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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.

Wed, October 2, 1996
Patricia Ireland, president, National Organization for Women; author, "What Women Want" (1996) (12:15 p.m.)
 
Tue, October 1, 1996
Michael Graber '74, cinematographer on movies Twister (1996) and Crimson Tide (1995); "From Claremont to the Himalaya: Climbing Personal Eversts"
 
Mon, September 30, 1996
Stephen Mitchell, author, Gospel: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers (1993) and translator, Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1993); "A New Translation of Genesis"
 
Fri, September 27, 1996
Lynn Cutler, board member, National Endowment of Democracy; "Women's Vote '96" (12:15 p.m.)
 
Thu, September 26, 1996
Ted Hinckley '50, adjunct professor of history, Western Washington University; author, War, Wings, and a Western Youth, 1925-1945 (1996) and The Canoe Rocks: Alaska's Tlingit and the Euramerican Frontier, 1800-1912 (1995); "Aleksandr Kerenski's Prediction and the Unpredictable Claremont McKenna College"
 
Tue, September 24, 1996
Thomas McLarty, White House counselor; "Free Trade and Economic Opportunities"
 
Mon, September 23, 1996
Mark Masters, jazz orchestra conductor on albums Priestess (1992) and Jimmy Knepper Songbook (1993); Bill Perkins, tenor saxophone; Gary Foster, saxophone; Slyde Hyde, trombone; Jack Montrose, bass clarinet; Ron Stout, trumpet; Carl Saunders, trumpet; Joe LaBarbera, drums; "Mark Masters Jazz Orchestra: Big Bands Then and Now"
 
Thu, September 19, 1996
Andrei Codrescu, professor of English and comparative literature, Louisiana State University; author, The Hole in the Flag: An Exile's Tale of Return and Revolution (1991) and Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio (1994); "Whose Woods are These? Reflections on America and the Immigrant Experience" C-SPAN
 
Wed, September 18, 1996
Jack Miles, director, Humanities Center, Claremont Graduate School; author, God: A Biography (1995); "Writing God's Life"
 
Tue, September 17, 1996
Paul Taylor, founder and director, Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition; author, See How They Run (1990) and co-author, The Old News Versus the New News (1992); "Can the Presidential Campaign Be Saved?"
 
Mon, September 16, 1996
Ana Castillo, author, So Far from God (1993) and Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1995); "Crossing the Border: U.S. Latino Writers on the Move"
 
Tue, September 10, 1996
David McCullough, author, Truman (1992) and Brave Companions: Portraits in History (1991); "From a Historian's Perspective" C-SPAN
 
Tue, April 23, 1996
Audrey Bilger, drums; Catherine Lombardo, guitar; Cee Harrelson, bass; Irene Vasquez, harmonica; "Kool Blue Sisters: Another Side of Blues" (3:00 p.m.)
 
Fri, April 19, 1996
Rica Burton, director, Choice Professionals; Lindsey Johnson, Co-CEO, Women Incorporated; co-author, A Woman's Place is Everywhere: Inspirational Profiles of Female Leaders Who are Expanding the Roles of American Women (1994); Carla Dartis, vice president, Community Development Bank; Helen Anderson, president, Rayvern Lighting; "Maverick Mavens: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Spirit" (9:15 a.m.)
 
Thu, April 18, 1996
Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1976); Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service professor emeritus of economics, University of Chicago; author, A Theory of Consumption Function (1957) and Bright Promises, Dismal Performance (1983); "Free Markets and Free Men" (McKenna Auditorium) C-SPAN
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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Claremont, CA 91711

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