University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lecture: Marian Heard '76 On Leadership

Alumnus Marian Heard, UWWW class of 1976, will be on campus to speak about leadership.

Ms. Heard is the founding president and chief executive officer of the Points of Light Foundation, organized in 1990 at the behest of President George H. W. Bush to address the nation’s social problems. She is a national spokesperson for MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership as well as a dynamic, nationally recognized speaker. She is also the recipient of the Buckley Orator Award, and an Aspen Institute Scholar.

For her lifelong support of society’s most vulnerable and powerless members and for never losing sight of their fundamental value to our nation’s future, Worcester Polytechnic Institute conferred upon her the degree of Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa.

All students are welcome to attend this lecture.