Friends of the TCU Library will host its Annual Dinner Monday March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Kelly Center. Cocktail reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

 

 

Guest speaker is Debra Dean, author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, published in 2006. The novel is based on actual events surrounding Russia's efforts to save the Hermitage museum and its artwork during the 900-day siege of Leningrad, which began in 1941.

 

 

A native of Seattle, Dean was an English and Drama major in college and worked in the New York and regional theater for a decade before settling back in the Northwest.

 

 

Reservations to the event are $30 per person and are due by March 15. Checks should be made payable to Friends of the TCU Library and sent to the library at TCU Box 298400.  For more information, contact Barbara Standlee at ext. 6109.