Eastern Illinois University The Keep 1994 Press Releases 3-11-1994 03/11/1994 - Deborah Norville Lecture At EIU Rescheduled.pdf University Marketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/press_releases_1994 Recommended Citation University Marketing and Communications, "03/11/1994 - Deborah Norville Lecture At EIU Rescheduled.pdf" (1994). 1994. 64. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/press_releases_1994/64 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Press Releases at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1994 by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ...' :_--.,YI 94-74 March 11, 1994 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DEBORAH NORVILLE LECTURE AT EIU RESCHEDULED CHARLESTON, IL--A lecture by CBS News Correspondent Deborah Norville, scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday (March 14) at Eastern Illinois University, has been rescheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, March 28 in Eastern's McAfee Gymnasium. Norville reportedly was assigned by CBS for Middle East coverage through March 21. Tickets are on sale now through March 18 and on the day of the event. No tickets will be sold during spring break, March 19-27. All purchased tickets will be honored. Costs are $3 for students, $6 for public. For ticket information, call the University Union Ticket Office at (217) 581- 5122 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday. Norville's lecture, sponsored by the University Board Lectures Committee, is being held in conjunction with Women's History and Awareness Month activities on the EIU campus. Norville joined CBS News in December 1992 as a correspondent on the -more- FILE COPY ADD 1/1/1/1 NORVILLE ~ newsmagazine program "Street Stories," anchored by Ed Brautey. She has also contributed reports to "48 Hours" and the "CBS Evening News" and is a contribut­ ing editor to McCall's magazine, for which she writes cover story profiles. Prior to joining the CBS News, Norville hosted the nationally syndicated program, "The Deborah Norville Show" on the ABC Radio Network. Norville was also co-host of NBC's "Today" program from January 1990 to April 1991. From January 1987 to September 1991, she was the anchor of "NBC News at Sunrise," making her the only woman to solo anchor a daily network news program. Norville has received many distinguished awards during her 15 years of broadcast journalism, including a national Emmy in 1989 for her reporting of the democratic uprising in Romania. She was named "TV Anchor for the year 2000" in 1990 by the readers of the Washington Journalism Review in its annual "Best in the Business Survey." She won a local Emmy for her coverage of the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight #84 7 in Beirut and received a Silver Plaque from the Chicago Film Festival for a documentary on missing and abused children. A native of Dalton, Georgia, Norville graduated summa cum laude as a First Honor Graduate at the University of Georgia. She holds a degree in broadcast news and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Blue Key honor societies. In addition, Norville was named "Person of the Year" in 1989 by the Broadcast Advertising Club in Chicago, a "Mother of the Year" (1992) by the National Mothers Day Committee and a "Woman of Achievement" (1992) by the Anti-Defamation League of New York. She and her husband, business executive Karl Wellner, have one son, Karl Nikolai. -30-.