Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, Foreign Policy Expert, to Deliver 42nd Annual Hanify-Howland Lecture

WORCESTER, Mass. – Retired Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF, a foreign policy expert, will deliver the 42nd Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. in the Hogan Campus Center Ballroom at the College of the Holy Cross.  The event, titled "U.S. Diplomacy in a Transforming World," is free and open to the public.

Scowcroft is best known for his work as national security advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm, where he advised and assisted a wide range of U.S. and foreign corporate leaders on global joint venture opportunities, strategic planning, and risk assessment.

His prior 29-year military career began upon graduating from West Point and concluded at the rank of lieutenant general, following service as the deputy national security advisor. During the course of his military career, he served as professor of Russian history at West Point; assistant air attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; head of the political science department at the Air Force Academy; special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and military assistant to President Nixon.

Sowcroft is currently the president and founder of The Scowcroft Group and one of the country's leading experts on international policy.  The recipient of several military awards and honors, he serves on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University.

The annual Hanify-Howland lecture honors the late Edward F. Hanify, a 1904 graduate of Holy Cross and a Massachusetts Superior Court justice for 15 years, who died in 1954. The series was started by Hanify’s friend, the late Weston Howland of Milton, Mass., board chairman of Warwick Mills, Inc., who died in 1976.

Since 1965, the Hanify-Howland lecture series has brought to the Holy Cross campus a series of distinguished speakers on public affairs who have exemplified in their own work the spirit of public service that the series was established to encourage. They include Linda Chavez, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity; Robert M. Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless; Leon R. Kass, former Chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics; Christopher J. Matthews (Holy Cross Class of 1967), MSNBC “Hardball” anchor; the Honorable Clarence Thomas (Class of 1971), associate justice of the Supreme Court; the late Paul E. Tsongas, former senator of Massachusetts; and Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve System.