April 9, 1998
Rebecca Wells woos audience with tales of friendship
New York Times bestselling author/actor Rebecca Wells entertained an enthusiastic, capacity crowd of 400 in Nunemaker Auditorium March 11 at a performance/reading sponsored by the Women’s Center with funding from the Biever Guest Lecture Series. Wells read from her two novels, Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Women’s Center honoree Rebecca Wells (center) is shown at a reception following the event with (from left) Trish DelNero and Connie Rodriguez, co-chairs of the Women’s Studies Committee; Abby Stewart and Beth Ann Chichetto, student representatives on the committee; Jeanne Cope; committee member Barbara Ewell; and Gail Larrimer. Cope and Larrimer are students in Ewell’s on-line course “Southern Women Writers.”