Theologian will talk about hunger as part of week-long event
Ronald J. Sider, professor of theology and culture at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and author of the popular book "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: A Biblical Study," will be featured in two campus events on Wednesday, April 15, as part of Yale Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. (See related story, page 3.) At 4:30 p.m., he will lead a Bible study and discussion on the topic "Is There Hope for the Poor in America?" in the library of Dwight Hall, 67 High St. That evening, at 8 p.m., he will address the topic "Rich Christians, Global Poverty, and Market Economies: Does God Care?" in Levinson Auditorium of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The public is invited, free of charge, to both of these events.
Sider, who is also the founder and president of Evangelicals for Social Action, received three degrees from Yale: an M.A. in 1963, a B.D. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969. He is an ordained minister in The Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. His best-known book, "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger," was first published in 1977; a revised version was published in 1997. The book has sold 350,000 copies and has been translated into six languages. Sider is also the author of many other books, and he publishes Green Cross, a Christian environmental magazine, and Prism, the magazine of Evangelicals for Social Action.
Sider's visit is cosponsored by the Magee Fellowship at Dwight Hall, the Dwight Hall Leadership Institute, the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project various campus religious ministries. For more information, call 432-2428.
Frick Collection curator
to speak at Yale Art Gallery
Edgar Munhall, curator of The Frick Collection in New York, will present the third lecture in the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Memorial Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 15, at 5 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery (enter on High St.). His lecture, titled "Henry Clay Frick and His Collection," is free and open to the public.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959, Munhall joined the staff of the Yale University Art Gallery as assistant curator for prints and drawings. Subsequently, he worked at Columbia University and became curator of The Frick Collection in 1965. He has written numerous books, including "The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue, Volume IX," "Art in the Frick Collection," "Paintings from the Frick Collection" and "Henry Clay Frick, The Young Collector." He has also written numerous articles. His honors include the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Graduate Alumni Association of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University; Chavalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government; and the Henry Allen Moe Prize for the best exhibition catalogue published in New York State. The theme of this year's Ritchie Memorial Lectures is "Private Collection into Public Museum: Four Great Collectors." The lecture series is named in honor of the longest-serving director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Evaluation of children's programs is focus of Bush Center talk
Marta Elisa Moret, president of Urban Policy Strategies, will talk on the topic "Building Community Capacity for Program Evaluation" on Friday, April 17, at noon in the Sterling Library lecture hall, 128 Wall St. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
Urban Policy Strategies, located in New Haven, is an association of research and policy consultants who provide training and technical assistance in program design, evaluation and policy assessment to government agencies, foundations and nonprofit organizations. As the association's president, Moret, who holds an M.P.H. from Yale, conducts research and policy assessments on many health and human service programs in Connecticut and other states. She and her staff are evaluating Connecticut's three-year experience with AmeriCorps. Moret is also codirector of Connecticut's HIV evaluation bank and works with the Center for Disease Control and the Agency for Health Care Research and Policy to train health policy leaders about the issues of designing evaluation methods for community-rooted programs.
Moret served as deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services in the Weicker administration, for which she was responsible for administering programs in child care, welfare and Medicaid. Previously, she was director of programs for Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, where she designed and implemented evaluations of experimental programs for underserved children and families.
For further information, call 432-9935.
Chair of Motorola to deliver
next Sheffield Lecture
Robert W. Galvin, chair of the executive committee of Motorola Inc., a leading firm in paging and cellular telephone technologies, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship lecture on Monday, April 20, at 4:30 p.m.
in Sudler Auditorium of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. His talk, titled "Is there leadership without legacy?," is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a reception at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, corner of Wall and High streets.
Galvin started his career at Motorola in 1940. He held the senior officer position in the company 1959-90, when he became chair of the executive committee. He guided Motorola's transformation from a consumer electronics company with $290 million in sales in 1959 to a global leader in commercial and industrial electronics with sales of $13.3 billion in 1992. Under his guidance, the company has developed semiconductor technology for application in computer-controlled, two-way radio communication for public safety, national defense and exploration of space. He also spearheaded Motorola's program to improve quality and achieve total customer satisfaction. In 1988, the company was winner of the first Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. Galvin's personal honors include a 1988 Industry Leader of the Year Award from the Automotive Hall of Fame, the National Medal of Technology in 1991 and election to the National Business Hall of Fame.
The Sheffield Fellowship, established in 1996, brings to Yale leaders and innovators in business, industry and government.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
to read from recent work
Richard Howard, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator of French literature, will read from his recent work on Monday, April 20, at 5 p.m. in Rm. 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. The event, sponsored by The Yale Review, is free and open to the public.
Howard has published 10 volumes of poetry, including "Untitled Subjects," for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, and his most recent, "Like Most Revelations" (1994). He has also published more than 150 translations, including books by Gide, Giraudoux, Camus, De Beauvoir, De Gaulle and Proust. He received the American Book Award for his translation of the complete "Les fleurs du mal" by Baudelaire. Howard's other works include "Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950" and the critical anthology "Preferences."
Currently a teacher at Columbia University, his honors include the P.E.N. Translation Medal, the Ordre National de Mérite from the French government and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Literary Award. Howard is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Defense Department counsel
will speak at Law School
Judith Miller '75, the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense, will talk about the United States' position on the proposed International Criminal Court, the legality of the thread of force against Iraq and other current issues of national security law on Tuesday, April 21, 4-5:30 p.m. in the second-floor faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk, sponsored by United Nations Legal Studies and the Forum for the Practice of International Law, is free and open to the public.
As general counsel, Miller supervises the 6,000 lawyers in the Department of Defense and advises Secretary of Defense William Cohen on subjects such as procurement reform, environmental issues, international and intelligence matters and personnel issues. She formerly served as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Carter administration and is a former partner in the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly. She was a law clerk to Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her honors include the Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal.
Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change is topic of Zucker Lecture
Bert Bolin, emeritus professor of meteorology at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, and former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will be the guest at two campus events as the Zucker Environmental Fellow for 1998. On Thursday, April 23, he will talk informally during a tea at 4 p.m. in the Saybrook College master's house, 242 Elm St. The following day, at 2 p.m., he will present a lecture titled "Science and Policy of the Climate Change Issue" in Rm. 123 of Kline Geology Laboratory, 210 Whitney Ave. Both events, which are free and open to the public, are sponsored by the Zucker Fellowship Fund.
Bolin has published about 130 scientific papers and books in the fields of dynamical meteorology, numerical weather forecasting, gaseous exchange between the atmosphere and the sea, the use of chemical and radioactive tracers in the atmosphere and the sea, and atmospheric greenhouse gases and aerosols and their role in determining the climate. As chair of the IPCC, he was active in formulating a scientific and technical analysis of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and its future impact on participating countries. His numerous prizes and awards include Sweden's Royal Medal and the American Academy for the Advancement of Science Award for International Scientific Cooperation.
The B. Benjamin Zucker Environmental Fellowship was established in 1990 to bring to campus public policy figures or authors in the field of environmental studies in the hopes of inspiring students to embark on environmental careers.