Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 15-22, 1999

Volume 28, Number 13

Managing public education will be focus of school official's talks

Rudolph F. Crew, chancellor of the board of education of the City of New York, will present two talks about public education during a visit to the campus on Tuesday, Nov. 16.

At 11:45 a.m., he will address the topic "Managing Public Education in a World of Change" as part of the Yale School of Management's Leaders Forum Series. This talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave.

Later that day, Crew will be the keynote speaker in a Yale Political Union debate on the subject "Privatization Hurts America's Education System" at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The public may attend the event by paying a $5 nonmember admission fee; annual memberships to The Yale Political Union are also available for $15.

Crew, who has been chancellor of the New York City public schools since 1995, is nationally recognized for his work in implementing urban education reforms. He is a leading proponent of performance-driven public education focused on literacy, school-based responsibility and parental involvement. In addition, he also promoted a higher level of accountability throughout the city public school system.

Crew previously served as superintendent of the Tacoma Public Schools District and the Sacramento City Unified School District. In 1993 he was recognized by The Executive Educator as one of the top 100 educators in North America. He also received the 1990 Administrator of the Year Award from the Association of California School Administrators and the 1982 Teacher of the Year Award from California State University.

Swiss author will read from his works

Swiss novelist and playwright Christoph Keller will read from his works on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m. in Rm. 309 of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the department of Germanic languages and literatures with the support of the Swiss Council for the Arts and Pro Helvetia. A reception will follow the reading.

Keller, a native of St. Gallen, Switzerland, has been called "one of the freshest new voices" in contemporary German-speaking literature. He is the author of three novels: "Gulp," "Wie ist das Wetter in Boulder?" ("What's the Weather in Boulder?") and "Ich hatte das Land gern flach" ("I Like My Country Flat"), which received the Prize of the International Bodenseekonferenz.

Since 1993, Keller has also been collaborating with novelist Heinrich Kuhn. The team, under the name of Keller + Kuhn, has published two works, the detective novel "Unterm Stirch" ("On Balance") and "Die Blauen Wunder" ("The Blue Wonders").

Keller has also written two plays, which have been produced in Switzerland and Austria. They are "Kalter Frieden" ("Cold Peace") and "Der Sitzgott" ("God Seated").

Also a Russian scholar, Keller lectures internationally on contemporary Russian literature and has edited two anthologies and a collection of essays. He also writes regularly on topics of cultural interest for German-language newspapers. He is currently working on his first book in English, "Shooting from the Hip."

Forestry School talk will focus on the Kyoto Protocol

Rajendra K. Pachauri, director of the Tata Energy Research Institute in New Delhi, India, and vice chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will discuss "Climate Change: An Agenda for Action and Implementing the Kyoto Protocol" on Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

His talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in the rotunda of Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect St.

Pachauri has been director of the Tata Energy Research Institute since 1981. The institute provides professional support in the areas of energy, the environment, forestry, biotechnology and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions and corporate organizations worldwide.

Pachauri has also had extensive experience in university teaching, government and the nonprofit sector. He was recently appointed director of the board of directors of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies of the Environment Agency of the government of Japan.

Medical school lecture will explore the issue of 'dying well'

"Socrates & Einstein, La Crosse & Worcester: Lessons about Dying Well" is the title of a lecture being presented on Thursday, Nov. 18, by Dr. H. Brownell Wheeler, a physician who has devoted his professional life to finding ways to improve end-of-life care.

Wheeler's talk, sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine, will begin at 5 p.m. in the Historical Library of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The public is welcome to attend the free event.

Wheeler retired in 1996 as the Harvey M. Haidak Distinguished Professor and Founding Chair of Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He considers end-of-life care in America to be a major failure of both medicine and society. In his talk, he will feature stories featuring various problems and solutions encountered by patients in the process of dying and by their physicians.

Alumnus will discuss his film biography of Walker Evans

Filmmaker and photographer Sedat Pakay, who earned his master of fine arts from Yale in 1968, will discuss his new documentary "Walker Evans America" in conjunction with a screening of the film on Thursday, Nov. 18, at the School of Art.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. in Hastings Hall of the Art & Architecture Building, 180 York St. Those wishing to attend should call Barbara Shanley in advance at (203) 432-2606.

Pakay studied with Walker Evans, Paul Rand and Herbert Matter at Yale. His interview with Evans during 1968 and 1969 resulted in a short film titled "Walker Evans: His Time, His Presence, His Silence." His latest film about the photographer, which he coproduced with Schenectady, New York television station WMHT on a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a one-hour biography broadcast this year on PBS.

A native of Turkey, Pakay has also filmed painter Josef Albers and created the 1973 film "James Baldwin: From Another Place," which was incorporated into a 1989 PBS "American Masters" biography of Baldwin. He has also created films for the governments of China and Saudi Arabia. In 1989, he started Hudson FilmWorks to produce cultural documentaries and television specials. Last year, PBS aired a one-hour program he produced with Sotheby's in New York on caring for antiques.

Pakay's photographs have been published in major American magazines and have been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

Noted psychiatrist to discuss behavioral health care for children

Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Mary Jane England, who is a former president of the American Psychiatric Association, will discuss "Integrated Systems of Behavioral Health for Children: Past, Present and Future" on Tuesday, Nov. 23, at the Child Study Center.

Her lecture will begin at 1 p.m. in Harris Auditorium of the center's Neison & Irving Harris Building, 230 South Frontage Rd. The event, which is free and open to the public, is one of a series of lectures marking the opening of new building. A reception will follow the lecture.

Since 1990, England has been president of the Washington Business Group on Health, where she directs nonprofit health research and education for Fortune 500 companies and oversees grants and programs in prevention, health promotion, work-site accommodations for those with psychiatric disabilities, and issues of worker health, including parity for coverage of mental health and substance abuse services. In addition, she is program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where, among other duties, she has overseen the development of comprehensive, community-based services for youth with mental disorders. She served as president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1995-96.

Early in her career, England was commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services. She later was in charge of developing mental health policy as vice president for medical services for the Prudential Insurance Company. She has also served as chair of the Human Resources Policy Committee at the National Institutes of Mental Health.

For further information, call (203) 785-5759.

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