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Conservation specialist is next speaker in lecture series

Ray Hilborn, a professor in the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington and a specialist on natural resource management and conservation, will be the next speaker in the semester-long seminar series "Fisheries for the Future: Science, Conservation and Management for the New Century." His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 3 p.m. in Rm. 202 of Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 165 Prospect St.

Professor Hilborn currently serves as an advisor to several international fisheries commissions and agencies. He is coauthor of "Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment" and of the forthcoming "The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data." His major areas of interest include Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa, the role of hatcheries in the management of Pacific salmon, the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets and the ability of institutions to learn from experience.

Prior to teaching at the University of Washington, Professor Hilborn was a senior fisheries scientist in the Tuna and Billfish Program of the South Pacific Commission in Noumea, New Caledonia. He also served as leader of the Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit and adjunct associate professor at the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology at the University of British Columbia.

German museum director to talk about new building for art collection

Henning Bock, director of the Museum of Art in Berlin, will discuss the new, state-of-the-art building that will house Germany's collection of art masterpieces in a Woodward Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 4 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel St. Titled "The Berlin Picture Gallery of Old Masters: The New Building for an Old Collection and the Burden of Tradition," his talk is sponsored by the center and the German department. A reception will follow, hosted by Patrick McCaughey, director of the Yale Center for British Art. Both events are free and open to the public.

Mr. Bock, who for many years has directed Berlin's Museum of Art, has played a leading role in planning and preparing for the new museum, which was completed this year. Located at the former site of the wall dividing Berlin between East and West Germany, the new building will be home to the many art works that were scattered among different sites following the destruction of Berlin during World War II. Mr. Bock will provide an overview of the history of the building and the collection it will house, and he will describe with slides the specific design of the building's galleries. He will also explore the reasons the new Museum of Art is regarded as a model for the future.

Warner-Lambert CEO to be guest at master's tea

Melvin R. Goodes, chief executive officer of Warner-Lambert Company, will be the guest at a tea on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The event is free and open to the public.

Warner-Lambert is the manufacturer of many popular consumer products, such as Certs, Clorets, Listerine, Benadryl, Zantac, Rolaids, Trident gum and Schick razors. Mr. Goodes began his career with the company in 1965 as the manager of new product development for the Adams Brands division. He has since held numerous positions there, including president of Warner-Lambert Mexico, president of the Pan-Am and Asian zone, senior vice president of the consumer products group, president of U.S. operations and president and chief operating officer. He became chair and chief executive officer in 1991.

Mr. Goodes serves on the board of directors of Ameritech Corporation, Chemical Bank, Chemical Banking Corporation and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, among others, and is on the executive committee of the National Council on Economic Education.

Head of Madison Square Garden to speak at SOM

David Checketts, president and chief executive officer of Madison Square Garden in New York, will visit the campus as the Dean's Distinguished Lecturer at the School of Management on Wednesday, Oct. 2. His lecture, titled "The Game of Managing Madison Square Garden," will take place 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m. in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

Mr. Checketts was named president and chief executive officer of Madison Square Garden in 1995 after serving for four seasons as president of the New York Knickerbockers --Knicks-- basketball team. In his current role, he oversees all operations of the Garden and its two sports franchises -- the Knicks and the New York Rangers hockey team -- along with the nationally recognized MSG Network. He also has been instrumental in bringing back boxing to the sports arena as well as drawing family entertainment and world-class events to the Garden. The Grammy Awards will be presented there next year.

During Mr. Checketts' tenure as Knicks president, the club won two Atlantic Division championships, made two trips to the Eastern Conference Finals and emerged as Eastern Conference Championships in 1994. He previously served as vice president of development for the National Basketball Association and as president of the Utah Jazz. His honors include being named National Father of the Year in 1994 and receiving the "Good Scout" Award from the Boy Scouts of America this year.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author will be featured guest at tea

Author and poet Annie Dillard, who won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 1975 for her narrative "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," will be the featured guest at a tea on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Calhoun College master's house, 434 College St. The public is invited to attend the free event.

Ms. Dillard, who resides in Middletown, Connecticut, is the author of eight other books or poetry collections. These include "Tickets for a Prayer Wheel," a collection of poems; a nonfiction narrative titled "Holy The Firm," her memoir "An American Childhood," which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987; "The Living," a novel about pioneer men on Puget Sound in the 19th century; a collection of stories titled "The Writing Life," about the working life of a writer; "The Annie Dillard Reader" and "Mornings Like This," a collection of poetry. A former contributing editor of Harper's magazine, her writing has also appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, the Yale Review, American Heritage and in many anthologies.

Ms. Dillard has received fellowship grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her many other honors include the Washington Governor's Award, the Connecticut Governor's Award, the New York Press Club Award and the Ambassador Book Award in Arts and Letters from the English-Speaking Union. She currently is an adjunct professor and writer-in-residence at Wesleyan University and is a juror for a number of writing competitions. She is also a usage panelist for "American Heritage Dictionary."

New York physician to deliver the Bayer Lecture

Dr. Jerome Lowenstein, professor of medicine at New York University Medical Center, will present the School of Medicine's Bayer Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 3, at 5 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St. The lecture is free and open to the public.

In his lecture, titled "The Midnight Meal: Doctors, Patients and Medicine," Dr. Lowenstein will discuss how the "midnight meal" serves as a metaphor for the important role of direct communication among physicians and how the opportunity to share feelings is important in the development of caring physicians.

Dr. Lowenstein's talk is sponsored by the Program for Humanities in Medicine. For more information, call 785-5494.

Lobbyist for children to speak at the Bush Center

Bill Harris, a noted lobbyist for children on the national level, will talk about "Kids and Politics" on Friday, Oct. 4, at noon at the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. The lecture and discussion will be held in Rm. 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The event is free and open to the public.

