Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Adrienne Rich, poet; author, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (1973) and Dark Fields of the Republic, Poems 1991-1995 (1995); "Poet Reads From Her Work"
 

Oliver Sacks, neurologist; author, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) and Awakenings (1973); "Neurology and the Soul"
 

George Plimpton, author, Truman Capote, In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (1997) and Paper Lion (1966); "Tru Confessions"
 

Mike Hertel, manager of environmental affairs, Southern California Edison; "Environmental Regulation in the 21st Century: We Need a Change"
 

Kenneth Leung, senior lecturer in the department of journalism and communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong; author, Public Relations in Hong Kong: An Institutional Perspective (1995) and Media and Law and Practice in Hong Kong (1995); "Freedom of the Press in Hong Kong: Before and After 1997" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Michael Dukakis, professor of public policy, UCLA; co-author, Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America (1988) and Revenue Enforcement Tax Amnesty and the Federal Deficit (1986); "Critical Issues in Contemporary Politics"
 

Schlyeen Qualls, actor; "The Last Word: Celebrating the Life of Martin Luther King Jr. with Poetry and Prose"
 

Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, former Black Panther Party member; "An Afternoon with Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt" (4:00 p.m. McKenna Auditorium)
 

Wes Parker '62, former professional baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers; Andy Roundtree '76, vice president of finance and administration, Anaheim Angels; Dean Taylor '73, assistant general manager, Atlanta Braves; Bill Arce P'80, (moderator), founding athletic director, CMC; "The Business of Baseball"
 

Michael Berenbaum, president and CEO, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Los Angeles; author, The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1993) and Witness to the Holocaust (1997); "Documenting the Holocaust: The Task of All History"
 

George Kendall, staff attorney, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York; "Is the Death Penalty Just ?"
 

S. Frederick Starr, founder, Central Asia Institute, Johns Hopkins University; author, Red and Hot: The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union (1990) and Bamboula! The Life and Times of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1995); "One Cheer for Censorship"
 

David Zarefsky, associate dean of the school of speech, Northwestern University; author, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (1990) and co-author, Contemporary American Voices: Significant Speeches in American History, 1945-Present (1991); "Revisiting the Lincoln-Douglas Debates"
 

Richard Baum, professor of political science, UCLA; author, Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (1991) and Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaopin (1994); "Hong Kong, PRC: The First 100 Days"
 

Ian Wilmut, research biologist, Roslin Institute, Scotland; co-author, Animal Breeding and Infertility (1996); "Will Cloning Feed the Planet ?"