-disc library to libraries throughout the Southeast.

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