Award-winning author and former editor of Newsweek Jon Meacham will deliver his speech, Healing a Nation Post Election 2012, in the Annunciation Center’s Dolan Performance Hall at the College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE), 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. Meacham is a familiar face on Need to Know, the weekly primetime news and public affairs program, where he was co-anchor from 2010 to 2011 and where he continues to provide commentary and special reports, and publish his In Perspective essays. Tickets are priced at $25 and students with valid school identification, $10. Tickets can be obtained by calling the events telephone number 973-290-4378 or by emailing events@cse.edu. For more information, visit www.cse.edu/jonmeacham/.
Meacham, who will address the CSE community earlier in the day as part of the Academic Convocation, will focus his remarks on the upcoming election, asking how we can balance the common good with individual needs. He will discuss how we as a world community can promote healing in the aftermath of what will more than likely be a divisive election, regardless of the outcome at the ballot box.
Meacham joins a list of illustrious speakers who have visited CSE in recent years. Best-selling author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom; newscaster Soledad O’Brien, author of Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, and the daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Rev. Mpho Tutu, all brought their messages of the importance of social responsibility that is central to the mission of CSE.
In addition to his work at Newsweek, Meacham is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham has served as co-anchor of PBS' Need To Know, a weekly primetime news and public affairs program from 2010 to 2011. Recently stepping back from this role, he'll continue to conduct in-depth interviews, provide commentary, publish his “In Perspective” essays, and anchor occasional special reports for Need to Know, as well as other PBS programs.
Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, .N J., the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 2,100 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and one doctoral degree programs. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.
