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Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and his wife, the Rev. Kathleene Card, will be guest speakers at this year’s Bolin Family Public Life-Personal Faith Colloquium, Luncheon and Lecture.

Kathleene and Andrew Card

Sponsored by 51°µÍø’s Perkins School of Theology, the event will be on Friday, Feb. 6.

The couple will discuss “staying grounded while rubbing shoulders in the halls of power,” says Rev. Card, a United Methodist Church elder who is on the Board of Governors of Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C. Her husband, “Andy,” is the second-longest tenured White House Chief of Staff, having served President George W. Bush from 2001-2006 and in senior roles for two other U.S. presidents. He is now president of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.

The informal Q&A-style Colloquium, free and open to the public, will be 10 to 11 a.m. in the Great Hall of Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall, 5901 Bishop Boulevard, on the . 

Reservations are required for the fundraising Luncheon and Lecture from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the 51°µÍø’s Martha Proctor Mack Grand Ballroom, Umphrey Lee Center, 3300 Dyer St. Tickets to that event are $150 per person ($85 of which counts as a charitable contribution) and sponsored tables are available. 

For more details visit  or call 214-768-3688.

Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card in 2001 alerting President George W. Bush about the first 9/11 attacks.