Westminster Town Hall Forum

Amy Tan - The Many Voices Of America - 09/22/94 by westminsterforum

William Proxmire served as the U. S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. He was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and the ranking minority member of the Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Known for his war on government waste, he gained national recognition for his Golden Fleece Awards, which he bestowed on federal agencies that he judged to be overspending American tax dollars. He...

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was born in Tehran and received his early education in Iran. He earned a B.S. degree in physics at M.I.T. and a Ph. D. in the history of Science and Philosophy at Harvard University. For 21 years, he was Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy at the University of Tehran. Since 1984, he has been Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He is the...

John Najarian is chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota and a widely recognized pioneer in transplant surgery. After graduating with honors from the University of California Medical School in 1952, he served as Division Surgeon of the 34th Air Division, USAF, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was professor of surgery at the University of California School of Medicine bef...

Dr Martin E. Marty - The Larger Vision In American Religion - 05/29/82 by westminsterforum

David Rockefeller - Alaska Preserving Our Last Frontier - 11/10/94 by westminsterforum

Daniel Schorr - America After Reagan, The End Of An Era - 04/14/88 by westminsterforum

Attallah Shabazz is the eldest of the six daughters of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz. She has devoted much of her life to civil rights and overcoming racism and oppression. In her address, she will focus on her father's primary role as a loving husband and father. Through her speaking engagements, she hopes to motivate and inspire people to improve their self-concept by better understanding their ow...

Arthur Miller - The Media Vs Privacy - 09/24/87 by westminsterforum

Vladimir Zvyagin is the Bureau Chief for Soviet radio and television in New York City. Since being assigned to the U. S. in 1986, he has covered political, economic, social, and cultural events across the country.

amuel Thier is the president of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, which is a congressionally-chartered private sector organization that analyzes and recommends health services and health sciences policy. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University's School of Medicine, President of the American Federation of Clinical Research, and Chai...

Rodion Shchedrin is a renowned Russian composer and president of the Soviet Composers Union. He has been described as a major figure in contemporary Russian composition and one of the principal successors of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He lives in Moscow and will be participating in a three-day festival of his music by the Plymouth Music Series of Minnesota.

Robert White - The Sources Of Crisis In Latin America - 10/27/83 by westminsterforum

Pedro Zamora - Light Choices, Heavy . . . - 09/23/93 by westminsterforum

Olara Otunnu is an international statesman who is widely acclaimed for his diplomatic and negotiating skills. From 1980 to 1985, he was Uganda's permanent representative to the United Nations, serving as president of the Security Council and chairman of the U. N. Commission on Human Rights. While serving as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs, he played a key role in the Uganda Peace Talks. He is...

Neville Marriner has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1979. He is the world's most recorded conductor and founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A native of Lincolnshire, England, he studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Paris conservatory. He spent thirteen years as the principal second violin with the London Symphony Orchestr...

Lord Harold Wilson - The View From No. 10 Downing Street - 09/26/85 by westminsterforum

Leon Martel is the former Vice President of the Hudson Institute and an eminent futurist, author, and political scientist specializing in forecasting the future shape of our society.

Kurt Waldheim is a career diplomat, former Foreign Minister of Austria, and a University Research Professor of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982.

John Roach is the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and vice-president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is widely known for his leadership role on issues of peace and social justice.

J. Michael Quinlan is director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, overseeing the confinement of 44,000 offenders committed to the custody of the Attorney General. A career public administrator in the Department of Justice, he is the fifth director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons since it was established in 1930. He began his career with the Bureau as an attorney in the Central Office and served as...

Isaac Bashevis Singer began his literary career in his native Poland as a journalist for the Yiddish press. He published his first novel in 1935 and, in that same year, immigrated to the United States where his stories and novels have received high acclaim. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 and is the recipient of two National Book Awards and a grant from the American Academy a...

Eugenia Zukerman is a flutist, recording artist, novelist, and arts critic. She is the music commentator on CBS News' Sunday Morning and appears regularly as a soloist with major orchestras around the world.

Edson Spencer is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Honeywell, Inc. He is known for his strong convictions on corporate responsibility. He joined Honeywell in 1954 and served as Honeywell's Far East regional manager from 1959 to 1964. Before becoming the company's CEO, he served as corporate vice president in charge of international operations.

Ron Markman is a forensic psychiatrist who has worked with alleged killers to assess their state of mental health. He determines whether someone who has killed is sane or insane and then testifies in a court of law. An attorney as well as a psychiatrist, he has a unique perspective on the legal process and has worked for both the defense and the prosecution. He will explore the challenges of our l...