Lake View Speaker Series
At the Lake View Public Library
At 2:00 pm
Free & open to the public
Saturday, October 5th
Chuck Long, College Football Hall of Fame quarterback.
In 1979, coach Hayden Fry took over a University of Iowa football team that had suffered decades of losing. One of his early recruits was quarterback Chuck Long from a Chicago suburb, who quickly led the team to national prominence including five successive bowl games and a #1 national ranking. By the end of his college career, Long held virtually all the Hawkeye passing records and had thrown for more yards than any other quarterback in Big Ten history. His greatest season was 1985 when he won the Maxwell Award, the Davey O’Brien Award, and was the Big Ten’s MVP and a unanimous All-American. That New Year’s he played his second Rose Bowl and in 1986 was recruited in the first round by the Detroit Lions where he spent most of his seven-year NFL career. He has coached at all levels, has served as a Big Ten Network analyst, and is currently the CEO and executive director of the Iowa Sports Foundation. In 1999 he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.
Saturday, January 4th
Author Valerie Hemingway
As a young Irish journalist stationed in Spain, she befriended Ernest Hemingway, leading to secretarial work both prior to and after his death and an acquaintanceship with his family. She later married his son, Gregory, and is the author of 2004’s ‘Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways’. In 2021, she acted as a consultant for the Ken Burns’ series on Ernest Hemingway.
Saturday, April 5th
Charity Nebbe, Iowa Public Broadcasting
A native Iowan, she’s been the daily host of Iowa Public Radio’s ‘Talk of Iowa’ since 2012 and is the newly-appointed host of Iowa Public Television’s ‘Iowa Life’ which will debut its new season in October. For ten seasons she also hosted IPTV’s ‘Iowa Ingredient’ which continues in reruns, and she is also the author of the children’s book ‘Our Walk in the Woods’. All events are free and open to the public and are scheduled for Saturday afternoons at 2:00 p.m. at the Lake View Public Library.
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