Westminster Town Hall Forum

Dr Martin E. Marty - The Larger Vision In American Religion - 05/29/82 by westminsterforum

Betty Rollin - My Mother's Last Wish - 10/14/93 by westminsterforum

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., is a distinguished historian and writer. His first-hand experience with world politics as Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy has given him a rich perspective on the subject of world power. He currently holds the position of Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at The City University of New York. He received the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1946 and for biography in 1966.

Amy Tan - The Many Voices Of America - 09/22/94 by westminsterforum

William Proxmire served as the U. S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. He was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and the ranking minority member of the Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Known for his war on government waste, he gained national recognition for his Golden Fleece Awards, which he bestowed on federal agencies that he judged to be overspending American tax dollars. He has written five books, including Uncle Sam: Last of the Big Time Spenders and The Fleecing of America.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Tehran and received his early education in Iran. He earned a B.S. degree in physics at M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in the history of Science and Philosophy at Harvard University. For 21 years, he was Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy at the University of Tehran. Since 1984, he has been Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He is the author of numerous books and the founder and first president of the Iranian Academy of Philosophy.

John Najarian is chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota and a widely recognized pioneer in transplant surgery. After graduating with honors from the University of California Medical School in 1952, he served as Division Surgeon of the 34th Air Division, USAF, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was professor of surgery at the University of California School of Medicine before he came to the University of Minnesota in 1967.

Dr Martin E. Marty - The Larger Vision In American Religion - 05/29/82 by westminsterforum

David Rockefeller - Alaska Preserving Our Last Frontier - 11/10/94 by westminsterforum

Daniel Schorr - America After Reagan, The End Of An Era - 04/14/88 by westminsterforum

Attallah Shabazz is the eldest of the six daughters of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. She has devoted much of her life to civil rights and overcoming racism and oppression. In her address, she will focus on her father's primary role as a loving husband and father. Through her speaking engagements, she hopes to motivate and inspire people to improve their self-concept by better understanding their own history, the world around them, and their place in it. With Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., she founded Nucleus, Inc., a touring theater company whose productions encourage the audience to overcome obstacles and shape their own destinies.

Arthur Miller - The Media Vs Privacy - 09/24/87 by westminsterforum

Vladimir Zvyagin is the Bureau Chief for Soviet radio and television in New York City. Since being assigned to the U. S. in 1986, he has covered political, economic, social, and cultural events across the country.

amuel Thier is the president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, which is a congressionally-chartered private sector organization that analyzes and recommends health services and health sciences policy. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University's School of Medicine, President of the American Federation of Clinical Research, and Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Rodion Shchedrin is a renowned Russian composer and president of the Soviet Composers Union. He has been described as a major figure in contemporary Russian composition and one of the principal successors of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He lives in Moscow and will be participating in a three-day festival of his music by the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota.

Robert White - The Sources Of Crisis In Latin America - 10/27/83 by westminsterforum

Pedro Zamora - Light Choices, Heavy . . . - 09/23/93 by westminsterforum

Olara Otunnu is an international statesman who is widely acclaimed for his diplomatic and negotiating skills. From 1980 to 1985, he was Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations, serving as president of the Security Council and chairman of the U. N. Commission on Human Rights. While serving as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs, he played a key role in the Uganda Peace Talks. He is currently president of the International Peace Academy, which conducts programs in peacekeeping and the settlement of international conflicts.

Neville Marriner has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1979. He is the world's most recorded conductor and founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A native of Lincolnshire, England, he studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Paris conservatory. He spent thirteen years as the principal second violin with the London Symphony Orchestra and has conducted most of the world's major symphony orchestras.

Lord Harold Wilson - The View From No. 10 Downing Street - 09/26/85 by westminsterforum