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the old guard of princeton
2014-2015 Meetings

The Old Guard's 73rd Year
Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
September 10
Friend Center
Introducer: John Rassweiler
Minutes: James Begin
Linda J. Mead, President & CEO, D&R Greenway Land Trust
"IMPACT: The Power of Land to Transform Communities"

September 17
Friend Center

Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Joe Stephens,Staff Writer, Washington Post; Ferris Professor in Residence, Princeton University
"Confessions of an Investigative Journalist"

September 24
Friend Center

Introducer: Richard Scribner
Minutes: Juliana McIntyre
Scott Burnham, Scheide Professor of Music History, Princeton University,
"The Beethoven Difference: Beethoven's Heroic Style"

October 1
Fields Center

Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Owen Leach
Christopher Eisgruber, President, Princeton University
"The Value of Liberal Learning"

October 8
Friend Center

Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Miquelon Weyeneth
Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics, Princeton University
"The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality"

October 15
Friend Center

Introducer: Claire Jacobus
Minutes: Joseph Giordmaine
Joseph Taylor, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton
"From Amateur Radio to the Stars, and Back"

October 22
Friend Center

Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: John Riganati
Vincent Poor, Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
"Princeton and the Dawn of the Information Age"

October 29
Friend Center

Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: David Rosenfeld
Pam Belluck, Visiting Professor of Journalism; Health & Science writer, The New York Times
"The Vanishing Mind: Portraits of Alzheimer’s Disease"

November 5
Friend Center 

Introducer: Ruth Miller
Minutes: Julie Clark
Brandice Canes-Wrone, 2013-14, Member of the Institute for Advanced Study and Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
"First Look Back at Yesterday's Elections"

November 12
FIELDS CENTER

Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Shirley Satterfield
Eliot Daley, Producer, co-writer of "MRN”, President of the production company—1970-1975
“"Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood"”:
 Why did it work (and what was Fred really like)?"

November 19
Friend Center

Introducer: Robert Altman
Minutes: Eleanor Horne
Deborah Poritz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1996 - 2006
"Judicial Independence and Judicial Activism:  Do Courts Make Law?"

Nov 26
No Meeting - Thanksgiving Break

December 3
Hospitality Time
Friend Center
Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Arthur Eschenlauer
Benjamin Gross, Research Fellow, Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation
"RCA Laboratories, David Sarnoff, and the U.S. Electronics Industry"

December 10
Friend Center

Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Victoria Leyton
Michael Mills, Mills + Schnoering Architects, LLC, Princeton, NJ
"The 'New' Statue of Liberty and Other Projects in Historic Preservation"

January 7
Friend Center

Introducer: Charles Rojer
Minutes: Ruth Miller
Jeffrey Grosser, Princeton Health Officer
"Keeping Princeton Healthy"

January 14
Friend Center

Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Roland Machold
Arun Sundararajan, Professor of Business, Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow,
New York University
"Sharing Economies: The Future of Capitalism?"

January 21
Canceled

January 28

Friend Center
Introducer: 
BFG Graham
Minutes: John Timoney
Coleen Murphy, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Director of Paul F. Glenn Laboratories for Aging Research, Princeton University
"Molecular Mechanisms of Aging"


February 4
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Nancy Beck
Minutes: John Frederick
Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
"The Great War -- A Century Later"


February 11
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Glenn Cullen
Minutes: Bruno Walmsley
Neta Bahcall, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astrophysics,  Princeton University
"Advances in Astrophysics"


February 18
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Scott McVay
Minutes: Jared Kieling
Zia Mian, Director, Project on Peace and Security in South Asia, Program on Science & Global Security, Princeton University
"War and Peace in the Asian Theater: Pakistan, India, China and the United States"

February 25
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Landon Jones
Minutes: Nick Wilson
Mark Wethli, A. LeRoy Greason Professor of Art, Bowdoin College
"Public Art in American Communities"


March 4
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Landon Jones
Minutes: Victor Giallella
Noy Thrupkaew, Visiting Professor of Journalism; Contributing editor, The American Prospect
"Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation"

March 11
Field Center
Introducer: ​Charles Clark
Minutes: Harvey Rothberg
John Clark, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Alabama
"Plant Explorarion in the New World Tropics"


March 18
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Owen Leach
Minutes: John Schmidt
John Zinn, Independent Historian;  Chair, the New Jersey Historical Society
"History, Tragedy and Comedy: The Brookly Dodgers at Ebbets Field"


March 25
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Jock McFarlane
Minutes: HenryPowsner
Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
"The Quest to Reverse Engineer Our Algorithmic World"


April 1
Hospitality Time FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: ​Landon Jones
Minutes: Ted Thomas
Samuel Hynes, Professor of English, Emeritus, Princeton University
"The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War"


April 8
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Scott McVay
Minutes: John Rassweiler
Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton
"Climate as We've Known It Is a Thing of the Past: Navigating to Avoid A Dangerous Climate"


April 15
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Ruth Miller
Minutes: Jock McFarlane
Michael Blumenthal, Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79
"Leadership in the 20th Century and Beyond"


April 22
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Julia Coale
Minutes: Owen Leach
Henry S. Farber, Hughes Rogers Professor of Economics, Princeton University
"Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons"


April 29
Friend Center
Introducer: Julia Coale
Minutes: Julia Coale
Robert Del Tufo, Attorney General of New Jersey, 1990-93
"Grand Juries: History, Function, Use and Abuse"


May 6
Princeton Public Library
Introducer: ​BFG Graham
Minutes: David Atkin
Kerry Jo Lee, Medical Officer, Division of Gastroenterology and Inborn Error Products, 
Food and Drug Administration
"The Human Microbiome"


May 13
Friend Center
Introducer: ​Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Richard Fenn
Eddie Glaude, Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies,
Department of Religion; Chair of the Center for African American Studies
"Our Democracy in Black: How Race Still Governs the Soul of America"


May 20
FIELDS CENTER
Introducer: ​Nancy Beck
Minutes: John Kelsey
Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University
"Music and Politics in 1939"


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