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September 13, 2002
Christine Whitman will help Catt center mark 10 years
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by Kevin Brown
Christine Todd Whitman, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) will help the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics
celebrate its 10th anniversary this month. The celebration will include a
campus reception, benefit dinner, theater performance and auction.
Whitman will present a free public lecture at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in
the Memorial Union Great Hall. She will discuss the importance and impact
of women on politics and public policy and answer questions.
Prior to becoming EPA administrator, Whitman served two years as governor of
New Jersey. Whitman currently holds the Mary Louise Smith Chair, a
department of political science position that brings a variety of experts on
women and politics to Iowa State's campus.
Whitman also will speak at a Des Moines reception for women political
leaders in Iowa from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Embassy Club at Capitol Square. The
reception is free and open to the public.
In addition to her public presentations, Whitman will speak at a luncheon
hosted by the Iowa State University Foundation's Women and Philanthropy
Program and the Catt center, and meet with students affiliated with the
center at a private reception.
Other Catt center 10th anniversary events include:
- An anniversary reception, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Sept. 23
-- the date in 1992 the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved an ISU
request to establish the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics.
The reception in 302 Catt Hall is free and open to the public, and will
include a light luncheon. A 12:30 p.m. program will feature Sharon Rodine of
Norman, Okla., an ISU political science alumna who helped establish the
center.
- A silent auction of women's political memorabilia and services,
including autographed books; paintings and other items from national and
state lawmakers and officers; works by well-known Iowa artists; a dinner
prepared by Kathy Geoffroy and hosted by her and Iowa State President
Gregory Geoffroy; season tickets to ISU football and women's basketball
games; and gift certificates to restaurants, clothing stores and salons.
Bids for silent auction items, listed on the center's Web site at
http://www.iastate.edu/~cccatt/10-year.html, will be accepted by mail or
in person at anniversary events. Bidding ends Sept. 25.
- A benefit dinner and theater performance of The Yellow Rose of
Suffrage on Wednesday, Sept. 25, in the Scheman Building, Iowa State
Center. The program will begin with dinner at 6 p.m., followed by a
performance by ISU theater professor Jane Cox of her one-woman play about
Carrie Chapman Catt. Tickets for the dinner are $45 per person. For more
information, contact the Catt center, 4-3181, or e-mail
cattcntr@iastate.edu. At 8 p.m., students are invited to fill available
seats for the theater performance for free.
The Catt center also is engaged in a 10th anniversary fund-raising campaign
to establish a $250,000 endowment to support programs and activities in
student leadership development, research and outreach. Gifts will be
announced throughout the anniversary celebration events.
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