Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Current Semester Schedule

Athenaeum events are posted here as detailed information becomes available.

Fri, February 22, 2002

Stephen Dobbs, adjunct professor of humanities, San Francisco State University; executive vice president, Bernard Osher Foundation; co-author, Leaders Who Make a Difference: Essential Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge (1999) and author, Learning In and Through Art: A Guide to Discipline Based Art Education (1997); "Strategies for Meeting the Nonprofit Challenge" (12:30 p.m.)

Thu, February 21, 2002

William Tuttle, Jr., professor of history, University of Kansas; author, Daddy's Gone to War: The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children (1993) and Bottle Hill and Madison: Glimpses and Reminiscences from Its Earliest Settlement to the Civil War (1997); "Writing Interdisciplinary Children's History: A Personal Perspective"

Wed, February 20, 2002

K.M. Thiagarajan, former chairman and CEO, Bank of Madura, India; "Lending to the Poor: The Experience of a Bank in India"

Tue, February 19, 2002

David Dreier '75, U.S. House of Representatives (R), (CA-28th district); "Reflections on the 107th Congress: What's Been Accomplished and What Lies Ahead" (12:15 p.m.)

Mon, February 18, 2002

Ann Crittenden, author, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued (2001) and Killing the Sacred Cows: Bold Ideas for a New Economy (1992); "Are Mothers as Important as Warriors?"

Thu, February 14, 2002

Jeffie Pike Durham, daughter of artist Marion Pike; "Marion Pike Portraits: Who's Who? The Artist's Daughter Remembers"

Wed, February 13, 2002

Lunar New Year Celebration, "Year of the Black Horse, Spring Thunder Chinese Music Ensemble"

Tue, February 12, 2002

Thomas Leabhart, director; Emily Vigneron, assistant director; Joannah Bryan; Kristl Dorschner; Emily Eiden; Lisa Horst; Stasia Patwell; Jack Rosenfeld; Anna Smolentzov; Elizabeth von Doemming; "The Pomona College Department of Theater: Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus (467 B.C.) (12:15 p.m.)

Mon, February 11, 2002

John Singleton, film director, Baby Boy (2001), Shaft (2000), Higher Learning (1995), Poetic Justice (1993), Boyz N the Hood (1991); "The World According to John Singleton: Film and Society"

Thu, February 7, 2002

Robert Gellately, Strassler professor of Holocaust history, Clark University; author, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (2001) and The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Radical Policy, 1933-1945 (1990); "Nazi Concentration Camps and German Society"

Wed, February 6, 2002

Billy Harper, tenor saxophone; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Ray Drummond '68, bass; Mark Masters, conductor, American Jazz Institute big band; Joe LaBarbera, drums; Dave Woodley, trombone; Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone; Cecilia Coleman, piano; Scott Englebright, trumpet; Bill Roper, tuba; Les Benedict, trombone; Louis Fasman, trumpet; Les Lovitt, trumpet; Don Shelton, saxophone and alto flute; Allen Savedoff, saxophone and bassoon; Stephanie O'Keefe, french horn; Mort Sahl, host; "American Jazz Institute Big Band: Porgy and Bess ... Redefined!"

Tue, February 5, 2002

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, African bureau chief and correspondent, CNN; author, In My Place (1992), "'New' News From Africa"

Mon, February 4, 2002

Claudia Black, founder, past chairperson, National Association for Children of Alcoholics; author, It's Never Too Late to Have A Happy Childhood: Inspirations for Adult Children (1989) and It Will Never Happen to Me (1982); "Legacy of Addiction"

Thu, January 31, 2002

Aaron McGruder, cartoonist, creator of the comic strip The Boondocks; author, Boondocks Collection (2001) and The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper (2000), "What's the Color of Funny: Race, Society, and Comic Strips"

Wed, January 30, 2002

Diane Halpern, professor of psychology, director, Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children, CMC; author, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (1995) and "Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities" (1986)

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