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The Norfolk Forum is pleased to announce an outstanding speakers' series for the upcoming 2009-2010 season. We thank our many subscribers and supporters who took the time last season to provide us with valuable suggestions regarding future speakers. Your input helped inform our decisions about topics and speakers for this season. While we cannot respond to every subscriber's interest or preferences, we believe that our upcoming speakers will offer thought-provoking presentations with wide appeal.

We also thank all of our subscribers for their continued support. During these challenging economic times, we appreciate every individual subscription. For this reason, we have decided to maintain the subscription price at the 2008-2009 series level of $100.00 for the entire series. As such, we anticipate strong demand for this season's Norfolk Forum and encourage you to return your application and payment by June 26, 2009.

We hope that you will choose to join us at the upcoming season of the Norfolk Forum. We look forward to a very exciting series. As we proudly claim, it's the best ticket in town.

Dennis G. Manning, President
Program Committee Chairman

 

2009-10 Speakers
Programs are held at 8:15 pm in Chrysler Hall, Norfolk.

 T. BOONE PICKENS
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – 8:15 p.m.

T. Boone Pickens is founder and chairman of BP Capital Management, one of the nation’s most successful energy-oriented investment funds. In 2008, he launched an ambitious, self-funded grass-roots campaign aimed at reducing our country’s dependence on imported oil. In television ads, on his PickensPlan website and in personal appearances, he spelled out how our dependence on foreign oil is an addiction that threatens our economy, our environment and our national security. His book, The First Billion is the Hardest, details what this country must do to win back its energy independence. Pickens pursues a wide range of business interests including water marketing, wind power, ranch development initiatives and Clean Energy, a company he founded. Clean Energy, is advancing the use of natural gas as a cleaner-burning and more cost-effective transportation fuel alternative to gasoline and diesel. Pickens has been a generous philanthropist giving away more than $700 million. The T. Boone Pickens Foundation is focused on improving lives through grants to support educational programs, medical research, athletics and corporate wellness, at-risk youths, the entrepreneurial process, and conservation and wildlife initiatives.
 

Mr. Gingrich is also passionate about “green conservatism,” which is an innovative, marketbased, common sense approach to protecting the environment by rewarding conservation through incentives while fostering “green” economic growth.

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