October 4, 2002|Volume 31, Number 5

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Wood-turning demonstration to feature Stoney Lamar

Wood turner Stoney Lamar will demonstrate his art and talk about works in the exhibition "Wood Turning in North America Since 1930" at the Yale University Art Gallery on Saturday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m.-noon and 1:30-4:30 p.m.

The program is free and open to the public.

Lamar, who lives and works in Saluda, North Carolina, is represented in leading public collections throughout the country, including the American Craft Museum in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Lamar and his wife started a woodworking shop in Saluda, North Carolina, in the 1980s. He had planned to design and build furniture, but after borrowing a friend's lathe, he found the spontaneity of sculptured wood turning more satisfying.

He attended summer workshops with Mark and Melvin Lindquist and David Ellsworth which profoundly affected his approach to turning. In 1984 he began a one year assistant's position in the Lindquists' New Hampshire studio.

Lamar has lectured and conducted workshops in wood turning. He was a founding member of the American Association of Woodturners and has served on the board of directors and as president of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild.

Employer-sponsored child care is focus of lecture

"Bright Horizons: The Drive for Quality, Innovation and Responsibility to the Field and Community in a Public Child Care Company" is the title of a talk being given on Friday, Oct. 11, by Jim Greenman, senior vice president for education and program development at Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

Part of the Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series, Greenman's talk will be held at 11:30 a.m. in Rm. 211 of Mason Laboratory, 9 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions is the nation's leading company providing employer sponsored child care and other work/family programs. Bright Horizons has over 400 centers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Greenman has over 30 years experience as an early care and education administrator, researcher, college instructor, teacher and consultant. He has been involved in the design and program development processes for over 100 child care projects.

He has conducted child care design seminars in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia and currently teaches a child care design institute at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Greenman is the author of several books and is the producer and writer of three videos. In addition, he has written numerous articles and presented keynote speeches, seminars and workshops throughout the world.

He has developed two major quality improvement projects, one funded by the McKnight Foundation and the other supported by the Bush Foundation.

Nestlé CEO will visit as Gordon Grand Fellow

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chief executive officer of Nestlé S.A., will visit the campus on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 8 and 9, as a Gordon Grand Fellow and will also speak at the Yale School of Management (SOM) Leaders Forum.

On Tuesday, the Gordon Grand Fellowship at Yale will sponsor a master's tea with Brabeck-Letmathe at 4 p.m. in Saybrook College, 90 High St. His talk will focus on "Branding in a Global Society." The tea is free and open to the public.

On Wednesday, Brabeck-Letmathe's SOM talk will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:50 p.m. in Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The talk is also free and open to the public.

Brabeck-Letmathe joined Nestlé in 1968, beginning his career as a salesman and later becoming a specialist for new products. Helped by his linguistic skills -- he is fluent in four languages -- his career with the company has included a wide variety of assignments in several countries as well as Nestlé's international headquarters in Switzerland.

His international career included a span of almost 10 years in Chile (1970-1980) serving first as national sales manager and later as director of marketing. In 1981, he was appointed managing director of Nestlé Ecuador, and in 1983, he became president and managing director of Nestlé Venezuela. He became vice president in charge of the Culinary Products Division in Switzerland in 1987.

In 1992 he was appointed executive vice president of the company, with worldwide responsibility for marketing, communications and public affairs. During his time in this position, he put into place the unique branding policy of Nestlé, characterized by a strict hierarchy of strategic brands on the global, regional and local level.

In 1997, Brabeck-Letmathe was elected to the board of directors and on the same day was appointed chief executive officer. In 2001, he became vice-chair of the board.

Brabeck-Letmathe also sits on the boards of numerous international corporations.

The Gordon Grand Fellowship at Yale promotes dialogue and understanding between today's business leaders and students at Yale. The fellowship was established in 1973 to honor Gordon Grand, a graduate of the Yale College Class of 1938, and president and chief executive officer of the Olin Corporation. During his lifetime, Grand endeavored to bridge the gap between business and academia by actively promoting the exchange of ideas and viewpoints between these sectors. Today, the Gordon Grand Fellowship continues this tradition by inviting prominent business leaders to Yale for one- to three-day visits.

Renowned opera singer to conduct master opera class

Alan Held, one of the world's best-known bass-baritones, will lead a master class for opera singers at the Sch. of Music on Monday, Oct. 7.

The class, which is open to the public, will take place at 7 p.m. in Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange St.

Tickets for the class are $8; free for Yale students with an I.D. For more information, contact the Yale School of Music Concert Office at (203) 432-4158 or www.yale.edu/music.

Recognized internationally as one of the leading singing actors on today's opera scene, Held has enjoyed acclaim with many of the world's great opera companies and orchestras.

Since his debut in 1989 in "Billy Budd," he has developed a strong relationship with the Metropolitan Opera, appearing in lead baritone roles in numerous productions.

He is a regular performer at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He was also featured when the Royal Opera brought a production to the Metropolitan Opera House in 1997 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

He has appeared in leading roles at the Washington Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Cincinnati Opera, the Seattle Opera and in many of the major houses of Europe.

In 1990, Held was invited to perform with Luciano Pavarotti on a PBS "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast of "Pavarotti Plus."

Among Held's numerous prizes and honors, he is listed in Opera Education International as one of the 71 best singing actors of the past 46 years.

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SOM summit will address the current issues facing women business leaders

Dr. Boris Astrachan, former CMHC director, dies at age 70

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