[Leica] Press Release

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Congrats, Tina!


On 3/21/06 8:00 PM, "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote:

> LUG:
> 
> If anybody is in the neighborhood (East of
> Charlotte, NC), you're welcome to drop in.  This
> is a LUG-related talk because Ken Lassiter met me
> on the LUG and wrote an article about my work for
> Photographer's Forum magazine.  Lex Youngman,
> photography professor at Wingate University, read
> the article and asked me to come and speak at
> Wingate about using photography to make a
> difference.  You never know where your LUG connections will take you!
> 
> NEWS 
> RELEASE                 Contact:
>    Jennifer Gaskins  704-233-8117
>                  
> Wingate 
> University
>                  
> Director 
> of Marketing and Communications
>                  
> <mailto:jgaskins@wingate.edu>jgaskins@wingate.edu
> 
> 
>                          March 15, 2006
> 
> Tina Manley to present slide lecture at Wingate
> Wingate, N.C. ? Wingate University is proud to
> bring award-winning photographer Tina Manley of
> Rock Hill, S.C., to campus March 29 for a slide
> lecture of her photography from around the world.
> The lecture, titled ?Making a Difference,?  is
> part of the University?s Women?s History Month observance.
>              The slide show and lecture will take
> place at 6:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the
> George A. Batte, Jr. Fine Arts Center.  The event
> is free and open to the public.  For more
> information contact Lex Youngman at (704)
> 233-8043 or e-mail at <mailto:Youngman@wingate.edu>youngman@wingate.edu.
> Manley has traveled to over 40 countries in her
> 18-year career.  To capture the local culture,
> she lives with a family for three weeks and
> photographs their daily lives. Her photography
> reveals the similar human sides of people from
> all over the world. Manley develops her
> photography into slide shows, brochures and
> posters to raise funds for self-development
> programs in the communities she is photographing.
>              In 1988 Manley earned a B.A. in
> English and Art from Winthrop University.  She
> was named Featured Photographer of the Year from
> UNICEF in 1995-96, first place B&W traveling
> exhibit in 1998 and the Southern Visions traveling show award in 1999.
> Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private
> four-year co-educational institution offering
> students active learning opportunities through
> personalized instruction, world travel, faith
> development, career discovery and community
> service. Wingate offers more than 37
> undergraduate majors in arts and sciences,
> business, education, fine arts, music and sport
> sciences. It also offers pre-professional
> programs, graduate degrees in business, education
> and the doctor of pharmacy degree. In addition to
> academics, Wingate student-athletes compete in 17 NCAA Division II sports.
> -end-
> <http://www.wingate.edu/>www.wingate.edu
> 
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