2009-2010 Meetings
The Old Guard's 68th Year
Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
September 16
Introducer: Bob Varrin
Speaker: Barksdale Maynard
Author and Princeton Environmental Institute
"Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency"
September 23
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Christina Paxson
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"The AIDS Epidemic and the Quality of Health Care Services in Africa "
September 30
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Michael Lemonick
Author and Science Writer
"How William Herschel Invented Modern Astronomy"
October 7
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Thomas Christensen
Professsor, Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"Trends in U.S. - China Relations"
October 14
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Samuel Wang,
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology, Princeton
"The Neuroscience of Everyday Life"
October 21
Introducer: Jim Johnson
Speaker: James Steward
Director, Princeton University Art Museum
"A Museum for the 21st Century"
October 28
Introducer: John Brinster
Speaker: Theodore Rockwell
Author of The Rickover Effect and Creating the New World
"Is Nuclear Power the Answer?"
November 4
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Barbara Graham
Editor, Eye of My Heart, Essays on Grandparenting
"The Fine - Sometimes Delicate Art of Grandparenting"
November 11
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Barry Rabner
President and CEO, Princeton HealthCare System
"Evidence-Based Design in Health Care"
November 18
Introducer: Henry King
Speaker: Roger Moseley
"Three Months as Doctor in the Himalayas"
November 25 Thanksgiving Break
December 2
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Harold Shapiro
President Emeritus, Princeton University
"America's Energy Future"
December 9
Introducer: Henry King
Speakers: Melanie Clarke, Executive Director and Rossen Milanov, Music Director
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
"Behind the Scenes at the Princeton Symphony"
December 16
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: John Burkhalter and Donovan Klotzbeacher, Musicians
"Mr. Handel and Herr Telemann - Two Old Friends"
January 6
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Hugh Price
Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
"Urban School Reform: Thinking and Looking Outside the Box"
January 13
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Nicholas Dawidoff
Author of The Catcher Was a Spy
"Princeton’s Moe Berg and other Americans at Work and Play"
January 20
Introducer: Joe Giordmaine
Speaker: Michael J. Drzewinski
President, TRI/Princeton
"TRI: From Hoover and Textiles to Medical Wonders and Everything in Between"
January 27
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Emily Mann
Artistic Director and Resident Playwright, McCarter Theatre
"A Conversation with Emily Mann on her 20th Anniversary at McCarter"
February 3
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Leslie Burger
Executive Director, Princeton Public Library
"Transforming Libraries: A Look at the Future"
February 17
Introducer: George Hansen
Speaker: John Frederick
Author and Cleric
"Anglo-American Relations As Seen Through One Family History"
February 24
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker:Laura Kahn
Program in Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"Leadership during Epidemics"
March 3
Introducer: Jonas Bingeman
Speaker: Peter Rona
Professor, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Rutgers
"Ocean Exploration from the Shore to the Solar System"
March 10
Introducer: Jane DeLung
Speaker: James Hughes
Dean, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers
"The 2010 Census: Counting America, One by One"
March 17
Introducer: Dick Hanson
Speaker: Eric Hagestad
Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Developing Trends in BioPharmaceuticals including Alzheimer’s Disease"
March 24
Introducer: Al Kaemmerlen
JSpeaker: ames McCloskey
Founder, Centurion Ministries
"Convicting the Innocent in America"
March 31
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
"Both Sides Now: Book Publishing in a Hybrid Print and Digital Market"
April 7
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: James Deneen
Retired Educator, Carmen Catanese, Former Executive VP, Sarnoff Corporation
"New Jersey’s Schools: The Rewards of Success, The Costs of Failure"
April 14
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: T. R. Reid
Author of The Healing of America
"How the Rest of the World Provides Health Care Health Care (It’s Not All Socialized Medicine)"
April 21
Introducer: Joe Bolster
Speaker: Janet Dickerson
Professor of politics and International Affairs, Princeton
"Forty Years of Evolution in Student Life"
April 28
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Kathleen Reilly
Executive Director, Princeton Project 55
"Is There Life Beyond Wall Street? Putting Green College Grads, and some Graying Alums, into Public Interest Careers"
May 5
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: John Ikenberry
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton
"Obama Foreign Policy: Success, Failure, or Too Early to Tell"
May 12
Introducer: George Hansen
JSpeaker: ohn Glod, MD, PhD
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
"Ethics in Medical Research"
May 19
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Larry Goldman
CEO, NJ Performing Arts Center
"Culture, Community, and Urban Transformation"
May 26
Introducer: Rosemary O'Brien
Speaker: Gillett Griffin
Retired Curator, Princeton University Art Museum
"The Art of Collecting"
Introducer: Bob Varrin
Speaker: Barksdale Maynard
Author and Princeton Environmental Institute
"Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency"
September 23
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Christina Paxson
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"The AIDS Epidemic and the Quality of Health Care Services in Africa "
September 30
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Michael Lemonick
Author and Science Writer
"How William Herschel Invented Modern Astronomy"
October 7
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Thomas Christensen
Professsor, Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"Trends in U.S. - China Relations"
October 14
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Samuel Wang,
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology, Princeton
"The Neuroscience of Everyday Life"
October 21
Introducer: Jim Johnson
Speaker: James Steward
Director, Princeton University Art Museum
"A Museum for the 21st Century"
October 28
Introducer: John Brinster
Speaker: Theodore Rockwell
Author of The Rickover Effect and Creating the New World
"Is Nuclear Power the Answer?"
