Fall 2000 Speakers Series
Guilford College is pleased to welcome to campus this fall four distinguished speakers in the arts, humanities, public affairs and the sciences - prize-winning historians and journalists Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jack Miles, astrophysicist Neil Tyson and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. (All addresses are open to the public free of charge... Limited seating available.)
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jack Miles and Bill Bradley are participants in the special election-year series of addresses on The American Presidency. Neil Tyson is the featured speaker for "Celebrate the Sciences," the series of events marking the dedication of the new Frank Family Science Center. The college's Bryan Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Arts, Humanities and Public Affairs sponsors the visits by Kearns Goodwin, Bradley and Tyson, who join General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.) and others as Bryan visitors. The college is most grateful to Joseph M. Bryan Jr. '60, trustee and alumnus, and to the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund for introducing them to our community.
The participation of Jack Miles is funded by the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation, the Guilford College Student Union Programming Board and the Henry Levinson Program Fund in Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Speakers
October 12 -- Dana Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and nationally known journalist and PBS commentator speaking on "Shared Memories" and the American presidency.
October 26 -- New Garden Friends Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
Neil Tyson, astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, New York City, and visiting research scientist and lecturer at Princeton University, speaking on "Celebrate the Sciences."
November 2 -- Dana Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author on politics and culture, author of GOD: A Biography, speaking on "Politics and the Bible."
November 9 -- Dana Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Bill Bradley, former U.S. senator and presidential candidate, speaking on leadership, politics and the American presidency.
The American Presidency
Doris Kearns Goodwin (Oct. 12), presidential scholar, journalist and noted baseball fan, is the author of several best-selling histories, most notably No Ordinary Time: Eleanor and Franklin: The American Front During World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. A PBS commentator for the recent political party primaries, she is a regular panelist on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a consultant and featured commentator for several PBS documentaries. The first female journalist admitted to the Red Sox locker room, she is the author most recently of Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir, the summer reading assignment for the Guilford College Class of 2004.
Jack Miles (Nov. 2) is a Pulitzer Prize- winning author who, for nearly twenty years, successively served as an editor at Doubleday, executive editor at the University of California Press, literary editor at the Los Angeles Times, and was a member of the Times Editorial Board, writing on politics and culture. Miles has been Mellon Visiting Professor of Humanities at Caltech, Regents Lecturer at the University of California and Visiting Fellow with the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science, University of Chicago. He is the author of GOD: A Biography.
Bill Bradley (Nov. 9) served in the U.S. senate for 18 years and is known as a leader, athlete, writer and presidential candidate. He is the author of four books, with Values of the Game in 1998 becoming a New York Times bestseller. Since retiring from the U.S. Senate in 1995, Bradley has served as chair of the National Civic League and has been involved in public affairs and higher education. He headed an institute focused on leadership at the University of Maryland, worked on issues in international affairs at Stanford University and taught an undergraduate seminar in public policy at the University of Notre Dame.
Celebrate the Sciences
Neil de Grasse Tyson (Oct. 26) is an astrophysicist, the first Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium and a Visiting Research Scientist in astrophysics at Princeton University. He holds degrees from Harvard (BA) and Columbia (PhD) universities. His research focuses on the formation models of dwarf galaxies, exploding stars and the chemical evolution history of the Milky Way's galactic bulge. A prolific writer, he has been a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine since 1995. Among his recent books is The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist. His appearance at Guilford will include meetings with faculty, students and alumni attending "Celebrate the Sciences," marking the dedication of the Frank Family Science Center, and Homecoming.
Oct. 12, 2000