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.
Amory B. Lovins, co-chief executive officer of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will discuss "Natural Capitalism and Energy Security" on Friday, Oct. 19, at 4 p.m. in Bowers Auditorium in Sage Hall, 205 Prospect St.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Originally trained as an experimental physicist, Lovins's work focuses on using market forces to solve economic, social and environmental problems through the promotion of resource efficiency. He founded the Rocky Mountain Institute with Hunter Lovins in 1982. A resource policy think tank based in Colorado, the institute has launched enterprises such as the for-profit electric-efficiency information service E Source and the automotive startup Hypercar, Inc.
Amory Lovins is the author or co-author of 27 books and hundreds of papers. These include "Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace" (1977) and "Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution" (1999). He received the Happold Medal from the UK Construction Industry Council and the World Technology Award, and was designated "Hero for the Planet" by Time magazine in 2000.
Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer at The New Yorker, will visit campus Monday and Tuesday, October 22 and 23, as a John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer.
Gladwell will give a public reading at 5 p.m. on Tuesday in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. A reception in Saybrook College will follow the reading. He will also be the guest of a tea on Monday at 4 p.m. in the Jonathan Edwards College master's house, 70 High St. Events are free and open to the public.
Since joining The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1996, Gladwell's articles have included reports on the inventor of the birth control pill, the power of personal connectors and the science of coolhunting. His 1997 article on the 1918 influenza pandemic was turned into a television movie. His 1996 article, "The Tipping Point," was expanded into a book published in 2000, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference." In 2001, Gladwell's profile of Ron Popeil, "The Pitchman," was awarded the National Magazine Award for Profiles.
Gladwell previously worked at the Washington Post, beginning as a staff writer in 1987. In 1993 he was named the newspaper's New York City bureau chief.
The John-Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Endowment Fund was established in 1999 by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schlesinger in order to enrich the experience of student writers in Yale College by supporting annual visits to campus by distinguished or emerging authors.
Jeff Trexler, an assistant professor at the Southern Methodist University School of Law, will discuss "The Nonprofit Style: Rhetoric, Art and Design" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, noon1:30 p.m. in the basement of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, 77 Prospect St.
Sponsored by the Program on Non-Profit Organizations, the lecture is free and open to the public.
In a summary of his lecture topic, Trexler describes nonprofits as a communications medium rather than merely as a sector. From buildings to banner ads, he believes that nonprofit design reflects a distinct way of looking at the world, a cognitive style whose significance extends beyond organizational structure and function. In his talk, which is part of a broader study of legal rhetoric and information design, he will explore the dynamics of the nonprofit form as a perceptual phenomenon.
A 1995 graduate of Yale Law School, Trexler is co-author of "Giving with Honor: A Legal Reference on Charitable Activities of American Indian Tribes." He has also published on Russian nonprofit organizations law.
Author Judy Blume will be the guest of a tea on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St.
The public is invited to this free event.
A fiction writer for more than 30 years, Blume's 23 titles range from picture books to best-selling novels, including her most recent, "Summer Sisters." She is perhaps best known for her books for young people. Among them are "Are You There God? It's Me Margaret," "Blubber" and "Tiger Eyes." Her Fudge series includes "Superfudge" and "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great," both of which have been adapted for musical theater.
Blume's work has been the basis of a television series and her books have been translated into 25 languages. In 1996 she received the American Library Association's Margaret Edwards Award for a body of work that has spoken to young adults for more than 20 years.
Blume is founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. She serves on the boards of the Author's Guild; the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, where she sponsors an award for fiction in progress; and the National Coalition Against Censorship. She edited "Places I Never Meant To Be, Original Stories by Censored Writers."
Earl Graves, founder and publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine, will be the next speaker in the Yale School of Management's Leaders Forum Program on Wednesday, Oct. 24.
"How to Succeed in Business Without Being White: A Conversation with Earl Graves" will take place 11:45 a.m.1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is free and open to the public.
A nationally recognized authority on black business development, Graves is also chair and chief executive officer of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., parent corporation of Earl G. Graves Publishing Company, which publishes Black Enterprise Magazine. The magazine has a circulation of over 425,000 with a readership of more than 3.8 million, and received the FOLIO: 1996 Editorial Excellence Award for Business/Finance.
Elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, Graves's numerous other honors include the 84th NAACP Spingarn Medal, the highest achievement award for African Americans, and being named one of the Top 100 Business News Luminaries of the Century by TJFR in 1999. He is the recipient of over 50 honorary degrees.
Graves is the author of "How to Succeed in Business Without Being White," which chronicles the success strategies of America's premier African American businessmen. A New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, the book was a finalist for the 1997 Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award.
David H. Solkin, a reader in the history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art at the University of London, will present the final 2001 Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 24.
He will discuss "Joseph Wright of Derby: 'The Blacksmith's Shop'" at 5:15 p.m. in the McNeil Lecture Hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. Presented in conjunction with the Yale Art Gallery's exhibition "Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney," on view through Dec. 30, the lecture is free and open to the public, although seating is limited. For information, call (203) 432-2800 or visit www.yale.edu/ycba.
After teaching in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia for eight years, Solkin joined the staff of the Courtauld Institute of Art in 1986. He has won prestigious fellowships and awards for his art historical work, including the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada Research Fellowship, the Leverhulme Re-search Fellowship and The Neale Lectureship in British History, University College, London.
Solkin served as guest curator of "Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 17801836," an exhibition to be held at the Courtauld Institute Gallery this fall. He serves on the Advisory Council of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. In addition to numerous articles, Solkin is the author of "Richard Wilson: The Landscape of Reaction" (1982) and "Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and The Public Sphere in 18th-Century England" (1993).
Bud Welch, whose daughter, Julie, was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, will speak on how he came to oppose the death penalty at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at Saint Thomas More Chapel, 268 Park St.
The lecture is free, and all are welcome to attend. The event is co-sponsored by Saint Thomas More and the Catholic Community at Yale Divinity School.
Before the execution of Timothy McVeigh, Welch anguished over the fate of his daughter's murderer. "Once they're tried and executed, what then? How's that going to help me?" he asked himself. "It's not going to bring Julie back."
After questioning himself for two weeks, he had an insight. "I realized that it's all about revenge and hate," Welch said. "And revenge and hate is why Julie and 167 others are dead today. That was McVeigh and Nichol's revenge and hates for the federal government, for Waco, for Ruby Ridge, whatever other cause they felt justified what they did."
After purging himself of those same feelings of revenge and hate, Welch made a statement to the Associated Press that he did not believe in the death penalty. Since then, he has spoken against the death penalty across the nation and overseas, testified before Congress and met with Timothy McVeigh's father.
Ambassador Hans Schumacher, deputy permanent representative of the German permanent mission to the United Nations in New York, will be the guest of a master's tea on Thursday, Oct. 25.
The tea will take place at 4 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.
Schumacher entered foreign service in 1977 with the foreign office of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was first posted overseas as the head of the consular and legal section of the German Embassy in Tel Aviv/Israel. He then served two years as the deputy head of mission of the German Regional Embassy to the eastern Caribbean in the port of Spain/Trinidad.
Returning to Germany, Schumacher served as spokesman of the foreign office in Bonn, personal assistant to German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, deputy speaker of the foreign office and speaker of the foreign office under foreign ministers Hans Dietrich Genscher and Klaus Kingel. He resumed his overseas service in 1993 as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Namibia.
From 1997 to 1999, Schumacher was senior deputy high representative in Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina, helping to implement the Dayton Peace Accord. He assumed his current position as deputy permanent representative to the United Nations in 1999.
Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor and the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University, will speak in the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Oct. 26.
His talk, "The Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal Court: Should Adolescents Be Tried as Adults?" will be held at noon in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. For information, call (203) 432-9935.
A nationally recognized expert on psychological development and family relations during adolescence, Steinberg's research has focused on a range of topics, including parent-adolescent relationships, adolescent employment, high school reform, and juvenile crime and justice. He served as a member of the National Academy of Science's Panel on the Health Implications of Child Labor and has been a frequent consultant to state and federal agencies and lawmakers on child labor, secondary education and juvenile justice policy.
Steinberg is the author or co-author of more than 150 scholarly articles on growth and development during the teenage years, as well as several books, including "You and Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10 to 20" (with Ann Levine); "Adolescence," the leading college textbook on adolescent development, now in its sixth edition; "Studying Minority Adolescents: Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues" (with Vonnie McLoyd); and "Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do" (with Bradford Brown and Sanford Dornbusch).
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