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Commencement Speaker 1998 - Newt Gingrich

We are pleased to announce that Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Newt Gingrich, has accepted UCSD's invitation
to deliver the 1998 Commencement Address on Sunday, June 14.

Speaker Gingrich's 10:00 a.m. address, Goals for a Generation
and Research for the Future, will be delivered at the campus' RIMAC
Field, for UCSD's graduates and their families.

Our graduates were honored last year to have the President of the
United States as their commencement speaker. It is stunning,
and we believe a tribute to UCSD, that we have the Speaker of
the House as our distinguished guest this year.

Speaker Gingrich has demonstrated a long-standing interest in
many of the issues that face America's research universities.
Among other initiatives, he has promoted scientific research as
growth spurs for regional and national technology clusters. In
many ways his interest in the role of research universities in
developing a region's economic structure reflects UCSD's
development of San Diego's leading technology industries. The
Speaker also has sought a closer tie between science exploration
and public policy. He conferred with El Nino experts at UCSD's
Scripps Institution of Oceanography when considering public policies
regarding disaster assistance funding in Africa, and crop yields for
California agriculture.

Speaker's Gingrich received a bachelor's degree from Emory
University and a master's degree and doctorate in modern European
history from Tulane University. He taught history and environmental
studies at West Georgia College, is the author of "1945," "To Renew
America," and most recently, "Lessons Learned the Hard Way," as
well as the co-author of "Window of Opportunity," and "Contract With
America."

Robert C. Dynes Chancellor David R. Miller Chair Commencement Committee