NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. The competition provides an opportunity for members of Congress to encourage and recognize the artistic talents of their young constituents.

This year, the artwork submitted for the competition by students living within U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert's congressional district will be displayed in Griffth Gallery on the campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Stephen F. Austin State University's Wind Ensemble will present "A Musical Passport" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

The concert will showcase travel and destinations with pieces from Australia, England and America. Among the pieces to be performed, "Manhattan Roll" by Robert Beaser demonstrates the influence of the legendary New York Philharmonic conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, according to Fred J. Allen, SFA director of bands and of the Wind Ensemble.

Leann Wheeler, GIS specialist of CDM-Smith Dallas, and P.R. Blackwell, director of SFA's Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center

NACOGDOCHES, Texas-In honor of Geography Awareness Week and National GIS Day, Stephen F. Austin State University will host "Discovering the World through GIS," a speaker series featuring information about Geographic Information Systems applications and careers.

The Stephen F. Austin State University dance program will present "Danceworks" November 15 - 17.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas-The Stephen F. Austin State University dance program will present "Danceworks," a concert featuring the SFA Repertory Dance Company and student choreographic projects, Nov. 15-17 in the Norton H.P.E. Complex dance studio, Room 201, on the SFA campus.

Gene Moon, director of orchestral studies at Stephen F. Austin State University and director of SFA's Orchestra of the Pines, Jennifer Dalmas, associate professor of violin and viola, and Evgeni Raychev, instructor of cello, will be the featured soloists when Orchestra of the Pines presents "Musical Trinity" at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Orchestra of the Pines, Stephen F.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Linda Lehmusvirta, longtime producer of the "Central Texas Gardener" PBS show in Austin, will present "Bulbs for Psycho Lighting Gardeners" at the upcoming Theresa and Les Reeves Garden Lecture hosted by the SFA Gardens.

The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in Room 110 of the Agriculture Building located on Wilson Drive on the SFA campus.

"The Med-Evuac" is a 38-inch by 50-inch mixed media drawing on paper featured in Charles D. Jones' "Chopper Blues," soon to be released by the Stephen F. Austin State University Press.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The weekend of Veterans Day will be celebrated in Nacogdoches in a unique way that both honors and recognizes the contributions of a select group of veterans and calls attention to works published by Stephen F.

"Chopper Blues," written by Charles D. Jones, professor emeritus in the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University, tells the stories of survival of the young men of Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th U.S. Marine Corps who fought in Operation Indiana.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Most of the young men in Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th U.S. Marine Corps serving in Vietnam in the spring of 1966 were only 19 or 20.