Speakers, Spring 1992

 

Thursday,
January 23
Myrlie Evers, social activist, author, For Us, The Living (1967); "Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembrance"
 
Monday,
January 27
Bob Hall, rape prevention instructor; "Date Rape"
 
Tuesday,
January 28
Kelly Shaver, professor of psychology, College of William and Mary; "The Psychology of New Venture Creation" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tuesday,
January 28
Leon Bing, author, Do or Die (1991); "California's Gang Life"
 
Wednesday,
January 29
Schyleen Qualls, performance artist; "The Last Word"
 
Thursday,
January 30
Jeff Lokey '93, guitar; Doug Merlino '94, guitar; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Thursday,
January 30
Barbara Foster, assistant professor, Hunter College; author; "Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel" (1987)
 
Monday,
February 3
Theresa Crenshaw P'94, president and founder, Ehrenborg Foundation; sex therapist; author, Bedside Manners: Your Guide to Better Sex (1983); "AIDS: Its Implications Today"
 
Tuesday,
February 4
Elliot Aronson, professor of psychology, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, The Social Animal (1972) and editor, Methods of Research in Social Psychology (1989); "Adventures in the Application of Social Psychology"
 
Wednesday,
February 5
Fred Merkin '67, assistant city attorney of Los Angeles; "Perspectives on the Christopher Commission"
 
Thursday,
February 6
Alexandra Levine, professor of medicine, USC; "AIDS: Its Medical Aspects"
 
Monday,
February 10
Eldon Griffiths, M.P.; former foreign editor, Newsweek; author, Fighting for the Life of Freedom (1977); "The U.S. and the New Europe: Rivals or Partners?"
 
Tuesday,
February 11
Bruce Ames, professor of biochemistry, U.C. Berkeley; "Understanding the Causes of Aging and Cancer"
 
Wednesday,
February 12
Elenor Taylor '81, director of business and legal issues, Constitutional Rights Foundation; "Living Law: A Different Perspective"
 
Friday,
February 14
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Saturday,
February 15
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Sunday,
February 16
Michael Deane Lamkin, professor of music, Scripps College; conductor, Claremont chamber orchestra; "Evening in Vienna"
 
Monday,
February 17
Robert Lees, president, Pacific InterTrade Corporation; "The New Soviet Union"
 
Tuesday,
February 18
Lee Stetson, performance artist; "The Spirit of John Muir"
 
Wednesday,
February 19
Douglas Wheeler, California Secretary for Resources; "Resourceful California"
 
Monday,
February 24
Sandra Bem, professor of psychology, Cornell University; "Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality: From Biological Differences to Institutionalized Androcentrism"
 
Tuesday,
February 25
Shepherd Smith, president and founder of Americans for Sound AIDS/HIV Policy (ASAP); co-author, Christians in the Age of AIDS (1990); "AIDS: The Political and Economic Implications"
 
Wednesday,
February 26
Spencer Abraham, co-chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee; "Election 1992"
 
Thursday,
February 27
John Doggett '69, president and founder, International Management Development Center; "Returning Decency to the Political Process: Reflections on the Justice Thomas Hearings"
 
Monday,
March 2
Larry Dietz, author, Soda Pop: The History, Advertising, Art, and Memorabilia of Soft Drinks in America (1973); "Paradise as a Parking Lot: The Automobile Transforms California"
 
Tuesday,
March 3
Perry Lerner '65 P'89, international tax attorney; "The Ins and Outs of International Law Practice"
 
Wednesday,
March 4
Cary Davidson '75, attorney; "Keeping Political Candidates Out of Jail"
 
Thursday,
March 5
Dudley Herschbach, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1986); professor of science, Harvard University; co-author, forthcoming Dimensional Scaling in Chemical Physics (1993); "Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads"
 
Monday,
March 9
Brian Tokar, environmental activist; author, "The Green Alternative: Creating an Ecological Future" (1987)
 
Tuesday,
March 10
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel laureate in literature (1980); professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, Bells in Winter (1978) and Unattainable Earth (1986); "Poland: Then and Now"
 
Wednesday,
March 11
Lawrence White, chair, psychology department, Beloit College; "Should We Believe Child Witnesses?"
 
