Contact: Addison Arledge

STARKVILLE, Miss.—“Dinner and a Mystery” is the title of a special Mississippi State event taking place Oct. 28 to support the Save the Children’s Syrian refugee fund.

Open to all, the 6-8 p.m. program at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology is organized by the university’s Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures and its graduate student association.

Persons planning to attend are encouraged to come in 1920’s-style attire for the catered meal and a mystery to be solved by program’s end. A presentation about the ongoing refugee crisis in the Middle Eastern nation of more than 20 million also is scheduled.

Oct. 21 is the deadline to secure $50-per-person admission tickets that also serve as entry into a grand-prize raffle. Tickets may be obtained via https://amec.ticketbud.com.

“This year’s fundraiser will be a fun, unique experience for the greater Starkville community,” said Kate McKinney, a master’s degree student in applied anthropology from Lebanon, Tennessee.

Launched in the 1930s as the International Save the Children Fund of America, the organization expanded its mission and changed its name to the Save the Children Federation. From headquarters in Fairfield, Connecticut, the tax-deductible charity works to aid child refugees and their families caught up in Syria’s brutal and long-running civil war by providing food, water, schooling, medical care and other basic needs. Complete information is found at www.savethechildren.org.

For more about—or make a donation to—the campus fundraiser, contact McKinney at skm223@msstate.edu.

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