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T. Boone Pickens To Speak At Sewanee

Friday, April 03, 2009

T. Boone Pickens, oilman, entrepreneur and now environmentalist, will be on campus for the day at Sewanee, the University of the South on April 15 and will speak in Guerry Auditorium at 4:30 p.m. (central time).

Mr. Pickens built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. and flourished as an entrepreneur after leaving it. Financial World named him CEO of the Decade in 1989 and the Oil and Gas Investor listed him as one of the “100 Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century.”

Mr. Pickens’ most dramatic move, however, might have occurred last July, when he launched a $58 million advertising campaign to promote the Pickens Plan, an energy policy aimed at reducing the American addiction to
foreign oil.

Sewanee: The University of the South, 735 University Ave, Sewanee, Tenn. For more information call 931.598.1000


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