Mary Childers, the author of Welfare Brat: A Memoir, will give a talk titled "Access, Aptitude, Attitude: Higher Education, Health Care and Lower-income People" on Tuesday, Nov. 3 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Complex.

Childers, who holds a doctorate in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo, is a Dartmouth College ombudsperson and faculty member in Higher Education Resource Services. She has served in the past as the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity at Dartmouth College, associate dean of Arts and Sciences and senior adviser to the provost at Brandeis University, and has taught at several other universities.

Childers' memoir focuses on growing-up among poverty and welfare dependency in the Bronx in the 1960s. "There is a great deal of attention given to issues of racism, sexism, etc., but no one is paying as much attention to 'classism,'" says Professor Sharon Henry, who is hosting the event.

Book purchases can be made starting at 2:30 p.m. the day of the event and a reception and book signing will immediately follow outside of the Davis Auditorium. The event is part of the Burack President's Distinguished Lecture Series and is co-sponsored by the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Information: Sharon Henry, (802) 656-8146, shenry@uvm.edu.