Inside Iowa State
September 22, 2000
Simpson joins celebrations
by Dave Gieseke, LAS Public Relations
Carole Simpson, World News Sunday anchor and Emmy
Award-winning senior ABC News correspondent, will join
in campus celebrations of women and families during a visit
Thursday, Oct. 5.
Simpson, the 2000 Mary Louis Smith Chair in Women and Politics, will speak on "Women and Family Issues in Campaign 2000" at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Union Sun Room.
She also will attend a 4:30 p.m. celebration in honor of the 3,000 women recognized with bricks in the Carrie Chapman Catt Hall front plaza. Four bricks, honoring Mary Louise Smith chairs (including Simpson) will be unveiled. Theater professor Jane Cox will read from the biographies of women honored in the plaza as part of the celebration.
In addition, Simpson will attend a 7 to 8 p.m. reception in the Memorial Union South Ballroom, when the Catt Center's Strong-Minded Women award recipients will be announced.
Simpson, a television broadcaster for more than 20 years, won national praise as sole moderator for the 1992 presidential candidate "town hall" debate between George Bush and Bill Clinton. She was one of the reporters on the critically acclaimed documentary, Black and White in America. In 1990, Simpson helped anchor ABC's live coverage of the release of Nelson Mandela from his 27-year imprisonment.
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