March 19, 2003

GRANT UNION GRADUATE TO PRESENT PAPER AT INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION

Boise State University student Tiffany Boddie, a 1994 graduate of Grant Union High School in John Day, will present an essay, “The Portrait,” and six poems at the 2003 international conference of the English honor society Sigma Tau Delta, to be held March 20-23 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Boddie’s writings were selected from a pool of international submissions.

Boddie, a junior majoring in English literature, serves as secretary of the Boise State English Majors Association and as the undergraduate representative for the English department on the Student Affairs Committee.

She is the daughter of Teresa Lee and Mark Pearson and stepdaughter of Stacy Pearson. Boddie lives in Boise.

Boise State is Idaho’s metropolitan university, located in the state’s population center and capital city. The 17,700-student university offers a variety of undergraduate, graduate and technical programs in eight colleges: Applied Technology, Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Public Affairs.

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