The head of a private national organization representing 250 prominent business and education leaders is scheduled to visit the state early next month.
Sol Hurwitz, president of the Committee for Economic Development, will be the guest Dec. 5 and 6 of Mississippi State University's Center for International Security and Strategic Studies. He will speak to invited groups in Jackson and Starkville.
Formed in 1942, the CED is a non-profit New York City-based organization that conducts research on major economic and social issues and works to have its recommendations implemented by the public and private sectors. Among its trustees are BellSouth Corp. Chairman John L. Clendenin and Columbia University President George E. Rupp.
In Jackson [on the 5th], Hurwitz will be guest speaker for a luncheon sponsored by the strategic studies center, the Partnership for International Business of Mississippi State's College of Business and Industry's and Hinds Community College's International Trade Center.
While in the capital city, he also will meet with two Mississippi CED trustees, E.B. "Bud" Robinson Jr., Deposit Guaranty National Bank board chairman and chief executive officer, and J. Kelley Williams, president and CEO of First Mississippi Corp.
In Starkville [on the 6th], he will address a gathering of local business leaders.
Hurwitz, who joined the CED in 1966 and became president in 1990, played major roles in two reports, "Investing in Our Children: Business and the Public Schools" and "Children in Need: Investment Strategies for the Educationally Disadvantaged."
For additional information on his Mississippi visit, telephone at (601) 325-2028.