William Freivogel 
SIU Foundation 
GMRC is sponsoring a presentation by Kay Ripplemeyer on Thursday, April 19th at 4:30 p.m. in Communications 1032. "Riverwork in Southern Illinois: The Paradox of Progress" is an historical review of humankind's work relationship with the rivers in southern Illinois. This program was first created as a narrated dual-projecting slide show in 1987 by Kay Rippelmeyer of Morris Library's Special Collections and Herb Meyer of SIUC Photocommunications. The program has recently been transferred to DVD format and updated to include such recent events as the Cache Wetlands Initiative and the 1993 floods. Narrated by Phil Bankester, this expansive, beautifully illustrated, overview of our region's river history asks profound questions of us today.
Kay Rippelmeyer works as an Academic Advisor in the College of Liberal Arts, SIUC, and for the Illinois Humanities Council as the program liaison to southern Illinois. For the last thirty years she has been researching, writing, and presenting public program about southern Illinois history, most recently on the Depression era Civilian Conservation Corps' work in the Shawnee National Forest and Giant City State Park. Kay grew up on a family farm, first attending school in Valmeyer, Illinois, an agricultural community in the American Bottom which thrived because of the rich river valley soil and levee system that protected it, but was totally destroyed by the 1993 flood.
This is a free event. For more information, contact Laura Germann at
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or 618-453-6876.
