POPULAR "FUN WITH PHYSICS" PRESENTATION SET FOR OCT. 30

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 23 -- Two physics professors from
the Virginia Military Institute will bring their unique brand of
physics fun to the University of Virginia on Wednesday, Oct. 30, for
the 1996 Llewellyn G. Hoxton Lecture for the General Public.
	Richard B. Minnix and D. Rae Carpenter Jr., who each
received degrees from the University, developed the "Dick and Rae
Show: Fun with Physics" over the past 25 years and have wowed
audiences in kindergartens, retirement homes, and college classrooms
with dramatic demonstrations of physical principles such as
magnetism, mechanics, and electricity.  The Dick and Rae Show will
take place in the auditorium of the Chemistry Building, located on
McCormick Road, at 7:30 p.m.
	The Hoxton Lecture was established in 1971 to honor
Llewellyn Hoxton, who headed U.Va.'s physics department from 1907 to
1948 and whose lectures were enlivened by clever demonstrations.  So
clever and popular was Hoxton that, during the all-male era of the
University, students regularly brought their dates to his Saturday
morning lectures.
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October 22, 1996
	REPORTERS AND EDITORS:  For more information, contact Bascom
Deaver of U.Va.'s physics department at (804) 924-6574 or 924-3781.
Television reporters should contact our TV News Office at (804)
924-7550.