Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

A distinctive
feature of social and
cultural life at CMC

 

Past Semester Schedules

 
Mon, March 30, 1998
Allyson Kurker, rape crisis activist; "As They See It: Sexual Assault and Prevention"
 
Tue, March 31, 1998
Eric Lewis, violin; John Dexter, viola; Kenneth Freed, violin; Chris Finckel, cello; "Manhattan String Quartet: Music by Bela Bartok and Leos Janacek"
 
Wed, April 1, 1998
Bruce Laingen, president, American Academy of Diplomacy; author, Yellow Ribbon: The Secret Journal of Bruce Laingen (1992); "U.S. Diplomacy in the Middle East"
 
Thu, April 2, 1998
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 3, 1998
William Crouch '63, vice chief of staff, U.S. Army, "The U.S. Army in Europe" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Sat, April 4, 1998
Dinner Theater, "But Why Bump Off Barnaby?" by Rick Abbot (1981) (6:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, April 6, 1998
Frances Hasselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management; editor, The Drucker Foundation: The Organization of the Future (1997) and co-editor, The Leader of the Future (1996); "Challenges in Managing the Nonprofit Organization" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Wed, April 8, 1998
Peter Lee, professor of Asian studies, UCLA; author, Pine River and Lone Peak: An Anthology of Three Choson Poets (1991) and The Silence of Love: Twentieth Century Korean Poetry (1980); "Critical Issues in Korean Literary History"
 
Thu, April 9, 1998
Sterling Stuckey, professor of history, U.C. Riverside; author, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987) and I Want to be African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice, 1919-1945 (1976); "A Centennial Retrospective: The Impact of Paul Robeson in the Americas"
 
Mon, April 13, 1998
Michael Shermer, director, Skeptics Society; co-author, Cycling: Endurance and Speed (1987) and author, "Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time" (1997) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 14, 1998
Billy Collins, distinguished professor of English, Lehman College, City University of New York; author, The Art of Drowning (1995) and The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988), "A Poetry Reading"
 
Thu, April 16, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 17, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Sat, April 18, 1998
Dinner Theater, "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles (405 B.C.) (8:00 p.m.)
 
Mon, April 20, 1998
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, board of supervisors, second district, Los Angles County; "Women and Minorities in Government"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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