Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Denise Dresser, professor of political science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; author, Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Problem (1992); "Mexico After the National Elections of '97: Neither Heaven nor Hell"
 

Robert Staehle, Pluto express project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; contributor, Project Solar Sail (1990); "Extraterrestrial Environment: Pluto Express Project"
 

Carolyn Costin, eating disorder expert; author, The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders (1996) and Your Dieting Daughter...Is She Starving for Attention? (1996); "Dying to be Thin"
 

Gloria Molina, Supervisor, first district, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; "The Challenges of Leadership in the Public Sector"
 

Pablo Pozzi, professor of social science, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; author, Crisis y Recomposicion de la Clase Obrera Argentina (1982-1993) (Crisis and Recomposition of the Argentine Working Class (1982-1993) (1994) and La Oposicion Obrera Dictadura (1976-1982) (Labor Opposition to Dictatorship (1976-1982) (1988); "Repression and Resistance in Latin America"
 

Delbert Mann, playwright; director, Marty (1954) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979); William Luce, playwright, Bronte (1989) and Barrymore (1997); Mike Riley, professor of literature, CMC (moderator); author, Conversations with Ann Rice: An Intimate, Enlightening Portrait of Her Life and Work (1996); "Conversation with the Writer and Director of Bronte: Bringing the Classics to Life in Film"
 

Frederick Crews, professor emeritus of English, U.C. Berkeley; author, The Memory Wars: Freud's Legacy in Dispute (1995) and The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook (1965); "Recovered Memory: The Freud Connection"
 

Gerald Secundy, director, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance; "Corporate Environmental Ethics"
 

Michael Graber '74, cinematographer on movies Twister (1996) and Crimson Tide (1995); "The Nature of Adventure"
 

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"
 

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"
 

Berenice Lipson-Gruzen, piano; "A Concert with Comment"
 

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"
 

Edward Albee, playwright, author, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) and The Zoo Story (1959); "Playwright Reads from His Work"
 

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)