| Monday, January 16 |
Brian Lamb, founder, CEO of C-SPAN, author, C-SPAN: America's Town Hall (1988); "An Inside Look at C-SPAN" (4:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, January 23 |
Marian Wright Edelman, children's advocate; author, The Measure of Our Success: Letters to My Children and Yours (1993) and Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (1987); "Leaving No Child Behind" (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Wednesday, January 25 |
Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the United States Civil Rights commission; Geraldine R. Segal professor of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania; co-author, Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982) and author, The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1993); "Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration" (McKenna Auditorium) |
| Thursday, January 26 |
Alice Schoenfeld, violin; professor of violin, Flora L. Thornton School of Music, USC; Eleonore Schoenfeld, violoncello; professor of cello, Flora L. Thornton School of Music, USC; June Lusk Nelson, piano; professor of music, El Camino College; "Celebrating Mozart's Birthday" |
| Monday, January 30 |
Brent Bozell III, founder and chairman, Media Research Center; author, And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media (1990) and Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic (1987); Sanford Ungar, dean, School of Communication, American University; author, The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers (1972) and Estrangement: America and the World (1985); "Should the Federal Government Continue to Fund Public Broadcasting?" |
| Tuesday, January 31 |
Kathleen Saadat, Oregon State Director of Affirmative Action; "Black History is Your History" |
| Wednesday, February 1 |
Lunar New Year Celebration, San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association; "Year of the Boar" |
| Thursday, February 2 |
William Dean, professor of religion, Gustavus Adolphous College; author, The Religious Critic in American Culture (1994) and History Making History: The New Historicism in American Religious Thought (1989); "The Silence of the Liberals: The Need for an Alternative Interpretation of American Spiritual Culture" |
| Monday, February 6 |
Richard Johnson, professor of history, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; "Alexis de Tocqueville Presents American Democracy: Past, Present,and Future" |
| Tuesday, February 7 |
Michael Soule, professor of environmental studies, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, Reinventing Nature: Responses to Postmodern Deconstructionism (1995) and Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity (1986); "The Social Siege of Nature: A Response to Deconstructionists" |
| Wednesday, February 8 |
Daniel Kevles, Koepfli professor of humanities, California Institute of Technology; author, In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1995) and The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (1992); "Genetics, Race and IQ: Historical Reflections from Binet to the Bell Curve" |
| Thursday, February 9 |
Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "The Strengths of Leadership: Some Personal Thoughts" |
| Monday, February 13 |
Christina Hoff Sommers, associate professor of philosophy, Clark University; author, Right and Wrong: Basic Readings in Ethics (1986) and "Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women" (1994) |
| Tuesday, February 14 |
Mike Campbell, Scottish storyteller; Dylan Schwilk, guitar; "Celtic Folktales" |
| Wednesday, February 15 |
Yuji Ichioka, professor of history, UCLA; author, The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988) and Views from Within: The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement (1989); "Our Worst Wartime Mistake?" |
| Thursday, February 16 |
Robert Scalapino, Robson research professor emeritus of government, U.C. Berkeley; co-author, Communism in Korea (1972) and author, Major Power Relations in Northeast Asia (1987); "Korea and the U.S.: What Lies Ahead?" |
| Monday, February 20 |
John Dower, Henry R. Luce professor of history, MIT; author, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1987) and Japan in War and Peace (1995); "Japan and America: Thinking About the Bomb" |
| Tuesday, February 21 |
Fredrick Shair, manager of educational affairs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; author, Atmospheric Tracer Studies to Characterize the Transport and Dispersion of Pollutants in the California Delta Region (1977) and co-author, Convective Downmixing of Plumes in a Coastal Environment (1981); "The Use of Atmospheric Tracers to Study the Transport and Dispersion of Pollutants" |
| Wednesday, February 22 |
Justin Biggs '95, guitar; Anand Subramanian '97, vocals; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Wednesday, February 22 |
Edward McCabe, chair, department of pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine; "Genetic Screening and Gene Therapy: Technological or Ethical Revolution?" |
| Thursday, February 23 |
Richard Keeling, professor of medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison; author, AIDS and HIV (1992) and Crisis: Heterosexual Sexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (1989); "Sex, Alcohol, and Self-Esteem: Health on Campus in the 1990's" |
| Monday, February 27 |
Mihaly Cskszentmihalyi, professor of human development and education, University of Chicago; author, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) and "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" (1990) |
| Tuesday, February 28 |
Anthony Lewis, columnist, The New York Times; author, Gideon's Trumpet (1964) and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991); "So It Goes: The Bosnian Tragedy" |
| Wednesday, March 1 |
Danny Glover, screen actor, Lethal Weapon (1987) and The Color Purple (1985); Ben Guillory, stage actor; "Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson" (7:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium) |
| Thursday, March 2 |
Patricia Meyer Spacks, Edgar F. Shannon professor of English, University of Virginia; author, Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind (1994) and Desire and Truth: Functions of Plot in Eighteenth-Century Novels (1990); "Logics of Self-Love" |
| Monday, March 6 |
