Winter/Spring 1993

January 5 ROBERT ARNOLD, Ph.D.,
Senior Economist and Co-Funder, Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy, Palo Alto

The Economy after the Election

January 19 LAURETIE GOLDBERG, PERFORMERS
narrator from Music Sources, Center for Historically Informed Performance, Berkeley,California,

Music of the 90’s in England and the United States: 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990

February 2 MARCIA MILLMAN,
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Warm Hearts and Cold Cash

February 16 MARJORIE FARRAR,  introducer,

PERFORMERS from Theater of the Homeless,

Up from the Street

March 2 TILLIE MADDOX,
Docent at the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco

World War II through a Child’s Eye

March 16 MICHAEL MC ADAMS,
Director, University of San Franicisco, Central Valley Regional Centers

Crisis in Former Yugoslavia

April 6 MICHAEL RUSTIGAN,
Professor of Criminology, San Francisco

Violence in America: Causes and Solutions

April 20 DEBORAH WALROD and canine companion OREGON,
Santa Rosa

Canine Companions for Independence

May 4 JOHN HARTE,
Professor, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley

Global Sustainability: Charting the Course

May 18 VALERIE COLEMAN,
KCBS Radio, San Francisco Anchor

With the Family in Mind

June 1 GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN,
former Governor of California

The Nation State of California

June 15 TOM CAMPBELL

What I Learned in the House of Representatives

Fall 1992

September 15 EDWARD P. LAZEAR,
Senior Feflow, Hoover Institution, and Professor of Urban and Labor Economics at the University of Chicago

Economic Reform in Eastern Europe and Russia

October 6 SISTER CAROl ANNE O’MARIE,
author of mystery novels, and humanitarian, ministering to homeless women

A Habit of Murder’

October 20 MURIEL BACH,
actress and author, portrayer of risk-taking women
:Of All the Nerve’
November 3 DANIEL R. WALTERS,
syndicated political columnist and author, Sacramento Bee

Today’s Election: What It Means to You

November 17 DR. HERBERT ABRAMS,
Professor of Radiology, Stanford Medical School, and Member-in-Residence, Center for International Security and Arms Control

The President Has Been Shot: Confusion in the White House’

December 1 KARL A. TAUBE, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Callifornia at Riverside

Gods and Glyphs: Recent Advances in the Interpretation of Ancient Maya Religion

Winter/Spring 1992

January 7 ALAIN ENTHOVEN,
Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

The U.S. Health Care System: A Paradox of Excess and Deprivation.

January 21 SMADAR LAVIE,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis, author of The Poetics of Military Occupation

Arab Deserts, American Dollars, and Jewish Diasporas: Notes on the Bedouin as Israeli Colonialist Allegory.

February 4 LESLIE LIPSON,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Britain after Thatcher.

February 18 TOMMY FULCHER, Jr.,
Executive Director, Economic and Social Opportunities, Inc., San Jose

Being Black in America Today.

March 3 COL. CHUCK SCOTT,
former Iranian hostage and Middle East consultant

Thriving on Adversity

March 17 GEORGE ROCHE,
President, Hilisdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan

Heartland America in the 1990s.

April 7 MOLLY MCGINN,
International Projects Specialist, United Airlines GARY WINTZ,
travel writer, lecturer, photographer

Tibet and the World of the Dalai Lama.

April 21 PAUL BERG,
Nobel laureate, Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University

Genes and Disease.

May 5 J. CRAIG FONG,
civil rights attorney with the Los Angeles County Bar Association

Setting Immigration Priorities for the 90s.

May 19 CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS,
Washington Bureau Chief, San Francisco Examiner

Politics of 1992.

June 2 HELEN THAYER,
All American athlete, explorer

Skiing to the Top of the World.

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.

Fall 1990

September 18 Amy Tan,
Author

The Real Joy Luck Club & Other Truths about My Fiction.

October 2 Rollin Post,
Political Commentator, KRON-TV

Elections 1990.

October 16 Alan Harvey,
Director of the Lamplighters

The Story of Gilbert & Sullivan – Musical History with Four Singers.

November 6 Jonathan Marshall,
Editorial Page Editor, Oakland Tribune.

The CIA’s Role in International Drug Traffic.

November 20 Ron Nater,
International Business Consultant, SRI.

Japan, The Confused Giant.

