SOUTHEAST PLANNING WEEKEND

A performance by Kenny Rogers will highlight Southeast Missouri State University's 17th annual Family Weekend celebration Sept. 29-Oct. 1.

Rogers, recipient of three Grammy awards and five Country Music Association awards, will perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 in the Show Me Center.

Ticket prices are $18.50 and $23.50, and are now on sale at Show Me Center ticket outlets.

This year, the Family Weekend Planning Committee has chosen the theme "Kickin' It Up at Southeast."

The weekend will kick off at 6 p.m. Sept. 29 with a baseball scrimmage in Capaha Park. Southeast's baseball team, which placed second in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament last year, will play its Red and White inter-squad scrimmage game.

Before the game, dinner will be served in Towers and Greek cafeterias at a reduced price of $4.25 for parents.

On the morning of Sept. 30, family registration will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the University Center lobby. From 10 a.m. to noon, an open house will be held in the residence halls and at the Lutheran Chapel of Hope.

At 10 a.m. the Missouri-London Program will be discussed in the Private Dining Room of the University Center. The program allows students to study in London.

Following this session, at 11:30 a.m., the annual Minority Family Weekend program will begin in the Missouriana-Indian Rooms of the University Center.

A picnic lunch on Academic Terraces will be held at noon Sept. 30. The cost is $5 per person, and is free to students with the appropriate meal plan and Southeast I.D. Students and their families can top off the meal with line dancing lessons and entertainment by singer-songwriter-keyboardist Rick Kelley.

The Southeast football team will take on the Colonels of Eastern Kentucky at 2 p.m. in Houck Stadium.

Following the football game, families are invited to attend the 10th annual talent show, "The Night the Stars Came Out", sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma at 6 p.m. in Academic Auditorium.

Activities on Oct. 1 will include a buffet breakfast in the University Center from 9:30 to 11 a.m.