The Peace Garden at California State University, Fresno, will have a major new addition unveiled on April 6. It's a life-sized statue of peace advocate and Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams, created by Claudia Nolan, a graduate student in sculpture at Fresno State. It will join statues of Mahatma Gandhi, César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Addams statue, according to Fresno State spokesperson Shirley Melikian Armbruster, is the first Peace Garden memorial depicting a woman, the first designed and sculpted by a woman and the first produced by a Fresno State student. Also on the program, Armbruster said, is the world premiere performance of "Music for The Peace Garden," written by Dr. Robert Strizich, a music faculty member at Fresno State, and performed by the Guitar Quartet of Fresno State. The work includes a special movement written for Addams.

Ceremonies will include speeches by Dr. Paul Pribbenow, president of Rockford College in Illinois, Addams' alma mater; Dr. Regina Birchem, international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, of which Addams was the first president; and Fresno State President Dr. John D. Welty.

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