"A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION" KICKS OFF HOLIDAYS DEC. 2 AT UNION UNIVERSITY

JACKSON, November 19-- Union University students, faculty and staff will kick off the holiday season Monday, Dec. 2, with "A Traditional Christmas Celebration and the Lighting of the Lights." The program, which begins at 6:45 p.m. in Union's G.M. Savage Memorial Chapel, features traditional and contemporary Christmas music.

Featured selections include "Winter Wonderland," "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas," "Silent Night," and "Joy to the World." Following "The Hanging of the Greens" by Union students, David Burke, director of the Union University Players, will share "The Birth of Christ in Scripture." To conclude the program, Union president David Dockery and his wife, Lanese, will turn on the Christmas lights decorating Union's campus.

The program is free and open to the public.