Briefly in Education

“The Voyage of the First Fleet -- Convict Ships and the Founding of

Australia” is the title of a lecture that will be presented Sept. 6 by

Orange Coast College’s president emeritus, David A. Grant.

The session will be hosted by the Friends of Orange Coast College’s

Norman E. Watson Library.

The lecture, which is open to the public, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.

at the Lido Isle Woman’s Club, 701 Via Lido Soud, on Lido Isle in Newport

Beach.

Admission is $5 for nonmembers; seating is limited. Refreshments will

be served.

Twenty years after Capt. James Cook’s landing on the east coast of

Australia, England began exporting criminals and undesirables to Botany

Bay and Sydney Cove. During his lecture, Grant will discuss the trials

and tribulations encountered by the reluctant settlers of the new land.

Grant, an OCC faculty member for 33 years, served as the college’s

president for six years. He retired in 1995. He is a lifelong sailor and

was inducted into the Sailing Hall of Fame in Annapolis, Md., in 1975. He

became only the sixth West Coast mariner to receive that honor.

Information: (714) 432-5885.