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John Hinderaker, All-School Speaker

Get ready to hear the upcoming all-school speaker!

Be informed about who he is and what he writes about!

Think about how to ask intelligent, illuminating, respectful questions!

Visit the library's libguide to read about conservative blogger, JOHN HINDERAKER.

Read his blog and listen to his podcast.

Click here to get ready ---

http://libguides.nmhschool.org/hinderaker

How to ask a question intelligently?
Just how do you ask a question that not only appears intelligent but also results in an answer that satisfies the knowledge you are seeking? Here are some tips for asking more open-minded and informed questions that will help not only you but others to comprehend information placed before you, as well as extracting more information useful to you.

Click here -- http://www.wikihow.com/Ask-a-Question-Intelligently

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Wednesday. April 16 . 10:50 a.m. . Memorial Chapel
NMH presents author

Jennifer Finney Boylan

Biographies and Interviews

jenniferboylan.net

Jennifer Finney Boylan. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Gale, 2008.

Pozner, Jennifer L.  Gender immigrant: a conversation with Jennifer Finney Boylan.(Interview).
The Women's Review of Books 21.7 (April 2004): 5(3). General OneFile. Gale. 8 Apr. 2008.

Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of "She's Not There," on her decision to change genders from male to female. (Interview)  Host David Brancaccio talks with author and professor Jennifer Finney Boylan about the challenges and responsibilities associated with being a transgendered person. Marketplace, American Public Media. July 31, 2003. LexisNexis. 8 Apr. 2008.

The Husband Who Became A Woman. Oprah Winfrey Show.

In the NMH Library (Click on titles to check availability.)

• I'm looking through you : growing up haunted. New York : Broadway Books, c2008.
• She's not there : a life in two genders. New York : Broadway Books, 2004, c2003.

Founder's Day 2008 speaker, James Ault

FOUNDER'S  DAY  CELEBRATION
Sunday, February 3 ~4:00 p.m.~Memorial Chapel
Presenting..
James Ault '64 filmmaker/author/ethnographer

Get ready!

In the NMH Library    (Click on title to check call # and availability)...

Spirit and flesh: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church New York : Knopf, 2004.

In the news...
An interview with Mr. Ault:

Crouch, Andy.  "Among the fundamentalists."  Publishers Weekly 251.30 (July 26, 2004): 52(1). General Reference Center Gold. Gale.

A book review:

Prothero, Stephen.  'Spirit and Flesh': Say Amen, Somebody New York Times (Dec 5, 2004)

On the web...

James Ault Ph.D. Documentary Filmmaker.Author.Ethnographer http://www.jamesault.com/

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2008

January 21st, 2008
The Meeting: A Play by Jeff Stetson, 9:35-10:05 AM  Memorial Chapel

ON RESERVE at the NMH Library's circulation desk.

January 22nd, 2008
State of the World Series: Kimmie Weeks ‘01, 6:45 -8 PM  Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall

A graduate of NMH, Kimmie Weeks leads Youth Action International, a nonprofit dedicated to rebuild communities through schools, playgrounds, and business opportunities for women and children in war-torn African countries.

Read about Kimmie's work: www.kimmieweeks.com

Learn about his work on youtube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoJGeENIdhY

January 23rd, 2008
SLC Speaker: Prof. Sonia Sanchez, 10:50-11:50 AM  Memorial Chapel

Listen to Ms. Sanchez read her poetry : "Profile: Poetry reading by Sonia Sanchez." Weekend Edition Saturday (June 16, 2001)

Read! In the NMH Library (Click on titles to check availability)

• Does Your House Have Lions?  Beacon Press, 1997
• Homegirls & Handgrenades White Pine Press, 2007
• Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems  Beacon Press, 1998
• Sonia Sanchez [video] The Foundation, 1991
• Under a Soprano Sky Africa World Press, 1987
• Wounded in the House of a Friend Beacon Press, 1995

January 24th, 2008
Boondocks Episode: “Return of the King”, 7-8PM  Blake Student Center

In this controversial episode of the animated series, The Boondocks, Rev. Martin Luther King awakes from a coma after 32 years and finds post-September 11th America very different from the 1960s.

Read about the controversy:  Cartoon Network Defends "Boondocks" (InfoTrac) 

Listen to the NMH Jazz Ensemble Combo Performance, 5:30-7PM  Alumni Hall

The NMH Jazz Ensemble will perform during Thursday dinner.

State of the World Speaker, Rick Lussen

NMH presents, STATE OF THE WORLD speaker

Rick Lussen

Mr. Lussen will speak on complexities of history, life, and culture in post-Soviet Georgia. After teaching in the NMH History department  for over 20 years, Mr. Lussen assumed the Principal at Tbilisi's American Academy in the Republic of Georgia.

WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2007, at 6:45 P.M.
WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

DOWNLOAD ELECTION RESULTS, COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: georgia_news_digest_010808.pdf

Read about the country...

• "Georgia"  Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 8 Jan. 2007 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9108703>.

Read about the issues...

