Phyllis Schlafly
September 30, 2003

Marietta College has always been a place to provide differing opinions and views as a way to educate students and the community.

That spirit of diversity will continue as “Point of View,” a new speaker’s series debuts at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, with the nationally recognized pro-family movement leader, Phyllis Schlafly, in the McDonough Auditorium.

“I look forward to welcoming Phyllis Schlafly to campus as the inaugural speaker in Marietta College’s Point of View series,” said Dr. Jean A. Scott, Marietta College’s president. “Ms. Schlafly has been an articulate voice for conservative causes for decades. … I am confident that the Marietta community, as well as the College community, will find her to be a thought-provoking speaker, and I am grateful to the friends of the College who are sponsoring this program.”

Schlafly will speak to the crowd and then open it up to questions from those in attendance.

“I am eager to bring a new perspective on feminism to Marietta College,” Schlafly said.

An anonymous group is funding the new series. While there are no other speakers lined up for 2003, President Scott anticipates this to be an occasional series that is open and free to the public.

Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, “A Choice Not An Echo,” according to her Web site, www.EagleForum.org.

She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a 10-year battle, Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the Equal Rights Amendment. An opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative does.

Schlafly’s monthly newsletter is in its 36th year. Her syndicated column appears in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460 stations and her radio talk show on education called “Phyllis Schlafly Live” is heard weekly on 45 stations.

Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects from family and feminism, nuclear strategy, education and child care. She is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense and family issues, according to the Web site.

Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master’s in Political Science from Harvard University.