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John H. Glenn, a retired U.S. Senator and the first American to orbit the earth, will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, May 1, 2001 for UMaine’s third annual William S. Cohen Lecture. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. in the Maine Center for the Arts.
Cohen, a Bangor native who represented Maine in Congress for 24 years and served as Secretary of Defense in the Clinton administration, will also be present at the event and will make introductory remarks.
Glenn is a retired Marine colonel who flew combat missions in World War II and the Korean War. In 1959 he was selected as one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. Three years later, he became the first American to orbit the earth, aboard the Friendship Seven spacecraft.
Glenn turned to politics and was elected to his first of four terms as a U.S. Senator from Ohio in 1974. When Glenn left the Senate in 1998, he joined Ohio State in establishing the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy. Also in 1998, he returned to space as a crew member on a ten-day mission aboard NASA’s Discovery space shuttle.
The lecture series is put on by UMaine’s William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce, established within UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health in 1997. Cohen, a former faculty member in the college, donated his collection of papers chronicling his 24-year congressional career to UMaine’s Fogler Library at the time the center was established. In January of this year, he gave the papers from his tenure at the Pentagon to UMaine.
The annual Cohen lecture was established to bring to campus a distinguished speaker in international policy and commerce. Cohen delivered the first lecture in the series in March of 1998; Madeleine Albright, who was Secretary of State at the time, gave the second lecture in October of 1999.
Free tickets to the event are available. Those interested in attending should contact the Maine Center for the Arts Box Office at 581-1755 or 1-800-MCA-TIXX. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Bangor Daily News