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the old guard of princeton
2015-2016 Meetings

The Old Guard's 74th Year
Please Click on Links for Meeting Minutes
September 16
Friend Center
Introducer: Marge D’Amico
Minutes: Owen Leach
Speaker: Caroline Harris, Associate Director for Education, Princeton University Art Museum

"The Pearlman Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art Returns"
 
September 23

Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Mary Reath 

Speaker: Pia de Jong, Novelist and columnist
"
A Conversation With Pia de Jong: Moderated by Lanny Jones"
 
September 30

Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: Seth Malin

Speaker: Dinesh Dhanaraj, Orthopedic Surgeon, University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro
"
Emerging Technologies in Joint Preservation"
 
October 7 

Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Richard Bergman

Speaker: George M. Taber, Author; retired reporter and editor, Time magazine
"Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe’s Bullion"
 
October 14
Introducer: Nancy Beck
Minutes: William Sweeney

Speaker: David Cannadine, Dodge Professor of History, Princeton University
"
The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences"
 
October 21

Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Richard Fenn

Speaker: Kira Kay, Co-founder, Bureau for International Reporting; Visiting Professor of Journalism
"
Fault Lines of Faith: Reporting on Sectarian Conflict Around the Globe "
 
October 28

Friend Center
Introducer: Owen Leach
Minutes: Deborah Poritz

Speaker: Ralph Widner, Compiler, "Princeton: A Statistical Portrait," and the Princeton Community Databank
"
A Place With a Unique Personality: Princeton by the Numbers"
 
November 4

Friend Center
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Keith Wheelock

Speaker: Priscilla Roosevelt, Fellow of the Institute for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
"
Serfdom and Splendor: The World of the Russian Country Estate"
 
November 11

Friend Center
Introducer: Owen Leach
Minutes: Carmen Catanese

Speaker: ​Shirley Satterfield, Retired PHS guidance counselor; historian of the Witherspoon-Jackson Community
"
A Proud Community Remembered in a Segregated Princeton"
 
November 18
Public Library
Introducer: Landon Jones
Minutes: Ferris Olin

Speaker: Laura Secor, Freelance writer; Visiting Professor of Journalism, Princeton
"
Iran’s Reform Movement"
 
Nov. 25
No Meeting, Thanksgiving Week
 
December 2

Friend Center
Introducer: Jock McFarlane
Minutes: Roland Machold

Speaker: James McPherson, George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History, Princeton
"
The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters"
 
December 9

Friend Center
Introducer: Scott McVay
Minutes: David Egger

Speaker: Sebastian Seung, Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science
"Eye-Wire: A Game to Map the Brain"
 
December 16
Public Library
Introducer:  Henry Von Kohorn
Minutes: Jotham Johnson

Speaker: Fred Miller, Pianist, singer, narrator
"'
Sentimental Journey': World War II and the Big Bands"
 
January 6

Friend Center
Introducer: Claire Jacobus 
Minutes: Harvey Rothberg

Speaker: Evelyn Witkin, Geneticist
"
The DNA Damage Response:  How Genes Repair Themselves "
 
January 13

Friend Center
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn 
Minutes: Jock McFarlane

Speaker: Joshua Katz, Professor of Classics, Princeton University
"Wordplay – Language on the Verge"
 
January 20

Friend Center
Introducer: BF Graham
Minutes: R. Gordon Douglas Jr.

Speaker: Laura Kahn, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University
"
Physicians, Farmers and The Politics of Antibiotic Resistance"
 
January 27 
Introducer: Richard Scribner 
Minutes: Lawrence Parsons

Speaker: Rand Mirante, Senior Associate Director, Office of Development, Princeton University
"
Medusa’s Head: The Rise and Survival of Joseph Fouche, Inventor of the Modern Police State"
 
February 3  

Friend Center
​
Introducer: Landon Jones 
Minutes: Patricia Taylor

Speaker: Deborah Amos, Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and International Correspondent, NPR
"
The Middle East: The Road Ahead"
 
February 10
Friend Center
Introducer: Owen Leach 
Minutes: Helen Hamilton

Speaker: Susan P. Schoelwer, Robert H. Smith Senior Curator, George Washington's Mount Vernon
"
Garden Paths and Fancy Pictures: Washington’s ‘Republican Style of Living"
 
February 17
Friend Center  
Introducer: Nancy Beck 
Minutes: William Wakefield

Speaker: Connie Mercer, Founder and Director, HomeFront
"
Ending Family Homelessness: What works and What Doesn’t"
 
February 24
Friend Center  
Introducer: BF Graham 
Minutes: Irwin Litt

Speaker: Heather Butts, Faculty Associate, Columbia University
"
African American Surgeons and Medical Infrastructure in Civil War America"
 
March 2
Hospitality Time
Friend Center  
Introducer: Henry Von Kohorn 
Minutes: Ralph Widner

Speaker: Hilary Parker, Assistant Vice President in the Office of the President
"
Planning for Princeton University's Future; The New Princeton Strategic Framework" 
 
March 9
Friend Center
Introducer: Stephen Schreiber 
Minutes: Richard Fenn

Speaker: Gideon Rosen, Professor, Department Of Philosophy, Princeton University
"
Moral Reflections on Police Shootings"
 
March 16
Andlinger Center 
Introducer: Lanny Jones 
Minutes: Marue E. Walizer 

Speaker: Sebastian Currier, Artist in Residence, Institute for Advanced Study
"
Object of Desire: A Composer and Writer Collaborate"
 
March 23
Friend Center  
Introducer: Owen Leach
Minutes: Jotham Johnson

Speaker: Scott McVay,Writer, Grant-maker, Conservationist
"
Surprise Encounters with Artists and Scientists"
 
March 30
Friend Center  
Introducer: Landon Jones 
Minutes: Helen Hamilton

Speaker: David S. Wilcove, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs,  Woodrow Wilson School
"The Case of the Killer Cookie: Protecting Wildlife in Southeast Asia"
 
April 6
Friend Center  
Introducer: Miquelon Weyeneth 
Minutes: Miquelon Weyeneth

Speaker: Anne Case, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School
"Is 50 the new 80?"
 
April 13
Friend Center 
Introducer: Ruth Miller 
Minutes: Shirley Satterfield

Speaker: Susan Hoskins, Executive Director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center
"Do We Live in an Age-Friendly World?"
 
April 20
Friend Center  
Introducer: Claire Jacobus 
Minutes: Arthur Eschenlauer

Speaker: Michael Lemonick, Visiting Lecturer in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton Environmental Institute
"The Mystery of Memory...and how a Princetonian with profound amnesia is helping neuroscientists figure it out"
 
April 27
Friend Center  
Introducer: John Cotton
Minutes: Christopher N. Coucill 

Speaker: Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University
"
Current Political Affairs" 
 
May 4
Friend Center  
Introducer: Ruth Miller 
Minutes: Caroline Moseley

Speaker: John Burkhalter, Independent Scholar
"
The Musical World of Francis Hopkinson"
 
May 11
Friend Center  
Introducer: Ron Campbell 
Minutes: Patrick Henry

Speaker: Peter Field, 2015 Garwood Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"
Between Justice and Friendship: Abe Lincoln’s Political Thought"
 
May 18
Computer Science
Introducer: Landon Jones 
Minutes: Russell Marks

Speaker: Evan Thomas, Author, Being Nixon: A Man Divided, Former Ferris Professor of Journalism, Princeton University
"
Is Donald Trump a Threat to the Republic?'

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