University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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ff November 10, 1981 Max Cleland The Quest For Excellence Max Cleland was Administrator of the Veterans Administration from 1977 to 1981. Nine years before being appointed to head the Veter- ans Administration he was in Vietnam where an exploding grenade cost him both legs and an arm. After 18 months of rehabilitation. he entered politics in Georgia and became the youngest member of the Georgia State Senate where he served two terms from 1970 to 1974. In 1975 he joined the U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee staff to work on health care issues. He is the author of the recently pub- lished autobiography, STRONG AT THE BROKEN PLACES. November 17, 1981 Sarah Weddington Can Reagan Make Women Disappear? Sarah Weddington received her Juris Doctorate at age 21. At 26. she argued and won a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court. She was elected to the Texas State Legislature and served three terms during which she was rated on of the state's 10 best legislators. In 1977 she became General Counsel to the US. Department of Agriculture, and in 1978 she became a Special Assistant to President Jimmy Carter. In 1979, she was promoted to the senior White House staff as Assistant to the President. She was responsible for political liaison and women's issues. Events Honors Forum 23

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October 27, 1981 William Rusher Reagan and the Economyl' William Rusher has been described as one of America's finest public speakers and deadliest debatersf' He is perhaps most familiar nation- ally as one of the two regular Advocates,' on the Emmy award winning PBS television program of the name. He is also seen fre- quently on Face Off, the mini debates on ABC Television's Good Morning America program. Rusher also writes a nationally syndicat- ed newspaper column, the Conservative Advocate, that appears three times weekly in papers from coast to coast, and for two decades he has served as publisher of William F. Buckley's NATIONAL RE- VIEW, Americals leading journal of conservative opinion. M wqnw November 3, 1981 Frank Cappiello Reagan and the Economy Frank Cappiello is probably best known as a penelist on WALL STREET WEEK, the popular PBS television series on finance. He is also a contributing columnist to the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and the BALTIMORE SUN. Frank Cappiello lectures at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity and is vice president of Monumental Corporation, an insur- ance holding company, and president of one of it affiliates, Monumen- tal Capital Management, Inc. He is, in addition, one of the three members of the Advisory Investment Committee of the 51.7 billion Maryland State Retirement Systems Fund. X' 22 EventsfHonors Fourm

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