Mary Elizabeth Babcock Lectureship in the American Conservative Tradition

Mary Elizabeth Babcock, who died in June 1998, had a lifelong interest in education, government and politics. She engaged in a wide range of charitable, educational and community interests in Johnstown, Ohio, and throughout Licking and Franklin counties for many years.

In 1981, she established the mary Elizabeth Babcock Lectureship in the American Conservative Tradition at Denison University. Since then, her generosity has enables students and community members to hear:

William F. Buckley Jr. (1983)

James J. Kirpatrick (1986)

George Will (1989)

Zbigniew Brzezinski (1990)

David R. Gergen (1992)

Robert D. Novak (1994)

Richard L. Thornburgh (1995)

Jack Kemp (1996)

Robert H. Bork (1998)

Robert J. Dole (2000)

J.C. Watts (2003)

Torie Clarke and Dee Dee Myers (2004)

Christine Todd Whitman (2006)

Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann (2008)

Newt Gingrich and Bill Bradley (2009), Bradley & Gingrich Talk Leadership in Babcock Lecture