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Spring Program 2006
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| “Deepening the American Dream” |
| February 19, 2006: Paul R. Loeb “Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time” Sunday, Feb. 19, Lecture 4-6 p.m., Celebration Center, 216 Royal Street Optional Dinner with the Speaker, 6:30 p.m. Celebration Center Paul Loeb has spent thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment—asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment while other abstain. He has written five widely praised books including Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, Hope in Hard Times, and The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear. The latter was named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association, and won the Nautilus Award for best social change book of the year. He has written on social involvement for a wide range of publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and numerous other newspaper and magazines and is a frequent guest and commentator on numerous national radio and television programs. He attended Stanford University and New York New School for Social Research, then edited Liberation Magazine. He is currently an associate scholar at Seattle’s Center for Ethical Leadership. |
| March 26, 2006: Admiral Bobby Inman “Sustaining the American Dream” Sunday, March 26, Lecture 4-6 p.m., Celebration Center 216 Royal Street Optional Dinner with the Speaker, 6:30 p.m. Celebration Center Retired Adm. Bobby Inman holds the LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Most recently, he has served as acting Dean of that school. Besides his teaching duties, Inman is managing director of Inman Ventures and on the board of directors at San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc., Austin-based Temple-Inland Inc., as well on the board of several privately held companies. He is a Trustee of the American Assembly and the California Institute of Technology. He is a Director of the Public Agenda Foundation and is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Admiral Inman served in the U.S. Navy from November 1951 to July 1982, and was the first naval intelligence officer to achieve a four-star ranking. While on active duty he served as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, he was Chairman and CEO of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin for four years and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Westmark Systems. Admiral Inman also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990. |
| May 6, 2006: Patricia Limerick, Ph. D: “Pride Without
Vanity: Patriotism in the 21st Century” Saturday, May 6, Lecture 5-7 p.m., Salado Civic Center Lunch with the Speaker 11:30-1:30 p.m., The Range Dr. Patricia Nelson Limerick is the Chair of the Board and Faculty Director of the Center of the American West, located at the University of Colorado, where she is also a professor of environmental studies and history. Dr. Limerick is an expert on the American West and has written a wide variety of books and articles on its history and destiny. Her best known book, Legacy of Conquest, has had a major impact on the field of Western American history. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and USA Today and was a consultant to Ken Burn’s PBS series “The West.” Her current field of interest is energy sustainability, communicating to the public information about the coming energy crisis and what can be done about it. Dr. Limerick received her PhD in American Studies from Yale, and was an assistant professor of history at Harvard before joining the faculty at CU. She has received numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1995, and the Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest award for a faculty member at the University of Colorado. |
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