Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

David West P'12, CEO and president, The Hershey Company; "Lunch with a Leader: The Confectionery Industry" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Dan Choi, U.S. Army infantry officer, Iraq, 2006-2007; First Lieutenant, New York Army National Guard; "Truth and Consequences: One Man's Fight To Openly Serve His Country"
 

Er Tai Gao, exiled dissident essayist and painter; Fellow, International Institute of Modern Letters, University of Nevada; author, In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp (2009) and co-author, Chan Heart, Chan Art (2007); "In Search of My Homeland"
 

Gregg Vanourek '92, founding partner, New Mountain Ventures; co-author, Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating Extraordinary Lives (2008) and Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education (2000); Robert Vanourek P'92, president, Vanourek and Partners, LLC; former CEO, Sensormatic Electronics Corporation; adjunct instructor in business, University of Denver; "Creating Great Leadership Organizations: Achieving Results with Integrity"
 

Gordon Hanson, professor of economics; director, Center on Pacific Economies, U.C. San Diego; co-editor, forthcoming Skilled Immigration Today: Problems, Prospects, and Policies and author, Why Does Immigration Divide America? Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders (2005); "Managing Low Skilled Immigration in the United States"
 

Joshua Rosett, violoncello; Curb Family professor of business and law, associate professor of economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, "Macroeconomic variables and the E/P ratio: Is inflation really positively associated with the E/P ratio?" (2006) and "What determines the variability of accounting accurals?" (2005); Lori Ives, viola; William Wellwood, clarinet; Jamie Boyd Caridi, piano; Edris Boyll-Kuzia, violin; Audrey Lamprey, french horn; "The Green Street Ensemble: An Evening of Chamber Music"
 

Fareed Zakaria, editor, Newsweek International; author, The Post-American World (2008) and The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003); "The Rise of the Rest: The Post-American World"
 

W.S. Merwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning (1970, 2009) and National Book Award winning (2005) poet and essayist; U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); author, The Shadow of Sirius (2008) and The Book of Fables (2007); "An Evening with W.S. Merwin"
 

Jon Kirchner '89, CEO and president, Digital Theater Systems (DTS) Incorporated; "Lunch with a Leader: The Entertainment Industry"(12:00 p.m.)
 

Gershon Baskin, CEO and founder, Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI); "Is Israeli-Palestinian Peace Possible?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Patrick Desbois, Fr., director, Episcopal Committee for Relations with Judaism; co-founder and president, Yahad-In Unum; author, The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews (2008); "The Holocaust by Bullets"
 

Ditas Katague, Director of Census 2010, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; "Redistricting, The 2010 Census, and Your Budget: Changes and Challenges for California Governments" (12:45 p.m.)
 

Cleve Jones, founder, NAMES project AIDS memorial quilt; human rights activist; co-author, Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist (2001); "40 Years after Stonewall"
 

Sarah Baird '01, assistant professor of global health, George Washington University; "Development Economics in Practice: The Joys and Challenges of Doing Field Work in Sub-Saharan Africa"
 

Daniel Okimoto, senior fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; director emeritus and co-founder, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; professor emeritus of political science, Stanford University; co-author, From Crisis to Opportunity: Financial Globalization and East Asia Capitalism (2006) and Future of America's Alliance in Northeast Asia (2004) (12:00 p.m.); "Japan's Political Earthquake: The Triumph of the Democratic Party and It's Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (6:45 p.m. Parents Dining Room)