Issued by: Terry Higgins
414-229-5560
thig@uwm.edu
Date: March 10, 2003
|
Issued by: Terry Higgins Date: March 10, 2003 |
MILWAUKEE—University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Director of Libraries Peter Watson-Boone and the members of the Fromkin Research Grant Committee have announced that Sherry Ahrentzen, professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, is the recipient of the 2003 Fromkin Research Grant and Lectureship.
Ahrentzen's topic is a historical-comparative examination of the three communities (including the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale) in the Greenbelt Towns Program initiated by the federal government in the 1930's. This New Deal program, Ahrentzen says, "has often been referred to as a model community that served the needs of the working class and poor and encouraged a democratic, cooperative way of life."
The lecture, which will be of particular interest to faculty, administrators, and students, as well as the broader metropolitan community, will be the 34th in the Fromkin lecture series.
For more information about the Fromkin Research Grant, visit the Archives Web site at www.uwm.edu/Libraries/arch/fromkin.
###