Fall 1991

September 17 GAYLORD NELSON,
former U.S. Senator, former Governor of Wisconsin, founder of Earth Day

Challenges of the Environment: Where Do We Go From Here?

October 1 CARL NOLTE,
San Francisco Chronicle Staff Reporter, correspondent during the Persian Gulf War

A War Like No Other: The Role of the Media.

October 15 KAY CLARKE, R.N.,
Chair, San Francisco Rotary’s International Services

GURDON PULFORD, M.D.,
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford Medical School

Touch Romania: A Bay Area Experience.

November 5 WALTER HOADLEY,
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, former Executive Vice President and Chief Economist, Bank of America

What’s on the Economic Horizon?

November 19 WILMA MANKILLER,
Chief of the Cherokee Nation

History of the American Indian (To Present).

December 3 PATRICIA HOLT,
Book Editor, San Franciso Chronicle

Controversies in Publishing.

Winter/Spring 1991

January 8 Richard Lyman, Ph.D.,
Professor of Humanities, Director of Institute for International Studies, President Emeritus, Stanford University.

How New a World?: Finding Perspective in an Era of Rapid Change.

January 22 David Kennedy, Ph.D.,
William Robertson Coe Professor of History & American Studies, Stanford University.

Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigrants.

February 5 Don Fehrenbacker, Ph.D.,
Coe Professor Emeritus of History, Stanford University

Lincoln & the Literary Figures of His Time.

February 19 Kathleen Cohen, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, San Jose State University

Images of the Goddess in Art & Their Meaning for Contemporary Women.

March 5 Valeria Andreevna Kukharenko, Ph.D.,
Professor, Odessa University

Women in the Soviet Union.

March 19 Tony Haney, Director

Danny Duncan, Author, Theatreworks

Go Down Garvey; Creating a New American Musical.

April 2 Alan Heimert, Ph.D.,
Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

A Brief History of Universities.

April 16 Sue Bender,
Author and Quilter

Plain & Simple: A Woman’s Journey to the Amish.

May 7 Timothy Taylor,
Managing Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives

The California Lottery.

May 21 Joel Beinin, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor History, Stanford University

Prospects for Peace in the Middle East.

June 4 Daniel Schorr,
Reporter-Commentator

America: Groping in the 1990’s.