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SHERMAN-Austin College will host its 12th annual AIDS Quilt Program Tuesday, April 20, from 4:30 - 9 p.m. in the Robert J. and Mary Wright Campus Center.The event is free and open to the public. For information, contact Roger Platizky at (903) 813-2426.The Quilt Program will be 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Living Room of Wright Campus Center. Local AIDS quilts will be displayed and discussed. Students will read aloud prayers in different languages and a segment of the Academy Award-winning AIDS documentary, Common Threads, will be shown, with discussion following. Various performers will entertain in the Wright Center's Pouch Club from 6 to 9 p.m., including singer Alyssa Stell; Kathleen Campbell, associate professor of communication arts, and a troupe of actors; pianist Cody Pruitt; and the band, Tone Deaf Cowboys. Free snacks will be availableduring the performances. A raffle for prizes donated by area businesses will be held throughout the evening. Raffle tickets will be sold before and during the event for $1 each. Ticket holders do not have to be present to win.All proceeds go to ARCOT (AIDS Resource Center of Texoma) and ACCARES (Austin College Community AIDS Related Education and Support). A number of campus organizations assist with the quilt program each year.Austin College, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), is an independent, liberal arts college of 1,300 students located 60 miles north of Dallas in Sherman, Texas. Chartered in November 1849, it is the oldest college in Texas under original charter and name as recognized by the State Historical Survey Committee.Austin College is included in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives, ranked among the "Best 351 Colleges" in the 2004 Princeton Review, and profiled in the 2004 edition of Kaplan's Insiders Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges.
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