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PRESENTS DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, LINCOLN TONIGHT’S PRESENTATION BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN IS ONLY AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE STREAMING DURING HER LIVE LECTURE. THE 25TH ANNUAL GOVERNOR’S LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES in collaboration with the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues WELCOME Ted Carter, President, University of Nebraska PRESENTATION OF THE SOWER AWARD Amy Sandeen, Chair, Nebraska Humanities Council REMARKS FROM 2020 SOWER AWARD RECIPIENT Natalie D. Hahn INTRODUCTION OF THE GOVERNOR Nicholas W. Baxter, President, Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities INTRODUCTION OF THE SPEAKER Governor Pete Ricketts LECTURE DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE Moderated by Patrice C. McMahon, Chair, E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues; Professor, UNL Department of Political Science; Director, UNL Honors Program To ask the moderator questions for Doris Kearns Goodwin, please text ent918 to 22333 or online at PollEv.com/ent918 CLOSING REMARKS Christopher Sommerich, Executive Director, Humanities Nebraska 2020 GOVERNOR’S LECTURER DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, speaker, and Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author. Her seventh book, Leadership in Turbulent Times, was published in 2018 to critical acclaim and became an instant New York Times bestseller. A culmination of Goodwin’s five-decade career of studying the American presidents, the book provides an accessible and essential road map for aspiring and established leaders in every field, and for all of us in our everyday lives. Goodwin’s career as a presidential historian and author was inspired when as a 24-year-old graduate student at Harvard she was selected to join the White House Fellows. She then wrote Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. Goodwin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys was adapted into an award-winning five-part television miniseries. Her sixth book,The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, won the Carnegie Medal and is being developed into a film. Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, served as the basis for Steven Spielberg’s hit film Lincoln and was awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the inaugural Book Prize for American History, and the Lincoln Leadership Prize. Goodwin graduated magna cum laude from Colby College. She earned a doctorate degree in Government from Harvard University, where she taught Government, including a course on the American Presidency. Among her many honors and awards, Goodwin was awarded the Charles Frankel Prize, the Sarah Josepha Hale Medal, the New England Book Award, as well as the Carl Sandburg Literary Award. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a devoted fan of the Boston Red Sox. 2 2020 GOVERNOR’S LECTURE COMMITTEE Connie Duncan and Chris Zygielbaum, Co-Chairs Don Arp, Jr. Julia Gale Nick Baxter Linda Graff Graciela Caneiro-Livingston Shannon Harner Laura Capp Mike Homa Brenda Christensen First Lady Susanne Shore John Conley Rich Sincovec Judy Ekeler Jen Rae Wang Hal France Peter Zandbergen HONORARY GOVERNOR’S LECTURE CHAIRS Dave Heineman Ben Nelson Mike Johanns Kay Orr Bob Kerrey Pete Ricketts BOOKS BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN sLeadership In Turbulent Times sThe Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and The Golden Age of Journalism sTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln sNo Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front In World War II Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History sLyndon Johnson and the American Dream sWait Till Next Year: A Memoir sThe Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga Learn more about the speaker at https://doriskearnsgoodwin.com/ 3 2020 SOWER AWARD RECIPIENT NATALIE D. HAHN A native of Polk, long-time resident of Central City, former New Yorker, and now Lincoln resident, Natalie Hahn served 38 years with United Nations programs in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, New York City, and Rome. Global interest and adventures started when she was a Polk County 4-H member, participating in the International Farm