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.

Tue, April 15, 1986
Lawrence Kushner, author, The Book of Letters: A Mystical Hebrew Alef-Bait (1975) and The River of Light: Spirituality, Judaism and the Evolution of Consciousness (1981); "An Evening with Lawrence Kushner"
 
Mon, April 14, 1986
Barry Spanjaard, only American civilian imprisoned in Hitler's concentration camps; author, "Don't Fence Me In!: An American Teenager in the Holocaust" (1981)
 
Wed, April 9, 1986
Jacqueline Pery, commander, French Legion of Honor; "French Underground in World War II"
 
Tue, April 8, 1986
Paul Kristeller, professor emeritus of philosophy, Columbia University; author, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources (1979) and Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning (1974); "Renaissance Humanism"
 
Mon, April 7, 1986
Kurt Vonnegut, author, Slaughterhouse Five (1969) and Mother Night (1962); "An Evening with Kurt Vonnegut" (7:00 p.m. Bridges Auditorium)
 
Wed, April 2, 1986
Jim Miegs, senior vice president, First Interstate Bank, Los Angeles; "Leadership: A Symposium" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Tue, April 1, 1986
Jeffrey Klein '75, senior staff counsel, Los Angeles Times; "Leadership: A Symposium" (12:30 p.m.)
 
Mon, March 31, 1986
Eugene Miller, executive vice president and CEO, USG Corporation; "Leadership: A Symposium"
 
Thu, March 27, 1986
Anthony Stevens, Jungian psychologist, London; author, Archetype: A Natural History of the Self (1982); "Archetypal Foundations of War and Peace, Part II" (1:00 p.m.)
 
Wed, March 26, 1986
Anthony Stevens, Jungian psychologist, London; author, The Roots of War: A Jungian Perspective (1984); "Archetypal Foundations of War and Peace, Part I"
 
Tue, March 25, 1986
Claremont Colleges Debate Union, "Claremont Colleges Debate Union vs. Japanese Debate Team"
 
Sun, March 9, 1986
Preethi de Silva, associate professor of music, Scripps College; "Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble: The Musical Offering" (3:00 p.m. Balch Auditorium)
 
Mon, March 3, 1986
Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economic sciences (1976); senior research fellow, Hoover Institution; Paul Snowden Russell distinguished service emeritus professor of economics, University of Chicago; co-author, Capitalism and Freedom (1962) and Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980) with Rose Friedman; co-author, Free to Choose (1980) and Tyranny and the Status Quo (1984); "An Evening with Professors Milton and Rose Friedman"
 
Thu, February 27, 1986
Patrick Cadell, Democratic pollster; Richard Wirthlin, Republican pollster; Alfred Balitzer P'88, assistant professor of government; CMC, author, A Nation of Associations (1981) and A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan (1983), (moderator); "What Will Happen in 1986 and Thereafter?" (11:00 a.m.)
 
Wed, February 26, 1986
Lyn Nofziger, political consultant; Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Ricardo Quinones P'89, professor of literature, CMC; author, Dante Alighieri (1979) and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (1985), (moderator); "The Legacy of 1984 for 1988"
 

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum

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