Public Service Announcement For Immediate Release
April 6, 2015
Contact Eric Olson, UW Extension - Lakes Director
715-346-2192
eolson@uwsp.edu
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Several University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student organizations and the UW Extension – Lakes
program are proud to present award winning environmental activist Marion Stoddart, speaking on
Friday April 24th at 3:00 pm in the Dreyfus University Center Theater.
In the 1960s, Marion was a housewife with three children who was personally fed up with the pollution
in the Nashua River outside her Massachusetts home. For over fifty years she lobbied for clean-water
laws and worked to obtain millions of dollars of federal funding to fight pollution. A self-described
ordinary woman, she was able to mobilize policy makers, politicians, business leaders, and a skeptical
public to share her vision for clean and restored rivers. Her accomplishments provide a role model for
each of us to drive positive change in our environment.
Marion Stoddart’s free Earth Week presentation is brought to you by the UWSP campus chapters of
Save the Frogs, the American Water Resources Association, Women in Natural Resources, Students for
Wetland Awareness, Management and Protection, the UWSP Student Government Association, and the
UW Extension – Lakes program, with additional support from the College of Natural Resources.
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