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AWAKENING 2008

January 4 - 6, 2008 The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia

Friday, January 4

Golf Tournament: Seaside Course   10:00 a.m. beginning tee times

Luncheon 12 noon

Speaker: Tommy Newberry, author and life coach

Seminar 1:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

How to Have a Stroke: Dr. Billy S. Arant, Jr.

Reception & Dinner  6:00 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: John Fund, Wall Street Journal

                                      Saturday, January 5

                                              SESSION I

                                           8:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Latin America—Improving U.S. Relations and our Future Strategy

General Charles Wilhelm, United States Marine Corps (Ret.)

Dan Fisk, The White House, Senior Director of Western Hemisphere Strategies, National Security Council

Global Climate Change from Two Perspectives

Dr. Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

William Chameides, Ph.D., Dean, Nicholas School of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Bloggers – Do They Really Influence Public Thought?

Robert Bluey, Director, Media Center for Public Policy, Heritage Foundation

Erick Erickson, CEO, RedState.com

Second Amendment Practice (Teens)

Sea Island Shooting School, Jon Kent

Manners to Grow on: Fun Etiquette (ages 6 - 11)

Carolyn Luesing, Carolyn Luesing & Associates

Arts and Crafts (ages 2 - 5)

Linda Newberry and Katrina Chapman, Awakening Instructors

SESSION II

10:45 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Forecasting the Next Year - Who Will Rise and Who Will Fall?

Dr. Whit Ayres, Ayres, McHenry &Associates

Congressman Tom Price, R-GA

Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL (Tentative)

Education Reform – Which Solutions Really Work?

Dr. Howard Fuller, Founder and Director, Institute for the Transformation of Learning, Marquette University

Dr. Terrence Moore, Principal, Ridgeview Classical School

The U.S. Role from 50,000 feet – Are There Similarities to Ancient Rome?

Dr. Robert G. Kaufman, Professor, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

Dr. J. Rufus Fears, Professor of Classics, University of Oklahoma

From Daisy’s Diner to The White House—Etiquette (teens and adults)
Carolyn Luesing, Carolyn Luesing & Associates

From Pre-Blogging to Pro-Blogging…Here’s HOW! (Teens)

Rob Bluey, Director, Media Center for Public Policy, Heritage Foundation

Erick Erickson, CEO, Red State.com

Second Amendment Practice (ages 6 - 11) Air Rifle Usage

Sea Island Shooting School, Jon Kent          

Move Over Rachael Ray – Cookie Cutters (ages 3 - 5)

Cloister Staff

 Lunch 12:30 p.m.

Rainbow Island (open air facility)

 SESSION III

1:50 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

The Secularization of Our Culture

Dr. Del Tackett, President, Focus on the Family Institute, The Truth Project

Michael Novak, George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy, and Public                      Policy, American Enterprise Institute

Reid Buckley, Buckley School - Moderator

Entitlements - Where Will the Dollars Come From?

Allison Frazier, Director, Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute

Geneva Convention Accords - How Do We Manage Them?

Michael Posner, President, Human Rights First

Admiral John D. Hutson, President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center

Dancing With the Stars (teens and adults)

Audrey Wood, Professional Ballroom Instructor, The Cloister

Learning to See through Art (teens and adults)

Millie Gosch, artist

Reception & Dinner  6:30 p.m.

Keynote Speaker: Andrew H. Card, Jr., Former White House Chief of Staff

Sunday

SESSION IV

9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

A Look at the Ups and Downs of the 2008 Economy

Larry Kudlow, CEO, Kudlow & Co., and Host of “Kudlow & Company”

Immigration - Understanding the Complexity and Finding a Viable Solution

Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL (Tentative)

The Honorable Ed Meese, Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, Heritage Foundation

International Trends in the Right to Life Debate

Peter Smith, International Head of Right to Life, Scotland

Patrick Eades, Founder and Executive Director, BRAVEheart Teen Initiative

Private Time with the General (ages 11 - 18)

General Charles Krulak, (Ret), Former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corp

An Adventure in Electronic Games (ages 6 - 10)

Let’s Make a Shirt (ages 3 - 5)

Linda Newberry and Katrina Chapman, Awakening Instructors

Closing Brunch

11:00 a.m.

Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina