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Kelly
Cressy and Dez Clodfelter, and Canadian students with
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
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Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
November 7 - 15, 2009
Furman
students — Kelly Cressy, Dez Clodfelter, Cary Fonatana
and Hannah Johnson led by Dr. Don Gordon, Executive Director
of the Riley Institute and professor of Political Science
— left for Singapore on November 7th to participate
in APEC's "Voices of the Future" program. Hiighlights
from their first day included meetings with the President
of Singapore, His Excellency S.R. Nathan, at the Presidential
Palace, listening to two fascinating addresses and attending
very candid sessions with the Minister of Community Development
and Youth, and the Chair of the Board of the Singapore Management
University. These meetings were very personal and of remarkable
high quality.
The students
have had interviews with delegates from the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation Business Advisory Council which consists of some
of the most powerful and important CEOs and business leaders
from the US, China, Russia, Korea, Canada, and 13 other economies
(countries) around the APEC region.
Kelly,
in particular, had the opportunity to interview Kurt Campbell
(Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs),
Lieutenant General Paul Selva (Assistant to the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Miltary Advisor to Secretary
of State), and many other incredible people. According to
Kelly, the highlight came when she and Dez met U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton during a small press conference.
Additionally, the group had a one-hour conversation with Peter
Scher, the Executive Vice President of Global Goverment Relation
and Public Policy for JP MorganChase.
Tomorrow
the group has been invited to meet with the New Zealand Prime
Minister John Key. Only ten people will be involved for a
half-hour conversation with the Prime Minister. The group
has had unprecedented access to world leaders!
To
follow the Furman students' adventure, go to their blog;
for
more information about the 2009 APEC meeting, click
here.2009 APEC meeting, click
here.
SOUTH
CAROLINA HOUSE MEMBER DAN COOPER
TO RECEIVE ANNUAL DAVID WILKINS LEADERSHIP AWARD
Daniel
T. Cooper, a member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives
from District 10 in Anderson County, has been named the winner
of the fifth annual David Wilkins Award for Excellence in
Legislative Leadership. The award, sponsored by the Riley
Institute at Furman University, will be presented to Cooper
at the annual Wilkins Award dinner at the Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center on Monday, January 11, 2010.
Broadcast
journalist Judy Woodruff, who has covered politics and other
news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS and currently
is senior correspondent for “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,”
will be the keynote speaker.
The
event, held in conjunction with the opening of the legislative
session, will feature a reception at 6 p.m. followed by the
dinner and award presentation beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $125 each with table sponsorships available. To purchase
tickets, call 864-235-8330.
The
Wilkins Award for Excellence in Legislative Leadership recognizes
a state legislator who “embodies the highest principles
of leadership based on integrity, compassion, vision, civility
and courage.” State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter of Orangeburg
County received the 2009 award. Other recipients have been
John Drummond, Bobby Harrell and Hugh K. Leatherman.
Press
Coverage: Anderson
Independent-Mail
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W.
Hodding Carter |
Fellow
in Residence
W.
Hodding Carter
Professor of Public Policy and Leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill
and former Assistant Secretary of State
The Riley
Institute at Furman welcomed W. Hodding Carter to Furman University
on October 28, 2009. He delivered an address, "Democracy
Challenged: How Big Money in Politics Influences Who Runs
for Office, Who Wins, and What They Do Once Elected”
on
Wednesday October 28 at 7 p.m. in Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie
Younts Conference Center.
His address
was followed by a panel discussion with Glen Halva-Neubauer,
Ph.D. and C. Danielle Vinson, Ph.D., professors of the Department
of Political Science at Furman, and moderated by Thomas Kazee,
Ph.D., Provost and Executive Vice President at Furman.
W. Hodding
Carter III began his career as a reporter with his family’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville,
Mississippi. He worked on two successful presidential campaigns,
those of Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976.
In 1977, President Carter appointed him Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs and State Department spokesman.
He was frequently in the public eye during the Iran hostage
crisis.
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