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Mr. Tony Snow - November 29, 2007
| Speaker: | Mr. Tony Snow |
| Date: | November 29, 2007. 7:30PM - 8:30PM |
| Location: | Hardeman Auditorium, Oklahoma Christian University |
Newslink: "Former Press Secretary visits OC"
OC’s Academy of Leadership & Liberty is pleased to announce that our fall Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Speaker will be Mr. Tony Snow. Mr. Snow will be on campus the evening of November 29th (Thursday). Please mark this date on your calendar! Thanks to the generosity of the Hatton W. Sumners Foundation, Mr. Snow will be speaking for the OC community without cost to the University. The speech will be held in the Hardeman Auditorium and 600 tickets have been reserved for students. Additional tickets will be available for invitees and interested members of the public. Information about when and where to get tickets will made available soon. Tickets will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be able to get two tickets with their current Student ID.
Event schedule:
5:00PM - Student Reception
6:00PM - Pre-lecture Dinner
7:30PM - Lecture and Q&A
(this schedule is subject to revision and change)
Brief Biography:
Tony Snow served as the White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush Administration from May 2006 to September 2007. In 1991, he served as Director of Speechwriting and Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs for President George H. W. Bush.
He has spent a quarter of a century in the news business. He’s worked in all three major media—print, radio and television. He started his career in 1979 as an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina and went on to write editorials for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. He ran the editorial pages in both The Daily Press of Newport News and The Washington Times. He’s written nationally syndicated columns for both The Detroit News and USA Today.
For seven years, he served as the host of FOX News Sunday. Most recently, he reached Americans all across our country as the host of The Tony Snow Show on FOX News Radio, and Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the FOX News Channel.
Tony Snow was born in Berea, Kentucky, on June 1, 1955. He was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father taught social studies and was an assistant principal at Princeton High School. His mother was a nurse who died of colon cancer in 1973 when he was 17 years old. After graduating from Princeton High School in Sharonville, Ohio, Snow obtained his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Davidson College in 1977. He taught physics and geography in Kenya, and was a substitute teacher in Cincinnati, teaching everything from calculus to art. He also worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled in North Carolina.
In February 2005, Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer. After successful colon surgery, Snow began a course of chemotherapy treatment and returned to work at FOX News in April 2005. In March 2007, 10 months after becoming White House Press Secretary, Snow’s doctors discovered his cancer had returned. Vowing to fight the disease once again, he underwent surgery. In April 2007, Snow resumed his White House duties and began a second round of chemotherapy treatment, which he completed just prior to leaving the Bush Administration.
