Dean to speak at Williams College 9/28

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Hey y'all! Howard Dean will be speaking at Williams College on Tuesday, 9/28, at Chapin Hall, 8 pm. Free and open to the public.

"WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Sept. 17, 2004 -- A conversation with former Democratic Governor of Vermont Howard Dean will take place Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. in Chapin Hall on the Williams College campus. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be moderated by Stephen Frazier ’74, primetime news anchor for CNN Headline News.

The conversation is the first of three events supported this fall by the Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum. On Thursday, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. in Bronfman Auditorium there will be a debate on the presidential race, with Hoover Institution Fellow Dinesh D’Souza arguing for President Bush and Professor of Political Science George Marcus for Senator Kerry. On Wednesday, Oct. 13, former Republican Governor of New Jersey and Chair of the 9/11 Commission Thomas Kean will speak in Chapin Hall at 7:30 p.m.

Dean will address the long-term implications of the 2004 presidential election and youth involvement in the political process. As a former Democratic presidential hopeful, he is credited with mobilizing voters by use of the Internet. He organized a large base of grassroots support with a "blog" and an online fundraising website, which raised over $41 million, much of it from first-time donors who gave small amounts of money. "If 20 people are expected at a Dean event," said the Washington Post about his volunteer organizing, "50 or 100 show up. If 100 are expected, 200 to 400 show. And so on."

Dean is the author of "Winning Back America" about his life and the people and events that shaped him, beginning with his upbringing in New York, through his medical career, 11-and-a-half years as governor of Vermont, and his presidential campaign. His most recent book, "You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America," will be published in the week he is speaking at Williams.

A volunteer for President Jimmy Carter's reelection campaign in 1979, Dean was subsequently elected to the Vermont state legislature in 1983. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1986 and re-elected in 1988 and 1990. He became governor upon the death of incumbent Richard A. Snelling in 1991. Elected to a full term in 1992, he was re-elected four times. As past chairman of the National Governors' Association, the Democratic Governors' Association, and the New England Governors' Conference, he also served on the National Education Goals Panel and was co-chair of NGA's Task Force on Health Care.

He recently founded an organization called Democracy for America, to try to build grassroots involvement with a variety of social issues.

An award-winning broadcast journalist, Stephen Frazier has also co-anchored CNN NewsStand and CNN & Fortune. He was senior correspondent for Impact, the CNN & TIME weekly prime-time investigative newsmagazine, and for CNN Presents, the network’s documentary news hour.

Before joining CNN in 1993 he spent 12 years at NBC News as a network correspondent and anchor. He frequently anchored NBC Nightly News and NBC News at Sunrise. While at NBC, he lived on three continents and was assigned to five bureaus, including Tokyo, London, and Rome. "

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