KSU official speaks at Westminster College
Staff report
NEW WILMINGTON, PA.
As part of the Bleasby Colloquia Series, Westminster College’s Department of English and Public Relations will host David Hassler, director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free.
His discussion will center on his play, “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970.” It is an expression of the Kent State Shootings Oral History Project, which began in 1990 by Sandra Halem, housed in Kent State University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and Archives.
The project includes more than 110 interviews, with first-person narratives and personal reactions to the May 4, 1970, shootings. Weaving these voices and stories together, Hassler’s play tells the human story of May 4th and its aftermath.
His discussion offers opportunities for educators from middle school through college to teach across disciplines and connect literary studies to sociology, history, drama, political science, mental health and personal narrative.