Honors Program hosted Bill Bradley and Jeb Bush at free, public event Oct. 14

Fort Worth, TX

9/29/2008

Former Republican Governor of Florida Jeb Bush and former Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey were the featured speakers at this year’s Fogelson Honors Forum at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 in Ed Landreth Auditorium on the TCU campus. Title of their presentations is “Red State + Blue State = Purple Politics.” The event is sponsored by the TCU Honors Program.
   

The lecture event was free and open to the public although seat reservations were necessary.  For more information, call 817-257-4862 or visit www.hon.tcu.edu.
   

Jeb Bush was elected the 43rd governor of Florida in 1998 and served until January 2007. A graduate of the University of Texas, he moved to Florida in 1981 and was a partner in a large commercial real estate company before beginning his career in public service as his state’s secretary of commerce. He is the son of former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.
   

Bill Bradley has been on the national stage for more than four decades, dating back to an Olympic gold medal win in basketball at the 1964 games in Tokyo. He was a three-time All-American basketball player at Princeton University where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. During the 10 years Bradley played professional basketball with the New York Knicks, the team won two NBA championships. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982. He has written six books, taught as a visiting professor at Stanford and Notre Dame and has a show on Sirius Statellite Radio.

The Fogelson Honors Forum, now in its 11th year, is made possible by a $1 million gift from the estates of E. E. “Buddy” Fogelson and his wife, the actress Greer Garson. A successful Texas oilman and rancher, Buddy Fogelson attended TCU in 1919 and 1920. Previous lecturers in this series have included CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, economist/actor Ben Stein, political insiders James Carville and Mary Matalin, statesman George Mitchell, historians David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin.
   

The TCU Honors Program, with admission by invitation, offers a challenging interdisciplinary curriculum in a wide variety of classes, as well as opportunities for traditional and experiential learning and co-curricular activities.  For the first time this year, a “Frog Camp” for incoming honors students was held in London, England.  It was the first international freshman orientation in the history of the University.