Metro Columnist to Speak at Journalism Lecture Series

GREENSBORO - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University's department of journalism and mass communication will sponsor its second annual Richard E. Moore Memorial Lecture Series 6 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in the Memorial Student Union - Stallings Ballroom.

The guest speaker for the lecture series will be Lorraine Ahearn, metro columnist for the News & Record. Ahearn will present a lecture on the development of The Fultz Quads Story: A true story of childhood celebrity.
Ahearn's six-day series on the Fultz Quadruplets, which is still available on the News & Record website, was the 2002 first-place winner in news features for the N.C. Press Association.

A native of Huntington, N.Y., Ahearn has written a metro column for the News & Record since 1997. Prior to that she covered state politics.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Ahearn was awarded the2002 Casey Medal for columns on disadvantaged families and children.
Among her past projects were an interactive reconstruction of the old black business district along East Market Street, the settlement of a Montagnard refugee community in Greensboro, and a little-known 1937 boycott of Greensboro movie theaters, organized by the women of Bennett College.

The Richard E. Moore Memorial Lecture Series is named in honor of the late Dr. Richard E. Moore. Moore was a distinguished journalist, educator and spokesman for N.C. A&T , where he served at the helm of A&T's Public Relations Office for more than 28 years. He was an associate professor in the department of journalism and mass communication and the organizer of the University's Mass Communication Conferences held many years for journalism and mass communication students across the country.