Author of "The Microsoft File" to be guest at master's tea
Journalist Wendy Rohm will be the guest of a master's tea on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The tea is free and open to the public.
Rohm is the best-selling author of "The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates," which was published in 12 languages. She has served as a correspondent for numerous national and international publications, including Talk magazine, Wired, Financial Times of London, New York Times Syndicate International, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. She has appeared as a commentator on such television and radio broadcasts as "The Today Show," "Eye to Eye" and PBS' "Technopolitics."
Rohm has served as a consultant to antitrust litigators involved in the suits against Microsoft. She has been the recipient of two Computer Press Awards and a Jesse Neal Award for Editorial Excellence, as well as a number of regional book awards. Her most recent book is "The Murdoch Mission: The Digital Transformation of a Media Empire." Rohm is currently working on a nonfiction book on human cloning.
Phil Dusenberry, chair of BBDO North America, will visit Yale as a Gordon Grand Fellow on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
He will give an informal talk titled "Having Fun and Getting Paid for It" at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 90 High St. The public is invited to this free event.
Dusenberry joined the advertising firm BBDO New York as a copywriter in 1962. He left the agency in 1969 to start his own firm, going on to co-write the screenplay for the movie "The Natural" before returning to BBDO in 1977. He led the campaigns for GE, Pepsi and HBO, and was named Adweek's "Advertising Executive of the Year" in 1986. He was promoted to chair and chief creative officer of BBDO New York that same year, a position he held through 1994. Dusenberry was named one of the "Top 100 Advertising People" of the past century by Advertising Age and is the outgoing chair of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.
With BBDO colleague Ted Sann, Dusenberry led the creative team that came up with the pro bono advertising campaign, "The New York Miracle." Intended to buoy the spirits of New Yorkers after Sept. 11, the six commercials that make up the campaign feature celebrities realizing their New York dream: Henry Kissinger races around the bases in Yankee Stadium; Barbara Walters sings "42nd Street" at a Broadway audition; Woody Allen glides gracefully across the ice at Rockefeller Center; and Billy Crystal and Robert DeNiro ride atop a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Dusenberry willl show videos of the commercials at the master's tea.
Wangari Muta Maathai, chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Nairobi, will discuss "When It Is the State You Fight: The Case of Forests in Kenya" on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
Maathai became chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Nairobi in 1976 and an associate professor in 1977, becoming the first woman to attain these positions in the region. Active in the National Council of Women of Kenya from 1976 to 1987, she served as chair of the organization from 1981 to 1987.
As a member of the National Council of Women, Maathai initiated in 1976 the planting of trees to conserve the environment and improve the quality of life for the people of Kenya. She developed her idea into a broad-based grassroots organization that focused on planting trees with women groups. Through the Green Belt Movement, Maathai has assisted women in the planting of more than 20 million trees on farms, school campuses and church compounds.
Maathai's talk will take place 11:30 a.m. 12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Brown bag lunches are welcome and refreshments will be served. Part of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' Distinguished Lecture Series, "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice," the public is welcome to attend. For information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or gordon. geballe@yale.edu, or C. Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570 or colleen.murphy-
dunning@yale.edu.
Robert G. Stanton, the immediate past director of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, will discuss "Our National Parks: Lessons for Diversity, Environmental Quality and Justice" on Wednesday, Jan. 23.
Part of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies' Distinguished Lecture Series, "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice," Stanton's talk will take place 11:30 a.m.12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Brown bag lunches are welcome and refreshments will be served.
Stanton is a private consultant in conservation policy, planning and management, currently providing services to the National Resources Council of America. He serves as Congress Ambassador to the International Planning Committee of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas in support of the Fifth World Congress on National Parks planned for 2003 in Durban, South Africa.
A lifelong conservationist and experienced public administrator, Stanton was nominated by President Clinton in 1997 to serve as director of the National Park Service, a post he held for three and a half years. He was the 15th person to serve as director and the first African American to hold that position since Congress established the agency in 1916.
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are welcome to attend this lecture. For information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or gordon. geballe@yale.edu, or C. Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570 or colleen.murphy-
dunning@yale.edu.
Alexander Wolff, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, will speak at two campus events on Thursday, Jan. 24.
He will first be the guest at a master's tea at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. He will then read from his works at a book signing at the Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway. Both events are free and open to the public.
A member of the Sports Illustrated staff since 1980, Wolff is primarily known for his coverage of basketball, although he has written about the Olympics, soccer's World Cup, the World Series, Grand Slam tennis events and the Tour de France, as well as the NCAA Final Four and the NBA finals. His "The Hoop Life" column is posted regularly on the Web at cnnsi.com and he has appeared on television as a contributor to CNN and CNN/Sports Illustrated.
Wolff is the author or co-author of six books on basketball, including "The In-Your-Face Basketball Book," "The Back-in-Your-Face Guide to Pick-Up Basketball," "Raw Recruits," "100 Years of Hoops" (revised and reissued as "Basketball: A History of the Game") and "A March for Honor." His most recent book on the sport, "Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure," recounts Wolff's year spent chasing the game around the globe.
A past president of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and a member of both the Pro Basketball Writers Association and the International Sports Press Association, Wolff has been honored more than a dozen times by these organizations. He has won two Women's Sports Foundation Journalism Awards and his work has been included in the anthology "Best Sports Stories."
Krista Tippett, creator and host of the National Public Radio show "First Person: Speaking of Faith," will speak at the Divinity School on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The journalist and theologian will describe her work and her ministry in a talk titled "Living Your Faith -- Wherever You Are," 12:301:30 p.m., in the Edwards Dining Room of the Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. All are welcome.
A 1994 graduate of the Divinity School, Tippett was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times in the 1980s. She reported and wrote for other international news organizations, including Newsweek, the International Herald Tribune, Die Ziet, ABC and the BBC. She was later appointed special assistant to the U.S. ambassador to West Germany.
In 1998, Tippett approached Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) with an idea for a new show that would meet the educated public's growing demand for intelligent and sensitive coverage of issues related to religion and spirituality. In 1999, Tippett hosted her first two "First Person" shows on MPR. "A Common Place" was introduced on MPR in 2000. In the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Tippett introduced a three-part series, "Disaster and Religion." The three programs were titled "Where Was God? Part 1," "The Spirit of Islam: Part 2" and "Faith, Justice and a Just War: Part 3."
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