Dr. Gary Smith / Donna Hearne

      Dr. Gary Smith chairs the History Department and coordinates the Humanities core at Grove City College where he has taught since 1978. He earned a M.Div. degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Ph.D. in American History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of many scholarly articles and the author or editor of seven books, most recently Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush (Oxford University Press, 2006). In 2001 he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancemen of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He lives with his family in Grove City, PA.

      Donna Hearne is Executive Director of The Constitutional Coalition. She has a BA in Elementary Education from Washington University and a lifetime teaching certificate from Missouri and has taught in private and public schools. She served two Presidential appointments by President Reagan in the U.S. Department of Education and one by U.S. Secretary of Education, William Bennett, 1981-1991. For the past 23 years she has hosted a weekly radio talk show on KSIV Radio in Sf. Louis- An avid researcher, she has authored numerous publications and several books. Married, the mother of five, grandmother of thirteen, she resides with her husband, a history teacher at Westminster Christian Academy, in the St. Louis area.