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"Leadership During a Crisis Situation" will be the topic for Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, when he delivers the Hood-Meyerson Guest Lecture at The University of Akron on March 26 at 4 p.m.
The Hood-Meyerson Foundation is underwriting the entire cost of the lecture. On March 19, beginning at 8 a.m. at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall Ticket Office, faculty, staff and students, along with the general public, can obtain up to four tickets per household. Once the available tickets are distributed for seating in Thomas Hall, tickets for simulcast locations will be made available. There is no charge for the lecture.
Because it is expected that a large number of people will want to attend the lecture, a drive-up method has been arranged for obtaining tickets. Drivers can go to the ticket office pull-off inside the E.J. Thomas Hall parking deck, where staff will distribute tickets. Walk-up service also will be available at the ticket office. (Last week, faculty, staff and students were given the opportunity to obtain one ticket per person in advance of the general public.)
The simulcast locations for Giuliani’s lecture are auditoriums in Guzzetta Hall, the Polymer Engineering Academic Center and Auburn Science and Engineering Center. The lecture also will be simulcast over the University’s ZIP-TV (Channel 99) so community members will be able to attend the lecture virtually at other campus locations.
Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2001, Giuliani led New York through the crisis that followed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. As the 107th mayor of New York, Giuliani was seen as a leader who rose to the occasion, gaining respect and admiration for his calm and compassionate demeanor amid the destruction that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center
The Hood-Meyerson endowment and lecture series recognizes the belief in the American system of free enterprise and its commitment to support higher education. Other guest lecturers in the series have included:
In 1986, economist Alan Greenspan, who now serves as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank.
In 1987, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. representative to the United Nations and former foreign policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
In 1991, William G. Ouchi, distinguished professor of business management at the University of California at Los Angeles.
And, in 1995, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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