Clifton Wharton Jr., Michigan State University’s first African-American president, will be revisiting the campus where he made history.
Wharton will be at the Wharton center at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 2 to hold a public discussion alongside MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon as a part of the World View Lecture Series, presented by the MSU Office of the President.
The Wharton Center For Performing Arts was named in honor of Wharton and his wife, Dolores, in recognition of the strong support that they gave the project during his presidency from 1970-78.
Wharton was also the first African-American chairman and CEO of a major U.S. corporation, and he served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton. He has been a leading hand in foreign economic development and also spent time in Malaysia and Singapore as Vice President of the Agricultural Development Council of the Rockefeller Family Foundation.
For more information about Wharton and tickets for the discussion go here.