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October 27, 2000Volume 29, Number 8



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U.S. foreign policy challenges to be discussed at master's tea

Philip Reeker, deputy spokesman for the Department of State, will be a guest at a master's tea on Tuesday, Oct. 31.

Reeker will speak on "Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century" at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The tea is free and open to the public.

As deputy spokesman, a post he has held since May 2000, Reeker oversees the offices of Press Relations, Regional Media Outreach and Foreign Press Centers. Previously, from 1999, he was director of the Office of Press Relations within the Bureau of Public Affairs.

Reeker joined the Foreign Service with the U.S. Information Agency in 1992. His first overseas assignment was assistant information officer in Budapest, Hungary, from 1993 to 1996. He went on to become public affairs officer at the American Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, from 1997 through 1999. In that capacity, he was spokesman for Ambassador Christopher Hill in his dual role as ambassador to Macedonia and U.S. special envoy for Kosovo.

Reeker received a bachelor's in history from Yale in 1986. He is fluent in Hungarian, Macedonian and German.


ISPS talks to focus on human health hazards of chemicals

Roger McClellan, President Emeritus of the Chemical Industry Institute for Toxicology (CIIT), will present two talks on Wednesday, Nov. 1, as part of the Interdisciplinary Risk Assessment Forum.

McClellan will first lead a luncheon forum on "Air Quality Standards: How Low is Low Enough?" at noon at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St. He will then present a more formal lecture on "Evaluating Human Health Hazards of Chemicals: Are People Always Big Rats?" at 4 p.m. in Winslow Auditorium of the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College St. Both talks are free and open to the public.

An internationally recognized authority on the human health risks of airborne materials, McClellan is currently an adviser to public and private organizations on human risk analysis and inhalation toxicology issues. As president of CIIT from 1988 to 1999, McClellan provided leadership for one of the world's foremost research programs directed to developing an improved understanding of the mechanisms by which chemicals may cause adverse health effects.

Previously, McClellan was director of the Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute; president and chief executive officer of the Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute; and a scientist with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

McClellan's contributions have been recognized with many honors, including election to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the Society of Risk Analysis, Health Physics Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Native American writer to read from his works at campus events

Renowned Native American writer James Welch will speak at two campus events on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 1 and 2.

He will first be the guest of a tea at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. On Thursday, Welch will read from his works at 4 p.m. at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets. A reception will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

Welch's most recent novel, "The Heartsong of Charging Elk," is based on the true story of an Oglala Sioux who joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Injured while the show toured France around the turn of the century, Charging Elk was abandoned in a hospital in Marseille. The novel depicts Charging Elk's efforts to make his way in a foreign society where he understands neither the language nor the customs.

Welch is the author of four previous novels, including "Fools Crow," which won the Los Angeles Times Book and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards. He is also the author of the nonfiction work "Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians" and the collection of poems "Riding the Earthboy 40."

Welch is part Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Indian. In February 2000, the French government awarded him the medal of the Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for outstanding service to French culture.


Organizer of Earth Summit to speak in F&ES lecture series

Maurice Strong, secretary-general of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, will speak on Thursday, Nov. 2, as part of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Centennial Lecture Series.

Strong will present a talk titled "Where on Earth Are We Going?" at 4:45 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. The program is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.

Although Strong is perhaps best known for the role he played in organizing the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, he also served as director of the 1972 U.N. Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the first Earth Summit, successfully placing global environment issues on the international agenda for the first time.

In the business world, Strong is chair of Technology Development Corporation and Strovest Holdings in Canada. He serves as chair of the Earth Council and senior adviser to both the secretary-general of the U.N. and to the president of the World Bank. He is also director of the World Economic Forum Foundation and chair of the Stockholm Environment Institute. Since 1999, he has been president and rector of the U.N. University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Strong's honors include membership in the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, The Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, the Order of Canada, and 43 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the United States and European countries.


School readiness for children is topic of Bush Center lecture

Karen Marina, executive director, and Kyle Mushkin, program coordinator, of the Jumpstart program in New Haven will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Nov. 3.

Their talk, titled "Defining School Readiness: The Jumpstart Model for Young Children," will take place at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-9935.

Jumpstart matches college students with low-income children struggling in their preschool classrooms. Working in groups, the college student tutors work intensively with the children to build their literacy and social skills, to help ensure that the children will enter public schools ready to succeed. The program also involves families in the education of their children and operates a summer program.

A graduate of Yale College, Marina is focused on improving the quality of instruction in the Jumpstart classroom and in implementing plans to provide books to Jumpstart children. Mushkin is responsible for managing the college student tutors and planning their curriculum.


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