The first two Chubb Fellowship lectures of the 1999-2000 academic year will bring back to campus, if only for a visit, a noted Yale alumnus and a former top University administrator.

New York Governor George Pataki, a 1967 graduate of Yale College, will visit his alma mater on Thursday, Oct. 7, to present the first talk in the Chubb Fellowship series. The next featured speaker will be University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin, who formerly served at Yale as provost, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a longtime member of the faculty. She will visit campus on Tuesday, Oct. 12.

George Pataki

Pataki will discuss "The Role of Government in America's Post-Industrial Prosperity" on Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. A reception will be held immediately before the address, at 4:30 p.m., in the Memorabilia Room of Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.

After graduating from Yale, Pataki attended Columbia Law School. He served 10 years in the New York State Legislature and was mayor of the City of Peekskill, his hometown. He was the youngest mayor in the city's history, and won re-election with the largest plurality in the city's history.

Pataki was elected governor of New York on the Republican-Conservative ticket in 1994 and reelected in 1998 with a margin of almost 1 million votes.

As governor of New York, Pataki has worked to revitalize the state's economy by cutting personal, business and property taxes; reducing bureaucratic red tape; and reducing workers' compensation and unemployment insurance costs. He has also instituted a program requiring able-bodied welfare recipients to work for their benefits; restored the death penalty and imposed tougher sentences for violent criminals; strengthened the state's education system; and reduced the size and cost of state government.

The Governor's daughter, Emily, is an undergraduate in Pierson College.

Judith Rodin

Rodin will speak on "The University and a Civil Society" at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.

Rodin was named the seventh president of UPenn in 1993. A member of the faculty of Yale for more than 22 years, she served as provost from 1992 to 1994 and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 1992. She was named the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology in 1984. She also held an appointment in the psychiatry department at the Yale School of Medicine.

Rodin's research focuses on the relationship between psychological and biological processes in human health and behavior. She is author or coauthor of more than 200 journal articles and 10 books. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other professional organizations.

After earning her bachelor's degree in psychology from UPenn, she received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Irvine.

The Chubb Fellowship is devoted to encouraging and aiding Yale students interested in the operations of government and in public service. Established in 1936 through the generosity of Hendon Chubb (Yale 1895), the program is based in Timothy Dwight College.

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