Youth Exchange in New Zealand and then receiving a Rotary Fellowship to India. Her work with the U.N. involved new food crops and nutrition in Nigeria, women and finance for the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and youth initiatives; she acted as UNICEF Representative to Malawi, and as Senior Private Sector Advisor at the U.N.’s Fund for International Partnerships. Her favorite job involved introducing improved food crops and nutrition programs for rural women in Nigeria. The adoption of soybeans as a new crop to the country was an agricultural revolution. For this accomplishment, the Yoruba Peoples honored her with a chieftaincy and bestowed on her the title Balogun Iyalaje, meaning “the person who empowers.” Dr. Hahn sees her recent return home to her beloved Nebraska as “her best decision ever.” With the influence of her journalist mother, Grayce Hahn Burney, she was determined to give back to her state by founding the Malaika Foundation, a recipient of HN grants, which has a mission to build a greater understanding of peoples and countries throughout the world and enhance global education in Nebraska schools and communities. Over the past 20 years, the Malaika Foundation has organized educational workshops throughout Nebraska for 3,000 teachers and provided 68 fellowships to teachers and students to study abroad on five continents. Dr. Hahn has donated African art to Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, the Kenneth Morrison Cancer Center in Hastings, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Wayne State College, and public schools and libraries in Lexington. Upon moving to Lincoln, she became a member of Downtown Lincoln Rotary Club #14. Her education includes a B.A. from UNL, an M.A. from The Ohio State University, an M.P.A. and Ed.D from Harvard University, plus honorary doctorates from UNL and Nebraska Wesleyan University. 4 SOWER AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE Hal France, Chair Graciela Caneiro-Livingston Shannon Harner Brenda Christensen Barbara Hewins-Maroney Connie Duncan Bev Kracher Judy Ekeler Dave Nesheim Mark Ellis Chris Zygielbaum PAST SOWER AWARD RECIPIENTS INDIVIDUALS Marian Andersen • Robert Audi • Keith Blackledge • Marion Marsh Brown • Gene Bunge • Jack Campbell • State Sen. 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Don Pederson • Rhonda Seacrest • Joe Seger • Todd Simon • Bernice Slote • Annette & Paul Smith • Pamela Hilton Snow • Joe Starita • E.N. “Jack” Thompson • Charles “Chuck” Trimble • Morrie Tuttle • Don Welch • Larry Wewel INSTITUTIONS Beatrice Public Library • Commercial Federal Savings and Loan • Cooper Foundation • El Museo Latino • Holdrege Public Library • InterNorth Foundation • Peter Kiewit Foundation • Nebraska Educational Telecommunications • Nebraska Federation of Women’s Clubs • Omaha World-Herald • Septemberfest Committee of Omaha • Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer • Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial & Education Foundation • Woods Charitable Fund COMMUNITIES Aurora • David City • Central City • Chadron • Cozad • Gering • Henderson • Oakland • Scottsbluff • Seward • Verdigre 5 Humanities Nebraska thanks the following co-sponsors, grand benefactors, benefactors, sponsors, sustainers, and supporters who helped make this year’s Governor’s Lecture possible. (As of August 26) CO-SPONSORS 6 GRAND BENEFACTORS CAROL GENDLER TAMI & JERRY HELLMAN CYNTHIA & ROBERT MILLIGAN RHONDA SEACREST BENEFACTORS 7 SPONSORS Anonymous Bob & Mary Nefsky Mrs. Marian B. Andersen Natalie & Sam Olson Anne & Nick Baxter Peru State College Cindy & Mogens Bay R&R Realty Group Blechas, Kuglers, Otises, Thompson H. Rogers & Wycoffs Lynn & Dana Roper Laurie Smith Camp Chuck Shoemaker & Kristen & Geoffrey Cline Lynne Friedewald Cline Williams Wright Streck, Inc. Johnson & Oldfather, LLP Sue & Ed Tricker John Conley & Cathy Lang Union Bank & Trust Kim & Tom Dinsdale University of Nebraska Jack & Judy Ekeler at Omaha Katherine & Dick Endacott University of Nebraska Jeff & Judy Greenwald Medical Center Hawks Foundation UNL - Office of the HBE LLC Chancellor John & Karen Higgins Katherine L. Walter Jane Renner Hood Carol & Tom Waring Beverly Kracher & Jerry Stegeman R. Ted & Sheila Weschler Chas & Ellen Lierk Kelvin & Beth Whited Mueller Robak LLC Zandbergen Bros. 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