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Walter Baker, Al Smith, Paul Blanchard in discussion at CU With our nation facing many challenges, these three gentlemen bring awealth of knowledge, insight, and expertise to the discussion ofpresidential leadership... - John Chowning By Joan C. McKinney, director of university communications The Modern Presidency: Attributes of Leadershipwill be the discussion at the Tuesday, Oct. 17 Kentucky HeartlandInstitute on Public Policy event in Campbellsville Universitys LittleAuditorium of the Student Union Building. Dr. Paul Blanchard, executive director of government relations, EasternKentucky University; Dr. Walter Baker, Columbia native and attorney from Glasgow, KY,former Kentucky State Representative and State Senator; and Al Smith, veteran journalist fromLexington, and host/producer of KETs longest running public affairsprogram, Comment on Kentucky. The subject of presidential leadership is a very timely point ofdiscussion, said John Chowning, founder of KHIPP who is vice presidentfor church and external relations and executive assistant to thepresident. With our nation facing many challenges, these three gentlemen bring awealth of knowledge, insight, and expertise to the discussion ofpresidential leadership, said Chowning. Both Mr. Smith and Senator Baker have served as presidential appointeesduring their public service careers, and Dr. Blanchard is a highlyrespected political scientistwith tremendous insight into the modern presidency, he said. They will be commenting on current presidential leadership issues aswell as sharingobservations on past presidents, Chowning said. The Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy is pleased to hostthese gentlemen as we discuss various modern presidents and currentpresidential issues, he said. Blanchard has taught political science to thousands of students atEastern Kentucky University over the past four decades (since 1970).During this time he has analyzed state and national political campaignsfor many audiences, including readers of major newspapers and viewers ofa variety of television news programs, including Comment on Kentucky,Newsmakers and KETs Election Night coverage. During the 2000 presidential campaign he was an analyst for WKYT-TV andon the day of the vice presidential debate in Danville was a guest onnational TV for the CSPAN networks Washington Journal program. From 1999 to 2003, Blanchard was founding director of EKUs Center forKentucky History and Politics and since January of 2004, he has beenEKUs executive director of government relations. Blanchard received his undergraduate degree from the University ofMichigan (Flint) and his doctorate in political science from theUniversity of Kentucky. He has received EKUs two highest facultyhonors--the Foundation Professorship (in 1996) and the National AlumniAssociation Excellence in Teaching Award. Smith of Lexington is the host/producer of KETs longest running publicaffairs program, Comment on Kentucky, now in its 29th year. EveryFriday night Smith assembles journalists for a roundtable discussion ofthe weeks news and newsmakers. Since 1974, Smith and his guestsreporters, newspaper editors, and theoccasional professorhave provided a deeper insight into the innerworkings of Kentucky political, educational, agricultural and businessaffairs. The program, which is repeated on Sundays, has a loyalaudience of viewers who are themselves decision makers or who areinterested in how policy is formed in the Commonwealth. I was a country newspaper editor when we started Comment on Kentucky,Smith once said of the program. Maybe one reason weve lasted isbecause we honor grassroots values and zestfully share the gossip onboth sides of the political fence. Although more widely known as a broadcaster, Smith edited, owned, andpublished weekly newspapers in Kentucky for more than 30 years. He cameto Kentucky in 1958 after ten years as a reporter and editor on twodaily papers in New Orleans. After growing up in Florida and Tennesseeand serving in World War II, he attended Vanderbilt University. For sixyears, until September 1996, he also hosted a daily radio talk show,PrimeLine, on a 30-station network. That program was initiated andsponsored by the Association of Older Kentuckians in an effort to createbutter understanding of public concerns between generations. A former head of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) in the Carterand Reagan administrations, Smith is former chair, one of the foundersof Leadership Kentucky and has headed several other statewide groups,including the Kentucky Press Association, the state arts and oralhistory programs, a governors council on education reform and theShakertown Roundtable. Other civic work has included service on the boards of the Council onHigher Education, the Governors Scholars, the University Press ofKentucky Foundation, and Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Inc. and membershipin two school support groups: the Prichard Committee for AcademicExcellence and Forward in the Fifth. Smith was elected to the first class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall ofFame at the University of Kentucky in 1981 and holds honorary degreesfrom two state universities and a private college. He is the recentrecipient of the state rural electrics Distinguished Rural KentuckianAward and the Vic Hellard Award for public service from the LegislativeResearch Commissions Long Term Policy Center. The states annual AlSmith Arts Fellowship honors his support of community arts programs. Smiths wife, Martha Helen, the mother of their three grown children,has had her own career as teacher, social worker, business owner andeducational consultant. Baker is a graduate of Harvard Law School in 1961; he was Phi Beta Kappaat Harvard College where he graduated magna cum laude in 1958. Baker was state representative for the 23rd House District in theKentucky House of Representatives from 1968 to 1971. He was also statesenator in the 9th Senatorial District from 1972 to 1981 and from 1989to 1996. Baker served as assistant general counsel for international affairs withthe Office of the Secretary for Defense in the Department of Defensefrom 1981 to 1983. He was a justice for the Kentucky Supreme Court in1996. Baker is a Lt. Col., USAFR, with the Kentucky Air National Guard and wasjudge advocate from 1961 to 1981. He received the Kentucky Council on Crime and Delinquency OutstandingService Award in 1975; the Department of Defense Outstanding PublicService Award in 1983; the Louisville-Jefferson County Crime CommissionLegislator of the Year Award in 1990 and 1992; the William H. NatcherAward for Outstanding Public Service in 1995 from the Barren River AreaDevelopment District and the Ernie Award in 1996 from theGlasgow-Barren County Chamber of Commerce. He was awarded the John Sherman Cooper Award for Outstanding PublicService from Eastern Kentucky University in 2001. Baker is a life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, amember of the Council on Postsecondary Education since 1997 and firstvice president of the Kentucky Historical Society. For more information on the KHIPP program, contact Chowning atjechowning@campbellsville.edu or (270) 789-5220. Campbellsville University, now celebrating her Centennial year, is aprivate, comprehensive institution located in South Central Kentucky.Founded in 1906, Campbellsville University is affiliated with theKentucky Baptist Convention This story was posted on 2006-10-13 09:50:00
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