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White House Insider Ed Rollins to Discuss ‘Reagan at 100’ at Sacred Heart University Forum
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Ed Rollins, a close aide to President Ronald Reagan, will discuss ‘Reagan at 100’ during a special forum at Sacred Heart University. The event, which marks the centennial of the birth of former President Ronald Reagan, will take place at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, April 5, 2011, in University Commons at 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, CT.
Mr. Rollins has been close to the center of political life in the United States for many years. A one-time campaign coordinator for Robert F. Kennedy, he was the assistant to President Reagan for Political Affairs and director of the Office of Political Affairs as well as national campaign director for the Reagan-Bush '84 campaign, winning 49 of 50 states. In December 2007, he was named the national campaign chairman for the Mike Huckabee Campaign for President.
Aside from holding these pivotal roles in Republican presidential campaigns, his early experience included studies in a Catholic seminary and a decade as a boxer. Currently, Mr. Rollins is senior political analyst for CNN, senior presidential fellow at the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University, and principal at the Dilenschneider Group, a strategic communications firm.
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Mr. Rollins was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) at the annual convention in Washington D.C. at the Hall of Fame luncheon on March 10. The AAPC, founded in 1969, is a nonpartisan organization of political professionals. Membership consists of political consultants, media consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, corporate public affairs officers, professors, fund-raisers, lobbyists, congressional staffers and everyone associated with politics from the local level to the White House. Induction into the AAPC Hall of Fame is the highest honor that the working members of the profession can bestow upon a colleague.
This free event is sponsored by GE. From 1954 through 1962, Ronald Reagan worked for GE as host of a weekly television series, General Electric Theater, and traveled as a GE spokesman to 139 GE plants meeting more than 250,000 employees. As part of each episode in the series, Reagan highlighted the work of GE employees by promoting products like automatic dishwashers and electric can openers, products that were transforming American homes with the era’s emerging technologies. Reagan punctuated each spot with GE’s tag line at the time: “Progress is Our Most Important Product.” With a $15 million grant, GE is the presenting sponsor of the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration, a -year-long celebration for the President’s 100th birthday on February 6, 2011.
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WSHU Public Radio is the media sponsor for this event with additional support from SHU’s Human Journey Core Colloquia Series.
Media coverage is welcomed. Please contact Funda Alp at 203-396-8241 or alpf@sacredheart.edu for further information.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 6,000 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides “Best 373 Colleges: 2011,” “Best in the Northeast” and “Best 300 Business Schools: 2011.” U.S. News & World Report ranks SHU among the best master’s universities in the North in its annual “America’s Best Colleges” publication. As one of just 23 institutions nationally, SHU is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ (AAC&U) Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, in recognition of its core, “The Human Journey.” SHU fields 31 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu
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