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News Release
Office of News and Information
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January 24, 1996
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Leslie Rice
lnr@resource.ca.jhu.edu
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Wednesday Noon Series Resumes at Johns Hopkins
University
The Johns Hopkins University Wednesday Noon Series will
resume on Feb. 7 with a lecture by John B. Wiseman, entitled,
"Frederick Douglass, Baltimore, and the Democratic Tradition."
Wiseman is professor of American history at Frostburg State
University.
The noon-time series is presented by the Office of Special
Events. This spring the series will be held in a new location,
the Clipper Room, located in Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Other February events in the series are:
- Feb. 14. "Sex At The Zoo." An illustrated talk with Roger C.
Birkel, executive director of the Baltimore Zoo.
- Feb. 21. A performance by the Scat Madrigals, a vocal jazz
ensemble from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory.
- Feb. 28. "Papa, the Pops and Me." A talk by Johanna Fiedler,
daughter of the famed Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops
Orchestra.
March events in the series will include:
- March 6. A performance by Orlando Cotto, marimbist and winner
of the 1996 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition at the Peabody
Institute. This presentation is cosponsored by the Peggy and
Yale Gordon Trust.
- March 13. "Women Heroes Transforming History: The Creation of
Joan of Arc." A talk by Laura Harrington, playwright and faculty
member at M.I.T.
- March 27. "What's Happening in the Economy and Why." A talk
by Raymond J. Saulnier, former chair of Columbia University's
Department of Economics and chairman of President Eisenhower's
Council of Economic Advisers.
April events in the Wednesday Noon Series will
include:
- April 3. "So That Others May Live," a talk by Carolyn Hebard,
team leader of the U.S. Disaster Team K-9 Unit, the group that
responds to disasters both nationally and internationally.
- April 10. "Following the First Ladies: An Insider's View." A
talk by Donnie Radcliffe, author and former columnist for The
Washington Post.
- April 17. "Our Obsolete Embargo Against Cuba." A talk by
Wayne Smith, Johns Hopkins University visiting professor of Latin
American studies.
- April 24. A performance by the world renowned string
ensemble, The Edinburgh Quartet. This concert has been supported
in part by The British Council.
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