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Bill Clinton to speak in December
by Jacob Kamaras
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News | 10/16/07
Posted online at 8:52 PM EST on 10/15/07
/ Last updated at 1:25 AM EST on 10/15/07
Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will speak at the University Dec. 3, in honor of the late Eli Segal '64, a former Clinton adviser who died in February 2006, University President Jehuda Reinharz announced in a campuswide e-mail Monday afternoon.
Clinton, who served two terms between 1993 and 2001, is delivering the inaugural memorial lecture for the Eli Segal Citizen Leadership Program, a new fellowship initiative for civic-minded undergraduates and graduate students within the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Segal's widow, Phyllis Segal '66, initiated the program, Reinharz wrote in his e-mail.
"It's a phenomenal honor to have a former president speak at the school, particularly one who has really championed so much of what the Heller School stands for in terms of social justice and promoting the kinds of activities that create social justice," Heller School Dean Stuart Altman said in a phone interview Monday evening.
The lecture will be held in the Shapiro Gymnasium in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, and is tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Reinharz wrote. Tickets will be free but limited due to space considerations, he wrote, and simulcast presentations will be broadcast in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater and in the Zinner Forum at the Heller School.
Clinton informed Eli's widow about a month ago that he would be "honored" to speak at Brandeis in Eli's honor, said Provost Marty Krauss, who has been working with Phyllis on this project.
"The Segals and the Clintons were very close throughout their lives, and Bill Clinton agreed to be the inaugural lecturer for this program," Krauss said Monday evening.
Segal, who died at age 63, and helped run Clinton's 1992 campaign as well as Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy's run for president in 1968, also created two prominent social justice projects as Clinton's assistant in the White House, including AmeriCorps and the Welfare to Work for Partnership, and was a trustee of several nonprofit organizations such as CityYear, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (both of which he chaired) and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Clinton, who served two terms between 1993 and 2001, is delivering the inaugural memorial lecture for the Eli Segal Citizen Leadership Program, a new fellowship initiative for civic-minded undergraduates and graduate students within the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Segal's widow, Phyllis Segal '66, initiated the program, Reinharz wrote in his e-mail.
"It's a phenomenal honor to have a former president speak at the school, particularly one who has really championed so much of what the Heller School stands for in terms of social justice and promoting the kinds of activities that create social justice," Heller School Dean Stuart Altman said in a phone interview Monday evening.
The lecture will be held in the Shapiro Gymnasium in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, and is tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Reinharz wrote. Tickets will be free but limited due to space considerations, he wrote, and simulcast presentations will be broadcast in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater and in the Zinner Forum at the Heller School.
Clinton informed Eli's widow about a month ago that he would be "honored" to speak at Brandeis in Eli's honor, said Provost Marty Krauss, who has been working with Phyllis on this project.
"The Segals and the Clintons were very close throughout their lives, and Bill Clinton agreed to be the inaugural lecturer for this program," Krauss said Monday evening.
Segal, who died at age 63, and helped run Clinton's 1992 campaign as well as Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy's run for president in 1968, also created two prominent social justice projects as Clinton's assistant in the White House, including AmeriCorps and the Welfare to Work for Partnership, and was a trustee of several nonprofit organizations such as CityYear, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (both of which he chaired) and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
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