October 12, 2001

Volume 30, Number 6

Pianist Emanuel Ax to perform in Horowitz Piano Series

Renowned pianist Emanuel Ax will perform in the School of Music's Horowitz Piano Series on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

The recital will take place at 8 p.m. in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Orange and Wall streets. Tickets to the concert are $15 and $20; student discount tickets are $10. The following day, on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 10:30 a.m., Ax will lead a public piano master class at the same location. Tickets to the master class are $3 and free to students with valid I.D. For more information about either event or to purchase tickets with a credit card, call the concert office at (203) 432-4158 or visit the School of Music's website at www.yale.edu/ schmus.

Ax came to the public's attention in 1974 when, at age 25, he won the First Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975 he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists and, four years later, took the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. He has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987 and has won four Grammy Awards in collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.

Former deputy attorney general to speak at master's tea

Former Deputy Attorney General George J. Terwilliger III will be the guest of a master's tea on Monday, Oct. 15, at new 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

The tea is free and open to the public.

A partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm White & Case, Terwilliger served as a presidential appointee in two administrations over eight years. He was deputy attorney general, the number two official of the U.S. Department of Justice, 19911992. Highlights of this service include his leadership in resolving matters such as an international banking scandal involving BCCI, civil rights and voting cases, as well as terrorism and national security cases.

In private practice, Terwilliger's clients have included some of the nation's largest companies and most prominent individuals. He was a senior member of President George W. Bush's legal team during the Florida election recount. He was also an adviser for the Bush-Cheney transition and counselor to designated cabinet and other prospective appointees.

Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient to preach in Battell

The Reverend Gardner C. Taylor, senior pastor emeritus of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, will present a sermon on Sunday, Oct. 14, as part of "Preaching in the New Millennium: The Tercentennial Preaching Event."

He will speak at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. All are welcome to attend this free event, sponsored by the Chaplain's Office.

Taylor became pastor of Concord Baptist Church of Christ in 1948. During his over 50 years of leadership, the Concord Baptist Church's membership increased by 9,000. The church also grew to include the Concord Baptist Church Elementary School, the Concord Nursing Home, the Concord Clothing Exchange, the Concord Federal Credit Union, the Concord Seniors Residence and the Concord Baptist Christfund.

In addition to numerous honorary degrees, Taylor's honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Bill Clinton in 2000; the Knight Commander, Order of African Redemption, conferred by President William V.S. Tubman of the Republic of Liberia in 1969; and the Order of Africa, conferred by President William R. Tolbert Jr. of the Republic of Liberia in 1973.

Global Health Council executive to address Sept. 11 tragedy

Dr. Nils Daulaire, president and chief executive officer of the Global Health Council, will discuss "Fighting Terror with Hope: Global Health with New Reality" on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the School of Medicine, the lecture will be held noon 1 p.m. in Room 110 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St. The event is free and open to the public.

The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to advancing policies and programs that improve health around the world. Before assuming leadership of the council, Daulaire served as the Clinton administration's senior international health adviser.

Daulaire will address how the Sept. 11 attacks may affect U.S. policy toward the poorest countries of the world, including Afghanistan. He believes that the most promising strategies for increasing U.S. security lie in the kind of global initiatives undertaken by public health practitioners every day in countries around the world. His discussion will focus on key global health issues that may define global security in the coming decades.

Ed Begley Jr. to be guest at Calhoun College master's tea

Actor Ed Begley Jr. will speak at a master's tea on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.

His talk is free and open to the public.

Begley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the long-running hit television series "St. Elsewhere," for which he received an Emmy nomination every season. He currently has recurring roles in the HBO series "Six Feet Under," the WB series "7th Heaven" and NBC's "The West Wing." He has guest starred on "The Practice," "The Drew Carey Show," "Star Trek," "Touched By An Angel" and "Providence."

His film credits include "Best in Show," "I'm Losing You," "Batman Forever," "Renaissance Man," "Greedy," "The Accidental Tourist," and the yet unreleased films "Get Over It" with Kirsten Dunst and Swoosie Kurtz and "Diary of a Sex Addict" with Rosanna Arquette and Nastassja Kinski.

