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STATE LEGISLATIVE SPEAKERS TO SPEAK AT PANEL |
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January 31, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Rep. William G. Batchelder and Rep. Sam Smith, Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, will participate in a panel discussion on “‘How Sausage and Legislation Is Made’— An Inside Look at Public Policy” during the 2010-11 Grove City College J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture. The panel will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus. College President Dr. Richard G. Jewell ’67 will moderate the discussion.
Batchelder, a 13-term Republican, represents Ohio’s 69th District, which includes most of Medina County. He has worked for the Williams and Batchelder Law Firm in Medina for three decades and has been an adjunct professor at Akron University and Cleveland State University. Batchelder was a judge on the Medina County Common Pleas Court and Ohio’s Ninth District Court. He was a presiding judge in district court from 2000 to 2001. As a representative, Batchelder has received the Watchdog of the Treasury Award multiple times.
Smith, a Punxsutawney Republican, serves Pennsylvania’s 66th District, which includes Jefferson County and parts of Armstrong and Indiana Counties. A House member since 1986, Smith is the son of former representative L. Eugene “Snuffy” Smith. Sam Smith first joined the House leadership in 2000 as Majority Whip and has since served as both Republican Majority and Minority Leader. In 1999, Smith helped write major legislation to clean up streams and reclaim abandoned mines. He has been heavily involved in writing school funding policy and advocating public-private educational partnerships.
The Pew Memorial Lecture at Grove City College is in honor and memory of J. Howard Pew, renowned industrialist and College benefactor. A graduate of the Class of 1900, Pew was a member of the Grove City College Board of Trustees from 1912-1971 and served as its president for the last 40 of those years. The annual Pew lecture is funded through the generosity of alumni gifts. Its purpose is to bring to campus lecturers who share Pew’s love of faith and freedom.
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