Mr. Harris is the founder and treasurer of KIDSPAC, a political action committee that has lobbied Congress on behalf of children and families since 1981. He is a board member of the National Issues Foundation, the Aptar Group, the Pittway Corporation and the Pittway Corporation Charitable Foundation, and is vice chair of the Harris Foundation. He is a past board member of the National Urban League.

In addition to his political work, Mr. Harris has taught in recent years at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and also taught at Wesleyan and Tufts universities. Next spring, he will teach a course at Brandeis University titled "Knowledge, Politics and Children."

Fate of Hong Kong to be explored in talk

The fate of Hong Kong's six million people when their nation is returned to China next year will be the subject of three talks in the coming week by Margaret Ng, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. In her capacity as both a member of Hong Kong's legislative body and as an investigative journalist, she will discuss the colony's future and voice some of the concerns shared by Hong Kong citizens about their reintegration with China.

Ms. Ng's visit to Yale will begin on Monday, Oct. 7, when she will debate Angang Hu, professor at the School of the 21st Century Development Study at China's Tsinghua University, before an audience of East Asians and members of the public. Both scholars will present their perspectives on the controversial return of Hong Kong to China. The debate will begin at noon in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. It is free and open to the public.

The same theme will be continued later that afternoon during a tea at 4 p.m. in the Davenport College master's house, 271 Park St. The public is invited.

Ms. Ng's main talk, titled "Post-1997 Legal and Constitutional Arrangements for Hong Kong: Framework and Challenge," will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. During this talk, she will discuss the controversial issue of Hong's Kong's constitutions once the British colony reverts back to Chinese rule.

Ms. Ng's visit was organized jointly by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Schell Center for International Human Rights. During her time at Yale, she will also participate in seminars, lectures and meetings with students and faculty.

European Parliament member to discuss trade policy, human rights

Michael Hindley, a member of the European Parliament, will discuss the topic "Trade Policy and Human Rights: Where Does the European Union Go From Here?" on Monday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. His talk, sponsored by the Schell Center for International Human Rights, is free and open to the public.

Mr. Hindley will also speak that day in Morse College about current developments in the European Union, including the Intergovernmental Conference. The time and location of this talk will be announced.

Mr. Hindley was elected a member of the European Parliament in 1984 and was re-elected in 1989 and 1994. Since 1994, he has served as senior vice president of the Parliament's Trade Committee. He has been a member of the Parliamentary delegation for China since 1987 and was the leader of a Parliamentary delegation to investigate the European Community's reconstruction program for Poland and Hungary in 1991. In addition, he has led Parliamentary fact-finding missions and delegations to Kashmir, Saudi Arabia and Oman, and was a delegate to the special conference of European Parliament on the economic consequences of German unification in Dresden in 1992. A frequent radio guest and columnist in the United Kingdom, Mr. Hindley has authored numerous articles on German politics and is the author of European Parliamentary reports on China, the Gulf states, Korea, Malta, Hong Kong, Pakistan and other nations. He received the Consumer Journalist Award in 1988 for his television documentary on "hazardous cosmetics."

World head of Dominican religious order to lecture

The Most Rev. Timothy Radcliffe, who is the world-wide head of the Dominican religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, will give a lecture titled "Talking to Strangers: The Role of the University in Contemporary Society" at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, in Marquand Chapel at the Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St. His lecture will examine ways in which theological faculties interplay with the university as an institution. The event, sponsored by the department of religious studies, is free and open to the public.

Fr. Radcliffe, a scholar of New Testament theology, was trained at Oxford. He was the prior of Blackfriars College, Oxford, and head of the English Province of the Dominican Order --Order of Preachers-- before assuming the Master Generalship of the Dominicans throughout the world. With the support of Fr. Radcliffe, Dominican institutions of higher education in Rome and Jerusalem have been cooperating with Yale's department of religious studies to develop opportunities for overseas field study by Ph.D. students in New Testament studies and ancient Christian history.

The Dominican Order --ordo praedicatorum-- was founded by St. Dominic in the year 1216. It is now one of the most important Catholic religious orders. Traditionally, Dominicans are devoted to a life of preaching and study; they are organized in study houses instead of monasteries. They played a prominent role in the intellectual life of the Medieval universities; St. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican. The order spread to the United States in 1805.

Lecture and exhibition celebrate 150 years of anesthesia

Yale anesthesiologists will celebrate 150 years of anesthesia with a lecture on Monday, Oct. 14, presented by Dr. Gwenifer C.M. Wilson of Sydney, Australia, the first Laureate of the History of Anesthesia, and with an exhibition in the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library.

Dr. Wilson's lecture, titled "A Long, Hard Road," commemorates the sesquicentennial of the introduction at Massachusetts General Hospital of the use of ether anesthetic to provide painless surgery. The lecture, which is open to the public without charge, will be presented at 4 p.m. in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

Dr. Wilson was selected as the first Laureate of the History of Anesthesia this year by the trustees of the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, an affiliate of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. She served as an anesthetist at several Australian hospitals before she started in 1961 to study the history of anesthesia in Australia and throughout the industrialized world. Her extensive study culminated with the publication of her 690-page opus "One Grand Chain, A History of Anaesthesia in Australia, 1846- 1962." The second volume is due out next year. In the works, she describes the relationship between the development of anesthesia in Australia and concurrent medical, scientific, social, political, economic and maritime events there and abroad.

During her career, Dr. Wilson helped found the faculty of anesthetists of The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. She also was named a fellow of that college and of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

In addition to the lecture, the Cushing-Whitney Medical Library will be the site of an exhibition mounted by Yale anesthesiologists that recounts the history of anesthesia at Yale and elsewhere The exhibition, on view through November, will feature materials, equipment and photographs.


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