Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling professor of history and William Clyde DeVane professor, Yale University; author, Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (1985) and co-author, The Reformation of the Bible: The Bible of the Reformation (1996); "The Bible in the Church"
 

Ruben Martinez, Los Angeles bureau chief, Pacific News Service;  author, The Other Side: Fault Lines, Guerrilla Saints, and the True Heart of Rock'n'Roll (1992) and Micologia Medica (1996); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 

Charles Wolf, Jr., senior research fellow, Hoover Institution; author, Economic Instruments, Military Instruments, and National Power (1994) and co-author, "Long Term Economic and Strategic Trends 1994-2015: The United States and Asia" (1995)
 

Mark Mehringer '98; Emily Schuckman '99; Andrew Orr '99; Stephen Mansell '99; Ashwin Navin '99; Chris Skinnell '99; "Student Debate: Election 1996"
 

P. Edward Haley, professor of government, CMC; author, Qaddafi and the United States Since 1969 (1984) and co-author, Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future (1988); Jim McKenna, professor of anthropology, Pomona College; author, Permission Not Granted: How People Raised Crisis Oriented Families Carry Their Child (1990); Harry Pachon, professor of political studies, Pitzer College; co-author, Hispanics in the United States (1985) and New Americans by Choice: Political Perspectives of Latino Immigrants (1994); "Perspectives on the '96 Election: View from the Left" (12:15 p.m.)
 

John J. Pitney Jr., professor of government, CMC; contributor, Congress' Permanent Minority?: Republicans in the U.S. House (1994); Charles Kesler, professor of government, CMC; author, Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (1987) and co-author, Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (1988); Mark Blitz, professor of government, CMC; author, Heidegger's Being and Time and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (1981); "Perspectives on the '96 Election: View from the Right" (12:15 p.m.)
 

Michel Oksenberg, senior fellow, Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University; co-author, Policy Making in China (1990) and An Emerging China in a World of Interdependence (1994); "The Future of U.S.-China Relations"
 

Dinesh D'Souza, research fellow, American Enterprise Institute; author, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (1991) and The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society (1996); Molly Munger, regional counsel, NAACP; "CCRI Debate: The End of Affirmative Action?"
 

Frank Luntz, political pollster; author, Candidates, Consultants, and Campaigns: The Style and Substance of American Electioneering (1988) and The American Dream: Renewing the Promise (1994); "The Language of the New Majority"
 

Miguel Algarin, associate professor of English, Rutgers University; author, Heart Spread (1996) and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe (1994); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 

Gary Hall, Jr., Olympic swimming medalist; "The Making of a Champion"
 

Mas Masumoto, author, Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996) and Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community (1987); "An Evening With a Peach and Its Farmer"
 

Hugh Gallagher '56, author, By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich (1989) and FDR's Splendid Deception: The Moving Story of Roosevelt's Massive Disability and the Intense Efforts to Conceal It from the Public (1985); "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? The 50s: An Important Yet Maudlin Decade"
 

Helena Viramontes, professor of creative writing, Cornell University; author, Under the Feet of Jesus (1995) and The Moths and Other Stories (1985); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 

Michael Lerner, founder, Tikkun; author, Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation (1994) and The Politics of Memory: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism (1996); "The Crisis of Meaning and Values in American Politics"