CHADRON, Neb. -- Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern will be the keynote speaker at the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society's annual meeting at Chadron State College on Thursday, March 30.
The announcement was made during a news conference at CSC to discuss the receipt of the gift of 3,700 acres of Dawes County ranchland from Esther Pilster and her late husband Raleigh to the Sandoz Society.
McGovern, 83, is a South Dakota native who fought as a pilot in World War II and later became involved in politics.
Ron Hull of Lincoln, president of the Sandoz Society, said McGovern was one of his professors at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell in the early 1950s and that they have kept in touch through the years.
McGovern served in the U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota from 1957-61 and in the U.S. Senate from 1963-80. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 1972. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000 and was appointed the United Nations global ambassador on world hunger in 2001.
Hull said McGovern recently has joined with Bob Dole, the former Kansas senator and Republican nominee for president in 1996, to fight starvation and world hunger.
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