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To date, The Distinguished Speaker Series has featured: The college received a generous gift from a donor to underwrite part of this series on campus. The goal of the Distinguished Speaker Series is to connect community members, alumni, friends, faculty, staff, students and their families with well-known authors, policy makers and leaders, scientists, media experts, business people, and other luminaries, on our campus. On NovemSUNY New Paltz kicked off their inaugural Distinguished Speaker Series, which features well known speakers twice every academic year. Read his complete bio (PDF) Highlights from Ray Suarez event, April 7, 2011 Suarez's latest works: The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America and The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration. The session was followed by an engaging Q&A session and booksigning from Mr.

His topic, Lessons from Adversity: Strengthening Preparedness with Reflections from 9/11, was very well received as he recounted his 9/11 experience and how it centered around the media coverage. This job is demanding, if you do it right.Senior correspondent for PBS’ The NewsHour and host of Destination Casa Blanca on HITN TV, Ray Suarez, spoke to approximately 500 people on Apat the SUNY New Paltz Athletic & Wellness Center. Eventually I would like to spend more time with my family. The couple has no children but a large extended family, and though Suarez is running for reelection next year, he says, 'I am not going to run indefinitely. After I got out of the service we started dating, actually started dating by mail, and then. I would see her when we would go back for visits after we had come to Chicago. We used to play house together, went to kindergarten. He and his wife, Marta, have been married since 1971 but have known one another 'Oh, since we were 5 years old in Puerto Rico. He is especially enthusiastic about the city's first AstroTurf soccer field, recently installed at his ward's Falconer School.Īt 60 years old, Suarez looks the part of distinguished politician, as you can see from Osgood's photo, taken in the ward offices on West Fullerton Avenue (to see a map go to and click on the 'Your Ward and Alderman' link). He talks of new businesses moving into the ward, and about affordable housing and education.

The Old Neighborhood by Ray Suarez