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Authors! with Former Ohio Governor Richard Celeste

2023-04-27 19:00:00 2023-04-27 20:00:00 America/New_York Authors! with Former Ohio Governor Richard Celeste Join us for Authors! with former Ohio Governor, Richard Celeste Main Library - Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass), 1st Floor

Thursday, April 27
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-04-27 19:00:00 2023-04-27 20:00:00 America/New_York Authors! with Former Ohio Governor Richard Celeste Join us for Authors! with former Ohio Governor, Richard Celeste Main Library - Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass), 1st Floor

Main Library

Meeting Room 1 (Large Glass), 1st Floor

Join us for Authors! with former Ohio Governor, Richard Celeste

Former Ohio governor Richard Celeste’s remarkable journey from humble beginnings in northeast Ohio to Yale, Oxford, Washington DC, India, the governor’s residence, and beyond!

In the Heart of it All recounts Celeste’s childhood in Lakewood, Ohio, where his politically ambitious father eventually served as mayor. Awarded a scholarship to attend Yale University, Celeste studied history and later became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; while living overseas, he met and quickly married his first wife, Dagmar Braun. Upon returning from Oxford, Celeste expected to begin a teaching career but was recruited to serve as a liaison for Peace Corps volunteers in Latin America, and the young couple relocated to Washington, DC, where they became friendly with Chet and Steb Bowles. When President Kennedy appointed Chet Bowles US ambassador to India, he invited Dick to work as his personal assistant. There, under Bowles’s tutelage, Dick began to consider a political career of his own.

Celeste returned to Ohio and successfully ran for the Ohio House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1970. After serving two terms, he was elected lieutenant governor in 1974 but lost the 1978 governor’s race by a slim margin. Celeste worked in DC as director of the Peace Corps while plotting his next move, and in 1982, his gubernatorial campaign resulted in a landslide victory. He served two terms as Ohio’s governor, tackling an epic savings and loan crisis along with mental health reform and job creation.

Celeste describes candidly why he considered and dismissed a presidential campaign in 1988. He went on to serve as ambassador to India under President Clinton, traveling there with his second wife, Jacqueline Lundquist, and bringing his career full circle. Shortly after that position ended, Celeste became president of Colorado College, serving from 2002 to 2011.

In each position, Celeste has used his grandmothers’ wisdom to guide his decision-making, putting the needs of his various constituents—Ohio citizens, Peace Corps volunteers, diplomatic colleagues, and college students—above his ego and popularity ratings, and, as he poignantly reflects, sometimes even before his family. In the Heart of It All offers a remarkably frank and expansive account of Celeste’s personal and professional life, including his disappointing defeats and thrilling victories.

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