Bay Buchanan to Discuss the Economy Apr. 6

Story posted April 01, 2010

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Bay Buchanan, treasurer of the United States under Ronald Reagan, will speak about the economy at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, 2010, in Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union.

Buchanan's talk, titled "On the State of the Economy and the Assault Thereon by Left-Wing Policies," is open to the public. Admission is free.

Bay Buchanan began her political career as the national treasurer of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns in 1980 and 1984. This position catapulted her into a distinguished career beginning in 1981 when President Reagan appointed her to be treasurer of the United States. At the age of 32, she was the youngest person to hold that position since it was established in 1775.

Reagan called on her again in 1983, this time to chair his Commission on Women Business Owners. In 1988 she co-chaired the California delegation to the Republican National Convention and served as co-chair of the defense subcommittee of the Platform committee. Later, in 1990, she ran for treasurer of the state of California.

A native of Washington, D.C., Buchanan earned a masters degree in mathematics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and has further studies at several universities, including the University of New South Wales in Australia. In 1981, she received an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Samford University.

Buchanan's Bowdoin lecture is sponsored by the Bowdoin College Republicans, Bowdoin Women in Business, and the Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute.

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