Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.--As Mississippi State students anticipate a spring break later in the month, the mother of long-missing Alabama student Natalee Holloway will speak March 2 on campus.
Beth Holloway will be featured at a free 8 p.m. public program in the university's Humphrey Coliseum. Personal safety while on spring break, both inside and outside the United States, will be the focus of her presentation.
MSU spring break is scheduled the week of March 15-19.
Earlier on March 2, the Birmingham, Ala., resident and trained speech pathologist will take part in a book signing at the Barnes & Noble at Mississippi State Bookstore. "Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith" (2007, HarperOne) is her account of her Clinton-born daughter's 2005 disappearance while on a Mountain Brook (Ala.) High School senior trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba.
Exactly how the 18-year-old, college-bound woman vanished without a trace remains a mystery, despite law enforcement investigations, the arrest and release of several individuals and intense worldwide media coverage.
Beth Holloway's campus visit is being sponsored by MSU's health education and wellness and police departments.
For more information, contact either JuLeigh Baker at 662-325-2141 or jbaker@saffairs.msstate.edu; or Thad Edwards at 325-2121 or tedwards@police.msstate.edu.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.