December 4 Gabriel Almond, Ph.D.,
Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Stanford University.

Political Science in the Soviet Union.

Winter/Spring 1990

January 9 John Farquar, M.D.,
Director, Stanford Center for Research on Disease and Prevention

The American Way of Life Need Not be Hazardous to Your Health.

January 23 John Shoven, Ph.D.,
Chairman Department of Economics, Stanford University

Prospects for the U. S. Economy.

February 6 Reese Erlich, Professor of Journalism, San Francisco State; Freelance Journalist,

What Lies Ahead for Chile?

February 20 Constance Casey,
Book Critic, San Jose Mercury News

What’s Worth Reading? What’s Worth Reviewing?

March 6 Gray Brechin,
Cityscapes columnist and contributing editor, SF FOCUS magazine

Victorian Estates of the Peninsula.

March 20 Jim Murray,
Former Police Chief, Milpitas; Visting Lecturer, Chinese People’s University of Public Security, Beijing

A Policeman’s View of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

April 3 Ramona Rockway,
Opera Director and Coach; Wendy 4-lartman-Carr, Soprano, and Tenor to -be -announced

An Imaginary Tour of the Coming Opera Season, with Song and Backstage Reminisences.

April 17 George Breslauer, Ph.D.,
Professor of Political Science, Chairman, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Gorbachev and Eastern Europe.

May 1 Marc Reisner,
Author, Cadillac Desert

Is the Water Crisis Real?

May 15 Tom Cronin, Ph.D.,
Professor, Colorado College

Leadership in America.

June 5 Robert Maynard,
Editor, Oakland Tribune

Some Thoughts on the Media.

Fall 1989

September 19 Martha Layne Collins,
Former Governor of Kentucky

Facing Challenges — Can America Stay on Top?

October 3 Denise Erickson,
Instructor, Foothill College

New Star in Paris – Muse D’Orsay.

October 17 Anthony Arnold,
Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution

Afghanistan: The Human Problem.

November 7 W. K. Laetsch, Ph.D.,
Vice—Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley

The University of California in the 21st Century.

November 21 Nien Cheng,
Author

Life and Death in Shanghai.

December 5 Stephen Baker, Ph.D.,
Dean, International Policy Studies Division, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Europe in 1992.

Winter/Spring 1989

January 3 Mr. John Ehrlichman,
former Assistant for Domestic Affairs to President Richard Nixon

Rx for the New President

January 17 Peter J. Duignan, Ph.D.,
Director of the African and Middle East programs, Hoover Institution

The Future of Southern Africa

February 7 Ms. Kay Mills,
Los Angeles Times editorial writer

How Female Reporters have Influenced the News.

February 21 Mr. Joel Kotkin,
West Coast Editor, Inc. Magazine

The Third Century: America’s Resurgence in the Asian Era

March 7 Mr. Orville Schell,
author and New Yorker writer

Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform

March 21 Prof. Ken Bruce,
De Anza College history department

The ’20s: Beginning of the Modern Era

April 4 Dr. W. Glenn Campbell,
Director of Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Role of Think Tanks in American Public Policy

April 18 Prof. William M. Brinner,
Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley

The Middle East Cauldron

May 2 Prof. Diane Middlebrook,
English Department, Stanford University

Finding the Story in a Life: The Art of Biography

May 16 Mr. Dave McElbatton,
Eyewitness News Anchorman, KPIX, Channel 5, San Francisco

Inside TV News’ 89

June 6 Ms. Ellen Goodman,
Associate Editor and Columnist, The Boston Globe

At Large… Commenting on a Complex Society

Fall 1988

September 20 Phillip Butler, Ph.D.,
a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for eight years

Tragedy to Triumph

October 4 Ms. Beverly Fuchs,
Director of Group Services, Senior Coordinating Council of Palo Alto

The Graying of America

October 18 Ms. Joan Fontaine,
Academy Award-winning actress

The Golden Years of Hollywood

November 1 Ms. Loretta Green,
reporter/columnist, Peninsula Times Tribune

A Reporter’s Notebook: A Look at the Human Angle

November 15 Mr. Christopher Matthews,
Washington Bureau Chief, San Francisco Examiner

The Significance of Last Week’s Election

December 6 Dr. Loren Acton,
astronaut/scientist on the space shuttle Challenger

The Ecstasy and Agony of Spaceflight