Richard Goodwin, columnist, Los Angeles Times; author, Remembering America (1988) and The American Condition (1974); "Quiz Show: The Loss of Innocence" |
| Tuesday, March 7 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin, professor of government, Harvard University; author, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; The Homefront in World War II (1994) and Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1991); "Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Politician and the Agitator" |
| Wednesday, March 8 |
Martha Bayles, producer and writer, New River Media; author, "The Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music" (1994) |
| Monday, March 20 |
Robert Nakasone '69 P'95, president, chief operating officer, Toys "R" Us; "Leadership in Business" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, March 21 |
Jonathon Pollack, senior advisor for international policy, RAND Corporation; co-author, China's Air Force Enters the 21st Century (1995); "Designing a New American Security Strategy for Asia" |
| Wednesday, March 22 |
Donald McKenna, founding trustee, CMC; author, The Roots of Kennametal: Or Philip McKenna and How He Grew (1974) and Roots of Malcolm Carnegie McKenna (1992); George C.S. Benson P'61, founding president, CMC; author, Code of Ethics: Business and Government (1989) and co-author, Amoral America: Sources of Morality in a Liberal Society (1982); Jack Stark '57, president, CMC; Charles Lofgren, Roy P. Crocker professor of government, CMC; author, The Plessy Case: A Legal-Historical Interpretation (1988) and Government from Reflection and Choice: Constitutional Essays on War, Foreign Relations, and Federalism (1986); "The History and Mission of Claremont McKenna College" |
| Thursday, March 23 |
Maggie Wang '97, piano; Allison Joe '97, cello; Heather Farnham, violin; "Musical Tea" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, March 23 |
Kevin Phillips, political analyst, The American Political Research Corporation; author, Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics (1994) and Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats, and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993); "The Politics of Turmoil: What's Ahead for Washington" |
| Monday, March 27 |
Jill Abramson, deputy bureau chief, The Wall Street Journal; author, Where They Are Now (1986) and co-author, "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas" (1994) |
| Tuesday, March 28 |
R. Michael Mondavi, president, Robert Mondavi Winery; "Winemaking in California" |
| Wednesday, March 29 |
Dean Keith Simonton, professor of psychology, U.C. Davis; author, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why? (1994) and Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science (1988); "Making a Mark: The Psychology of Greatness" |
| Thursday, March 30 |
Ross MacPhee, chairman, department of mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History; author, Primates and Their Relatives in Phylogenetic Perspective (1993); "40,000 Year Plague: A Natural History of Human-Induced Extinction" |
| Monday, April 3 |
Shelley Saywell, documentary film maker, No Man's Land: Women Frontline Journalists (1994) and Women in War: First Hand Accounts from World War II to El Salvador (1985); "Seeing War Through Women's Eyes" |
| Tuesday, April 4 |
Federico Estevez, professor of social sciences, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico; "Political and Economic Reforms in Mexico" |
| Thursday, April 6 |
Dinner Theater, "Play On!" by Rick Abbot (1980) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Friday, April 7 |
Dinner Theater, "Play On!" by Rick Abbot (1980) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Saturday, April 8 |
Dinner Theater, "Play On!" by Rick Abbot (1980) (6:00 p.m.) |
| Monday, April 10 |
Jeffrey Sachs, Galen L. Stone professor of international trade, Harvard University; author, The Transition in Eastern Europe (1994) and Poland's Jump to the Market Economy (1994); "The Economic Aspects of Democratization in Europe" |
| Tuesday, April 11 |
Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel laureate in literature (1980); professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature, U.C. Berkeley; author, Provinces (1991) and A Year of the Hunter (1994); "A Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Wednesday, April 12 |
Marc Fisher, staff writer, Washington Post; author, "After the Wall: Germany, the Germans, and the Burdens of History" (1995) |
| Thursday, April 13 |
Michael Eagan, director of the Musica Angelica Early Music Series, lute; Carol Herman, cello and viola da gamba artist and teacher, viola; Jeffrey Thomas, director of the American Classical Soloists, tenor; "Music of Henry Purcell and His Time" |
| Monday, April 17 |
Ken Jowitt, University distinguished professor of political science, U.C. Berkeley; author, New World Disorder: The Leninist Extinction (1992); "Dizzy with Democracy: Critical Perspectives on the New World Disorder" |
| Tuesday, April 18 |
David Eisenhower, historian, political analyst; author, Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945 (1987) and Warwords: U.S. Militarism, the Catholic Right, and the Bulgarian Connection (1987); "General Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II" C-SPAN |
| Wednesday, April 19 |
John Hollander, A. Bartlett Giamatti professor of English, Yale University; author, Selected Poems (1993) and Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (1981); "Poet Reads From His Work" |
| Thursday, April 20 |
Jay Kim, California Congressman (R- 41st district); "The First 100 Days of the 104th Congress and the Republican Contract with America" (12:00 p.m.) |
| Thursday, April 20 |
Fritz Weis '65 P'94, treasurer, CMC; Norm King '65, professor of government, CMC; "Along the Muir Trail" |
| Friday, April 21 |
Asif Ahmed '95, Edrick Chua '95, Rene Gabri '95, Helen Oh '95, Jeremy Sung '95; "Senior Art Show" (3:00 p.m.) |
| Tuesday, April 25 |
W. D. Snodgrass, poet; author, Heart's Needle (1959); "Reading from The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995)" |
| Wednesday, April 26 |
John Roth, Russell K. Pitzer professor of philosophy and religious studies, CMC; co-author, Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy (1987) and co-editor, Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust (1993); "In Remembrance of the Holocaust" |