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Stansfield Turner, former CIA director, and Louis Freeh, former
FBI director to discuss "Homeland Security" on November
22 during Distinguished Lecturer Series at William Paterson University
--Tickets available at Shea Center Box Office
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FBI and CIA cooperation in the face of terrorism
will be the topic as Louis Freeh, former director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and Stansfield Turner, former director
of the Central Intelligence Agency, discuss "Homeland Security
and Interagency Cooperation" during the Distinguished Lecturer
Series at William Paterson University on Friday, November 22 at
8 p.m. in Shea Center.
Tickets for the lecture are available in the Shea Center Box Office.
To purchase tickets, please call the box office at 973-720-2371
between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.; prices are $26 standard; $24 for senior
citizens, William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni; $10 for William
Paterson students; and $14 for students from other schools. Parking
is free.
They will discuss America’s indispensable role as a defender
and promoter of freedom in a world now more vulnerable than ever
to terrorism, and how up-to-now competing security agencies must
cooperate to face down terrorist threats at home and abroad.
President Bill Clinton appointed Freeh, a Jersey City, New Jersey
native, director of the FBI in 1993 where he served an eight-year
term. A lawyer, he began his career in law enforcement as an FBI
special agent. Freeh, held various positions in the New York City
U. S. Attorneys Office including Deputy United States Attorney;
he was also appointed to the US District Court for the Southern
District in New York. Freeh now serves as senior vice chairman for
administration at MBNA Corporation, the largest independent credit
card lender in the world, overseeing legal affairs, and is responsible
for personnel, facilities, security and transportation functions.
Freeh, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers College, also earned
a J.D. from Rutgers Law School and an LL.M in criminal law from
New York University Law School. He was also a First Lieutenant in
the U.S. Army JAG Corps Reserve.
After a long career in the Navy, where he earned the rank of admiral,
Turner was named director of Central Intelligence. In this capacity
he headed both the Intelligence Community (composed of all the foreign
intelligence agencies of the United States) and the Central Intelligence
Agency. Nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, he served until
1981. He has taught at Yale University, West Point, and in 1991,
he joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Public Affairs at
the University of Maryland at College Park.
The lecture series continues on February 14 when terrorism and threats
to America are topics of discussion for Senator Fred Thompson. Financial
services visionary Christos M. Cotsakos, chairman of the board and
CEO of E*TRADE Group, Inc., will present a lecture on changing the
rules of engagement on March 28. The Capitol Steps, a team of political
satirists, who are former Capitol Hill staffers, will perform on
May 2.
William Paterson's Distinguished Lecturer Series is presented by
the William Paterson University Foundation, the Student Government
Association and the Student Activities Programming Board. Distinguished
Partners include: Automatic Data Processing Inc. Benefactors include:
Bacon & Graham, Inc.; BAE Systems-CNI; The CIT Group; Interchange
Bank; Mercedes-Benz USA LLC; Nicholas Martini Foundation; Pfizer;
PSE&G; Record/Herald News; and the William Paterson University
Alumni Association. Patrons include: Aventis Pharmaceuticals; Castrol
Consumer North America; Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc.; ITT Avionics; and
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Sponsors include: AAA-NJ Automobile
Club; Becton Dickinson and Co.; Bograds; Bristol-Myers Squibb; CAN;
Commerce Bank; Commerce and Industry Association; Barbara and Robert
Evans; Facile Holdings, Inc.; Joan and Robert Ferris; First Institutional
Securities, LLC; Gerber & Samson, Attorneys; Honeywell, Inc.;
JVC Americas Corp.; McBride Enterprises, Inc.; Merrill Lynch; Minolta;
The Opper Group; Passaic County Educational Council; Prudential;
Resort Condominiums International, A Cendant Company; Leon and Paula
Rosenblum; Daryl and Stephen Roth; State Farm Insurance Companies;
Toshiba America Consumer Products, Inc.; United Water New Jersey;
United Yarn Products Company, Inc.; Variable Annuity Life Insurance
Company (VALIC); Valley National Bank; Verizon; Wakefern Food Corporation;
and Washington Mutual.
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- 10/22/02
For Further Information, contact:
- Mary
Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations 973-720-2966
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