ASSUMPTION COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THE D'ALZON PROFESSOR
FOR THE 2000-2002 ACADEMIC YEARS

Worcester, MA - Assumption College is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Dr. David Lowenthal as the d'Alzon Professor for the next two academic years.

Dr. Lowenthal, a resident of Princeton, MA, received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research. He has taught political philosophy and allied subjects at Boston College for the past thirty-five years. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form and No Liberty for License: the Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment. He has also translated Montesquieu's Greatness and Decline of the Romans. In addition, he has been a president of the New England Political Science Association, a member of the National Council for the Humanities, and a trustee at Assumption College. Beginning in the fall, Dr. Lowenthal will offer courses through the Political Science Department on Abraham Lincoln's speeches and Shakespeare's plays.

The endowed Chair of the d'Alzon Professorship was recently established in honor of Father Emmanuel d'Alzon, founder of the Assumptionist religious order in mid-nineteenth century France. It is awarded to an outstanding scholar and teacher whose work continues in the educational tradition of Father d'Alzon, and of the great thinker who inspired him, Saint Augustine.

Dr. Lowenthal is the second recipient of the Chair.