Posted - November 23, 2010
Eureka College 'Reagan and the Midwest Conference' to Feature Authors, Scholars, Former Reagan Administration Officials
Presenters to include former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III, former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar and authors Fred Barnes, Peter Hannaford, Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson and Craig Shirley
Authors, scholars and former Reagan administration officials will discuss the impact of the Midwest on Ronald Reagan's life and career at the "Reagan and the Midwest Conference" Jan. 14 at Eureka College.
The conference, which is open to the public, will begin at 9 a.m. and end with a keynote address by former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $75 and includes breakfast, lunch, an evening reception and dinner. Events will be in the Cerf Center unless otherwise noted.
"As part of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration at Eureka College, this conference will focus on the formative factors of family, faith, community and education that were central to Reagan's development as a great servant leader," said Eureka College President J. David Arnold. "Many features of Reagan's leadership can be traced back to the social and cultural context he experienced growing up in the Midwest."
The conference will include panel discussions featuring former U.S. Attorney General Edwin
Meese III; Fred Barnes, a Fox News political commentator and editor of The Weekly Standard; Peter Hannaford, director of communications for Reagan during his California governorship and 1980 presidential campaign; Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson, editors of books on Reagan's writings and speeches; and Craig Shirley, author of books on Reagan's presidential campaigns. The conference also will include presentations of papers by university professors from around the United States and England.
Conference Schedule -
8 a.m.
Registration and breakfast
Opening Session
"Ronald Reagan's Midwest" by James Capshew, Indiana University, and Andrew Cayton, Miami University
Session 2
Panel discussion on "Origins of Vision and Voice" with Barnes, Shirley and the Andersons
Noon
Lunch in Dickinson Commons
Concurrent Sessions
"Myth, History and Reagan's Youth in Presidential Biography" by Roger Johnson, University of Sussex.
"Scripting an American Life: Autobiography, Ronald Reagan and the Invention of a President" by Devan Bissonette, Binghamton University.
"The Midwest and Reagan's Anticommunism" by Jon Peterson, Ohio University.
"Midwestern Echoes in the Formation of Ronald Reagan's Personal and Political Identities" by John Miller, South Dakota State University.
"Personally Prudent but Publicly Profligate: The Impact of the Great Depression on Reagan's Generation" by Joshua Hall, Beloit College, and Jeremy Horpedahl, Buena Vista University.
Ending Session
Panel discussion on "How Did the Midwest Shape Ronald Reagan?" with Capshew, Hannaford, Cayton and opening comments by Meese.
5:30 p.m.
Reception
6 p.m.
4th annual Reagan Day Dinner featuring Reagan's "favorite dinner:" eggplant lasagna, chicken piccata, grilled vegetables and orange chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream.
7:30 p.m.
Keynote address by Edgar.
An optional bus trip to the Ronald Reagan Birthplace in Tampico and the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home in Dixon will be at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 15. Cost is $50. The bus will leave from and return to the Hotel Père Marquette, Peoria.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Eureka College's Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration will honor an outstanding alumnus and servant leader Ronald Reagan on the centennial of his birth, Feb. 6, 2011, and celebrate the achievements of Eureka College for its heritage and legacy of creating servant-leaders. Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. He returned to the campus 12 times and served three six-year terms on the Board of Trustees.
Contact:
Michele Lehman
Media Relations Coordinator
mlehman@eureka.edu
(309) 467-6318
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