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November 30, 2007|Volume 36, Number 12|Two-Week Issue


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Visiting on Campus

Decorated poet to read from his work

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur will give a reading from his work on Monday, Dec. 3.

The reading will take place at 7 p.m. in St. Anthony Hall, 483 College St. Earlier in the day, at 4 p.m., he will be the guest at a master’s tea in the New Residence Hall (Swing Dorm), 100 Tower Pky. Sponsored by the Jonathan Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and Jonathan Edwards College, the events are free and open to the public.

Wilbur is regarded as one of the major voices in post-WWII American poetry. He received immediate critical success with “The Beautiful Changes,” published in 1947 when he was only 26 years old. “Things of This World,” published in 1956, won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Wilbur’s translations of French and Italian verse and drama, and particularly his work with Molière, are considered to be some of the greatest achievements in the field as are his forays into contemporary theater (he wrote the lyrics for Bernstein and Hellman’s “Candide”).

Wilbur taught at Wesleyan University for nearly 30 years, until 1986. He is the only poet to have won the Pulitzer twice, the second time in 1989 for “New and Collected Poems,” and has also won the Bollingen Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Award and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Wilbur served in 1987 as the nation’s second poet laureate.


Katherine Hepburn’s biographer to speak at library

William J. Mann, author of “Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn,” will visit the campus on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Mann will speak at 4 p.m. in the Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall, 128 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.library.yale.edu.

Mann’s 2006 biography of the Academy Award-winning Hepburn was one of The New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year.”

A Connecticut native and former Capitol Hill aide, Mann is also the author of a biography of director John Schlesinger, as well as a number of books on Hollywood’s LGBTQ history including “Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1919-1969.” He also writes fiction and his short stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies.


Talk will explore climage change and conservation solutions

Theodore Roosevelt IV, managing director at Lehman Brothers and conservationist, will visit the campus on Wednesday, Dec. 5.

Roosevelt will discuss the opportunities to advance climate change and conservation solutions via financial markets and mechanisms for greenhouse gas emissions at 6:30 p.m. at The Omni Hotel, 155 Temple St. The talk is part of the Carbon Finance Speaker Series, sponsored by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale and the International Center for Finance. All are welcome to attend. For more information, visit www.yale.edu/cbey.

Roosevelt, recently appointed as chair of Lehman Brothers’ Council on Climate Change, joined the company in 1972. He has served in numerous leadership capacities throughout the firm, including chair of the board of directors of Lehman Brothers Financial Products Inc. and chair of the board of directors of Lehman Brothers Derivative Products Inc. In his current role Roosevelt will harness the firm’s extensive client network for insights and solutions for the environmental and business risks associated with global warming and climate change.

Roosevelt is an active conservationist. His leadership roles in this field include, among others, serving as chair of the Pew Center for Global Climate Change, co-vice chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection and board member of the World Resources Institute. He also served as a board member of the League of Conservation Voters for nine years, three of which he served as the chair. At Yale, he is a member of the Leadership Council at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.


Wall Street Journal editor to speak in SOM series

The R. Peter Strauss Distinguished Lecture Series will feature a talk by Alan Murray, executive editor of Online at The Wall Street Journal, on Tuesday, Dec. 4.

Murray will speak 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave. All are welcome to attend.

Murray, who also has editorial responsibility for Wall Street Journal television, books, conferences and the MarketWatch Web site, spent a decade as the Journal’s Washington bureau chief. Before assuming his current position in 2007, he was the author of the paper’s award-winning “Business” column.

From 2002-2004, Murray served as CNBC’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief and was co-host of the nightly show, “Capital Report with Alan Murray and Gloria Borger.” While working at CNBC, he also wrote the Journal’s weekly “Political Capital” column.

Murray was named Washington bureau chief in 1993. During his tenure as bureau chief, the Washington bureau won three Pulitzer Prizes, as well as many other awards.

He is the author of “Revolt in the Board Room: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America” as well as two best-selling books “The Wealth of Choices: How the New Economy Puts Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pocket” and “Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform,” co-authored with Jeffrey Birnbaum.


Lecture will focus on children with same sex parents

Dr. Ellen Perrin, professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at the Floating Hospital for Children at New England Medical Center in Boston, will speak in the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy lecture series on Friday, Dec. 7.

Perrin’s talk, titled “Children Whose Parents are the Same Sex: Implications of Available Data,” will be held 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in Rm. 116, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The talk is free and open to the public. For further information, e-mail sandra.bishop@yale.edu or call (203) 432-9935.

Perrin’s work includes teaching, research, clinical care and program development on behalf of children with various family, developmental and medical challenges. For over 15 years she also has been active in teaching and research regarding children who have gay or lesbian parents. Perrin has worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics to focus attention on these children and families and has made numerous presentations to pediatricians and others.


New Jersey state treasurer to give ‘… on Management’ talk

Bradley Abelow, state treasurer for the State of New Jersey, will give a talk in the “… on Management” lecture series on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

The lecture will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The public is welcome to attend this free event.

Abelow, who previously served as acting treasurer, was sworn in as state treasurer in 2006.

The Treasury Department, under the leadership of the state treasurer, is responsible for the generation and collection of revenues, the distribution of appropriations that fund the operations of state government, assets management and the administration of statewide support services, and has oversight of 11 divisions and 3,700 employees.

Until 2006, Abelow worked for the executive office of Goldman Sachs & Co. of New York. He retired following a 15-year career with the company. Abelow was head of the Operations Division for Goldman Sachs, overseeing the Global Operations, Corporate Real Estate and Corporate Services departments. Prior to that role, he was responsible for the Operations, Technology and Finance Division in Asia, based in Hong Kong.

Abelow earned a master’s degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management in 1989.


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