Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

John Irving, novelist; author, The World According to Garp (1978), The Cider House Rules (1985) and upcoming "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (McKenna Auditorium)

Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) and Land's End (1979); "Small Renaissance, Southern California Style: The Los Angeles of Jake Zeitlin"

William Bradford, Jr., senior law partner, Hogan and Hartson, Washington, D. C.; "Public Education and the Religious Right"

Mel Levine, sports agent; Glen Kozlowski, professional football player, Chicago Bears; "Power and Politics in Athletics"

Pat Haden, former professional football player, Los Angeles Rams; Karch Kiraly, Olympic volleyball medalist; Conner Henry, professional basketball player, Boston Celtics; Ricky Davis, professional soccer player, Tacoma Stars; Kate Schmidt, Olympic track and field medalist; "Power and Politics in Athletics"

Don King, boxing entrepreneur; Roy Firestone, sports commentator; "Power and Politics in Athletics" (McKenna Auditorium)

Mary Beth Haag, lecturer in voice, Scripps College; Paul Bishop, piano, Scripps College; "Birthday of the Constitution: Musical Performance" (6:00 p.m.)

Kevin Starr, visiting scholar, Hoover Institution; author, Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (1973) and Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era (1985); "Oz on the Pacific: Los Angeles in the 1920s"

Jack Merritt, professor emeritus of physics, CMC; co-author, Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly or Future? (1986); "An Alternative to Star Wars"

Guenter Joetze, German Ambassador to the United States; "Balanced Force Reduction"

Helen Horowitz, professor of history, USC; author, Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1880's to 1917 (1976) and "Campus Life: Undergraduate Culture from the End of the Eighteenth Century to Present" (1987)

Richard Rubenstein, Robert 0. Lawton distinguished professor of religion, Florida State University; author, The Cunning of History (1975) and The Age of Triage (1983); "Modernization and the Politics of Extermination"
 

Simon Lunn, NATO; author, Burden-Sharing in NATO (1983); "NATO and the World"
 

Larry Levine, Margaret Byrne professor of history, U.C. Berkeley; author, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (1977); "The Sacralization of Culture: The Emergence of High Culture in 19th Century America"
 

David Aaron, foreign service officer; "New Hope for Nuclear Arms Control?"