On Tuesday, April 12 at 5 pm Eastern Time, we will have a two-guest Jewish Culture Group Zoom session. As with all such conversations, they are open to all, and will not be recorded.
On February 27th, classmate Bruce Alpert, MD led us in a Casual Conversation about the importance of proper measurement of blood pressure. Here is the core document he shared as part of the event. All of us should read it, and perhaps bring a copy with us to our medical appointments to share with our clinicians:
THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE BLOOD PRESSURE VALUES
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at 4:30 pm Eastern Time (US), Professor Diana Schaub will be speaking with us at a Casual Conversation. Professor Schaub, who teaches at Loyola University of Maryland (just a few miles down Charles Street from where I live), has written a book on three of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches: address before the Springfield Lyceum in 1838, The Gettysburg Address in November 1863 and The Second Inaugural Addre
Religion in the military: a casual conversation led by Arnie Resnicoff. Sunday, August 16 at 3 pm Eastern (US). This is the third in a series of monthly Zoom events drawing on the backgrounds and expertise of our colleagues. The first was hosted by Tex Talmadge on
On Sunday, July 12th at 3:00 ET, join classmate Peter Elias for a casual Z
Tex led a group of classmates in a discussion of the psychologic impact of the Covid pandemic on mental health.
Our next casual conversation on Zoom, the fifth in the continuing series, will be led by our classmate and immediate past Class president, John Mathias. (The first four were hosted by Tex Talmadge, Peter Elias, Arnie Resnicoff, and Dave Agan.) John’s conversation will be held on Sunday, October 18 at 4 pm Eastern. (Note the change in time from prior sessions.) John’s topic is
After skipping a month, we will return on Sunday, December 20 at 3 pm Eastern (US) for a Zoom casual conversation led by Tex Talmadge with the possible assistance of Dudley Kay (whose birthday it is that day). Our last casual conversation was led by John Mathias and the topic was his representation of criminal defendants facing the death penalty. This was the most heavily attended of all the sessions, with 23 of us joining i
Our Fourth Casual Conversation with a member of the Dartmouth Faculty: He started when we did, English Professor Emeritus James Heffernan