Thirteenth Annual Education Conference will “Let Freedom Ring”
Christina Himes ·
May 27, 2009
Next week visitors from around the country will converge in Buena Vista, Va., to enjoy what has become a summer tradition—the annual Southern Virginia University Education Conference. Conceived and chaired for thirteen years by Kathleen Knight, this year’s conference focuses on the theme, “Let Freedom Ring.”
Since choosing the theme last year, Knight has lined up an impressive array of presenters who will both shed light on and prompt questions about the issues of religious and political freedom within our own country and around the world. Keynote speaker Elder Robert S. Wood is a member of the second Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many conference goers may be surprised to learn that Elder Wood was the dean of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College. Having led and taught at numerous organizations that deal with international affairs, security policy and strategic theory, Elder Wood will set the tone of the conference with his address, “The Cost of Liberty: The Moral Foundations of American Freedom.”
The two-day conference will not be completely grave and serious, however. Friday evening the visitors will enjoy the Southern Virginia theatre program’s summer musical, “Seussical,” a whimsical play based on some of Dr. Seuss’s famous stories and characters.
The education conference will be held June 5-6, 2009, on the Southern Virginia campus. For online registration, presenter profiles and more information about the conference visit the
conference website. Attendees also may register at the door.