GRANVILLE, Ohio—Denison University will present a lecture “Leadership in a Changing World: An Evening with Senator Bill Bradley and Speaker Newt Gingrich,” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, in Swasey Chapel (200 Chapel Drive). The Babcock Lecture Series event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact 740-587-6611 or visit www.denison.edu.

Bradley and Gingrich were both born in 1943 and arrived newly elected in Washington, D.C. in 1979, one as a Democratic senator and the other as a Republican congressman. During their service in the Capitol, both earned recognition as opinion shapers who focused on large-scale reform.

The Mary Elizabeth Babcock Lectureship in the American Conservative Tradition at Denison University was established in 1981 through a gift by Mary Elizabeth Babcock. Babcock attended Denison and Harvard Universities an earned a Bachelor of arts degree from The Ohio State University. She also was the founder of the Mary E. Babcock Foundation in Johnstown, Ohio.

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement, and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville, Ohio—“Leadership in a Changing World: An Evening with Senator Bill Bradley and Speaker Newt Gingrich,” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, in Swasey Chapel (200 Chapel Drive). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact 740-587-6611 or visit www.denison.edu.