Wrestler Diamond Dallas Page to be guest at master's tea
Wrestler Page Falkinburg, more popularly known as "Diamond Dallas Page," will be the guest of a Calhoun College master's tea on Friday, Feb. 15.
The tea will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Falkinburg dreamed of becoming a wrestler when he was eight years old and toyed with the idea of training to become one at age 20. When a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) official told him that he was too tall, however, he settled for work as a wrestling manager and as an announcer at matches.
Some time later, while working as a nightclub manager in Fort Myers, Florida, Falkinburg was discovered by WWF agent Blackjack Lanza. Lanza encouraged Falkinburg to pursue his wrestling dream. Falkinburg, with a signature move known as the "diamond cutter," went on to become a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) superstar, holding the WCW championship on three occasions.
Although he struggled with illiteracy most of his life, Falkinburg authored "Positively Page: The Diamond Dallas Page Journey," which was published in 2000. He is currently at work on his second book, "Positive Thoughts for Kids from A to Z from DDP." The book's message coincides with the mission of Falkinburg's charity foundation, "Bang It Out for Books," which he formed to fight illiteracy among children.
Medical historian Michael Bliss will present a lecture titled "Inside a 'Medical Harem': Harvey Cushing and His Female Employees" on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
The lecture will be held at 5 p.m. in the Historical Library of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library in the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The talk is free and open to the public.
Bliss is a professor of history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed "William Osler: A Life in Medicine" (1999), a biography of what some call the greatest physician in the history of medicine. He has also written "The Discovery of Insulin" (1982) and "Banting: A Biography" (1984). Bliss is currently working on a biography of Harvey Cushing.
Steward T.A. Pickett, senior scientist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and William R. Burch Jr., the Hixon Professor of Natural Resource Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (F&ES), will present the seventh session in the F&ES Distinguished Lecture Series "The Restoration Agenda: Environmental Justice" on Wednesday, Feb. 20.
They will discuss "Toward an Understanding of Nature and Human Nature on the Urban Frontier -- Mapping the Patches of a Hip Hop, Funky, Jazz, Stravinsky, Bach, Rhythm and Blues Dance of Ecological Science" 11:30 a.m.12:50 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St. Those who attend are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch. Light refreshments will also be served.
Plant ecologist Pickett is director of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Long-Term Ecological Research program. He is also conducting research on the linkage of riparian corridors with upland savanna in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, on the function of forest edges in plant community and ecosystem dynamics in eastern New York State, and in the long-term succession following land abandonment in central New Jersey.
Pickett has edited and written books on humans as components of ecosystems, the changing basis of conservation science, natural disturbance, ecological heterogeneity and the philosophy of science in an ecological context. He serves as a member of the graduate faculties at Rutgers University and the University of Connecticut.
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Gordon Geballe at (203) 432-5122 or C. Murphy-Dunning at (203) 432-6570.
Ruth R. Faden, the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and executive director of The Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "New Frontiers in Genetics: Blurring the Lines Between People and Animals" as part of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics Seminar Series.
She will speak at two events on Wednesday, Feb. 20. She will first lead a seminar at noon in the lower level conference room of ISPS, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be available at this meeting for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. Faden will then present a lecture on her topic at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. The public is invited to both of these free events.
Also a senior research scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Faden is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on biomedical ethics and health policy. These include "A History and Theory of Informed Consent," "AIDS, Women and the Next Generation" and "HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives."
Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association. She has served on several national advisory committees and commissions. Most recently, she was the chair of the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
Journalist Richard Reeves will present a lecture titled "Secrecy in the White House" on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 4:155:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St.
Sponsored by the Law School and the Knight Journalism Fellows, the talk is free and open to the public.
Reeves is the author of "President Nixon: Alone in the White House." His ninth book, "President Kennedy: Profile of Power," was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time and Book of the Year by Washington Monthly. His other best-selling books include "Convention" and "American Journey: Travelling with Tocqueville In Search of American Democracy."
A former chief political correspondent for The New York Times, Reeves has written extensively for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire and New York. His twice-weekly column has appeared in more than 100 newspapers since 1979.
Reeves is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. In 1998 he won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association and was the Goldman Lecturer on American Civilization and Government at the Library of Congress that year.
Named a "literary lion" by the New York Public Library, Reeves has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and juror. He has made six television documentary films, for which he received Emmy, Columbia-DuPont and George Foster Peabody awards.
Catherine J. Ross, associate professor of law at George Washington University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Feb. 22.
Her talk, titled "Implementing Constitutional Rights for Juveniles: The Parent-Child Privilege in Context," will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory,
Ross received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Yale in 1971 and 1977, respectively, and was the first postdoctoral fellow at the Bush Center. Following her postdoctoral training, she served on the faculty of the Yale Child Study Center and the Bush Center before earning a J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1987.
During the fall of 2001, Ross was a visiting associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She now serves as a senior visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Children's Policy. From 1994 to 1996, Ross was a visiting associate professor of law, education and history at Boston College. While there, she participated in inter-professional projects that led to the development of the Boston College Center for Child, Family and Community Partnerships.
Ross is a former chair of the American Bar Association's Steering Committee on the Unmet Needs of Children. She currently chairs the committee on the rights of children of the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
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