Wib Leonard
Dr. Wib Leonard, Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University, will deliver the College of Arts and Sciences Lecture on Tuesday, October 23 at 4:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center. His talk, ?Symbolic Immortality in Sports,? is free and open to the public.
Leonard developed Illinois State?s first course in the sociology of sport and was a charter member of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. Leonard has a long history with athletics, played high school baseball, basketball, and football, and received an athletic scholarship to Albright College. He has been courted by two professional football teams, and was a prot?g? of Woody Hayes, legendary coach for the Buckeyes. Leonard has been a faculty representative to the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics at Illinois State University, and has coached youth baseball and soccer in the Bloomington-Normal area.
Leonard has been teaching at Illinois State since 1970, holding a departmental record for years taught. He holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State and an M.A. from University of Pennsylvania, both in sociology, as well as a B.A. in psychology from Albright College.
In his lecture, Dr. Leonard will explore the possibility of symbolic immortality within the social world of sport through the settings, occasions, mechanisms, processes, and dynamics through which athletes can be remembered, eulogized, and endeared.
Source: http://cas.illinoisstate.edu/sites/casnews/2012/10/15/wib-leonard-to-present-lecture/
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