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.

Mon, April 6, 1998
Frances Hasselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; editor, The Drucker Foundation: The Organization of the Future (1997) and co-editor, The Leader of the Future (1996); "Challenges in Managing the Nonprofit Organization" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Sat, April 4, 1998
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 3, 1998
William Crouch '63, vice chief of staff, U.S. Army, "The U.S. Army in Europe" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 2, 1998
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, April 1, 1998
Bruce Laingen, president, American Academy of Diplomacy; author, Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen (1992); "U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East"
 
Tue, March 31, 1998
Eric Lewis, violin; John Dexter, viola; Kenneth Freed, violin; Chris Finckel, cello; "Manhattan String Quartet: Music by Bela Bartok and Leos Janacek"
 
Mon, March 30, 1998
Allyson Kurker, rape crisis activist; "As They See It: Sexual Assault and Prevention"
 
Sun, March 29, 1998
Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1986); Andrew W. Mellon professor of humanities, Boston University; author, All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs (1995) and The Fifth Son: A Novel (1985); "Remembering the 20th Century on the Eve of the New Millennium" (2:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Thu, March 26, 1998
Edward Albee, playwright, author, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and The Zoo Story (1959); "Playwright Reads from His Work"
 
Wed, March 25, 1998
William Lee, intelligence analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; co-author, Soviet Military Policy Since World War II (1986) and author, ABM Treaty Charade: A Study in Elite Illusion and Delusion (1997) and forthcoming "How the Cold War was Won and Lost"
 
Tue, March 24, 1998
Berenice Lipson-Gruzen, piano; "A Concert with Comment"
 
Wed, March 11, 1998
David Michael Hertz, professor of comparative literature, Indiana University; author, The Tuning of the Word: The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement (1987) and Angels of Reality: Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens and Ives (1993); "Charles Ives's Concord Sonata and Culture Both Popular and Unpopular"
 
Tue, March 10, 1998
Luke Timothy Johnson, Robert W. Woodruff professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Emory University; author, The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus and the Truth of the Traditional Gospels (1996) and Faith's Freedom: A Classic Spirituality for Contemporary Christians (1990); "Koinonia: Diversity and Unity in Earliest Christianity"
 
Mon, March 9, 1998
Michael Graber '74, cinematographer on movies Twister (1996) and Crimson Tide (1995); "The Nature of Adventure"
 
Thu, March 5, 1998
Gerald Secundy, director, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance; "Corporate Environmental Ethics"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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