Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

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.)

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"

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

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.)

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?"

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

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

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.)

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"

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"

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!"

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

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"

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"

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)