NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

10/11/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES-The College of Business at Northwestern State University will hold its Fifth Annual Homecoming Breakfast Saturday, Oct. 19 at 8:30 a.m. in the Friedman Student Union Ballroom.

Tickets are $5. Members of the College of Business Alumni Association are admitted free.

Guest speaker for the breakfast will be Casey Crowder, the reigning Miss Louisiana. Crowder is a 2001 graduate of Northwestern, earning a bachelor's degree in business administration. She is a pharmaceutical sales representative for Eli Lilly Co.

Crowder won the title of Miss Louisiana in June and represented the state in the Miss America Pageant last month.

Entertainment will be provided by Northwestern student James Palmer of Mansfield, who has appeared in several NSU Theatre productions.

During the breakfast, the family of Northwestern alumnus will present the NSU Foundation with the Charles Ragus (Founder of AdvoCare International) Family Endowed Chair. The donation of $600,000 will be matched with $400,000 from the Board of Regents' Support Fund to create a $1 million endowed chair.

To make reservations for the breakfast, contact the NSU College of Business at (318) 357-5161.

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