Former Defense Secretary to speak at CNU

News Release - Oct. 13, 2006

Public's Contact for publication:
Dr. Nathan Busch
Assistant Professor of Government and Public Affairs
(757) 594-8498

Media Contact:
Karen L. Gill
Office of Communications and Public Relations
(757) 594-8428

(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) — Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry will speak at Christopher Newport University at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 in the Music and Theatre Hall of the Ferguson Center for the Arts.

The lecture addressing contemporary issues in national security is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Dr. Nathan Busch, assistant professor of government and public affairs, at (757) 594-8498.

More about William J. Perry

William J. Perry, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor at Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the School of Engineering and the Institute for International Studies, where he is codirector of the Preventive Defense Project, a research collaboration of Stanford and Harvard Universities.

Perry served as the United States secretary of defense from February 1994 to January 1997. His previous government experience was as deputy secretary of defense (1993–94) and undersecretary of defense for research and engineering (1977–81).

Perry serves on the board of directors of Anteon International Corporation and several emerging high-tech companies and is chairman of Global Technology Partners.

He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Stanford University and his doctorate from Pennsylvania State, all in mathematics. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 1946 to 1947, Perry was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers and served in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1948 and was a second lieutenant in the army reserves from 1950 to 1955 .