Speakers, Fall 1993

 

Tuesday,
September 14
Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes A Great Notion (1964); "The Legacy of Wallace Stegner" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
September 20
Charles Delzell, adjunct professor of history, Vanderbilt University; author, Unification in Italy, 1859-1861 (1976) and Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-1949 (1971); "Fascism in Italy: Origins and Ideology"
 
Tuesday,
September 21
Theodore Marmor, professor of public policy and management, Yale University; co-author, America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities (1990) and author, Cost of Living Longer: National Health Insurance and the Elderly (1980); "The Political Struggle Over National Health Care Reform: Making Sense of It"
 
Wednesday,
September 22
Frederic Wakeman, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (1966) and History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought (1973); "Signs of Disorder: Peasant Uprisings in Traditional and Contemporary China"
 
Thursday,
September 23
Junius Courtney, trumpet; Nat Courtney, drums; Terry Hilliard, bass; George Spencer, saxophone; "Jazz: The Breath of God"
 
Monday,
September 27
Cynthia Humes, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; co-editor, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993); "Charismatic Leadership: Contrasting Views of the Guru, East and West"
 
Tuesday,
September 28
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Board of Supervisors, second district, Los Angeles County; "Women and Minorities in Government"
 
Wednesday,
September 29
Robert Tanenbaum, city council member, Beverly Hills; author, Reversible Error (1992) and Immoral Certainty (1991); "The Crisis in the Criminal Justice System"
 
Thursday,
September 30
Doris Kearns Goodwin, professor of government, Harvard University; author, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1991) and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (1987); "The Private Lives of Our Public Figures: The Art of Biography"
 
Monday,
October 4
Robert Gillespie, president, Population Communication; author, A Manual on Evaluation of Population Communication Programs (1986) and co-author, The Use of Radio in Family Planning (1988); "Health Care Reform: The Politics and Policies of Family Planning"
 
Tuesday,
October 5
Martin Blinkhorn, professor of modern European history, Lancaster University (United Kingdom); author, Carlism and Crisis in Spain: 1931-1939 (1975) and Fascists and Conservatives in Europe (1990); "Poetry and Piety: Spanish Fascism and the Catholic Culture"
 
Wednesday,
October 6
Peter Schabarum, retired Board of Supervisors, first district, Los Angeles County; "The Future of the Term Limits Movement"
 
Thursday,
October 7
Dinner Theater, "Camp Logan: Houston Mutiny and Court Martial of 1917 by Celeste Bedford Walker" (1987) (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
October 11
Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet, professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; David Koonse, guitar; Putter Smith, bass; "Jazz and the Art of Human Interaction"
 
Tuesday,
October 12
Zoya Zarubina, founder of the International Educators for Peace and Understanding Movement; "Reflections on Yalta: Effects on Contemporary Political Life in Russia"
 
Wednesday,
October 13
Ilmars Lazovskis, chairman of internal medicine, Latvian Medical Academy; "The Reemergence of the Baltic States After the Collapse of the Soviet Union" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
October 13
Albert Shanker, president, American Federation of Teachers; co-author, Changing School Culture Through Staff Development (1990); Terry Moe, professor of political science, Stanford University; co-author, Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (1990) and A Lesson in School Reform from Great Britain (1992); John Coons, professor of law, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Scholarships for Children (1992) and Family Choice in Education: A Model State System for Vouchers (1971); "Panel Discussion on the Voucher Initiative" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
October 21
Peter Skerry, director of Washington programs, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA; author, Christian Schools, Racial Quotas, and the IRS (1980) and "Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority" (1993)
 
Monday,
October 25
Bruce Pauley, professor of history, University of Central Florida; author, Hitler and the Forgotten Nazis: A History of Austrian National Socialism (1981) and From Prejudice to Persecution: The History of Anti-Semitism (1992); "Prelude to Disaster: The Evolution of Austrian Fascism"
 
Tuesday,
October 26
Ronald Lehman II '68, assistant to the director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; "The Environmental Consequences of Arms Control and Disarmament"
 
Wednesday,
October 27
Barbara Kinghorn, stage company owner; "Riots and Roses"
 
Monday,
November 1
Christopher Browning, professor of history, Pacific Lutheran University; author, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution (1992) and The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution (1992); "Holocaust Perpetrators: Ordinary Germans or Ordinary Men"
 
Tuesday,
November 2
David Murray, saxophone; William Jeffrey, drums; Roberto Miranda, bass; Bobby Bradford, cornet, lecturer in music, director of Jazz Ensemble, Pomona College; "Jazz!"
 
Wednesday,
November 3
Lilly Lee, chairman, Lilly International, Inc.; "The Chinese American Community in Los Angeles"
 
Thursday,
November 4
Alexander George, Graham H. Stuart professor emeritus of international relations, Stanford University; editor, Avoiding War: Problems of Crisis Management (1991) and co-editor, "The Limits of Coercive Diplomacy" (1971)
 
Monday,
November 8
H. Stuart Hughes, professor emeritus of history, U.C. San Diego; author, Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 (1983) and Contemporary Europe: A History (1961); "Action as Philosophy: The Void in Italian Fascism"
 
Tuesday,
November 9
Julie Nelson, assistant professor of economics, U.C. Davis; co-editor, Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (1993); "Gender and the Definition of Economics"
 
Wednesday,
November 10
Daniel Callahan, director, Hastings Center, Briarcliff Manor, New York; author, What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress (1990) and Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society (1988); "Bioethics and the Common Good"
 
Thursday,
November 11
Robert Frix, Major General, U.S. Army; "Veterans Day Commemoration"
 
Monday,
November 15
Stephen Albright, chief executive officer, The Inland Empire Economic Partnership; "The Future of California's Economy" (Parents Dining Room)
 
Monday,
November 15
Jeffrey Biegel, piano; "Pianist in Recital"
 
Tuesday,
November 16
Anthony Glees, director of European studies, Brunel University (UK); author, Exile Politics During the Second World War: The German Social Democrats in Britain (1992) and The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist Subversion, 1939-51 (1987); "Origins and Development of Fascism in Germany"
 
Wednesday,
November 17
Morris Dees, Jr., co-founder, Southern Poverty Law Center; author, A Season for Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees (1992) and "Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi" (1993)
 
Thursday,
November 18
Ray Drummond '68, bass; Bill Mays, piano; performers on album and song "One to One" (1990)
 

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