2013-2014 Meeting Minutes
The Old Guard's 72nd Year
The Old Guard's 72nd Year
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September 11
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Minutes: Julia Coale
J. Perry Leavell, Professor of History (retired), Drew University
"Advising Woodrow Wilson"
September 18
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Charles Rojer
David Barile, MD, Geriatrician; CEO and Medical Director, New Jersey Goals of Care
"Decision-Making in Geriatric Medicine: An Intro to the NJ POLST Form
(NJ Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)"
September 25
Friend Center
Introducer: Glenn Cullen
Minutes: Roger Moseley
Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
"The Ethics and Law of Targeted Killing by Remotely Controlled Weapons"
October 2
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Marue Walizer
Daniel T. Rodgers, Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
"The Age of Fracture: The Transformation of American Ideas and Culture Since 1975"
Oct 9 (no minutes)
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Introducer: George Cody
Minutes: John Rassweiler
Phillip Eisner, Long-range Engineering Research, Exxon Research & Engineering (retired)
"The Good and Bad of Shale Fracking"
October 16
Friend Center
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Carl Brown
Barbara Bodine, Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
"Yemen: Anatomy of a Revolution; Prognosis on a Transition"
October 23
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Bruce Blair, Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
"Our Nuclear Choice: The Bomb Spreads Uncontrollably or The Arsenals are Verifiably Eliminated"
October 30
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Bruno Walmsley
Edgar Choueiri, Director, Princeton University's Program in Engineering Physics and
Princeton's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory
"Space Travel and 3D Sound: My Hobbies Since I Was 12 and How Princeton Pays Me to Keep Playing"
November 6
Hospitality Time
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Nick Wilson
Dennis Waters, Lawrence Township Historian
"Take the Trolley to Princeton: 1899-1940"
November 13
Friend Center
Introducer: Robert Varrin
Minutes: Sarah Hollister
Emily Carter
Director, Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
"Achieving a Sustainable Energy Future via Quantum Mechanics and the Andlinger Center"
November 20
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Tom Fulmer
Rachel DeLue, Associate Professor, Art and Archaeology Department, Princeton University
"Strange Bedfellows: Intersections Between Art and Science"
Nov 27
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
December 4
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: George Hansen
James Gould, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Carol Grant Gould, Science writer
"Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation"
Dec 11 (no minutes)
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Lee Neuwirth
Minutes: Owen Leach
Bebe Neuwirth, Tony and Emmy Award Winning Actress
"A Conversation with My Father"
January 8
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Ted Thomas
Ben Strauss, VP for Climate Impacts & Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise, Climate Central
"Sea Level Rise: Current Threats and Lasting Legacies"
January 15
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Dick Fenn
Jeremy Adelman, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Professor of History, Princeton
"A Personal History of the 20th Century: Albert O. Hirschman"
Jan 22 (Canceled due to weather)
Friend Center
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Chase Hunt
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosphy, Princeton University
"The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen"
January 29
Friend Center
Introducer: Julia Coale
Minutes: Michael Mathews
Doug Kale, Owner, Kale’s Nursery
"Landscaping for Sculpture at the Grounds for Sculpture"
February 5 (cancelled due to weather)
Hospitality Time
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Michael Curtis
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Jacob Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
February 12
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: David Fulmer
Michael J. Berry II, Professor of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute
"How Your Eye Can Predict the Future: Neural Computation in the Retina"
February 19
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Claire Jacobus
Stephen Wadsworth, Adaptor & Director of the original Figaro Plays by Pierre Beaumarchais,
McCarter Theater, April 1-27
"Presenting 'The Figaro Plays'"
February 26
Friend Center
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Harvey Rothberg
Bryan R. Just, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas, Princeton University Art Museum
"New Ways of Seeing Old Things: Ancient American Art in the 21st Century"
March 5
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Jared Kieling
Frank Bruni, The New York Times journalist discusses his op-ed column, his interests,
and his restaurant reviews with Lanny Jones of the Old Guard
"A Conversation With Frank Bruni"
March 12
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Bill Brown
Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor and Chair, Department Of Molecular Biology, Princeton
"Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria"
March 19
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Charles Plohn
Minutes: Eliot Daley
Landon Jones, Head Editor – People Magazine – 1989-1997
"Celebrity Culture"
March 26
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Arthur Eschenlauer
Michael Littman, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton
"Joseph Henry: Pioneering a Century of Innovation in Applications of Electricity"
April 2
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Richard Bergman
Keith Richburg, Visiting Professor of Journalism; Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post, and bureau chief in Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Manila
"A Reporter’s View of China and the World"
April 9
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Roland Machold
Aly Cohen, M.D. Rheumatologist
"Environmental Chemical Exposure: Endocrine System Effects and Clinical Health Implications"
April 16
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Owen Leach
Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies – Institute for Advanced Study
"Rethinking Barbarian Invasions through Genomic History"
April 23
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: M. David Egger
Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
"Life on Mars"
April 30
Friend Center
Introducer: Glenn Cullen
Minutes: Bruno Walmsley
Michael McAlpineAssistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
"Nano-Bio-Devices: From Bionic Ears to Tooth Tattoos"
May 7
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Michael Curtis
Jacob Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations"
May 14
Friend Center
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: James Ferry
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosphy, Princeton University
"The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen"
May 21
Guest Day
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: George Hansen
Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University
"The American Dilemma In Health Care"
