VERO BEACH — Individual tickets remain for the final speaker of the Emerson Center’s Celebrated Speakers Series. The season ends on March 22, with Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Performances are held at 4 p.m. for $75 per seat; and 6:30 p.m. for $65 per seat, the latter offering a better selection of seats.
Jon Huntsman, Jr., has lived a varied and remarkable life in business and public service. He has served in the administrations of four U.S. presidents; first, as a staff assistant to President Reagan. Later, in 2012, he was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
Twice elected Utah’s governor, he cut taxes, reduced waste and grew the state’s economy. Under his leadership, Utah ranked No. 1 in the nation in job creation and was named the best-managed state by the Pew Center.
Huntsman, who speaks Mandarin fluently from his time as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan, also has extensive foreign policy experience. As U.S. ambassador to Singapore, he was the youngest head of an American diplomatic mission in a century.
As U.S. trade ambassador under President George W. Bush, he helped negotiate dozens of free trade agreements with Asian and African nations.
President Obama’s ambassador to China, Huntsman occasionally butted heads with the Chinese government as he stridently advocated for the release of American citizens wrongfully imprisoned. Huntsman serves on various corporate boards, is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution and chairman of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.
The Emerson Center, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, is conveniently located at 1590 27th Avenue, on the SE corner of 16th Street and 27th Avenue and has more than 300 parking spaces, an auditorium that seats over 800 people in comfortable padded seating, and offers unrestricted views for all seats, and professional state-of-the-art sound and lighting systems.
To purchase individual tickets for Jon Huntsman, Jr., call (772) 778-5249, go to www.TheEmersonCenter.org, or visit The Emerson Center itself. Ask about the new elevator to the 2nd floor balcony and the seating for the physically challenged.