Chapman celebrates former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz this Wednesday



Former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Schultz
Former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz

A great American newsmaker, George P. Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, will be honored at Chapman University this Wednesday, April 14, with a special panel discussion at which Chapman students will present their papers about his career and Mr. Shultz will respond.  This will be followed by the dedication of a new bronze bust depicting Mr. Shultz, on the promenade near the Argyros Global Citizens Plaza.  Both events are free and open to the public, and the Chapman community is encouraged to attend.

The student panel, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, will take place in the Lyon Conference Center, Argyros Forum 201.  The panel was organized by Don Will, Ph.D., associate dean of Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences.  Professor Tom Campbell of the Chapman School of Law will moderate.  Students presenting will include:

Senior Jeannie D’Agostino, Peace Studies major.  Jeannie studied abroad in Morocco doing work on human rights and the truth commission process. She hopes to return to continue such work. Her paper is entitled “Speaking with the Other Side: the Introduction of a U.S.-PLO Dialogue.”

Senior Kaela Dalton, political science major.  Kaela studied abroad in Amsterdam and hopes to return to the University of Amsterdam for an MA in discourse and argumentation studies, before continuing in law school. Her paper grows in part from her internship at the Nixon Library and is entitled “George Shultz and the Nixon Tapes: Illuminating Internal and External White House Communication.”

Junior Mark Johnston, double major in history and political science.  Mark studied for a semester in Washington, DC, while doing an internship at the Dept. of Justice. Two weeks ago he and his partner were voted as the “Outstanding Delegation” of the General Assembly Plenary at the National Model UN Conference in NYC, which involved 3,000 student delegates from around the world. He aspires to a career in Congress, as a staffer or Representative. His paper is entitled “The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: An Deviation from Reagan Foreign Policy.”

Senior Karen Nielsen, double major in history and political science.  Karen aspires to a Ph.D. in history, a JD in human rights law and a career with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In the summer of 2008, she pursued research and did humanitarian work in Mozambique, which informs her paper, entitled “The U.S. and Mozambique: A Shift in Anti-Communist Doctrine.”

Following the paper presentations, the audience is invited to a reception near the George L. Argyros Global Citizens Plaza, where a bronze bust of Secretary Shultz will be unveiled and dedicated, starting with a champagne reception at 5 p.m.

The bust dedication, at 5:30 p.m., will take place on the walkway between the Fish Interfaith Center and Hutton Sports Center, near the George Argyros Global Citizens Plaza.  The ceremony will feature a tribute to Mr. Shultz  and the unveiling of the new bust.  The bust was created in honor of the Donald Bren Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics, which is held by President Jim Doti.  


Schultz with President Ronald Reagan, 1986.
Shultz with President Ronald Reagan, 1986.

George P. Shultz was born in 1920 and is an economist, statesman and businessman.  He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970, as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as U.S. Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.  Before entering politics, he was a professor of economics at MIT and the University of Chicago, and served as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 1962-1969.   He was an executive at Bechtel from 1974 to 1982, rising to become the firm’s president.  He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank.

Dawn Bonker

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