Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 14, 2000

Volume 28, Number 28

Chief editor of OED to discuss dictionary's online premiere

John Simpson, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), will present a lecture on Monday, April 17, in celebration of the dictionary's premiere on the Internet.

The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.

Simpson was appointed to work on the supplement of the OED in 1976, and went on to co-edit the highly praised 20-volume second edition of the dictionary published in 1989. He has also edited various other reference works for Oxford University Press, including the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs and, with John Ayto, the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang.

As chief editor of the OED, Simpson is overseeing the first comprehensive revision of the dictionary in its 120-year history, which includes its online publication in March 2000.

Simpson is a member of the English faculty at Oxford University and a fellow of Kellogg College.

Film producer to speak at master's tea

Film producer Deborah Schindler will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 17, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Schindler produced the 20th Century Fox motion pictures "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," winner of three NAACP Image Awards, and "Waiting to Exhale," which grossed over $67 million domestically and won four NAACP Image Awards. Both films were adapted from the best-selling novels by Terry McMillan.

Schindler began her film career as an assistant to Martin Scorsese, working on the films "Raging Bull," "The King of Comedy," "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "The Color of Money." She eventually rose to the rank of associate producer on Scor-
sese's "After Hours."

At Columbia Pictures, Schindler served as vice president of East Coast creative affairs and as a producer and development executive overseeing production deals for Matthew Broderick and Mikhail Baryshnikov. She was the associate producer of 20th Century Fox's "Prelude to a Kiss."

Under an exclusive deal with 20th Century Fox, Schindler has a number of projects currently in development, including film adaptations of Joseph Finder's "Zero Hour," Elaine McCarthy's "The Falconer," Suzanne Finnamore's "Otherwise Engaged," Robert James Waller's "Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend" and Jules Bass's "Head Hunters."

SOM lecture to feature director of Brooklyn Museum of Art

Arnold Lehman, director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, will discuss "Revitalizing a Cultural Institution: Stories from the Front Line" on Monday, April 17.

The lecture, which is sponsored by the Arts and Culture Student Interest Group at the Yale School of Management, will take place 68 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The public is invited to this free event.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the nation's second largest art museum, with a collection of over one million objects. Lehman became the director of the museum in 1997 after two decades as the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, where he was lauded for revitalizing the museum and expanding its collections. At the Brooklyn Museum, Lehman has been actively working to develop a larger and more diverse audience and to raise the profile of the museum.

This past fall, Lehman and the Brooklyn Museum made headlines as a result of the controversy surrounding the exhibition "Sensation," which drew fire from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his administration for its allegedly shocking and offensive artwork. The city attempted to slash the museum's funding, fire its board of directors and evict it from the building it has occupied for more than a century. The case was recently settled out of court.

Lehman will discuss issues surrounding the "Sensation" controversy, as well as the challenge of revitalizing a leading cultural institution. For more information, send email to art&culture@mail.som.yale.edu.

Inner-city peace activist to discuss life in "Southie"

Michael Patrick MacDonald, Boston antiviolence activist and author of "All Souls: A Family Story from Southie," will discuss his work and his book at a master's tea on Tuesday, April 18.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 4 p.m. in the Pierson College master's house, 231 Park St.

MacDonald, one of the architects of Boston's gun buyback program and founder of the South Boston Vigil Group, wrote "All Souls" not only to tell the story of his own childhood in the Old Harbor Housing Project in working-class Irish South Boston, but to examine how mythologies about "Southie" combined to create a destructive environment for young people coming of age.

The mythologies within Southie -- that everyone looks out for everybody else -- kept people distracted, according to MacDonald, while a neighborhood "protector" became the kingpin of drugs and crime in a community that believed it had neither. News reports of the violence erupting in South Boston during the anti-busing protests in 1974 characterized the area as a racist enclave, yet rarely mentioned that only the poorest black and white communities in the city were required to participate in the forced busing.

Three of MacDonald's siblings died violent deaths in South Boston, while a fourth suffered permanent brain damage and physical handicap. As a young man, MacDonald fled his neighborhood. He later turned to peace activism, first in the all-Black neighborhoods of Roxbury, then in his hometown of South Boston.

Professional football player will be guest at tea

Professional football player Kevin Carter will be the guest at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The event is free and open to the public.

Carter, the defensive left end for the St. Louis Rams, was the first player selected by the Rams in 1995 after the team moved from Anaheim, California, thus earning the title "the original 'St. Louis' Ram." He was also the first defensive player and the sixth player chosen overall in the draft that year.

In 1999 Carter led the NFL with 17 quarterback sacks, earning his first Pro Bowl berth. His contributions helped the Rams have their first winning season since 1989, their first NFC West title since 1985 and their first ever Super Bowl title in 1999.

Active in charitable organizations, Carter is the co-founder of Rams Rushmen, a group attempting to "sack homelessness" with more than $130,000 in performance donations since 1996 to benefit the St. Patrick Center of St. Louis. He joined D'marco Farr in the Coat and Blanket Blitz collection effort to benefit American Red Cross homeless shelters and disaster-relief programs. In 19961998 he was a United Way Leadership Giver, and in 1998 he earned the Lutheran Family & Children's Services Faith in Action Award.

Carter also conducts the Kevin Carter Parent and Youth Football Camp, which provides basic football instruction to both parents and their children. Proceeds from the camp benefit local St. Louis charities that provide family services.

WWF president to speak at School of Forestry

Kathryn S. Fuller, president and chief executive officer of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), will discuss "The Global 200" at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on Thursday, April 20.

Fuller will speak on the threats to the world environment and the strategies WWF is pursuing to preserve the world's most imperiled ecoregions. Her talk will take place 46 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St, and will be followed by a reception. The event, sponsored by the Environment and Development Student Interest Group, is free and open to the public.

Fuller took the leadership of WWF in 1989 after serving as executive vice president, general counsel and director of WWF's public policy and wildlife trade monitoring programs. Before joining WWF in 1983, Fuller practiced law with the U.S. Department of Justice, first in the Office of Legal Counsel, then in the Land and Natural Resources Division, where she headed the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section.

Fuller has received several honorary doctorates and such honors as inclusion in the U.N. Environment Programme's Global 500. She serves on the nonprofit boards of Brown University and the Ford Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Fuller's work at WWF has emphasized innovative conservation methods such as debt-for-nature swaps and environmental trust funds, the inclusion of women in grassroots conservation programs and the design of projects that provide both environmental and economic benefits. Under her leadership, WWF has doubled its membership, tripled its revenue and expanded its presence around the globe.

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Award-winning novelist discusses the art of writing and reading

Leonard S. Doob, a specialist on ways of resolving conflict, dies

'Visionary' student wins award for his work with homeless people

Neurologist Fuki Hisama is honored for her research on aging syndrome

Library acquires papers of noted Caribbean novelist

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