Purdue News

September 10, 1999 Purdue bells to help celebrate Constitution Week WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Purdue Bell Tower will help ring in U.S. Constitution Week Sept. 17-23. The tower's bells will peal briefly at 4 p.m. Friday (9/17) along with other civic, church and school bells across the community to call attention to "our heritage of freedom and those whose foresight made in possible" through the crafting of the Constitution, said Mary Ann Scott, committee chairwoman of Constitution Week of the General de Lafayette Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. The Constitution was adopted by a convention of the states on Sept. 17, 1787. CONTACT: Scott, (765) 447-4632. To the Purdue News and Photos Page