Chris Wallace will bring 30 years of news experience and political savvy to a talk on May 17 in the Northside Hall auditorium of Indiana University South Bend. Wallace is the host of Fox News Sunday and is the guest speaker at the Teachers Credit Union Annual Meeting.

The doors will open at 6:15 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:45 p.m. Wallace will speak immediately following the close of the meeting. A question and answer period will follow the talk.

Tickets are $1 for TCU members and $5 for non-members. Tickets may be purchased at any of the TCU branches. For information call (800) 552-4745 or www.tcunet.com.

Parking is available in the lots on 20th Street.

This is the first lecture in a three-year series sponsored by Teachers Credit Union at IU South Bend. “We are proud to sponsor this series. IUSB is an important resource for greater Michiana and we are proud to be part of it,” according to Richard J. Rice, president and chief executive officer of Teachers Credit Union. Future lectures will be yearly in the spring.

This is the second member of the Wallace family to appear on campus this year. Chris’ father, Mike Wallace, spoke at IU South Bend in the fall.

Chris Wallace, who will speak about the upcoming election, joined Fox News in December after 15 years with ABC News. This year, he said, he plans to “play a significant role” on Fox for the 2004 election. Wallace says he is a political junkie and has called the Fox News Sunday “a dream job.”

At ABC, he was chief correspondent with PrimeTime Live. He hosted “Meet the Press” for a year during a seven-year employment at NBC News. During his time at NBC he was the chief White House correspondent covering the 1980, 1984 and 1988 presidential campaign and the Democratic and Republican conventions those same years.

He was a reporter for the Boston Globe in the 1970s after graduating from Harvard. He joined NBC as a reporter with WNBC-TV in New York City in 1975.

Highly regarded as a reporter and interviewer, he has spoken with many of the world’s most renowned public figures from Bill Clinton to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He worked on major stories about fraud and waste in Medicare, food stamps and federal disability programs.

For his work, he has won three Emmy Awards, the Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, the National Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism and the Peabody Award.