Fox Anchor Bret Baier '92 to Keynote Wisconsin Healthcare Dinner

September 17, 2014

Bret Baier, chief political anchor on Fox News Channel and 1992 graduate of DePauw University, will be the keynote speaker for the Medical College of Wisconsin's 2014 Healthcare Dinner.  The event will take place on Monday, November 10, at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee, reports the Wauwatosa Now.

The newspaper preview notes that "Baier (will) discuss the current state of health care. Baier offers a very personal perspective based on his own family’s experience; his son was born with five congenital heart defects and has undergone multiple surgeries. Baier’s first book entitled Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage, and Love, was recently published. Signed books will be available at the event."

Read more here.

An English (composition) and political science double major at DePauw, Baier captained the Tiger golf team and was among the first students to work in the then-new Center for Contemporary Media.  While a DePauw student, he interned with Bernard Shaw at CNN and landed his first professional job at WJWJ-TV (PBS) in Beaufort, South Carolina.  He also worked at WREX (NBC) in Rockford, Illinois, and WRAL (CBS) in Raleigh, North Carolina, before joining Fox in 1998. Before being named anchor of Special Report, he served as the network's national security correspondent and chief White House correspondent.

Baier returned to DePauw for Old Gold on October 12, 2013. He spoke as part of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series and received the University's Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.  "DePauw is a big part of who I am, it's a big part of who I became, and I really like coming back here," he told the homecoming audience.

The talk is summarized here; a video montage is embedded below.

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