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09/16/2008

Senator Chuck Hagel to Speak about "America: Our Next Chapter"

CCAS is pleased to announce that Senator Chuck Hagel will speak on Monday, September 22 at 1:30 pm in Gaston Hall about "America: Our Next Chapter." 

Hagel, Nebraska’s senior U.S. Senator, is serving his second term in the United States Senate. Senator Hagel’s duties include membership on four Senate committees: Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence and Rules.

Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Hagel worked in the private sector as the President of McCarthy & Co., an investment banking firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, and served as Chairman of the Board of American Information Systems (AIS). Before joining McCarthy & Co., Hagel was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Council (PSC) in Washington, D.C., Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit) and President and Chief Executive Officer of the World USO.

Hagel served in Vietnam with his brother Tom in 1968. He earned many military decorations and honors, including two Purple Hearts.

Hagel has participated in civic, educational, and charitable organizations and has served on the Board and Advisory Committees of various institutions including: the Institute of Politics at Harvard University; International Republican Institute; and the German Marshall Fund’s Trade and Poverty Forum, the American Red Cross; Bread for the World; and the Council on Foreign Relations. 

A fourth generation Nebraskan, Hagel was born in North Platte, Nebraska on October 4, 1946. He graduated from St. Bonaventure High School, Columbus, Nebraska, the Brown Institute for Radio and Television, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Hagel and his wife, Lilibet, have two children, daughter Allyn, 17, and son Ziller, 15.