Professor Robert Ketterer will speak at Eta Sigma Phi's 50th anniversary celebration.

MONMOUTH, Ill. — Monmouth College’s Gamma Omicron Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, the national classics honorary, will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a lecture by Robert Ketterer, professor of classics at the University of Iowa, on April 23 at 4 p.m. in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room of the college’s Stockdale Center.

Ketterer’s late father, John, was professor of biology at Monmouth for many years and was an honorary member of the chapter. Entitled “Mozart and Rome,” the talk is free and open to the public.

The Gamma Omicron Chapter was founded in 1956 by professors Bernice L. Fox and Harold J. Ralston and is currently advised by classics professor Tom Sienkewicz. Membership is based upon excellent work in the study of Latin or ancient Greek and is by invitation only.

The purposes of Eta Sigma Phi, in the words of its constitution, are “to develop and promote interest in classical study among the students of colleges and universities; to promote closer fraternal relationship among students who are interested in classical study, including inter-campus relationship; and to engage generally in an effort to stimulate interest in classical study and in the history, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.”

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