Eureka College to celebrate 25th anniversary of Ronald Reagan scholarship program with Washington, D.C., trip

Edwin Meese III to be named inaugural honorary Ronald Reagan Fellow

 

About 85 Eureka College administrators, staff, students, alumni and friends will be in Washington, D.C., March 16-18
to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the college’s Ronald W. Reagan Leadership Program.


Capping off the trip will be a formal dinner at the Willard InterContinental Washington Hotel, the site of a 1986 fundraising dinner for the Reagan scholarship program at which President and Mrs. Reagan were the honored guests. As part of the dinner, former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, Edwin Meese III, will be named as the inaugural honorary Ronald Reagan Fellow.


Highlights of the trip will include:

 

March 16
“Monuments by Moonlight” tour

 

March 17
National Archives curator talk

 

Private tour of the U.S. House of Representatives hosted by Assistant
Parliamentarian Carrie Thompson Wolf, Eureka College 1994 graduate

 

St. Patrick's Day reception at Jury’s hotel Irish pub


March 18
Private tour of the White House by Jay Hein, Director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and Eureka College 1987 graduate, followed by a briefing in the Eisenhower building and a luncheon in the Indian Treaty Room

 

Reception and dinner at the Willard InterContinental followed by the program
“A Tribute to Ronald Reagan and His Living Legacy”

 

“We are excited about this trip to our nation’s capital, which is a fitting place to recall Ronald Reagan’s impact on his alma mater, the nation and the world,” said Brian Sajko, Reagan program director. “It will be wonderful to reconnect with Washington, D.C., alumni and friends and especially to honor Reagan’s great friend Edwin Meese as the first-ever honorary fellow in our Reagan program.”


The Reagan program awards full-tuition scholarships to six incoming freshmen each year. This year’s winners will be announced by April 1, Sajko said.


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Contact:

Michele Lehman

Media Relations Coordinator

mlehman@eureka.edu

(309) 467-6318