Bioethics seminar will focus on death certificate statistics

Harry M. Rosenberg, special assistant to the director of the Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be the next speaker in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) Bioethics Seminar series on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

Rosenberg will discuss "The Heart Epidemic Disease That Wasn't: Lessons Learned From Death Certificate Statistics" at two events. He will first speak at noon in the lower level conference room at ISPS, 77 Prospect St. Lunch will be provided at this meeting for those who contact Carol Pollard in advance at (203) 432-6188 or carol.pollard@yale.edu. Rosenberg will then present a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. at the Joseph Slifka Center, 80 Wall St. Both meetings are free and open to the public.

Previously, Rosenberg was chief of the Division of Vital Statistics' Mortality Statistics Branch, which produces national mortality statistics from death certificates. In his presentation, he will acquaint the audience with the death certificate as a source of health data and give some examples of how resultant mortality data are used to identify the leading health problems in the United States, to document mortality risk of various groups and to track the progress of diseases.

Surveyor of Queen's Pictures to lecture at Yale Art Gallery

Christopher Lloyd, surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, will present the next Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 17.

His lecture, titled "Sir Thomas Lawrence: 'Elizabeth Farren, later Countess of Derby'," will take place at 5:15 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St. The free lecture is presented in conjunction with the museum's fall exhibition, "Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney," on view through Dec. 30.

For 20 years, Lloyd worked in the Department of Western Art of the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. In 1972 he was appointed to a fellowship at Villa I Tatti, Harvard's Center for Renaissance Studies, in Florence. He served as visiting research curator of early Italian painting at the Art Institute of Chicago 19801981. He was made surveyor of the Queen's Pictures in 1988, with responsibility for 7,000 paintings and 3,000 miniatures.

Lloyd's principal areas of expertise are the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionism. His publications include monographs on the painters Fra Angelica and Camille and Lucien Pissarro, catalogues of museum collections and general surveys of the Royal Collection.

Biblical studies expert to discuss 'Praying the Psalms'

John S. Kselman, associate professor of Biblical studies at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, will speak on "Praying the Psalms" on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m. in the Chapel Hall at Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, 268 Park St.

All are invited to this free event.

A member of the Society of St. Sulpice, Kselman has extensive experience as a lecturer on the Old Testament and Biblical studies, including at the Catholic University, the University of Notre Dame and the Princeton Theological Seminary. He has written on the book of Psalms for "New Jerome Biblical Commentary," "The New Oxford Annotated Bible" and the "NRSV" Psalms. He is currently working on a commentary on the book of Psalms for the "Anchor Bible" series.

The book of Psalms, a variety of songs and prayers, originates in ancient Hebrew prayer. In his talk, Kselman will explore the Psalms within this historical and cultural context.

Communication of children's issues is topic of lecture

Susan Nall Bales, president of FrameWorks Institute in Washington, D.C., will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 19.

Her talk, titled "Framing Children's Issues for Public Understanding and Support: Lessons from a Different Research Base," will be held 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.

The mission of the FrameWorks Institute is to advance the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems. FrameWorks designs, commissions, manages and publishes communications research to prepare nonprofit organizations to expand their constituency base, to build public will and to further public understanding of specific social issues. Their work is based on an approach called "strategic frame analysis," which was developed in partnership with UCLA's Center for Communications and Community.

Bales established FrameWorks in 1999. Previously, she served as director of strategic communications and children's issues at the Benton Foundation, where she was founding editor of www.connectforkids.org, an award-winning website on children's policy issues.

Former University chaplain to preach in Tercentennial series

Former Yale University Chaplain John W. Vannorsdall will present the next sermon in the series "Preaching in the New Millennium: The Tercentennial Preaching Event" on Sunday, Oct. 21.

Part of University Public Worship, the event is sponsored by the Chaplain's Office and will take place at 11 a.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets.

Vannorsdall served as University Chaplain from 1976 until he became president of the Lutheran Seminary at Philadelphia in 1985. During his time at Yale, Battell Chapel underwent a major renovation, work on a new hymnal was begun, the first woman was appointed Associate University Chaplain, the position of pastor to the congregation was established and the service order still used at Battell Chapel was developed.

Prior to his service at Yale, Vannorsdall was chaplain at Gettysburg College, campus pastor at Cornell University and pastor of New Haven's Trinity Lutheran Church and two rural parishes in Elma, New York. He was a lecturer at Yale Divinity School and chair of the committee that established the chaplaincy at the then Grace-New Haven Hospital.

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