About our Homecoming Speakers
Each year Homecoming weekend features a variety of talented alumni who share their experiences with other alums and current UE students.
4th Annual Homecoming Alumni Speaker Series
Bill Hadley '69 retired CIA Officer
The Arab Spring: Why Now and Where Is It Headed?
Saturday, November 12 at 10:00 a.m.
Eykamp Hall 252, Ridgway University Center
Dr. Bill Hadley is a 1969 UE graduate. Following graduation, he won a Ford Foundation Fellowship to Harvard University, where he completed a Ph.D. in Modern Diplomatic History in 1976. While there, he taught a range of History classes as a Teaching Fellow. He was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency in the mid-1970s and relocated to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area where he served as an officer for the CIA for 32 years, focusing on the Middle East and Africa. He served a tour in the Middle East in the early 1980s and another tour in the United Kingdom in the year 2000 at the Royal College of Defense Studies. At the Royal College, he pursued post-graduate work with military and civilian representatives from over 40 countries around the world. He retired from the CIA in early 2007, and has since worked as a Technical Director for Global Analysis, a U.S. subsidiary of the U.K. defense firm, BAE Systems. As a Technical Director, Dr. Hadley has served in a variety of positions, including as senior Intelligence Advisor to the Department of the Treasury and to the Inspector General in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He currently is in charge of the BAE/Global Analysis Training Program, in which capacity he oversees some 20 different programs and teaches classes in Critical Thinking, Structured Analytic Techniques, the organization and missions of the U.S. Intelligence Community, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the current Arab rebellions throughout much of the Middle East.
Dr. Hadley is the author of a chapter ("The Uses of History") for the 1998 book entitled Rethinking International Relations dedicated to his Ph.D. adviser, the late noted Harvard historian Ernest R. May. He has written other professional articles including "Intelligence in the 21st Century: Is the Playing Field Being Leveled?" published as a Seaford House Paper by the Royal College of Defense Studies in 2000, and a 2009 article entitled "The Hunt for Red October: The Techno-espionage Prototype?" published by Studies in Intelligence, a journal of the United States Intelligence Community.
With major support from the UE Alumni Office—and Sylvia DeVault in particular—and former UE basketball standout, Wayne Boultinghouse, Dr. Hadley is now completing research for a book on the UE Aces' 1965 undefeated and NCAA small college basketball championship team. Dr. Hadley's book will feature interviews with the team's All Americans, Jerry Sloan and Larry Humes, as well as other notable players, including Russ Grieger, Sam Watkins, Wayne Boultinghouse, and Buster Briley among others. He hopes to have the book published in advance of the 50th anniversary of this team's great accomplishment.
Dr. Hadley is married to Beth Bellamy '69, another UE graduate and long-time (now retired) elementary school principal in the Washington area. Together, the Hadley's raised Jason and Jessica and are the proud grandparents of five grandchildren. Dr. Hadley and Beth live on the Chesapeake Bay north of Annapolis, Maryland, where they are avid sailors on their vintage 1980 ketch Amazing Grace.
UE Veterans History Presentation
Elizabeth Bostelman '12
Eykamp Hall 253, Ridgway University Center
Friday, November 11 at 1:00 p.m.
In the fall of 2010, Elizabeth Bostelman was asked by Dr. Jennie Ebeling, the head of the Department of Archaeology, to participate in a research project focusing on military veterans over the course of the University of Evansville's history. Initiated by the Office of Veterans Affairs, the research hoped to expand the little known history of the veterans who were associated with the University of Evansville from the Civil War to the present day conflicts. The research included UE and community archive research as well as veteran interviews. Posters were then created in University Publications to help inform the university community about the University of Evansville's rich military history. Elizabeth Bostelman is a senior Archaeology major from Columbus, IN. Come hear about how she conducted her research, learn what she discovered along the way, and see some of the completed posters!
Thomas C. Fiddick Memorial Lecture
T. Lloyd Benson
Eykamp Hall 251, Ridgway University Center
Friday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m.
Dr. T. Lloyd Benson is the Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History at Furman University. A native of Ithaca, New York, Benson joined the Furman faculty in 1990. He holds an A.A. degree from the State University of New York's Empire State College and B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of Virginia. Prior to coming to Furman, he also taught at Berry College and the University of Virginia. Benson is the author of numerous publications including The Caning of Senator Sumner and various articles about pre-Civil War American history, applications of digital technology to the Liberal Arts, and the use of geographic information systems for teaching and research. He has also developed several Internet projects that have placed a large number of late antebellum newspaper editorials and other nineteenth century documents online. He is currently developing a research project on the political rhetoric and geography of gender, family and household in six mid-nineteenth century Atlantic world cities. Benson received the South Carolina Independent Colleges and University's Teacher of the Year award for Furman in 2009, Furman's Alester G. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Meritorious Teaching in 1998 and was selected as the Faculty Member of the Year in 1994 by the Association of Furman Students. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of Civil War Historians, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Indiana Historical Society and the Southern Historical Association. He lives in Tryon, North Carolina, with his wife Vicki and his daughter Eleanor.
Chapel Service: Festival of Preachers
Dwight Moody
Neu Chapel
Sunday, November 13 at 10:30 a.m.
Rev. Dr. Dwight A. Moody will be our preacher during University Worship. Dwight is the Founder and President of the Academy of Preachers. He is ordained in the Baptist tradition and has served churches in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. Dwight has been a college professor and a Dean of the Chapel. He is the author of 4 books and many articles.