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Minutes: Julia Coale
J. Perry Leavell, Professor of History (retired), Drew University
"Advising Woodrow Wilson"
September 18
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Charles Rojer
David Barile, MD, Geriatrician; CEO and Medical Director, New Jersey Goals of Care
"Decision-Making in Geriatric Medicine: An Intro to the NJ POLST Form
(NJ Practitioner Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)"
September 25
Friend Center
Introducer: Glenn Cullen
Minutes: Roger Moseley
Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
"The Ethics and Law of Targeted Killing by Remotely Controlled Weapons"
October 2
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Marue Walizer
Daniel T. Rodgers, Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University
"The Age of Fracture: The Transformation of American Ideas and Culture Since 1975"
Oct 9 (no minutes)
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Introducer: George Cody
Minutes: John Rassweiler
Phillip Eisner, Long-range Engineering Research, Exxon Research & Engineering (retired)
"The Good and Bad of Shale Fracking"
October 16
Friend Center
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: Carl Brown
Barbara Bodine, Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
"Yemen: Anatomy of a Revolution; Prognosis on a Transition"
October 23
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Bruce Blair, Research Scholar, Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University
"Our Nuclear Choice: The Bomb Spreads Uncontrollably or The Arsenals are Verifiably Eliminated"
October 30
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Bruno Walmsley
Edgar Choueiri, Director, Princeton University's Program in Engineering Physics and
Princeton's Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory
"Space Travel and 3D Sound: My Hobbies Since I Was 12 and How Princeton Pays Me to Keep Playing"
November 6
Hospitality Time
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Nick Wilson
Dennis Waters, Lawrence Township Historian
"Take the Trolley to Princeton: 1899-1940"
November 13
Friend Center
Introducer: Robert Varrin
Minutes: Sarah Hollister
Emily Carter
Director, Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
"Achieving a Sustainable Energy Future via Quantum Mechanics and the Andlinger Center"
November 20
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Tom Fulmer
Rachel DeLue, Associate Professor, Art and Archaeology Department, Princeton University
"Strange Bedfellows: Intersections Between Art and Science"
Nov 27
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break
December 4
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: George Hansen
James Gould, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
Carol Grant Gould, Science writer
"Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation"
Dec 11 (no minutes)
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Lee Neuwirth
Minutes: Owen Leach
Bebe Neuwirth, Tony and Emmy Award Winning Actress
"A Conversation with My Father"
January 8
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Ted Thomas
Ben Strauss, VP for Climate Impacts & Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise, Climate Central
"Sea Level Rise: Current Threats and Lasting Legacies"
January 15
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Dick Fenn
Jeremy Adelman, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilization and Culture, Professor of History, Princeton
"A Personal History of the 20th Century: Albert O. Hirschman"
Jan 22 (Canceled due to weather)
Friend Center
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Chase Hunt
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosphy, Princeton University
"The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen"
January 29
Friend Center
Introducer: Julia Coale
Minutes: Michael Mathews
Doug Kale, Owner, Kale’s Nursery
"Landscaping for Sculpture at the Grounds for Sculpture"
February 5 (cancelled due to weather)
Hospitality Time
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Michael Curtis
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Jacob Shapiro
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
February 12
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: David Fulmer
Michael J. Berry II, Professor of Molecular Biology and Princeton Neuroscience Institute
"How Your Eye Can Predict the Future: Neural Computation in the Retina"
February 19
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Claire Jacobus
Stephen Wadsworth, Adaptor & Director of the original Figaro Plays by Pierre Beaumarchais,
McCarter Theater, April 1-27
"Presenting 'The Figaro Plays'"
February 26
Friend Center
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Harvey Rothberg
Bryan R. Just, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas, Princeton University Art Museum
"New Ways of Seeing Old Things: Ancient American Art in the 21st Century"
March 5
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Jared Kieling
Frank Bruni, The New York Times journalist discusses his op-ed column, his interests,
and his restaurant reviews with Lanny Jones of the Old Guard
"A Conversation With Frank Bruni"
March 12
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: Bill Brown
Bonnie Bassler, Squibb Professor and Chair, Department Of Molecular Biology, Princeton
"Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria"
March 19
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Charles Plohn
Minutes: Eliot Daley
Landon Jones, Head Editor – People Magazine – 1989-1997
"Celebrity Culture"
March 26
Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Arthur Eschenlauer
Michael Littman, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton
"Joseph Henry: Pioneering a Century of Innovation in Applications of Electricity"
April 2
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Richard Bergman
Keith Richburg, Visiting Professor of Journalism; Foreign Correspondent, Washington Post, and bureau chief in Paris, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Manila
"A Reporter’s View of China and the World"
April 9
Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Roland Machold
Aly Cohen, M.D. Rheumatologist
"Environmental Chemical Exposure: Endocrine System Effects and Clinical Health Implications"
April 16
Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Owen Leach
Patrick J. Geary, Professor in the School of Historical Studies – Institute for Advanced Study
"Rethinking Barbarian Invasions through Genomic History"
April 23
Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: M. David Egger
Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts
"Life on Mars"
April 30
Friend Center
Introducer: Glenn Cullen
Minutes: Bruno Walmsley
Michael McAlpineAssistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
"Nano-Bio-Devices: From Bionic Ears to Tooth Tattoos"
May 7
Friend Center
Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Michael Curtis
Jacob Shapiro, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
"The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations"
May 14
Friend Center
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: James Ferry
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosphy, Princeton University
"The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen"
May 21
Guest Day
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: George Hansen
Uwe Reinhardt, Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University
"The American Dilemma In Health Care"
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