Speakers, Spring 1987

 

Wednesday,
January 21
Julie Dillon, president and owner of land development company, "Entrepreneurship"
 
Monday,
January 26
Al Osborne, director of Harold Price Center for entrepreneurial studies, UCLA, "Entrepreneurship"
 
Tuesday,
January 27
Bonnie Snortum, piano; Donald Ambroson, viola; Lewis Ellenhorn, clarinet, professor emeritus of psychology, Pitzer College; Georgia Warden, soprano; "Mozart and His Contemporaries"
 
Monday,
February 2
Chaim Potok, novelist, author, The Chosen (1967) and In the Beginning (1975); "Authority and Rebellion: The Individual and Modern Literature"
 
Tuesday,
February 3
Chaim Potok, novelist, author, The Promise (1969) and My Name is Asher Lev (1972); "The Writer/Artist Against the World" (7:00 p.m. Bauer Center)
 
Monday,
February 9
Khalid Wordak, Afghan freedom fighter; "Afghanistan Today"
 
Tuesday,
February 10
Sonia Landau, former board of directors chair, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; "Politics and Public Service"
 
Wednesday,
February 11
Sonia Landau, former chair of Women for Reagan-Bush '84; "Men, Women, and Power" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
February 11
Sonia Landau, former board of directors chair, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; "Politics and Public Service"
 
Wednesday,
February 11
Steve Merksamer '69, Chief of Staff for California Governor George Deukmejian; "What's New in Sacramento?"
 
Thursday,
February 12
Ralph "Buzz" Wooley, Jr., '59 P'90, president, Girard Capital, Inc.; "From CMC to Entrepreneurship: Business Opportunities in the 1990s"
 
Saturday,
February 14
Jake Porter, saxophone and conductor; "Jelly Roll Jazz Society: Valentine's Day"
 
Monday,
February 16
Lee Hamilton, Indiana congressman, (D-9th district); "Iran Contra Affair" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Monday,
February 16
Lee Hamilton, Indiana congressman, (D-9th district); "Keck Lecture on International Understanding"
 
Tuesday,
February 24
Louis Fields, Jr., Ambassador, U.S. Mission to the United Nations; "Americans Abroad: Domestic and International Understanding"
 
Wednesday,
February 25
Tamas Ungvari, professor of humanities, Hungary; "The Ugly American: A Distorted Image" (11:30 a.m.)
 
Wednesday,
February 25
Harry Summers, Jr., senior military analyst, U.S. News and World Report; author, Vietnam War Almanac (1985) and On Strategy: Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982); "Military Strategies for the United States in the late 1980s"
 
Thursday,
February 26
Peter Freese, professor of American Studies, Paderborn University, West Germany; author, Growing Up Black in America: Stories and Studies of Socialization (1977) and The American Short Story I: Initiation (1984); "Innocents Abroad versus Coca-Cola Conquistadores" (11:30 a.m.)
 
Thursday,
February 26
Rupert Pennant-Rea, editor, The Economist; "America and the World Economy"
 
Friday,
February 27
Jake Porter, saxophone and conductor; "Jelly Roll Jazz Society: Night in New Orleans" (6:30 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
March 4
Harold Kushner, rabbi; author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981) and When Children Ask About God: A Guide for Parents Who Don't Always Have All the Answers (1971); "When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough" (7:00 p.m. Bauer Lecture Hall)
 
Tuesday,
March 10
Steven Mosher, director, Asian Studies Center, Claremont Institute; author, Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese (1984); "China: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
 
Thursday,
March 12
Bruce Herschensohn, television political commentator; "Public Policy and Civil Liberties"
 
Tuesday,
March 24
Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, partner, Burke, Robinson, and Pearman, LLP; "American Political Scene"
 
Wednesday,
March 25
Margaret Coel P'87 P'90, freelance writer; author, Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho (1981) and Goin' Railroading: A Century on the Colorado High Iron (1986); "To Be a Writer"
 
Thursday,
March 26
Dith Pran, photojournalist, New York Times; subject of the movie "The Killing Fields" (1984)
 
Tuesday,
March 31
Brian Hebblethwaite, philosopher and theologian; Queens College, Cambridge; author, Christian Ethics in the Modern Age (1982) and The Problems of Theology (1980); "Encountering Jesus: Incarnational Christology and the Jewishness of Jesus"
 
Wednesday,
April 1
Steve Davis, professor of philosophy and religion, CMC; author, Logic and the Nature of God (1983) and Faith, Skepticism, and Evidence (1978); John Cobb, Jr., professor of theology, Claremont School of Theology; author, Praying for Jennifer (1985) and Process Theology of Political Theology (1982); John Hick, professor emeritus of religion, Claremont Graduate School; author, God Has Many Names (1982) and Death and Eternal Life (1976); Rebecca Pentz; and James Robinson, professor of religion, Claremont Graduate School; author, New Questions of the Historical Jesus and Other Essays (1983); "Encountering Jesus: A Debate in Christology" (4:00 p.m.)
 
Wednesday,
April 1
Michael Wyschogrod, professor of philosophy; Baruch College, City University of New York; author, The Body of Faith: Judaism as Corporeal Election (1983); "Encountering Jesus: Jesus and Judaism; Continuity and Discontinuity"
 
Thursday,
April 2
Myra Moss, professor of philosophy, CMC; John Snortum, George C. S. Benson professor of public affairs, CMC; "Psychology and Philosophy: An Informal Symposium"
 
Thursday,
April 2
Derek Walcott, poet; author, In a Green Night (1964) and The Fortunate Travellers (1981); "Readings" (7:00 p.m. Bauer Lecture Hall)
 
Friday,
April 3
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Saturday,
April 4
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Sunday,
April 5
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont concert choir; "Americana Festival"
 
Wednesday,
April 8
David Aaron, foreign service officer; "New Hope for Nuclear Arms Control?"
 
Thursday,
April 9
Larry Levine, Margaret Byrne professor of history, U.C. Berkeley; author, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (1977); "The Sacralization of Culture: The Emergence of High Culture in 19th Century America"
 
Wednesday,
April 22
Simon Lunn, NATO; author, Burden-Sharing in NATO (1983); "NATO and the World"
 
Monday,
April 27
Richard Rubenstein, Robert 0. Lawton distinguished professor of religion, Florida State University; author, The Cunning of History (1975) and The Age of Triage (1983); "Modernization and the Politics of Extermination"
 
Monday,
May 4
Kenji Yoshida P'87, professor of philosophy, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan; author, Growth and Association (1985); "Japanese Modernization: Lost and Found"
 

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