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...

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