News Release

A presentation of the 2002 Gold and Silver Clio Award-winning TV commercials will open the Fall 2002 Wednesday Noon Series at The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 2. The Clio Awards were founded in 1959 to recognize creative excellence in advertising.

The Wednesday Noon Series is presented by the Johns Hopkins Office of Special Events, now in its 37th season of cultural programming on the Homewood campus. Programs are held on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. in Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. They are open to the public and admission is free.

Other fall events in the series:

Oct. 9	Small Town Baltimore: An Album of Memories, a lecture by Gilbert Sandler, author of The Johns Hopkins University Press book of the same name and popular columnist for The Sun and the Baltimore Jewish Times.
Oct. 16	Homewood: A New World Arcadia, a lecture by M. Edward Shull, American Society of Landscape Architects. The lecture is followed by a cross-campus walk from Shriver Hall, a tour of Homewood House's 200th anniversary exhibit Building Homewood: Vision for a Villa, and a dessert reception.
Oct. 23	Amazing Feats of Comedy, a performance by humorist Michael Rosman.
Oct. 30	Answering Their Country's Call: Marylanders in World War II, a discussion by Michael H. Rogers, author of The Johns Hopkins University Press book of the same name.
Nov. 6	A Gospel Revue, a performance by well-known local artists in celebration of CultureFest 2002. A dessert reception follows the performance.
Nov. 13	2002 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition Winner from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, a performance by pianist HouFei Yang, a graduate student at the Peabody Institute.
Nov. 20	Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public, a lecture by Johns Hopkins University political science professors Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, authors of The Johns Hopkins University Press book of the same name.

For information, call the Office of Special Events at 410-516-7157.