Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Michael Soule, professor of environmental studies, U.C. Santa Cruz; author, Reinventing Nature: Responses to Postmodern Deconstructionism (1995) and Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity (1986); "The Social Siege of Nature: A Response to Deconstructionists"
 

Richard Johnson, professor of history, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; "Alexis de Tocqueville Presents American Democracy: Past, Present,and Future"
 

William Dean, professor of religion, Gustavus Adolphous College; author, The Religious Critic in American Culture (1994) and History Making History: The New Historicism in American Religious Thought (1989); "The Silence of the Liberals: The Need for an Alternative Interpretation of American Spiritual Culture"
 

Lunar New Year Celebration, San Gabriel Valley Chinese Cultural Association; "Year of the Boar"
 

Kathleen Saadat, Oregon State Director of Affirmative Action; "Black History is Your History"
 

Brent Bozell III, founder and chairman, Media Research Center; author, And That's the Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media (1990) and Mustard Seeds: A Conservative Becomes a Catholic (1987); Sanford Ungar, dean, School of Communication, American University; author, The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers (1972) and Estrangement: America and the World (1985); "Should the Federal Government Continue to Fund Public Broadcasting?"
 

Alice Schoenfeld, violin; professor of violin, Flora L. Thornton School of Music, USC; Eleonore Schoenfeld, violoncello; professor of cello, Flora L. Thornton School of Music, USC; June Lusk Nelson, piano; professor of music, El Camino College; "Celebrating Mozart's Birthday"
 

Mary Frances Berry, chairperson of the United States Civil Rights commission; Geraldine R. Segal professor of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania; co-author, Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982) and author, The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1993); "Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration" (McKenna Auditorium)
 

Marian Wright Edelman, children's advocate; author, The Measure of Our Success: Letters to My Children and Yours (1993) and Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change (1987); "Leaving No Child Behind" (McKenna Auditorium)
 

Brian Lamb, founder, CEO of C-SPAN, author, C-SPAN: America's Town Hall (1988); "An Inside Look at C-SPAN" (4:00 p.m.)
 

Lisa Loomer, playwright and author, Birds (1986) and The Waiting Room (1994); "The Waiting Room: Women, Husbands, and Doctors"
 

Ronald Asmus, senior political scientist in international policy, RAND Corporation; author, Soviet Foreign Policy and the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe (1994) and German Strategy and Opinion after the Wall, 1990-1993 (1994); "The Future of NATO"
 

Karen Swenson, author, A Sense of Direction (1989) and The Landlady in Bangkok (1993); "Readings from Her Work"
 

Paul Heyne, professor of economics, University of Washington; author, The Economic Way of Thinking (1973) and Microeconomics (1988); "Ethics and the Economic Way of Thinking"
 

Arthur Benjamin, assistant professor of mathematics, Harvey Mudd College; co-author, Teach Your Child Math: Making Math Fun for the Both of You (1991) and "Mathemagics and the Art of Mental Calculation: How to Look Like a Genius Without Really Trying" (1993)