Vogt, former NTSB chairman, to speak at MC commencement
Release Date: February 5, 2003
 MONMOUTH,
Ill. — Carl W. Vogt, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety
Board, will be the featured speaker at Monmouth College’s 146th
commencement exercises on May 11.
Vogt, who currently is of counsel in the Washington office of the
international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski, was appointed in 1992 to head
the National Transportation Safety Board by former President Bush.
The NTSB is an independent federal agency
that determines the causes of major transportation accidents and makes
safety improvement recommendations. As CEO, Vogt was instrumental in the
investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800. In 1994, he returned to
Fulbright & Jaworski, where he had been a senior partner and the managing
partner of the firm’s Washington office.
In 1999, Vogt again left the firm to
serve for one year as interim president of his alma mater, Williams
College, which is consistently one of the top-ranked national liberal arts
colleges in the nation. Vogt, who remains a trustee at Williams, was just
the 15th president in its 210-year history.
A native of Houston, Texas, Vogt earned
his bachelor’s degree from Williams in 1958. He then served four years as
an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and was a jet fighter pilot with duty
aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in the western Pacific.
Following his service, Vogt attended law school at the University of
California-Berkeley and graduated from the University of Texas Law School
in 1965.
In 1991, he was appointed by President
Bush for a four-year term as a member of the board of directors of the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation and, five years later, he was
appointed by President Clinton as a member of the White House Commission
on Aviation Safety and Security.
Vogt and his wife, Margrit, have two
grown daughters. The couple resides in Potomac, Md.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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