Inside Iowa State
March 3, 2000
Catt Center taps newswoman as fourth chair holder
by Steve Sullivan
Carole Simpson, Emmy Award-
winning senior correspondent for ABC News and anchor of
World News Sunday, has been named holder of the Mary
Louise Smith Endowed Chair in Women and Politics.
Simpson will be on campus Monday, April 10, for a public presentation and the Carrie Chapman Catt Center's annual awards event.
Simpson will be the featured guest that night at the Catt
Center's Strong-Minded Women reception, dinner and awards
celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. in the second floor lobby of the
Scheman Building. She will speak and participate in the
awards presentations. The event is open to the public;
reservations are required ($30 for reception and dinner and
$25 for dinner only).
Simpson will give a public presentation that evening at 8 p.m. in Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building.
"With the 2000 presidential campaign unfolding, we wanted to bring a respected woman journalist to campus as this spring's Mary Louise Smith Chair," said Dianne Bystrom, director of the Catt Center. "We were impressed not only with Ms. Simpson's many accomplishments as a journalist, but also her commitment to women's issues."
The Mary Louse Smith Chair was created in 1995 to honor the longtime Iowa civic and political leader. Simpson is the fourth noted woman leader to visit Iowa State through the Smith Chair.
Simpson received numerous awards for her reporting of social issues, particularly those involving children and families, and for efforts to improve opportunities for women and minorities in the broadcasting industry. She also won national praise for her role as the sole moderator for the 1992 presidential candidate "town hall" debate among George Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot.
Simpson went to ABC News in 1982 from NBC News, where she had covered the U.S. Congress and hosted a women's public affairs program. Prior to joining NBC News in 1974, she was a journalism instructor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She also spent two years as a journalism instructor and director of the information bureau at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
For more information about the reception, dinner, awards ceremony or lecture, or to make a reservation, contact the center, 4-3181, or cattcntr@iastate.edu. Checks for the reception and dinner may be sent to Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, 309 Catt Hall.
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