2017 - George W. Bush
Join Union University for the 20th Annual Scholarship Banquet Tuesday, October 17, 2017.
The banquet will be a celebration of 20 years of Scholarship Banquets and the generous donors who have made a Christ-centered education possible. The evening will feature a conversation with the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.
Sponsorship Levels
LEAD SPONSORSHIP
($15,000 +)
Tax-deductible amount $14,500
PREMIER SPONSORSHIP
($10,000 +)
Tax-deductible amount $9,500
- Invitation for two to president’s reception and dinner with speaker
- Priority seating for buffet dinner for eight additional guests
- Five passes to photo opportunity with speaker
- Autographed copy of speaker’s book, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors
- Recognition as lead/premier sponsor during promotion of the event
- Special recognition during the event
- Ten tickets for balcony seating
- Recognition in printed program for event
- VIP parking for one vehicle at the rear entrance of the Carl Perkins Civic Center
PLATINUM SPONSORSHIP
($5,000 +)
Tax-deductible amount $4,600
- Priority seating for buffet dinner for eight
- Two passes to photo opportunity with speaker
- Autographed copy of speaker’s book, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors
- Recognition in the printed program
- Five tickets for balcony seating
- Preferred parking near Carl Perkins Civic Center entrance
GOLD SPONSORSHIP
($3,000 +)
Tax-deductible amount $2,600
- Priority seating for buffet dinner for eight
- One pass to photo opportunity with speaker
- Autographed copy of speaker’s book, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors
- Recognition in the printed program
- Preferred parking near Carl Perkins Civic Center entrance
SILVER PLUS SPONSORSHIP
($2,000 +)
Tax-deductible amount $1,600
- Priority seating for buffet dinner for eight
- Recognition in the printed program
- Preferred parking near Carl Perkins Civic Center entrance
SILVER SPONSORSHIP
($1,500 +)
Tax-deductible amount $1,100
- Buffet dinner seating for eight
- Recognition in the printed program
Reservations are currently closed. Contact the Office of Institution Advancement at 731-661-5050 if you have any questions.
Bio
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, and served as Commander in Chief for two consecutive terms. Before his presidency, he served for six years as Governor of the State of Texas.
President Bush was born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, to Barbara and George H.W. Bush – later the 41st President of the United States. In 1948, the family moved to Texas, where President Bush grew up in Midland and Houston. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University in 1968 and then served as a pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.
President Bush received a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1975. Following graduation, he moved back to Midland and began a career in the energy business. After working on his father’s successful 1988 Presidential campaign, President Bush led a group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989.
On November 8, 1994, George W. Bush was elected the 46th Governor of Texas. He became the first governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive four-year terms when he was re-elected on November 3, 1998. In Austin, he earned a reputation for his bipartisan governing approach and his compassionate conservative philosophy, which was based on education reform, limited government, personal responsibility, strong families and local control.
The most significant event of President Bush’s tenure in the White House came on September 11, 2001, when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people on American soil. President Bush responded with a comprehensive strategy to protect the American people. He led the most dramatic reorganization of the federal government since the beginning of the Cold War, reforming the intelligence community and establishing new institutions like the Department of Homeland Security. He built global coalitions to remove violent regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq that threatened America, liberating more than 50 million people from tyranny.
Since leaving office, President Bush has returned to Texas, where he has focused his attention on the development of the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, which opened in May 2013.
In addition to his work with the Bush Center, President Bush published his memoir, Decision Points, a personal and candid account of the most defining decisions of his personal life and presidency in the fall of 2010. He is also the author of an intimate biography of his father, President George H.W. Bush, entitled 41: A Portrait of My Father. In the spring of 2017, President Bush released another book entitled Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, a vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America’s military veterans.
President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian whom he met at a friend’s backyard barbeque. They have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, a son-in-law, Henry Hager, and two granddaughters, Mila and Poppy Louise Hager. The Bush family also includes two cats, Bob and Bernadette, and a dog, Freddy.