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Honors Program plans Homecoming event Oct. 7

September 28, 2011

Tom Rogers, director of the BYU Honors Program from 1974 to 1977 and a professor emeritus of Germanic and Slavic languages, will discuss “Hearts of the Children, Hearts of the Fathers: The Sense of Transcendent Familial Ties Both in Selected Films and in Works by 20-Century Russian Writers” at an Honors Program Homecoming event Friday, Oct. 7.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a light barbecue supper on the Maeser Building Lawn and continue in 321 Maeser Building. Casual dress is suggested.

Those interested should register by Sept. 30 by contacting jeanny_gordon@byu.edu, (801) 422-5226.

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