Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 19-26, 1999

Volume 27, Number 29

Maryland state legislator to describe his 'political journey'

Kumar Barve, a delegate to the Maryland General Assembly and the first person of Indian origin to be elected as a state legislator in the United States, will give a talk titled "A Political Journey" on Monday, April 19, at 8 p.m. in Rm. 208 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. His speech, which is free and open to the public, is part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Yale, a celebration commemorating the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to the nation. The event is sponsored by the Asian American Students Association.

Barve, a Democrat, was elected to the Maryland General Assembly in 1990. He represents a district with a population of roughly 110,000 people in central Montgomery County. In 1993, he was a cosponsor and primary architect of Maryland's reform of health insurance, and in 1995 he was the prime sponsor of Maryland's law to allow HMO patients to use physicians outside of their HMO networks. He has received the 1995 and 1996 Legislator of the Year Awards from the Montgomery County Maryland Medical Society, and was listed on the 1996 "Honor Roll" of legislators by the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

Barve serves on numerous legislative committees and is the elected chair of the Montgomery County Delegation, making him the legislative leader of the largest county in the state of Maryland. He is also the chief financial officer of an environmental company in Rockville, Maryland.

Literary scholar/poet will give reading

The English department will present a poetry reading by John Irwin (who writes poetry under the pen name John Bricuth), the director of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, on Monday, April 19. His reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 8 p.m. in the master's house of Ezra Stiles College, 9 Tower Pkwy.

Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of three scholarly studies of modern literature, including "The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story," for which he won the 1994 Christian Gauss Prize from Phi Beta Kappa and the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association. Under the pen name John Bricuth, he is the author of a book of poems titled "The Heisenberg Variations," and of a recent long poem, "Just Let Me Say This About That," from which he will read.

J. D. McClatchy, editor of The Yale Review, has said of Irwin's new poem: "Here is Frost on speed, Nabokov on rollerblades. Here is the long astonishing magnanimous poem we've been waiting for."

Filmmaker is featured as next lecturer in DMCA series

Grahame Weinbren, a filmmaker who creates "interactive cinema" installations for museums, galleries and festivals around the world, will be the next speaker in the lecture series "...With Technological Means: Artists, Theorists and Curators working in New Media," sponsored by the Digital Media Center for the Arts. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, in Hastings Hall of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St.

Weinbren has made films since the 1970s and has created interactive cinema installations since the mid-1980s. His work has been exhibited in the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Centre Pompidou, the ICA in London, the Bonn Kunsthalle and the Kwangju (Korea) Biennale. His most recent feature-length documentary, "George," a collaboration with Henry Corra, will be shown later this year on HBO. He is currently working on a three-screen interactive installation for the 1999 Biennial of the NTT InterCommunications Center in Tokyo.

Weinbren has lectured internationally about cinema, interactivity and new technology. He is an editor of the Millennium Film Journal.

Theater producer/entrepreneur to be guest at master's tea

S. Roger Horchow '50, an entrepreneur-turned-theater producer who has been a major benefactor of the University, will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 22, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.

For many years, Horchow owned and operated his own Dallas-based mail-order business, the Horchow Collection, which he eventually sold to Neiman Marcus. He then turned his attention to the theater. In 1992, he produced the Gershwin musical comedy "Crazy for You," which appeared on Broadway and won three Tony Awards. He is the coproducer of the Broadway revival of "Kiss Me Kate," which opens in the fall.

Long active in alumni affairs, Horchow donated $5 million to the University in 1995 for the renovation of Calhoun College and made a gift for the complete remodeling of a building, named in honor of his father, Reuben Horchow '16, which houses offices and classrooms for the School of Management. In 1994, he was awarded a Yale Medal for service to the University.

Bundy biographer to speak of brothers' foreign policy role

Kai Bird, author of the recently published book "The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy & William Bundy, Brothers in Arms," will discuss the Bundys' role in foreign policy-making at a tea on Thursday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in the Jonathan Edwards College master's house, 70 High St. His talk, titled "McGeorge & William Bundy: From Hiroshima to Vietnam, A Journey to the Heart of Foreign Policy Establishment," is free and open to the public.

