March 7, 2012
Nashville, Tennessee
Interviewing finalists from Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee
Vanderbilt University
Sarratt Student Center
Function Room (Room 220)
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 (interview panelists do not attend). Invited to the dinners are incoming Truman Scholar candidates as well as older Truman Scholars from the area. 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.
The Nashville finalist dinner host is Elizabeth Gish. Please contact her at elizabethgish@gmail.com to RSVP.
Panel Members
David Cooley, Chair -- Principal, Cooley Public Strategies; 1982 Truman Scholar
Howard Hawk -- Circuit Judge; 1978 Truman Scholar
Ravi Gupta -- Founding Director, Nashville Prep Charter School; 2004 Truman Scholar
Brother Rogers -- Associate Director, Stennis Center for Public Service; 1985 Truman Scholar
Wendy Thompson -- Vice Chancellor for Access and Diversity, Tennessee Board of Regents
Andrew Rich, Secretary -- Executive Secretary, Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation; 1991 Truman Scholar