Yale Bulletin
and Calendar

May 17-31, 1999Volume 27, Number 32


L E C T U R E S

Address: Davies Auditorium, Becton Center
Time: 8 p.m.

Well-known authors will read from and discuss their works during the annual Summer Lecture Series, which is sponsored by Yale Summer Programs. For the 17th year, the series will begin with a lecture and Þlm about Sherlock Holmes.

The lectures scheduled by press time follow. Further information about the series will be available in future issues of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar.

June 17 -- "An Evening with Sherlock Holmes" will feature a talk by Patrick McCaughey, director of the Yale Center for British Art, on "The Architecture of 221B Baker Street." A screening of the Þlm "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939), starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, will follow. Dr. David Musto, professor of child psychiatry and of the history of medicine and psychiatry, who is also a lecturer in American studies and history, will moderate the event.

Thursday, July 15 -- Poet and translator Jonathan Galassi will read from his own work and his translations of the Italian poet and Nobel Prize-winner Eugenio Montale. Galassi is the author of "Morning Run," a book of poems, and is editor-in-chief of the publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is also the president of the Academy of American Poets.

Thursday, July 22 -- Novelist Peter Rock will read from his work. Rock is the author of two novels, "This Is the Place" and "Carnival Wolves." He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and received the HenÞeld Award in 1996.


S U M M E R T I M EA TY A L E

ExhibitsMusicYale & the CityTheater

LecturesRecreationProfessional SportsEt Cetera



T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Commencement, 1999 Style
Facility to enhance strength in environmental sciences
Guide again taps Yale as a 'must-see' attraction
'Under My (Green) Thumb': Rolling Stones sideman talks about life . . .
Summertime at Yale
Endowed Professorships
City-Wide Open Studios celebrates work of Yale and area artists
A Conversation About Welfare and the Media
Eleven honored for strengthening town-gown ties
Special award, Jovin Fund commemorate student's good works
From design to construction, program gives architecture students . . .
Graduate students cited for excellence in teaching
1999 Commencement Information
Beinecke exhibition celebrates the art of collecting books
New line of Yale ties and scarves combine architectural elements . . .
Studio classes again to highlight annual festival of arts and ideas
Project X Update
Leffell to speak about surgery for skin cancer
Kaplan honored for his work with children
Guide shows motorists where to park downtown


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The late artist Rudolph Zallinger drew this publicity image for Yale's annual "An Evening with Sherlock Holmes."