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Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton, will give a free public lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. As has been the custom in the past, schools and organizations with 20-40 people wishing to attend together, should contact the Hamilton College Office of Student Activities by February 15 to make arrangements, (315) 859-4194.

Albright's visit is part of The Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton, named in recognition of a significant gift from the family of Alex Sacerdote, a 1994 Hamilton graduate.

The lecture is free and open to the public and no tickets are required. Doors will open at 6 p.m. For updated information about the lecture, call the Hamilton College Information Line at 315-859-INFO (4636), or visit the Great Names at Hamilton Web site, http://www.hamilton.edu/greatnames.

Madeleine Korbel Albright served as the 64th secretary of state of the United States.  She was the first female secretary of state and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.

She is the founder of the Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm. Albright is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and is the first distinguished scholar of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Business School.  She is also the chairman of The National Democratic Institute.  She expects to complete her autobiography for publication in 2003.

Accomplishments during Albright's tenure included the expansion and modernization of NATO and NATO's successful campaign to reverse ethnic cleansing in Kosovo; the promotion of peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East; the reduction of nuclear dangers from Russia and North Korea; the expansion of democracy in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America; the expansion of the U. S. relationship with China, including trade and human rights; and the growth of trade in the Americas, in Africa through the African Growth Opportunity Act, and through the conclusion of hundreds of other agreements that facilitated American business overseas. In June 2000, she and representatives from every region of the world convened the first ever conference of democracies.

Albright also prepared America's foreign affairs institutions for 21st century challenges. Under her leadership, four Cold War bureaucracies merged into a single integrated operation. She reversed a decade-long drop in funding for U.S. embassies and operations overseas, persuading Congress to increase funding by 17 percent.

From 1993 to 1997 Albright served as the United States' permanent representative to the United Nations and as a member of the president's cabinet and National Security Council.  In 1995 she led the U.S. delegation to the U.N.'s Fourth World Conference on Women, in Beijing, China.

Albright was the director of the Women in Foreign Service Programs and a research professor of international affairs at Georgetown University during the decade prior to her return to public service. From 1989 to 1992 she was president of the Center for National Policy, a non-profit research organization based in Washington D.C. As a professor, Albright wrote extensively in change in communist systems, particularly on the role of the media.

From 1978-1981, Albright was a member of President Carter's National Security Council and White House staff.  From 1976-1978 she served as chief legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie.

Albright received a bachelor's degree with honors, from Wellesley College, her master's and doctorate from Columbia University's department of public law and government, and a certificate from the Russian Institute at Columbia University.

She was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and immigrated to America with her family after Communists took control of that country in 1948. She is the mother of three daughters, and has five grandchildren.

Albright will be the ninth person to appear as part of The Sacerdote Series, Great Names at Hamilton. Her address will be interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired. Those needing special parking and seating arrangements because of physical handicaps are asked to call 859-4656. Photography, tape recording and videotaping during the event will not be allowed.
 

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