List of Casual Conversations

This is a (quick and dirty) list of our virtual Casual Conversations, including events that were done in collaboration with other Class initiatives like the Jewish Culture Group and Saturday Night at the Movies.  They are in chronological order. The descriptions are minimalist. If you think an event is missing, please let us know.

1. 6/7/20        Tex Talmadge, MD, '69           Impact of Covid pandemic on mental health
2. 7/12/20     Peter Elias, MD ,'69                Junk science
3. 8/16/20     Arnie Resnicoff, 68                 Religion in the military
4. 9/13/20     Dave Agan, '69                        Appreciating Others
5. 10/18/20   John Mathias, '69                   Pro bono death penalty defense
6. 12/20/20   Tex Talmadge, MD, '69           Civil War
7. 1/17/21     Arthur Fergenson, '69             Arguing before the Supreme Court
8. 2/26/21     Sandy Alderson, '69                Spring Training in a Covid World
9. 3/21/21     Paul Tuhus, '69                       Traveling and leading international tours
10. 4/12/21     Professor Susannah Heschel  Jewish Studies
11. 4/25/21     Ray Saginur, MD. '69              Ethics and Covid
12. 5/18/21     Professor Payne-Gaposchkin  Impact of the Black Death
13. 5/30/21     Rose Mantelmacher               100 year old Bergen Belsen survivor
14. 6/8/21        Professor James Heffernan    The value of the humanities
15. 6/13/21     Professor John Santulli, MD   Aging and memory
16. 7/10/21     Saturday Night at the Movies
17. 7/17/21     Dimitri Gerakaris, 69               Path not taken
18. 9/21/21     Professor Bradley                   Historian on social and cultural change
19. 10/3/21     Paul Tuhus and Andy McLane '69      Restoration, Renovation, and Re-Birth of the DOC House
20. 10/13/21   Rose Montelmacher              Bergen Belsen survivor
21. 10/18/21   Rabbi Danziger                        Assimilartion versus identiry
22. 11/1/21     Professor Leah Garrett           X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
23. 11/7/21     Dona Heller '69                       College Admissions
24. 12/6/21     Professor Charles Murray      Discusses his writing about the Jewish people
25. 12/12/21   Tim Means '69                        Mine safety and regulations
26. 1/6/22       David Abbott '69                     Mining Frauds
27. 1/30/22     Paul Gambaccini                     My experience as a target of false accusation
28. 2/6/22        Mark Bankoff '69'                   MLB baseball stadiums and other photos
29. 2/15/22     Dick Glovsky '69 and John Isaacson '68 '6      Retirement
30. 2/27/22     Bruce Alpert MD, '69 and Peter Elias, MD, '69           Staying healthy as we age
31. 3/7/22       Lisa Adams, MD                      Global Health: TB and HIV and others
32. 3/14/22     Dr. Rebeccas Jefferson           The Cairo Genizah
33. 3/29/22     Professor Diana Schaub          Abraham Lincoln's speeches
34. 4/3/22       Professor Kallie Willets           Chemistry: high end research
35. 4/25/22     Paul Offit, MD                         Pediatric Infectious Disease and Immunizations
36. 5/3/22        Steve Adams, '69                    What's What and What To Do About It
37. 5/10/22     Dr. Caitlin Talmadge               USSR and International Affairs
38. 5/24/22     Professor Robert O. Freedman           Putin and Russia
39. 6/5/22        Pete Golenbock, '67                Life and anecdotes as a (ghost) writer
40. 6/7/22        Deborah Birx, MD                   Covid and the pandemic
41. 6/28/22     Professor Brook Harrington   Russin and the invasion of Ukraine
42. 7/31/22     John Kitzhaber, '69                 Life as Governor of Oregon
43. 8/28/22     Shalom Lamm                         Operation Benjamin
44. 9/11/22     Karina Urbach                         How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
45. 9/18/22     Ted Baehr, '69                         Christian values in cinima
46. 9/20/22     Professor Nicole Yunger Halpern       Quantum Steampunk
47. 10/2/22     Professors Brendan Nyhan and John Carey   Political science
48. 10/9/22     David Kertzer                          The Pope and Mussolini
49. 10/23/22   John and Sue Leavitt, '69        Management of the family forest
50. 11/20/22   Bill Coulson, '69                      Passenger Rail in the US
51. 12/4/22     Alice Mathias                          Art
52. 12/14/22   Ronald Collins Genealogy:      Where Did I Come From
53. 12/20/22   Professor Jennifer Rauch        Alzheimer's Disease - the biology
54. 1/8/22       Professor Jonathan Haslam    Soviet Affairs
55. 1/17/23     David Abbott '69 and Tex Talmadge '69         Harari's Sapiens
56. 1/23/23     Rabbi Nicah Greenstein     Isreal today
57. 2/12/23     Jacob Appel, MD, JD          Medical ethics, poetry, playwriting
58. 2/21/23    Joe Berman                      The Anti Defamation League toda
59. 2/29/23    Julie Mathias                     Tour of her art
60. 3/12/23    Mark Sheetz                      Biden foreign policy
61. 4/12/23    Phil Bush                           Guitar performance
62. 4/18/23    Rabbi Linfield                    Student mental health
63. 4/23/23    Liz Salmi, Dave deBronkart    Patient engagement in managing care and research
64. 4/30/23    Margaret Talbot                 The Entertainer (through the lens of her father, Lyle Talbot)
65. 5/2/23      Jim O'Connell                    American Performing Art Centers
66. 5/7/23      Travelking Troup                Play reading
67. 5/9/23                                                Discussion of play and Stefan Zweig
68. And much more to come...