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October 5, 2001Volume 30, Number 5



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"Face the Nation" anchor to speak at master's tea

News correspondent Bob Schieffer will be the guest of a tea on Monday, Oct. 8, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The tea is free and open to the public.

Schieffer has been anchor and moderator of "Face the Nation," the CBS News Sunday public affairs broadcast, since 1991. He is also CBS News' chief Washington correspondent, having covered that beat for the network for 31 years, and a principal anchor for CBS News since 1973, when he was named anchor of the "CBS Sunday Night News."

One of the few broadcast or print correspondents to have covered all four major beats in the nation's capital -- the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capitol Hill -- Schieffer has been chief Washington correspondent since 1982 and congressional correspondent since 1989. He has covered every presidential campaign and has been a floor reporter at every Democratic and Republic National Convention since 1972.

In 1996 Schieffer stepped down as anchor of the Saturday edition of the "CBS Evening News," a post he held for 20 years, the longest tenure for an anchor of a regularly scheduled network news broadcast. Before joining CBS News in 1969, he was a reporter at The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a news anchor at BAP-TV Dallas/Forth Worth.

Schieffer is the winner of a number of broadcast news awards, including five Emmys and two Sigma Delta Chi awards. He co-wrote "Acting President," published in 1989, about former President Ronald Reagan.


Author Elizabeth McCracken to be guest at master's tea

Author Elizabeth McCracken will discuss her writing at a master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 11.

The tea will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. All are welcome to this free event.

McCracken is the author of "Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry" (1993), a collection of short stories which was named an ALA Notable Book of 1994; "The Giant's House" (1996), which was nominated for a National Book Award and won the Vursell Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and "Niagara Falls All Over Again" (2001).

A novelist-librarian with degrees in creative writing and library sciences, McCracken has worked off and on in libraries since she was 15, first at the Newton (Massachusetts) Free Library, then the University of Pennsylvania humanities and social science library. She was the circulation desk chief at the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public Library until the fall of 1995.

A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, McCracken has had fellowships from the University of Iowa, the Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Somerville Arts Council and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was twice a fellow. She was named one of Granta's 20 Best Novelists Under 40. She also received the 1996 Barnes & Noble, Inc. "Discover Great New Writers Award" for her novel "The Giant's House."


J.M.W. Turner masterpiece is focus of art gallery talk

Desmond Shawe-Taylor, director of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, will present the second in a series of four 2001 Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lectures on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

He will discuss "J.M.W. Turner: 'Dort or Dordrecht: The Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed'" at 5:15 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St. Seating is limited for this free, public event. For more information about the lecture series, call (203) 432-2800 or visit the University Art Gallery's website at www.yale.edu/ycba.

Shawe-Taylor recently oversaw a nearly $13 million refurbishment and building project at the Dulwich Picture Gallery that was celebrated with an official opening by Queen Elizabeth in May 2000. He has organized numerous successful gallery exhibitions, including "Pieter de Hooch" in 1998, and is responsible for an increase in attendance at Dulwich to 100,000 visitors annually.

Among Shawe-Taylor's numerous books are "The Georgians: Eighteenth-Century Portraiture and Society" (1990), "Rembrandt to Gainsborough: Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery" (1999), "Art Treasures of England: The Regional Collections" (1998) and "The Origins of the Baroque: An Introduction to Roman Seventeenth-Century Sculpture and Architecture," which is to be published by Yale University Press.


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Yale composers are honored with ASCAPLU$ awards

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