Bob Kendrick, anchor and reporter for WFTS-TV Channel 28, will be the speaker at a Senior College Breakfast Forum at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the Continuing Education Conference Center. Kendrick will discuss "Tampa Bay Treasures," the subject of a news feature of the same name that he produces and hosts for Channel 28. The fee is $5. Call 864-7889 for information and to register.

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Senior College presents Betty Jean Steinshouer in a dramatization of Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Dendy-McNair Auditorium. Rawlings, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote The Yearling, among other classics. The piece was produced in cooperation with the Florida Humanities Council. Call 864-8085 for information.

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These Two Couples Went to Italy, a play by Paul Rusconi, will be presented at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Oct. 29 in Bininger Theater. The play, nominated to compete in the American Theater Festival, is a fast-paced comedy about two American couples who keep running into each other while they travel through Italy. Tickets are $5, $3 for senior citizens.

University of South Florida

140 Seventh Ave. S

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Jim Schnur of Eckerd College's Program for Experienced Learners will speak on Opening Closed Doors: Peering into the Johns Committee's Homophobic Closet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Davis Hall, Room 130. Schnur will discuss the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee's campaigns against gay, lesbian and bisexual Floridians from 1956 to 1965. Schnur also will show a video documentary, Behind Closed Doors, about the committee's investigations at the University of Florida. Call 553-3408 for information.

- Area universities and colleges offer educational lectures and programs open to the public. The Times lists these events in an occasional column. All events are free unless otherwise indicated. Send information at least two weeks in advance to Catherine Cushing, the Times, P.O. Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731.

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