Swasy To Speak Penn State Forum
September 5, 2000
University Park, Pa. — Reporter, author and Penn State alumna Alecia Swasy, is the next guest speaker for the Penn State Forum lecture at noon on Friday, Sept. 29, at the Penn Stater. The topic of her presentation is "Corporate Stupidity."

A native of Blairsville, Pa., she graduated from Penn State in 1985 with a degree in journalism and was editor of The Daily Collegian. Her journalism career began as a reporter for the Lexington Herald Leader where she covered Toyota's first U.S. auto plant. In 1998, she moved to the Wall Street Journal, where she covered Procter & Gamble. Today, Swasy is assistant managing editor at the St. Petersburg Times and is author of "Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble" and "Changing Focus: Kodak and the Battle to Save a Great American Company," both published by Random House.

The Penn State Faculty Staff Club Forum is a lunchtime speaker series partially sponsored by the Penn State Bookstore and is open to the public. Tickets are $11 and include lunch. Reservations can be made by mail or by stopping by the Faculty Staff Club office at 103 HUB-Robeson Center. Tickets will be on sale at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by the speech and a question-and-answer session at noon. For more information call (814) 865-7590.

The next Penn State Forum speaker is Gen. James L. Jones, 32nd commandant of the Marine Corps, who will speak on "The Role of the Marine Corps in the 21^st Century," on Friday, Oct. 20, at the Penn Stater.

Contact: Amy Neil, Department of Public Information, at (814) 865-7517 or .