Park Overall, a 1981 Tusculum College alumna, returns to campus on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss how college affected her life and career.
The lecture is part of the Tusculum College Humanities Series, sponsored by the Tusculum College English Department and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Chalmers Conference Room in Niswonger Commons on the Greeneville campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Park Overall '81
Overall will speak for approximately 30 minutes about how Tusculum College and in particular, the arts program, helped shape her life after graduation. She will then open the floor to a question and answer session with the audience.
Overall left Greeneville for Hollywood, finding success in movies and television, including the award-winning movie “Biloxi Blues” and the long-running NBC sitcom, “Empty Nest.”
She is also well-known in the region as a dynamic environmental and women’s’ rights activist and former candidate for the U.S. Senate.
In addition to her time here as a student, her mother, Frances, a 1940 graduate of Tusculum, returned to her alma mater as an English professor for several years.