Lesher Speakers Series producer Steve Lesher has announced the lineup of political figures, celebrated authors and media personalities who will be coming to the Lesher Center in 2012-13. Lesher says that sales of subscriptions and renewals will be announced in the near future. Keep an eye on his Newsmakers: Lesher Speakers Series blog for the details.
They are:
Capt. Mark Kelly
Capt. Mark Kelly, Sept. 4: Kelly is the commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and husband of former U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.
David Gergen, Oct. 24: Gergen is a CNN political analyst and aide to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton.
Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta, Nov. 12: The two general managers for, respectively, the Oakland A’s and the New York Mets were subjects of the book and film, Moneyball.
Condoleeza Rice, Feb. 25, 2013. The former U.S. secretary of state under George W. Bush is now a political science professor at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Global Center for Business and the Economy.
Lara Logan, March 4, 2013: Logan is the CBS chief foreign affairs correspondent and correspondent for 60 Minutes. In February 2011, she was covering celebrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during the fall of Hosni Mubarak when she was attacked by a mob and sexually assaulted.
James Bradlley, April 3, 2013: The author of historical nonfiction wrote Fly Boys and Imperial Cruise. His first best seller, Flags of Our Fathers, tells the story of five U.S. Marines and his father, a Navy corpsman, raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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