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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, September 13, 2012
Rye Barcott, author, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace (2011)
Thu, April 26, 2012
Linnea Conrad Roberts, partner and managing director of Investment banking, Goldman Sachs & Co.; "Lunch with a Leader: Investment Banking" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 24, 2012
Abdlatif Al-Hamad '60 P'89, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development; "Honorary Degree Presentation and Remarks" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 20, 2012
Peter Desberg, professor emeritus of graduate education, C.S.U. Dominguez Hills; co-author, Show Me the Funny!: At the Writers' Table with Hollywood's Top Comedy Writers (2010) and Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results (2009); Jeffrey Davis, co-author, Show Me the Funny!: At the Writers' Table with Hollywood's Top Comedy Writers (2010) and author,  Speed Dating 101 (2008); "I Wrote, I Worried, I Pitched: Pitching Comedy Scripts" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 19, 2012
Ian Frazier, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, Travels in Siberia (2010) and On the Rez (2000); Jamaica Kincaid, Josephine Olp Weeks Chair and professor of literature, CMC; author, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005)  and Mr. Potter (2002); "Friendship, Literature, and Life"
 
Wed, April 18, 2012
Jaime Serra P'14, chairman, SAI Law and Economics and founder, Aklara, CAM (Arbitration Center of Mexico); "Lunch with a Leader: Can North America Compete with China?" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 17, 2012
Yehuda Bauer, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author, The Death of the Shtetl  (2010) and Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945  (2009); "Genocide and the Holocaust" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, April 16, 2012
Tony Kushner, award-winning  playwright and screen writer; author, Munich (2005) and  forthcoming The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (2012) and Tiny Kushner: Five One-Act Plays (2012); James Morrison, associate professor of literature and film studies, CMC; author, Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s (2010) and Roman Polanski (2007); "A Conversation"
 
Thu, April 12, 2012
Kevin McCarthy, California Congressman (R-22nd district); Majority Whip, United States House of Representatives; "Leadership in Government: Remarks from Congressman Kevin McCarthy" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, April 11, 2012
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999)  (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum)
 
Tue, April 10, 2012
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999)  (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum)
 
Mon, April 9, 2012
Dinner Theater, "Finnegan's Farewell" by Kevin Alexander (1999)  (5:30 p.m. Pickford Auditorium/6:00 p.m. M.M.C. Athenaeum)
 
Fri, April 6, 2012
Javier Leon '88, managing director, Andell Sports Group; "Lunch with a Leader: Sports Management" (12:00 p.m.)
 
Thu, April 5, 2012
Roderick Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, CMC; author, Mexico: Everything You Need to Know (2011) and  The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico (2010); "Mexico's Presidential Election, What it Means for the Future"
 
Wed, April 4, 2012
Robert Gates, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense (2006-2011) and Director of the CIA (1991-1993) and president of Texas A&M University (2002-2006); author, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996); "Remarks by Robert Gates"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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385 E. Eighth Street
Claremont, CA 91711

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