Westminster Town Hall Forum

E.J. Dionne writes a twice-weekly column on politics for The Washington Post. He is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a professor of government at Georgetown University, and a commentator on politics for NPR, PBS, ABC, NBC, and MSNBC. He is the author of six books, including Our Divided Political Heart and Why Americans Hate Politics, which won the Los Angeles Tim...

Senator Timothy Wirth was elected to the United States Senate from Colorado in 1986. Prior to that, he served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he led efforts that changed American telecommunications policy. He is the author of the major Senate legislation addressing the issue of global warming and has been a leading spokesman for stronger federal clean air laws. An avid outdoor...

Studs Terkel is a prize-winning author and broadcast personality. He began his career in Chicago where he worked with the WPA Writers Project in the radio division. In his early years on the radio, he featured music ranging from folk to opera to jazz. Over the years, his programs evolved into an interview format, including his award-winning show, The Studs Terkel Program. His first book, Giants of...

Russell Peterson - Ecological Justice - 05/13/82 by westminsterforum

Ralph Mero & Joseph R. Stanton - Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides - 09/21/89 by westminsterforum

Lynn Yeakel - Women As Leaders - 09/30/93 by westminsterforum

Lisbeth Schorr is a lecturer in Social Medicine and Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Harvard University Working Group on Early Life. With her husband, journalist Daniel Schorr, she co-authored Within Our Reach, an analysis of effective social policies and programs aimed at breaking the cycle of inter-generational poverty, which threatens to create a permanent American un...

Leonard Silk is the economics columnist for The New York Times. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the economics editor and editorial page editor for Business Week. He is a five-time recipient of the prestigious Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. His 1978 book, Economics in Plain English, has been updated and revised for release again this year.

Joseph Rossillon - National Water Crisis: How It Affects The Individual - 08/23/87 by westminsterforum

Elie Wiesel - Why Hate - 11/17/83 by westminsterforum

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

Betty Rollin - My Mother's Last Wish - 10/14/93 by westminsterforum

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., is a distinguished historian and writer. His first-hand experience with world politics as Special Assistant to President John F. Kennedy has given him a rich perspective on the subject of world power. He currently holds the position of Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities at The City University of New York. He received the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1946 and for bi...

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.