The Tate Lecture Series and the
 Hunt Scholars

The Hunt Leadership Scholars Program allows Hunt Scholars special opportunities to attend Tate Lectures.
 
First, each year, the Tate Series honors the Hunt Leadership Scholars by inviting all the Scholars to a Tate dinner and lecture selected by Ray and Nancy Ann Hunt.  Additionally, prior to the dinner, the Scholars and the Hunts take a group picture with the Tate speaker. This year, the Hunts have selected the Jones Day Tate dinner and lecture on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 with CNN reporter and anchor Anderson Cooper.
 

Brandi Terrell, Anderson Cooper, Warren Seay, Molly Palmison,
 Jamie Corley, Lisa Rodriguez.

Hunt Leadership Scholars with Nancy Ann and Ray Hunt.

Second, for each Tate lecture each year, twenty tickets are given to the Hunt Scholars. Hunt Scholars sign up for these tickets as described below.

Third, Hunt Scholars serve as ushers for several of the Tate forums, which are question and answer sessions with the speaker, usually on the afternoon of the evening’s lecture

“Now it is my generation’s turn to take on the task of leadership that you have prepared for us. You have provided us with the infrastructure for great leadership in many different arenas, and now we must build upon that foundation with our own personalities and abilities. As a student still growing and learning, I feel that it is imperative that we hear leaders who are willing to share their wisdom and experience.”

            --- Leandre Johns, Hunt Leadership Scholar 2002, speaking on
                 behalf of the Hunt Leadership Scholars before a Tate Lecture by
                 Bob and Elizabeth Dole.

Tate Lecture Procedures for the Hunt Scholars

1. To attend an upcoming lecture, come to Jo Geisler’s office, Perkins Hall 209, to sign up for a ticket exactly one week in advance of the lecture. The first twenty students who sign up will receive the tickets.

2. Pick up your ticket at the McFarlin Auditorium box office before 7:45 pm on the lecture day. It will be in an envelope with your name at the Will Call window. At 7:45 your ticket will be given away if you have not picked it up. (Box office opens at 7:00 pm.)

3. These tickets are a valuable and highly sought-after commodity, and it is a privilege for us to have them guaranteed to us. If you reserve a ticket and do not use it, you will not be allowed to sign up for any other Tate lectures for the year, absent extenuating circumstances.

4. At each Tate Lecture, the speaker offers an open question-and-answer session with students, faculty, and members of the public. Usually, these occur at 4:30 P.M. on the date of the lecture. We encourage the Hunt Scholars to attend these sessions, which can provide even greater access to the speaker than the evening lectures themselves.

5. If you want a ticket but were not in the first 20 requests, there are several other ways of seeing these lectures.

                -Serve as an usher through the SMU Student Foundation.
                 This allows you into the evening lectures, and you do not need to
                 reserve a ticket.

                -Go to McFarlin Auditorium basement before 8:00 pm. At 8:00 pm, all
                 unclaimed tickets are given away. You can often get a seat this way.

6. As a matter of protocol, we do not ask for autographs or photographs from the Tate speakers.

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