McGovern to speak at Sandoz meeting
George S. McGovern will be the keynote speaker at the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society’s annual meeting at Chadron State College on Thursday, March 30. The announcement was made on Friday during the news conference at CSC to discuss the receipt of the gift of Dawes County ranchland from Esther Pilster and her late husband Raleigh to the Sandoz Society.
McGovern, 83, is frequently described as one of the nation’s most significant figures and leading statesmen.
Dr. Ron Hull of Lincoln, president of the Sandoz Society, said McGovern was one of his professors at Dakota Wesleyan University in the early 1950s and they have kept in touch through the years.
McGovern served in the U.S. House of Representative from South Dakota 1957-61 and in the U.S. Senate 1963-80. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 1972. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 and was appointed the United Nations global ambassador on world hunger in 2001.
Hull said McGovern recently has joined with Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and Republican nominee for president in 1996, to fight starvation and world hunger.
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