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.

Mon, April 7, 2014
Billie Jean King, former world #1 professional tennis player; winner of 39 Grand Slam titles; founder, Woman's Tennis Association, World Team Tennis, and Women's Sports Foundation; author, Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the Sexes (2008); co-author, Billie Jean (1982); "Pressure is a Privilege and Champions Adjust"
Fri, April 4, 2014
Meena Westford, special projects manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; moderator; David Guy, president, Northern California Water Association; Maurice Hall, senior hydrologist, California Water Program, The Nature Conservancy; Joan Maher, deputy operating officer, water supply division, Santa Clara Valley Water District; Caren Trgovich, chief deputy director, State Water Resources Control Board; "Groundwater Management: Solutions are in Sight" (9:00 a.m.)
Wed, April 2, 2014
Dinner Theater, "The Dining Room" by A.R. Gurney (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
Tue, April 1, 2014
Dinner Theater, "The Dining Room" by A.R. Gurney (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
Mon, March 31, 2014
Dinner Theater, "The Dining Room" by A.R. Gurney (1982) (6:00 p.m.)
Thu, March 27, 2014
Cindy Shea, trumpet, founding director; Beto Jimenez, musical director; Rosalie Rodriguez, violin, vocals; Cathy Baeza, violin; Daniela Guiterrez, guitarron; Melinda Frances, congas, percussion; Jillian Kardell, violin; Jasmine Lopez, violin, vocals; Stephanie Martinez, violin, vocals; Wendy Alarcon, vihuela, vocals; Aniana Mejia, flute; Sabrina Rodgers, trumpet; Alissa Gonzales, violin, vocals; Karina Zurita, guitar, vocals; "Mariachi Divas: A Musical Celebration in Honor of Cesar Chavez
Tue, March 25, 2014
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, director, visiting scholars program, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies; author, The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience: Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany (2006) and forthcoming "Imagining ITS: The International Tracing Service Holdings and 21st Century Holocaust Scholarship"; "'Our Mothers, Our Fathers': One German Town in the Records of the ITS" (12:00 p.m.)
Mon, March 24, 2014
Cameron Munter, professor of practice, Pomona College; United States Ambassador to Serbia (2007-2009) and Pakistan (2010-2012); "The Future of Diplomacy"
Thu, March 13, 2014
Kathy Spahn, president and CEO, Helen Keller International; "2014 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, March 12, 2014
Benjamin Santer, climate research scientist, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; "The Evidence for a Discernible Human Influence on Global Climate"
Tue, March 11, 2014
Felicia Marcus, environmentalist; chair, California State Water Resources Control Board; co-founder, Heal-the-Bay; "California Water Policy- The Challenges Ahead" (12:00 p.m.)
Mon, March 10, 2014
Simone Campbell, Roman Catholic Sister of Social Service; executive director, NETWORK; author, forthcoming A Nun on the Bus (2014); Tony Ramos, city manager, Claremont, CA; Larry Schroeder, city council member, Claremont, CA; Maureen Aldridge, CEO, Claremont Chamber of Commerce; Scott Lederhaus, president, Association for Medical Ethics; Kerry Odell, professor of economics, Scripps College; "A Faith/Business Roundtable with Sister Simone Campbell" (10:00 a.m.)
Thu, March 6, 2014
Yuval Ron, oud; artist, composer, peace advocate; Norik Manoukian, duduk, clarinet; Jamie Papish, percussion; Vergine Alimian, kanun; Katyana, vocals; "The Yuval Ron Ensemble: Muslim, Jewish and Christian Harmony in the Golden Age of Spain" (12:00 p.m.)
Wed, March 5, 2014
Jared Cohen, director, Google Ideas; adjunct senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; author, One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide (2006) and co-author, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business (2013); Hiram Chodosh, president, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Uniform Civil Code of India: Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse (2014) and Law in Iraq: A Document Companion (2012), moderator; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, Google Inc.; co-author, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business" (2013) (12:00 p.m.)
Tue, March 4, 2014
Kenan Rahmani, University of Notre Dame Law School student; Syrian American Council board member; "Syria: What's Next?"

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