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October 08, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College continues its “Freedom Readers” dessert program Oct. 14 with conservative radio talk show host Glen Meakem. The program, “Struggle for Truth: The Media Fight to Define the Past and Shape the Future,” is at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Anderson Pew South Dining Hall; it is free and open to the public, however, registration is required.
The Center established the Freedom Readers program in 2008 to educate America’s youth about basic free market economic principles. The Center hosts three “Freedom Readers” evening dessert programs each semester with a writer discussing his or her free market economics editorial and presentations from recent graduates working in the policy arena. In addition to educating students to free market principles and increasing interest in the Center’s programming, “Freedom Readers” aims to expand knowledge of freedom-oriented policy career and study opportunities.
Meakem has earned a national reputation as a new economy innovator and leader – first as co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of FreeMarkets, Inc., and more recently as co-founder and managing director of Meakem Becker Venture Capital. FreeMarkets was a leading business-to-business Internet company which helped Global 2000 companies save money by automating and improving their purchasing functions. He co-founded the company in 1995, took it public in 1999 and sold it to Ariba, Inc., in 2004. Meakem Becker Venture Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm which was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in the Pittsburgh area. The firm focuses on helping to build new, technology-enabled product and service companies.
Meakem gained early business experience working in professional positions for Kraft Foods, McKinsey & Company, and General Electric. Early in his career, he also served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, volunteering and serving as a combat engineer platoon leader in the 1991 Gulf War. He graduated A.B. cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and later earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Meakem is a loyal Pittsburgh resident and Pennsylvanian. He launched The Glen Meakem Radio Program in 2008 to talk with a broad audience about the changes needed to make Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania healthy, growing place. He and his wife, Diane, have five children.
The programs are all free and open to the public, although seating is limited. Register in advance with Brenda Vinton at (724) 450-1541 or at blvinton@gcc.edu. All programs are at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Anderson Pew South Dining Hall. The fall portion of the series concludes with the Center’s Executive Director Dr. Paul Kengor and Tom O’Boyle of the “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” on Nov. 9.
The Center for Vision & Values has gained expertise in writing and disseminating timely insights with 150 opinion editorials in the 2008-09 academic year. Beginning with the days of renowned economics professor Dr. Hans Sennholz, Grove City College has long valued the concise, well-written and entertaining opinion editorial grounded in academically sound arguments.
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