Other 3 p.m. programs will include a lecture by Dr. Clifford Cain, visiting Lilly Professor of Religion at Berea College this year, in Baird Lounge of the Alumni Building ; a demonstration by the "Johnson Jazz," a Jump Rope for Heart" team from Madison County, in Seabury Gymnasium; and a performance of Japanese Bunraku puppetry by the Spirit Puppet Troupe, in the McGaw Theatre, Jelkyl Drama Center.

Bass is an emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee and creator and director of UT's Forensic Anthropology Center and Anthropological Research Center, nicknamed "The Body Farm" by mystery writer Patricia Cornwell. Bass received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Virginia and earned his master's degree in anthropology from the University of Kentucky. While at UK, he decided to become a forensic scientist after identifying a woman killed in an auto accident, and went on to earn his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. By his own estimate, Bass has trained approximately 65 of the forensic scientists practicing in the U.S.

Cain holds a B.A. in religion and philosophy form Muskingum College, a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a doctorate degrees from the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University and Rikkyo University in Tokyo. His lecture is sponsored by the office of the Dean of the Faculty.

" Johnson Jazz" is a jump rope demonstration team sponsored by the American Heart Association and the Kentucky Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (KAHPERD). The elementary school students are coached by Berea College alumnae Joy Fay Heines, physical education teacher at Jane Hite Elementary School in Louisville and Kathy Todd, who teaches physical education at Shannon Johnson Elementary School in Berea. As ambassadors for the American Heart Association, the team helps promote lifetime fitness and health education with their message of: "Eat healthy stuff, move around enough and live tobacco free!" Their performance is sponsored by the College's Physical Education and Health Department.

The Spirit Puppet Troupe is a group of students, staff and faculty members at Berea who last summer, supported by the College's Undergraduate Research Program, performed at the prestigious International Puppet Festival in Iida, Japan. Playwright Trish Ayers of Berea wrote the scripts for the two plays the troupe will perform. Traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry combines puppet manipulation, oral narrative and music played on the samisen into a dramatic form. The event is sponsored by the College's English, Theatre and Speech Communication Department.

All programs are free and open to the public. For information about other convocation events at Berea, visit www.berea.edu/convo.