Dr. Miller Lecture Series

Melissa Gentry is the Supervisor of the Paul W. Stout Map Collection at Ball State University Libraries and serves on the board of the Delaware County Historical Society. An active member of the League of Women‘s Voters, she is a recognized speaker on Indiana women’s history. Melissa has presented at numerous state and national conferences Her work has been recognized by the Library of Congress, and the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. This program will highlight the contributions of Indiana women to the Temperance and Suffrage movements.

Award-winning author and historian Ray E. Boomhower will join us to explore the life of Ernie Pyle from his boyhood home in Dana, Indiana, to his experience as a roving correspondent with the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, to his growing fame as a columnist detailing the rigors of combat faced by the average GI during World War II.

Ray Boomhower is the senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular quarterly history magazine Traces of Indiana & Midwestern History. His twenty published books have covered other notable Hoosiers, including Benjamin Harrison, Gus Grissom, and Lew Wallace, among others.