Speakers to cover various topics during Women's History Month

ALLIANCE -- The music of Carole King is just one of the featured subjects scheduled to celebrate National Women's History Month at Mount Union College this month.
All of the events are free and open to the public. They are:
March 14, 10:35 a.m.: Dr. Susan Alexander, chairwoman and associate professor of sociology at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind., will present "Reconstructing the Culture of Thinness" in Tolerton and Hood Hall.
March 16, 10:35 a.m.: Kayla Williams, author and former U.S. soldier who served in Iraq, will be the featured convocation speaker in Dewald Chapel. Williams is the author of "Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army." Recognition of the 2006 Jane Weston Chapman Award winners will follow the convocation.
March 20, 2 p.m.: Poet Diane Gilliam Fisher will give a reading on "Women of Appalachia" in the North Reading Room of the Kolenbrander-Harter Information Center.
March 23, 10:35 a.m.: Dr. James Perone, professor of music, will be the convocation speaker in Presser Recital Hall. His presentation, "Why 'Tapestry'? Carole King's Album and the Women's Movement," will set King's work as a songwriter within the context of the Women's Movement.
March 26, 11 a.m.: The Rev. Mary Council-Austin, special assistant to the president of Marian College for diversity, will be the special Sunday chapel guest in Dewald Chapel.
March 28, 1:10 p.m.: Dr. Kathryn M. Feltey, professor of sociology at the University of Akron, will present "Katrina and Rita: The Sociology and Gender and Disaster" in Room 101 of Tolerton and Hood Hall.