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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.

Thu, October 7, 1993
Dinner Theater, "Camp Logan: Houston Mutiny and Court Martial of 1917 by Celeste Bedford Walker" (1987) (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Wed, October 6, 1993
Peter Schabarum, retired Board of Supervisors, first district, Los Angeles County; "The Future of the Term Limits Movement"
 
Tue, October 5, 1993
Martin Blinkhorn, professor of modern European history, Lancaster University (United Kingdom); author, Carlism and Crisis in Spain: 1931-1939 (1975) and Fascists and Conservatives in Europe (1990); "Poetry and Piety: Spanish Fascism and the Catholic Culture"
 
Mon, October 4, 1993
Robert Gillespie, president, Population Communication; author, A Manual on Evaluation of Population Communication Programs (1986) and co-author, The Use of Radio in Family Planning (1988); "Health Care Reform: The Politics and Policies of Family Planning"
 
Thu, September 30, 1993
Doris Kearns Goodwin, professor of government, Harvard University; author, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (1991) and The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga (1987); "The Private Lives of Our Public Figures: The Art of Biography"
 
Wed, September 29, 1993
Robert Tanenbaum, city council member, Beverly Hills; author, Reversible Error (1992) and Immoral Certainty (1991); "The Crisis in the Criminal Justice System"
 
Tue, September 28, 1993
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, Board of Supervisors, second district, Los Angeles County; "Women and Minorities in Government"
 
Mon, September 27, 1993
Cynthia Humes, assistant professor of philosophy, CMC; co-editor, Living Banaras: Hindu Religion in Cultural Context (1993); "Charismatic Leadership: Contrasting Views of the Guru, East and West"
 
Thu, September 23, 1993
Junius Courtney, trumpet; Nat Courtney, drums; Terry Hilliard, bass; George Spencer, saxophone; "Jazz: The Breath of God"
 
Wed, September 22, 1993
Frederic Wakeman, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 (1966) and History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought (1973); "Signs of Disorder: Peasant Uprisings in Traditional and Contemporary China"
 
Tue, September 21, 1993
Theodore Marmor, professor of public policy and management, Yale University; co-author, America's Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities (1990) and author, Cost of Living Longer: National Health Insurance and the Elderly (1980); "The Political Struggle Over National Health Care Reform: Making Sense of It"
 
Mon, September 20, 1993
Charles Delzell, adjunct professor of history, Vanderbilt University; author, Unification in Italy, 1859-1861 (1976) and Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-1949 (1971); "Fascism in Italy: Origins and Ideology"
 
Tue, September 14, 1993
Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes A Great Notion (1964); "The Legacy of Wallace Stegner" (McKenna Auditorium)
 
Wed, April 28, 1993
Gaden Shartse Monks of Tibet, "Sacred Earth and Healing Rituals of Tibet"
 
Tue, April 27, 1993
Robert Oakley, U.S. Ambassador to Somalia; co-author, Conflict Resolution in the Middle East: Simulating a Diplomatic Negotiation Between Israel and Syria (1992); "Report from Somalia and a Look to the Future" (4:00 p.m. Pickford Auditorium)
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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385 E. Eighth Street
Claremont, CA 91711

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