Columnist Carl T. Rowan to Discuss 'What's Bill Clinton Doing to America?'

February 7, 1994

February 7, 1994, Greencastle, Ind. - Carl T. Rowan, nationally syndicated columnist, best-selling author and founder of Project Excellence, will speak at DePauw University on Tuesday, February 15 at 7 p.m. in East College, Meharry Hall. Rowan's topic will be "What's Bill Clinton Doing to America?" It is open and free to the public.

One of the most honored journalists in American history, he has 44 honorary degrees and is the only journalist in American history to win the Sigma Delta Chi medallion for journalistic excellence in three successive years. In 1993 Rowan's book, Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall, was published, and it has received good reviews. 

Project Excellence was created by Rowan in 1987 in order to encourage black youngsters in the Washington, D.C. area to excel in the written and spoken use of the English language. When Rowan spoke at DePauw as an Ubben Lecturer in April 1993, he announced that he had added the University to Project Excellence.

Rowan served as deputy assistant secretary of state under President John F. Kennedy and helped to integrate the State Department. He later served as a delegate to the United Nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis, ambassador to Finland, and director of the U.S. Information Agency, thus becoming the first black person to sit with the U.S. National Security Council and the Cabinet.

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