List of Casual Conversations | Dartmouth Class of '69

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.

6/7/20 Tex Talmadge, MD, '69 Impact of Covid pandemic on mental health
7/12/20 Peter Elias, MD ,'69 Junk science
8/16/20 Arnie Resnicoff, 68 Religion in the military
9/13/20 Dave Agan, '69 Appreciating Others
10/18/20 John Mathias, '69 Pro bono death penalty defense
12/20/20 Tex Talmadge, MD, '69 Civil War
1/17/21 Arthur Fergenson, '69 Arguing before the Supreme Court
2/26/21 Sandy Alderson, '69 Spring Training in a Covid World
3/21/21 Paul Tuhus, '69 Traveling and leading international tours
4/12/21 Professor Susannah Heschel Jewish Studies
4/25/21 Ray Saginur, MD. '69 Ethics and Covid
5/18/21 Professor Payne-Gaposchkin Impact of the Black Death
5/30/21 Rose Mantelmacher 100 year old Bergen Belsen survivor
6/8/21 Professor James Heffernan The value of the humanities
6/13/21 Professor John Santulli, MD Aging and memory
7/10/21 Saturday Night at the Movies
7/17/21 Dimitri Gerakaris, 69 Path not taken
9/21/21 Professor Bradley Historian on social and cultural change
10/3/21 Paul Tuhus and Andy McLane '69 Restoration, Renovation, and Re-Birth of the DOC House
10/13/21 Rose Montelmacher Bergen Belsen survivor
10/18/21 Rabbi Danziger Assimilartion versus identiry
11/1/21 Professor Leah Garrett X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
11/7/21 Dona Heller '69 College Admissions
12/6/21 Professor Charles Murray Discusses his writing about the Jewish people
12/12/21 Tim Means '69 Mine safety and regulations
1/6/22 David Abbott '69 Mining Frauds
1/30/22 Paul Gambaccini My experience as a target of false accusation
2/6/22 Mark Bankoff '69' MLB baseball stadiums and other photos
2/15/22 Dick Glovsky '69 and John Isaacson '68 '6 Retirement
2/27/22 Bruce Alpert MD, '69 and Peter Elias, MD, '69 Staying healthy as we age
3/7/22 Lisa Adams, MD Global Health: TB and HIV and others
3/14/22 Dr. Rebeccas Jefferson The Cairo Genizah
3/29/22 Professor Diana Schaub Abraham Lincoln's speeches
4/3/22 Professor Kallie Willets Chemistry: high end research
4/25/22 Paul Offit, MD Pediatric Infectious Disease and Immunizations
5/3/22 Steve Adams, '69 What's What and What To Do About It
5/10/22 Dr. Caitlin Talmadge USSR and International Affairs
5/24/22 Professor Robert O. Freedman Putin and Russia
6/5/22 Pete Golenbock, '67 Life and anecdotes as a (ghost) writer
6/7/22 Deborah Birx, MD Covid and the pandemic
6/28/22 Professor Brook Harrington Russin and the invasion of Ukraine
7/31/22 John Kitzhaber, '69 Life as Governor of Oregon
8/28/22 Shalom Lamm Operation Benjamin
9/11/22 Karina Urbach How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
9/18/22 Ted Baehr, '69 Christian values in cinima
9/20/22 Professor Nicole Yunger Halpern Quantum Steampunk
10/2/22 Professors Brendan Nyhan and John Carey Political science
10/9/22 David Kertzer The Pope and Mussolini
10/23/22 John and Sue Leavitt, '69 Management of the family forest
11/20/22 Bill Coulson, '69 Passenger Rail in the US
12/4/22 Alice Mathias Art
12/14/22 Ronald Collins Genealogy: Where Did I Come From
12/20/22 Professor Jennifer Rauch Alzheimer's Disease - the biology
1/8/22 Professor Jonathan Haslam Soviet Affairs
1/17/23 David Abbott '69 and Tex Talmadge '69 Harari's Sapiens
1/23/23 Rabbi Nicah Greenstein Isreal today
2/12/23 Jacob Appel, MD, JD Medical ethics, poetry, playwriting
2/21/23 Joe Berman The Anti Defamation League toda
2/29/23 Julie Mathias Tour of her art
3/12/23 Mark Sheetz Biden foreign policy
4/12/23 Phil Bush Guitar performance
4/18/23 Rabbi Linfield Student mental health
4/23/23 Liz Salmi, Dave deBronkart Patient engagement in managing care and research
4/30/23 Margaret Talbot The Entertainer (through the lens of her father, Lyle Talbot)
5/2/23 Jim O'Connell American Performing Art Centers
5/7/23 Traveling Troup Play reading
5/9/23 Arthur Fergensn Discussion of play and Stefan Zweig
5/14/23 Sally Satel, MD Addiction
5/16/23 Prof Alexander Hartove Jewish Social Archives
6/5/23 John Avlon Abraham Lincol's fight for peace
6/11/23 John Bainbridge The weapons that transformed America
6/27/23 Rachel Geenblatt, PhD Jewish Communal Memory
7/20/23 Prof. Moshe Naor Israel
8/29/23 Dana Bevan '69 Transgender Science
9/19/23 Daniel DT Max Steven Sondheim
10/17/23 Professor John Barrett Robert Jackson, FDR's Attorny General
10/29/23 Bill Stableford '69 Panel of classmates who served in Vietnam
11/5/23 Gary Ginsburg Unsung people who shaped our presidents
11/16/23 Halik Wald Israel
11/19/23 Lynn Lobban '69a Where The Boys Are
12/3/23 Prof Gregory Gbor Invisibility
12/18/23 Prof Julien Gorbach Ben Hecht
1/7/24 Jerry Zaks '68 Tony Award Winning Director
1/11/24 Rabbi Ross Martin Buber
1/21/24 Prof William Egginton The Rigor of Angels
2/7/24 Fred Applebaum '68, MD Gene Therapy
2/19/24 Prof Browing Ordinary Men
3/13/24 Dan Elitzer, son of Chip Elitzer '69 Cryptocurrency
3/17/24 Bill Coulson '69 George Orwell
4/14/24 Eric Forsythe '69 Life in the theater
4/28/24 Paul Pillar '69 My life as a national intelligence officer
5/15/24 Prof Edward Slingerland Alcohol throughout history
5/19/24 Scott Sussman MD and Debbie Dye RN Hospice Care
7/14/24 Prof Mary Fulbrook Bystanders and Hitler
8/11/24 Dena Rueb Romera (widow of Oscar Romero '69) Her family's struggle to escape the Holocaust
8/18/24 Prof Cecily Zander Civil War battles
8/25/24 Christopher Hart Safety in hospitals
9/15/24 Prof Foster Hirsch Hollywood films and film noir
9/30/24 Prof Will Masters Food economics
10/9/24 Brian Maracle '69 The Mohawk language

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