Sen. Fred Thompson to speak at Owen School Alumni Weekend

Sen. Fred Thompson and G. Richard Wagoner Jr., president of General Motors' North American Operations, are slated to speak Oct. 13-14 when the Owen Alumni Association presents "Focus 2000: Conducting Business in the 21st Century."

Thompson, the senior U.S. senator from Tennessee, will speak on "The Future of the American Political System" Saturday, Oct. 14 at 10 a.m. in Owen's Averbuch Auditorium. He was elected in the November '94 Republican landslide to serve the remaining two years of Vice President Al Gore's unexpired term.

Thompson was selected by Majority Leader Bob Dole to respond to President Bill Clinton's Middle Class Bill of Rights address to the nation in December 1994. Thompson is a leading advocate of Congressional reform and co-authored the first constitutional amendment on term limits ever to go to the Senate Floor.

Wagoner is recognized as a leader in the new thinking that has revitalized General Motors and the success of America's Big Three automakers. He will deliver the conference's keynote address, "Moving from Turnaround ... to Winning," at 9:15 a.m., Oct. 13.

For more information or to make reservations, contact Laine Fuldauer, director of alumni affairs at the Owen School, at 322-4065.