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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Mary Anthony
Feb. 19, 2008
Former British Prime Minister to Speak at Trinity University During Campus Only Event
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Tony Blair |
SAN ANTONIO – Tony Blair, prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from May 1997 to June 2007, will present Trinity University’s Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in Laurie Auditorium.
Due to strong interest in the event, tickets are required for admittance to the lecture. Demand for tickets from the Trinity community was overwhelming, and all tickets have been issued. “We decided to ticket the free lecture in order to give the Trinity students, faculty, staff, and major University donors, the first opportunity to participate,” said Sharon Jones Schweitzer, assistant vice president for University Communications. “We regret that we cannot open Mr. Blair’s lecture to the public as the University has in years past with the Cameron Lecture.”
Mr. Blair was also the leader of Britain’s Labor Party (1994 to 2007) and the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, England (1983 to 2007). He is currently serving as the Middle East Quartet Representative. The Quartet is made up of the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and Russia.
During his 10 years as prime minister, Mr. Blair transformed Britain’s public services through a program of investment and reform in schools and hospitals, resulting in more children achieving better school results and more people receiving faster access to health care, with improved survival rates for cancer and coronary heart disease.
In the United States, he received widespread recognition for his support for America after the tragedy of 9/11. Mr. Blair has always been a strong advocate of a values-based, activist, and multilateralist foreign policy – an agenda that combined tackling terrorism and intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone, with action on issues like climate change, global poverty, Africa, and the Middle East Peace Process.
Mr. Blair is widely credited for his contribution toward assisting the Northern Ireland Peace Process by helping to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement and deliver a power-sharing government.
He is based in London with his wife, Cherie Blair, and their four children.
The Flora Cameron Lecture on Politics and Public Affairs is made possible by an endowment fund established by Flora C. Crichton of San Antonio. For more information, call Trinity’s Office of University Communications at 210-999-8406.
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