ABILENE — The U.S. Census Bureau is the topic of the next Eisenhower Lunch & Learn program.

The presentation is scheduled for noon on Thursday in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium, 200 SE Fourth, Abilene. The program is open to the public at no charge, and a light lunch is included on a first-come, first-served basis.

A sign-language interpreter will be available for this program.

Learn about the U.S. Census Bureau information then and now. Archivist Mary Burtzloff will trace the Eisenhower family in historical census records. U.S. Census Bureau Partnership Specialists Steve Hale and Carlos Urquilla-Diaz will discuss preparing Kansas communities for a successful count in the 2020 census.

Burtzloff is an archivist at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. She joined the library in 2009 and has been with the National Archives and Records Administration for more than 20 years.

As partnership specialists, Hale and Urquilla-Diaz work with local communities to help educate Kansans about the importance of being counted in the 2020 census. Hale is a lifelong Kansan with a journalism degree from Kansas State University. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Carlos Urquilla-Diaz received his J.D. from the University of Kansas and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.

The Lunch & Learn series is made possible courtesy of the Eisenhower Foundation and the Jeffcoat Memorial Foundation.