November 4
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Barbara Graham
Editor, Eye of My Heart, Essays on Grandparenting
"The Fine - Sometimes Delicate Art of Grandparenting"
November 11
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Barry Rabner
President and CEO, Princeton HealthCare System
"Evidence-Based Design in Health Care"
November 18
Introducer: Henry King
Speaker: Roger Moseley
"Three Months as Doctor in the Himalayas"
November 25 Thanksgiving Break
December 2
Introducer: Scott McVay
Speaker: Harold Shapiro
President Emeritus, Princeton University
"America's Energy Future"
December 9
Introducer: Henry King
Speakers: Melanie Clarke, Executive Director and Rossen Milanov, Music Director
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
"Behind the Scenes at the Princeton Symphony"
December 16
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: John Burkhalter and Donovan Klotzbeacher, Musicians
"Mr. Handel and Herr Telemann - Two Old Friends"
January 6
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Hugh Price
Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
"Urban School Reform: Thinking and Looking Outside the Box"
January 13
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Nicholas Dawidoff
Author of The Catcher Was a Spy
"Princeton’s Moe Berg and other Americans at Work and Play"
January 20
Introducer: Joe Giordmaine
Speaker: Michael J. Drzewinski
President, TRI/Princeton
"TRI: From Hoover and Textiles to Medical Wonders and Everything in Between"
January 27
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Emily Mann
Artistic Director and Resident Playwright, McCarter Theatre
"A Conversation with Emily Mann on her 20th Anniversary at McCarter"
February 3
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: Leslie Burger
Executive Director, Princeton Public Library
"Transforming Libraries: A Look at the Future"
February 17
Introducer: George Hansen
Speaker: John Frederick
Author and Cleric
"Anglo-American Relations As Seen Through One Family History"
February 24
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker:Laura Kahn
Program in Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton
"Leadership during Epidemics"
March 3
Introducer: Jonas Bingeman
Speaker: Peter Rona
Professor, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Rutgers
"Ocean Exploration from the Shore to the Solar System"
March 10
Introducer: Jane DeLung
Speaker: James Hughes
Dean, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers
"The 2010 Census: Counting America, One by One"
March 17
Introducer: Dick Hanson
Speaker: Eric Hagestad
Bristol-Myers Squibb
"Developing Trends in BioPharmaceuticals including Alzheimer’s Disease"
March 24
Introducer: Al Kaemmerlen
JSpeaker: ames McCloskey
Founder, Centurion Ministries
"Convicting the Innocent in America"
March 31
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
"Both Sides Now: Book Publishing in a Hybrid Print and Digital Market"
April 7
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Speaker: James Deneen
Retired Educator, Carmen Catanese, Former Executive VP, Sarnoff Corporation
"New Jersey’s Schools: The Rewards of Success, The Costs of Failure"
April 14
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: T. R. Reid
Author of The Healing of America
"How the Rest of the World Provides Health Care Health Care (It’s Not All Socialized Medicine)"
April 21
Introducer: Joe Bolster
Speaker: Janet Dickerson
Professor of politics and International Affairs, Princeton
"Forty Years of Evolution in Student Life"
April 28
Introducer: Landon Jones
Speaker: Kathleen Reilly
Executive Director, Princeton Project 55
"Is There Life Beyond Wall Street? Putting Green College Grads, and some Graying Alums, into Public Interest Careers"
May 5
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: John Ikenberry
Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton
"Obama Foreign Policy: Success, Failure, or Too Early to Tell"
May 12
Introducer: George Hansen
JSpeaker: ohn Glod, MD, PhD
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
"Ethics in Medical Research"
May 19
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Speaker: Larry Goldman
CEO, NJ Performing Arts Center
"Culture, Community, and Urban Transformation"
May 26
Introducer: Rosemary O'Brien
Speaker: Gillett Griffin
Retired Curator, Princeton University Art Museum
"The Art of Collecting"
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