Glen Foerd collaborates
with Holy Family for lecture series

Though they’re close in proximity, Glen Foerd on the Delaware and Holy Family University haven’t spent too much time together.
That changed in January when some students from the college, at Frankford and Grant avenues, cleaned up the historic mansion on the waterfront for a Martin Luther King Day service event.
That’s when officials from the two institutions began discussing a way to merge their interests in history and the humanities in an offering to the public.
On Saturday at 7 p.m., the two are partnering to premiere a free lecture series through a grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities Council.
The first talk, Gilded Age Medicine and the Death of President James A. Garfield, details how medical procedures in the 1880s helped kill rather than heal patients.
Ira Rutkow, author of James A. Garfield, will give the talk.
Officials from Glen Foerd and Holy Family have formed an advisory committee to develop topics and identify lecturers. Topics will range from politics to architecture.
"They’ll be scholars based both locally and elsewhere," said Glen Foerd director Patrick Hotard. "We’re going to be casting a wide net."
The next lecture is scheduled for March 28. All events are free and open to the public and take place in the auditorium of the John Perzel Education Technology Center at 9801 Frankford Ave.
For more information, call Holy Family University at 215-637-7700 or log on to www.holyfamily.edu
For more information on Glen Foerd on the Delaware, call 215-632-5330 or visit the Web site at www.glenfoerd.org