Meet Steven L. Jones Author of A Giving Man: The Story of C.Y. Stephens, October 28!

Join Steven L. Jones, Author of "A Giving Man: The Story of C.Y. Stephens" Tuesday, October 28, 6:45pm at the Des Moines Izaak Walton League! 4343 George Flagg Pkwy (Geo. Flagg & Park), Des Moines 50321. Copies of Steven's book will be available for sale and signing from Beaverdale Books. Through leadership and generosity, former farm boy C.Y. Stephens proved that one person can make a profound difference on a college campus. The book, details Stephens’ life from Georgia to Iowa to Maryland where he built a dairy empire. Recruited by his old college friend “Jimmy” Hilton, Stephens led the unprecedented national fund-raising campaign to build the Iowa State Center in the 1960s. He made possible the construction of the Center that not only changed the face of Iowa State it changed the image of the university. The book was commissioned by Ames, Iowa residents Murray and Valerie Wise and supported by the Wise Family Foundation. Steven L. Jones is an Iowa writer who has authored three books. His first two were for young readers, Football’s Fallen Hero—The Jack Trice Story (2000) and The Red Tails: World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen (2001). Admission to Steven's talk is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Doors open at 5:30, with a Chicken Fried Steak dinner at 6 available for purchase.

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