Hastings' Farragut To Host Robert Tucker Lecture Series, 'War On Terror'

HASTINGS, N.Y. -- Hastings' Farragut Middle School is set to host former US Ambassador Donald P. Gregg for the fifth annual Robert Tucker Lecture Series on Tuesday, Dec. 10.

Hastings' Farragut Middle School is set to host former US Ambassador Donald P. Gregg for the fifth annual Robert Tucker Lecture Series on Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Photo Credit: *Courtesy Farragut Middle School*

by Nathan Bruttell

12/10/2013 4:00 a.m.

Gregg is set to present "The CIA and the War on Terror" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10 at Farragut Middle School at 27 Farragut Avenue in Hastings-on-Hudson. The High School Social Studies Department is inviting village and school communities to join them for the event that honors Robert Tucker’s nearly four decades of service to the students of Hastings-on-Hudson.

Donald Gregg is a former U.S. ambassador, CIA officer, National Security Advisor to Vice President George H.W. Bush and Hastings High School graduate. He is set to speak to the changing operational focus of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The lecture series honors Robert Tucker, a long time Hastings Social Studies teacher and Hastings resident who passed away in September 2008. Tucker taught in the High School for almost 40 years.

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