Speakers, Fall 1996

 

Tuesday, September 10 David McCullough, author, Truman (1992) and Brave Companions: Portraits in History (1991); "From a Historian's Perspective" C-SPAN
 
Monday, September 16 Ana Castillo, author, So Far from God (1993) and Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1995); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tuesday, September 17 Paul Taylor, founder and director, Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition; author, See How They Run (1990) and co-author, The Old News Versus the New News (1992); "Can the Presidential Campaign Be Saved?"
 
Wednesday, September 18 Jack Miles, director, Humanities Center, Claremont Graduate School; author, God: A Biography (1995); "Writing God's Life"
 
Thursday, September 19 Andrei Codrescu, professor of English and comparative literature, Louisiana State University; author, The Hole in the Flag: An Exile's Tale of Return and Revolution (1991) and Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio (1994); "Whose Woods are These? Reflections on America and the Immigrant Experience" C-SPAN
 
Monday, September 23 Mark Masters, jazz orchestra conductor on albums Priestess (1992) and Jimmy Knepper Songbook (1993); Bill Perkins, tenor saxophone; Gary Foster, saxophone; Slyde Hyde, trombone; Jack Montrose, bass clarinet; Ron Stout, trumpet; Carl Saunders, trumpet; Joe LaBarbera, drums; "Mark Masters Jazz Orchestra: Big Bands Then and Now"
 
Tuesday, September 24 Thomas McLarty, White House counselor; "Free Trade and Economic Opportunities"
 
Thursday, September 26 Ted Hinckley '50, adjunct professor of history, Western Washington University; author, War, Wings, and a Western Youth, 1925-1945 (1996) and The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euramerican Frontier, 1800-1912 (1995); "Aleksandr Kerenski's Prediction and the Unpredictable Claremont McKenna College"
 
Friday, September 27 Lynn Cutler, board member, National Endowment of Democracy; "Women's Vote '96" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Monday, September 30 Stephen Mitchell, author, Gospel: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers (1993) and translator, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1993); "A New Translation of Genesis"
 
Tuesday, October 1 Michael Graber '74, cinematographer on movies Twister (1996) and Crimson Tide (1995); "From Claremont to the Himalaya: Climbing Personal Eversts"
 
Wednesday, October 2 Patricia Ireland, president, National Organization for Women; author, "What Women Want" (1996) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday, October 2 Ray Drummond '68, bass; Eddie Marshall, drums; Paul Nagel, piano; "Jazz Trio Concert: The Return of Bulldog Drummond"
 
Thursday, October 3 Michael Lerner, founder, Tikkun; author, Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation (1994) and The Politics of Memory: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism (1996); "The Crisis of Meaning and Values in American Politics"
 
Monday, October 7 Helena Viramontes, professor of creative writing, Cornell University; author, Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and The Moths and Other Stories (1985); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tuesday, October 8 Hugh Gallagher '56, author, By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich (1989) and FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability and the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public (1985); "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? The 50s: An Important Yet Maudlin Decade"
 
Wednesday, October 9 Mas Masumoto, author, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996) and Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community (1987); "An Evening With a Peach and Its Farmer"
 
Thursday, October 10 Gary Hall, Jr., Olympic swimming medalist; "The Making of a Champion"
 
Monday, October 14 Miguel Algarin, associate professor of English, Rutgers University; author, Heart Spread (1996) and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (1994); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tuesday, October 15 Frank Luntz, political pollster; author, Candidates, Consultants, and Campaigns: The Style and Substance of American Electioneering (1988) and The American Dream: Renewing the Promise (1994); "The Language of the New Majority"
 
Wednesday, October 16 Dinesh D'Souza, research fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1991) and The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society (1996); Molly Munger, regional counsel, NAACP; "CCRI Debate: The End of Affirmative Action?"
 
Thursday, October 17 Michel Oksenberg, senior fellow, Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; co-author, Policy Making in China (1990) and An Emerging China in a World of Interdependence (1994); "The Future of U.S.-China Relations"
 
Wednesday, October 23 John J. Pitney Jr., professor of government, CMC; contributor, Congress' Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U.S. House (1994); Charles Kesler, professor of government, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987) and co-author, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988); Mark Blitz, professor of government, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); "Perspectives on the '96 Election: View from the Right" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wednesday, October 23 Guillermo Gomez-Pena, author, The New World Borders: Prophesies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century (1996) and co-author, Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry (1993); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Friday, October 25 P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and co-author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future (1988); Jim McKenna, professor of anthropology, Pomona College; author, Permission Not Granted: How People Raised Crisis Oriented Families Carry Their Child (1990); Harry Pachon, professor of political studies, Pitzer College; co-author, Hispanics in the United States (1985) and New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants (1994); "Perspectives on the '96 Election: View from the Left" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Monday, October 28 Mark Mehringer '98; Emily Schuckman '99; Andrew Orr '99; Stephen Mansell '99; Ashwin Navin '99; Chris Skinnell '99; "Student Debate: Election 1996"
 
Tuesday, October 29 Charles Wolf, Jr., senior research fellow, Hoover Institution; author, Economic Instruments, Military Instruments, and National Power (1994) and co-author, "Long Term Economic and Strategic Trends 1994-2015: The United States and Asia" (1995)
 
Wednesday, October 30 Ruben Martinez, Los Angeles bureau chief, Pacific News Service;  author, The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock'n'Roll (1992) and Micologia Medica (1996); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Thursday, October 31 Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling professor of history and William Clyde DeVane professor, Yale University; author, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (1985) and co-author, The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation (1996); "The Bible in the Church"
 
Monday, November 4 Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University; author, Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986) and Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993); "Remembering the Holocaust and American Popular Culture, 1945-1967"
 
Tuesday, November 5 John J. Pitney Jr., professor of government, CMC; contributor, Congress's Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U.S. House (1994); "Election Night Commentary"
 
Wednesday, November 6 Diane Silver '88, coordinator, Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center; "A Road Less Taken: A Journey and Overview of Environmental Education"
 
Thursday, November 7 Martin Gilbert, historian and fellow, Merton College, Oxford University; author, Auschwitz and the Allies (1981) and "Jerusalem in the 20th Century" (1996)
 
Monday, November 11 Lewis Millett, colonel, U.S. Army; "Duty, Honor, Country"
Tuesday, November 12 Christopher Brinegar, associate professor of plant molecular biology, San Jose State University; "A Rainforest 40 Stories Tall: The History and Ecology of the California Coast Redwoods"
 
Wednesday, November 13 Richard Rodriguez, editor, Pacific News Service; author, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (1992) and Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1983); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Thursday, November 14 David Reid '69, essayist; co-author, West of the West: Imagining California (1989) and editor, Sex, Death, and God in L.A. (1992); "The Disappearance of the Samurai, or Whatever Happened to the Managerial Revolution?"
 
Monday, November 18 Luis Alfaro, performance artist; author, Straight as a Line (1994) and Bitter Homes and Gardens (1992); Marisela Norte, performance artist; co-author, Black Butterflies, Jaguar Girl, Pinata Woman, and Other Super Hero Girls Like Me; "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tuesday, November 19 Hao Huang, piano; assistant professor of music, Scripps College; Rachel Vetter Huang, violin; lecturer in music, Scripps College; "An Evening of Slavic Music with the Mei Duo"
 
Wednesday, November 20 Walter Wriston, former chairman, Citibank; author, Risk and Other Four Letter Words (1986) and The Twilight of Sovereignty (1992); "Money: Back to the Future?" C-SPAN
 

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