March 5, 2013
St. Paul, Minnesota
Interviewing finalists from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
St. Catherine University
Coeur de Catherine
President's Dining Room and Room 362
2004 Randolph Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105
This panel will convene at 8:30 a.m.
For the past several years, the Truman Scholars Association (an organization of Truman Scholar alumni) has hosted pre-interview dinners in the interview cities the night prior to the finalist interviews. The dinners are informal, fun, optional events for the finalists and a few Truman alumni hosts (interview panelists do not attend). The dinner locations are chosen at relatively inexpensive restaurants close to the venue where the students will be interviewed, and each person attending the dinner covers his or her own meal and transportation expenses. All finalists will be contacted by their interview city’s Truman host shortly after the official finalist announcement on Friday, February 22nd; if you wish to attend the dinner, please plan to be available for dinner around 7 p.m. in your interview city the evening before your interview.
The Minneapolis/St. Paul finalist dinner will be hosted by Lesley Lavery. Please contact her at meyer.lesley@gmail.com if you have any additional questions.
Panel Members
Judy Grew, Chair -- Planning Director, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; 1986 Truman Scholar
Katherine Blauvelt -- Field Director, Office of U.S. Senator Al Franken; 2001 Truman Scholar
Amy Hertel -- Director of Impact Strategy, The Minneapolis Foundation; 1998 Truman Scholar
Jennifer Ford Reedy -- Chief of Staff and Vice President of Strategy, Minnesota Philanthropy Partners; 1994 Truman Scholar
Lynda Szymanski -- Associate Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences and Associate Professor of Psychology, St. Catherine University
Andrew Rich, Secretary -- Executive Secretary, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation; 1991 Truman Scholar