Marc Freedman

will be our guest speaker for the
Fall 2008 Kirkpatrick Lecture Series

Thursday, September 25, 2008
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alumni Center
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

Mr. Freedman is Founder and CEO of Civic Ventures.  He led efforts to create Experience Corps, the nation's largest national service program engaging Americans 50 and above, and The Purpose Prize, the nation's first prize recognizing social innovators over 60.

Freedman is author of Encore:  Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life.  His earlier books include Prime Time:  How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America and Kindness of Strangers:  Adult Mentors, Urban Youth, and the New Volunteerism.

Freedman has been honored with an Ashoka Senior Fellowship, the Prime Mover Award of the Hunt Alternatives Fund, the Maxwell A. Pollack Award of the Gerontological Society of American, and the Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy, and the Jack Ossofsky Award from the National Council on Aging and was recognized in 2007 by Fast Company Magazie as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs.

Please call the Community Center for Vital Aging at
(765)-289-4541 for more information. This event is FREE and open to the public.  Parking is available in the lot behind the Alumni Center off of Bethel Avenue.

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The Kirkpatrick Lecture Series is made possible each year by an endowment that underwrites the costs.  The family of
J. Walter and Arrena I. Kirkpatrick donated the proceeds from the sale of their home, to Ball State University as a memorial to continue their community interests.  Their daughter, Nila Kirkpatrick Covalt, decided that gerontology workshops would be an appropriate memorial and upon her death, bequeathed additional funds to this endowment. This funding allows the Fisher Institute for Wellness and Gerontology to continue providing these lectures free to the public.