Bird is also the author of the 1992 book "The Chairman: John J. McCloy/The Making of the American Establishment." The New York Times said of the work: "[I]t will certainly join the ranks of those accounts essential to a full understanding of how politics in this century was conducted behind the scenes."

Bird is a contributing editor of The Nation magazine, and he has written book reviews for numerous publications. He was a columnist for The Nation 1983-86, when he coauthored a monthly and then biweekly column on foreign affairs and Capitol Hill.

Expert on child maltreatment to speak at Bush Center event

John Fantuzzo, a clinical psychologist and professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled "Child Maltreatment and Head Start: Making Beneficial Connections for Child Victims and Their Families" on Friday, April 23, at noon in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. This event, sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, is free and open to the public.

Fantuzzo, who holds the Diana Riklis chair in the Graduate School of Education at UPenn, has written extensively on child abuse and the effect of domestic violence on children. In his work, he uses psychological principles to develop effective intervention strategies for low-income families who have not traditionally had access to psychological services. He is currently helping the School District of Philadelphia design, implement, and evaluate a new training program involving all district Head Start staff and parent volunteers, which will be used as a model for large, urban programs elsewhere in the United States.

For further information, call 432-9935.

Indian author will read from and discuss her work

Indira Ganesan, author of the novels "Inheritance" and "The Journey," will read from and discuss her work on Saturday, April 24, at 2 p.m. in the common room of Pierson College, 231 Park St. Ganesan will also sign copies of "Inheritance" at the event, which is sponsored by the Asian American Students Association as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Admission is free, and the public is welcome.

Ganesan lived in India until the age of 5, when she moved with her family to the United States. Since coming to America, she has moved back and forth between the Midwest and the East and West coasts. She completed her first novel, "The Journey," while living in Provincetown on Cape Cod. She has taught at the University of Missouri and the University of California.

Of her latest book, "Inheritance," Kirkus Reviews said, "Ganesan's ingenious charms as a social and spiritual observer bejewel the novel.... People float in and land fleetingly, like mirages, on the island, which begins to resemble a microcosmic kaleidoscope of the human, the natural, and the magical folded into one -- a small, storied panoply of Ganesan's imagination."

While she is in New Haven, Ganesan will also sign copies of "Inheritance" at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway.

Former counsel to Clinton to talk on ethics and impeachment

Lloyd N. Cutler '36 B.A., '39 LL.B., who is former counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, will discuss the topic "Ethics and the Impeachment Process" on Monday, April 26, at 12:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. His talk, sponsored by the Irving S. Ribicoff Fund for Professionalism and Professional Responsibility at the Law School, is free and open to the public.

Cutler is senior counsel to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He was special counsel to President Carter 1979-80 and to Clinton in 1994. He also has served as special counsel to the President on the SALT II Treaty, 1979-80; senior consultant to the President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983-84; a member of the President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; and as a consultant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke during the 1995 Dayton negotiations.

Cutler has written numerous essays and editorials for numerous journals and publications. He served as chair of the Campaign for Yale 1978-79 and was awarded a Yale Medal in 1980.

Author/illustrator will discuss his recent book

Ian Marshall, author and illustrator of the recent book "Passage East," will discuss his work at a talk on Tuesday, April 27, at
4 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by International Security Studies, part of the Yale Center for International & Area Studies.

Marshall, a native of England who is a former architect, has become known for his illustrations of armored warships. His earlier books included "Armored Ships" and "Ironclads and Paddlers." In "Passage East," he describes the marine passage of Britons from London to Bombay during the 1930s and 1940s, a trip he had made during his youth.

Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and director of International Security Studies, has described Marshall's paintings of large battle vessels as "Turneresque." Of "Passage East" the Yale professor has written: "What Marshall is so good and expert at is his capturing of the cultural and social life on board these elegant, well-furnished liners, perhaps a little more understandable to us now that we have seen the movie 'Titanic'. The sense and purpose of this portrayal evokes and stimulates an appreciation of a more regulated, socially exclusive time when 'West' went 'East' in a self-satisfied mood that was, ironically and unknowingly, close to its end."

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