| Date |
Hostesses |
Program |
Venue |
| October 15 |
Past Presidents |
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid
Being American Muslims
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Ida Noyes
1212 E. 59th |
| November 22 |
Membership |
Homecoming Benefit--
Harvest Festival
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Quadrangle Club
1155 E. 57th |
| December 10 |
Music Group |
Holiday Program
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Montgomery Place |
| January 21 |
Foreign Languages |
Chaya Roth
The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues
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Augustana Lutheran Church |
| February 18 |
Book Group |
Panelists from the Blue Gargoyle and other literacy groups
Sowing the Seeds of Literacy
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Augustana Lutheran Church |
| March 11 |
Computer and Public Affairs |
Richard Gunderman
We Make a Life by What We Give |
Ida Noyes |
| April 15 |
Games
and Travel |
Jack Davis
Earth Day Special: Lessons from New Orleans
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Ida Noyes |
| May 20 |
Members
Pot Luck |
Stephanie Davenport
View from DuSable |
Augustana Lutheran Church |
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Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid spoke before a full house of members at the October 2008 meeting on the topic Being American Muslims. |
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Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and a Hyde Parker himself, spoke to us in February 2008 on the Chicago Public School Initiative, outlining all the programs he has initiated to benefit the public schools. |
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Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Founding Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology, DePaul College of Law, spoke to us on the topic "It Isn't Just about Money: Protecting Inspiration and Innovation Through Copyright Laws" on April 18, 2007 at Ida Noyes. |
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Emily Teeter, Research Associate at the Oriental Institute, spoke to us about Tutankamun: Treasures and Tombs, at the October 18, 2006 Members' Meeting at Ida Noyes. Using photos from the original Carter expedition, she led us down the steps and into the chambers, recreating all the excitement of the original discovery. |
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At the April 19, 2006 meeting at the Oriental Institute, Geoff Emberling, Director of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, took us on a Tour of Ancient Nubia, the fruits of 100 years of exploration and research into the poorly understood region that straddles the southern third of modern Egypt and the northern third of present-day Sudan. The works on display are culled from the museum's 15,000 Nubian pieces. The Oriental Institute has been involved in Nubian studies since 1905, when its founder, University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted, led the first of his two expeditions into the area and began the scientific study of Nubia. Previous visits by Europeans and Americans had focused on looting pyramids for gold.
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At the March 15, 2006 meeting at the Oriental Institute, Joseph M. Williams, Emeritus Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Chicago, Co-founder of the University of Chicago's :ittle Red Schoolhouse writing program; author of The Origins of the English Language, companion book to the PBS series, The Story of English, spoke to us on the topic The Little Red Schoolhouse Grows Up. |
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At the February 15, 2006 meeting, James Cappleman, chair of the Family Advisory Board, and Pediatric Family Advocate at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital spoke to us on Family Advocacy: A Systems Approach to Providing Care to Families. |
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At the October 19, 2005 Members' Meeting, John E. Carlstrom, Prof. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics , Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College; Director, Center for Astrophysical Research in Antartica dazzled us with views of the universe viewed from the University of Chicago's telescopes in Antarctica. He gave us insights into the big bang, the expanding universe, the emergence of dark matter and dark energy as occupying most of the universe. |
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At the Members' Meeting April 19,2005, Janet Rowley, MD, of the Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, recipient of the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, "America's equivalent of the Nobel Prize," and a member of President George W. Bush's Council on Bioethics spoke to us on Human Stem Cell Research: the Controversy. |
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Music Historian Berthold Hoeckner (left), Department of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago, spoke at the Members Meeting at Ida Noyes on March 16, 2005 showing how music can be used to transport memory in films.
Well-known Shakespeare scholar David Bevington, (below) spoke on Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare's Late Plays at the February 16, 2005 meeting. |
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Cindy Levitt (left) co-founder of Not In My Name, spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at our January 19, 2005 meeting. (Photo courtesy of Philip Luhmann) |
| The December 8, 2004 Holiday Concert featured flutist Rachel Blumenthal playing Mozart, and the University High choral group Bel Canto, singing holiday songs, directed by Katie Sinclair. |
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The speaker for the October 20, 2004 meeting was Clemens D. Reichel, Ph.D. He is a research associate in Mesopotamian Archaeology at the Oriental Institute. The title of his talk was "Counting the Losses-Archaeology in Iraq after the War."
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2003-2004
John Mearsheimer spoke on why our Mideast policy is headed for a dead end.
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The monthly Membership Meetings, held at 1:30 p.m. the third Wednesday, are a joint committee effort.
The House Committee, co-chaired by Ursula Selby and Stephanie Franklin, hosts the monthly meetings; the Program Committee, chaired by the First Vice-President--this past year by Bonnie Umeh--schedules the programs; and various Sections provide refreshments.
The October program was a tour of the new gallery at the Oriental Institute. About 75 guests attended a presentation and walk through the new Mesopotamian gallery.
The December program of holiday music was held at Montgomery Place.
Ida Noyes was the site of the next three programs. In January John Mearsheimer drew a large crowd to his talk on our Mideast policies and the war in Iraq. |
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In February the Philanthropy Committee offered a program on the Blue Gargoyle.
In March Kitty Picken presented a program on Queen Elizabeth I.
In April we were back at Montgomery Place to hear Michael Diamond (left) speak on the topic "Chicago's Future is Global."
The programs concluded with the Drama Section's offering of its "favorite play of the year"--Feydeau's Wooed and Viewed.
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