Fall 2007

September 18 Michael Kirst,
Professor of Education and Business Administration, Stanford University

Improving California’s School Governance and Finance Systems – Enabling More Effective Schools

October 2 Mary Greenwood,
Santa Clara County Public Defender

Indigent Defense and its Challenges

October 16 Richard Lederer,
Verbivore, author

A Morning of Language and Laughter

November 6 Roberto Salas,
Photographer

A Revolution in Pictures

November 20 Georgie Gleim,
Owner, Gleim Jewelers

Diamond Mining and Conflict Diamonds in Africa

December 4 Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill,

Livin’ on Love

January 8 Valerie Hemingway,
Author

Running With the Bulls: My Life with the Hemingways

January 15 Mick LaSalle,
Author and film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle

The American Consciousness As Expressed Through Our Movies

Winter/Spring 2007

February 6 Elliot Engel,
Professor, University of North Carolina, author and NPR contributor

Scarlett Fever: the greatness of Gone with the Wind

February 20 David Morrison,
Former Director Space Science, NASA

Risks and plans to prevent asteroid impact on Earth

March 6 Andrew Mwenda,
Political Editor, Daily Monitor, Kampala, Uganda

Paved with good intentions: why foreign aid and debt relief are bad for Africa

March 20 Juan Williams,
NPR correspondent and author

Enough – the phony leaders, dead-end movements and culture of failure that are undermining Black America and what we can do about it

April 3 Cypress String Quartet,

Timeless masterpieces of string Quartets

April 17 Jack N. Rakove,
Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford University

President and Commander? Thoughts on our post September 11 Constitution

May 1 Abbas Milani,
Senior Fellow, Iran Democracy Project, Hoover Institute

Prospects and problems of democracy in Iran

May 15 Per F. Peterson,
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Nuclear energy: what is new and what is changing

June 5 Frank Delaney,
Author of Tipperary and Ireland