Former Ambassador Donald McHenry will current an handle as a part of the Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Collection at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 17, within the Heart for the Performing Arts Live performance Corridor on the campus of Illinois State College.
His speak, which is a part of the Presidential Speaker Collection, is free and open to the general public. There can be a grasp class for the College communities at 3 p.m. that very same day on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan College in Beckman Auditorium, Ames Library.
A 1957 graduate of Illinois State College, McHenry went on to function ambassador and United States everlasting consultant to the United Nations and as a member of President Jimmy Carter’s Cupboard from September 1979 to January 1981. He was the principal negotiator for america when a Soviet airliner carrying Russian ballerina Lyudmila Vlasova was prevented from taking off by Port Authority Police.
McHenry holds a number of board and trustee positions in nongovernmental organizations, together with chairman of the Ford Basis Worldwide Fellowship Fund; director of the Institute for Worldwide Schooling; the American Ditchley Basis; the American Meeting; and the Coca-Cola Africa Basis. He’s trustee emeritus of Columbia College and the Mayo Basis and is chairman emeritus of Africare.
The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Collection was established by a gaggle of native civic leaders to honor the legacy of Bloomington native Adlai E. Stevenson II, former Illinois Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, after his passing in 1965. The occasions are co-hosted by Illinois Wesleyan College and Illinois State College.
Those that want particular lodging to completely take part on this occasion can contact Julie Barnhill, director of Presidential and Trustee Occasions, at (309) 438-8790. Please enable enough time to rearrange the lodging.