FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                             RELEASE NO. 05-10

SOL FEINSTONE LECTURER GEORGE SOROS TO SPEAK AT WEST POINT – Feb. 22, 2010

WEST POINT, N.Y. –– George Soros, investor, philanthropist and author, will be the 35th Sol Feinstone Lecture Series speaker Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:45 p.m., in Thayer Hall’s Robinson Auditorium.  The topic of his lecture will focus on the “Meaning of Freedom.”

An active philanthropist himself, Soros established a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries around the world.  These organizations are dedicated to promoting the values of democracy and an open society.  The foundation network spends about $450 million annually.

Soros is the author of 10 books, including most recently The Crash of 2008 and What It Means.  His articles and essays on politics, society, and economics regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world.

The Chair of Soros Fund Management LLC, Soros, who was born in Budapest in 1930, survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics.  He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed.  Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Cape Town University in apartheid South Africa.

In 1970, Dr. Sol Feinstone endowed the U.S. Military Academy’s Sol Feinstone Lecture Series to enable young men and women to become more aware of their heritage of freedom.

The lecture is free of charge and open to the public.  Limited seating is on a first come, first served basis.  Guests are asked to be seated by 7:30 p.m.  All adults entering the academy grounds are required to show photo identification and vehicles are subject to search.

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