Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Ronnie Spector, founding member, the Ronettes; co-author, Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Mini Skirts, and Madness, or My Life as a Fabulous Ronette (1990); Tricia Scotti, guitar; Gabrielle Ostrowska, piano; "Beyond the Beehive"

Leszek Balcerowicz, former finance minister and deputy prime minister, Poland; author, Post-Communist Transition (2002) and Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation (1995); "EU Enlargement and Economic Catching-up of the Candidate Countries" (12:15 p.m.)

Nafis Sadik, former executive director, United Nations population fund; editor, An Agenda for People: UNFPA Through Three Decades (2002) and author, The State of the World: Lives Together, Worlds Apart- Men and Women in a Time of Change (2000); "The Global War Against Women"

Gregory Hess, Russell S. Bock chair of public economics and taxation and professor of economics, CMC; co-editor, International Macroeconomics (2000) and author, "The Economic Welfare Cost of War: An Empirical Assessment" (2002)

Patricia Mabee, harpsichord; Allen Vogel, oboe; Margaret Batjer, violin; Samuel Formicola, viola; Victoria Miskolczy, viola; Douglas Davis, cello; "Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Soloists: Chamber Conversations"

Sarah Awad '03, "Senior Art Show" (3:00 p.m.)

Chong-Wook Chung, visiting professor of Asian Affairs, CMC; author, Maoism and Development: The Politics of Industrial Management in China (1980) and co-editor, Korean Options in a Changing International Order (1993); "New Leaders in Asia: Implications for America" (12:15 p.m.)

Peter Hayes, Theodore Z. Weiss professor of history, German, and Holocaust studies, Northwestern University; author, Industry and Ideology: I.G. Farben in the Nazi Era (1987) and editor, Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (1991); "Corporate Complicity in the Holocaust: Degussa from Aryanization to Auschwitz"

J. Michael Fay, conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society; National Geographic explorer; "The Last of the True African Explorers" (12:15 p.m.)

Rosalind Barnett, senior scientist, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University; co-author, She Works/He Works: How Two-income Families are Happy, Healthy, and Thriving (1998) and forthcoming The Seduction of Difference (2003); "Dual-Earner Couples: Good/Bad for Her and/or Him?"

Stuart Schram, research associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; author, Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, National Revolution and Social Revolution December 1920-June 1927 (1995) and The Thought of Mao Tse-Tung (1989); "Mao's China: Before, During, and After" (12:15 p.m.)

Zahara Heckscher, founder, Community Alliance for Youth Action; contributing editor Transitions Abroad; "How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas" (12:15 p.m.)

Paul Volcker, former chairman, Federal Reserve Board; author, The Quotable Investor (2001) and co-author, On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir (2000); "Urgent Business for America: Revitalizing the Federal Government for the 21st Century"

Michael Lamb, chief, section on social and emotional development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; co-editor, Development in Infancy: An Introduction (1982) and co-author, Investigative Interviews of Children: A Guide for Helping Professionals (1998); "Promoting Child Well-Being Through Mother-and Father-Child Relationships"

Alexander Gonzalez, president, C.S.U. San Marcos; "Cesar Chavez Commemoration"