Thursday,
March 12
Philip Zimbardo, professor of psychology, Stanford University; author, Shyness: What is It, What Can We Do About It (1977) and co-author, Psychology and Life (1971); "Taking Control of Your Time Before It's Too Late" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Monday,
March 23
Tom Tietenberg, professor of economics, Colby College; author, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (1984) and Energy Planning and Policy: The Political Economy of Project Independence (1976); "New Approaches to Environmental Policy"
 
Tuesday,
March 24
James Q. Wilson, James Collins professor of management and public policy, UCLA; author, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (1989) and American Government: Institutions and Policies (1981); "How I Came to Terms with Facts, Values, and David Hume"
 
Wednesday,
March 25
Jacqueline Barton, professor of chemistry, California Institute of Technology; co-editor, Biotechnology and Materials Science: Chemistry for the Future (1988); "Travels Along the DNA Helix"
 
Thursday,
March 26
Stephen Kay '64, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office; "Keeping Charles Manson Behind Bars"
 
Friday,
March 27
Ellis Marsalis, piano; Marcus Roberts, piano; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Monday,
March 30
Paul Halmos, professor of mathematics, Santa Clara University; author, Naive Set Theory (1987) and I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography (1985); "Can Mathematics Be Fun?"
 
Tuesday,
March 31
Clifford Grobstein, professor emeritus of biological science and public policy, U.C. San Diego; author, Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures (1990) and Double Image of the Double Helix: The Recombinant-DNA Debate (1979); "New Ways to Reproduce"
 
Thursday,
April 2
Dinner Theater, "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare (1598) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Friday,
April 3
Dinner Theater, "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare (1598) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Saturday,
April 4
Dinner Theater, "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare (1598) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Sunday,
April 5
Play Performance, "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare (1598) (11:45 a.m.)
 
Monday,
April 6
Edwin Meese III, former attorney general, United States of America; Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, Heritage Foundation; author, Witness to History: Power and Politics in the Reagan White House (1990) and Report to the Attorney General on the Admission of Criminal Histories at Trial (1988); "Politics and the Future of the Supreme Court"
 
Tuesday,
April 7
Michael Armacost, U.S. Ambassador to Japan; author, The Politics of Weapons Innovation (1969) and The Foreign Relations of the United States (1969); "Perspectives on Japan and the Pacific Rim" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 
Tuesday,
April 7
Paul Heyne, professor of economics, University of Washington; author, Private Keepers of the Public Interest (1968) and Commercial Society: Discovery, Defense, and Criticism (1990); "Ethics and Economics"
 
Wednesday,
April 8
Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964); "Sea Lion and the Bear" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Thursday,
April 9
Andrew Nagorski, correspondent, Newsweek; author, Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter's Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union (1985); "Today's Germany"
 
Monday,
April 13
Alfred Gobar P'93, economic consultant; "California's Economy: Do We Have One?"
 
Tuesday,
April 14
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; co-editor, Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications (1989) and Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (1991); Steve Davis, professor of philosophy and religion, CMC; co-editor, Death and Eternal Life (1989) and Encountering Jesus: A Debate on Christology (1988); "Is God Good?"
 
Wednesday,
April 15
Mary-Ellen Drummond, toastmaster; "How to Communicate with Power, Polish, and Pizzazz"
 
Thursday,
April 16
Jake Porter, conductor and saxophone; "Jelly Roll Jazz Society: Roaring 20s"
 
Monday,
April 20
Denis Donoghue, Henry James Chair of English and American letters, NYU; author, Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in Modern American Poetry (1984) and Ferocious Alphabets (1981); "Literature and Criticism in Contemporary Americana"
 
Tuesday,
April 21
Herbert Simon, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1978); Richard King Mellon University professor of computer science and psychology, Carnegie Mellon University; author, Models of My Life (1991) and Administrative Behavior (1947); "Creativity in the Sciences and the Arts: How Can We Explain It?"
 
Wednesday,
April 22
Charles de Vere, founder, De Vere Society; "Shakespeare: Who Is He?"
 
Thursday,
April 23
Maluaka Harrison '92, "CMC Senior Art Show"
 
Thursday,
April 23
James Pinkerton, deputy assistant to President Bush for policy planning; co-author, The Human Community (1986); "The New Paradigm" (Pickford Auditorium)
 
Monday,
April 27
Joan Ringelheim, professor emeritus of philosophy, Wesleyan University; "Women and the Holocaust"
 
Tuesday,
April 28
Ken Kesey, author, Demon Box (1989) and Sailor Song (1992); "Senior Class Dinner"
 

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