• The art of diplomacy; Georgian culture.(A Caucasian nation does battle for the national patrimony). The Economist (US) (Oct 22, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Jan. 2007.

Susan Douglas, Author

Get ready!

On Wednesday, Nov.14, 2007, NMH presents author and Professor of Communications, 

Susan Douglas

Biography

Susan Jeanne Douglas  Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.

Susan J. Douglas In These Times

Articles and Interviews

Reiter, Amy. "The mommy mystique: A new book faults the media, politicians and all those perfectly coiffed celebrity moms for making mothers feel like dirt."  salon.com. 24 Oct 2007. 

Robinson, Lillian S. "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media." The Nation 260.n4 (Jan 30, 1995): 138(4). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 24 Oct. 2007

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability.

Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1987. Call # 384.5409 D747i            

Listening In : Radio And The American Imagination Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Call # 791.440973 D747          

The Mommy Myth : The Idealization Of Motherhood And How It Has Undermined All Women New York : Free Press, 2005. Call # 306.874 D747            

Where The Girls Are : Growing Up Female With The Mass Media New York : Times Books, 1995.  Call # 302.234 D747w     

State of the World Speaker, Donald G. Glascoff Jr., '63

The NMH Center for International Studies presents documentary film producer

Donald G. Glascoff Jr. '63

“The courts seemed powerless to assure basic human rights to prisoners, as each decision they made to protect those rights was immediately negated by executive or legislative actions...”

WHEN: Thursday, November 1 at 6:45 PM

WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall

Read about Mr. Glascoff's film, Taxi to the Dark Side

Weissberg, Jay. "Taxi To The Dark Side.(Movie review)." Variety 406.12 (May 7, 2007): 45(1). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 31 Oct. 2007

Read about the issues

Gutenson, Chuck. "Losing our souls: torture damages all involved--so why would our government defend it?(TORTURE)(Column)."   Sojourner's Magazine 35.1 (Jan 2006): 8(1). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 26 Oct. 2007

 

Pamela Tanner Boll, Filmmaker

Pamela Tanner Boll, parent of Ian ’06 and Alex ’07, is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and activist. As coexecutive producer of the Academy Award-winning film Born into Brothels: The Kids of Calcutta’s Red Light District, she powerfully combined her art with her activism. Pam is currently producing the following film projects:  Global Moms; Life on the Edge: True Stories of Doctors Without Borders; 9/12: From Chaos to Community; Kashmir; and In a Dream.

Pam is also directing and producing the film Who Does She Think She Is?, a feature-length documentary about the lives of female artists and mothers. It follows six contemporary women working in the arts—sculptors, musicians, painters, and poets—and shows their struggle to express themselves in a world that sometimes devalues the contributions of women as artists and caregivers.

A special screening of Ms. Boll's new film will be held this weekend.

WHEN: Oct. 13, 2007 at 2:00 P.M.

WHERE: Beveridge basement theater

Read about Ms. Boll:

"Images and Visions" Woman in the Wings, July 2005. Woman's View <http://www.awomansviews.com/wings/0705_visions.htm>

Read about Born into Brothels:

"Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids." McCarthy, Todd. Variety 394.4 (March 8, 2004): 41(1). Educator's Reference Complete. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Oct. 2007
<http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>.

Richard Rodriguez

Get ready! On Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, NMH presents

Richard Rodriguez

Biography

Richard Rodriguez. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Biography Resource Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Richard Rodriquez. Dictionary of Hispanic Biography, Gale, 1996. Biography Resource Center, Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Essays

Richard Rodriguez Essays Online News Hour, PBS, (Dec.1, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Articles and Interviews

The new, new world: Richard Rodriguez on culture and assimilation. Reason (August-Sept 1994): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

Analysis: Race and identity in the United States.(9:00-10:00 AM)(Broadcast transcript). NPR Special Coverage. (Jan 6, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Northfield Mount Hermon School.

In the NMH Library. Click on title to check availability.

Brown : The Last Discovery Of America. New York : Penguin Books, 2003. Call #: 305.896 R618b   

Days Of Obligation : An Argument With My Mexican Father.  New York : Viking, 1992.  Call #: 979.4 R618d   

Hunger Of Memory : The Education Of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography.  New York : Bantam Books, 2004. Call #: 371.97 R618h   

Richard Rodriguez.  Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1994.  Call #: Media Center - Video 973.0468 R618v      

Judy Blume, Banned Books Week Speaker

Judy Blume, award-winning author of over 30 books for children, teenagers, and adults, is coming to the NMH Library on Friday, October 5, 7 p.m.

Ms. Blume will help NMH celebrate “the freedom to read” during Banned Books Week.*

Mark your calendar, and plan to stop by the library for a conversation with Judy Blume about intellectual freedom, censorship, writing, and to ask your burning questions about her and her books.  And yes, there will be snacks.

Who is Judy Blume?

"Judy Blume." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007.

Ms. Blume’s Website

Ms. Blume’s Blog

Ms.Blume on Censorship

Articles and Interviews

"Talking with Judy Blume." Instructor (1990) 114.8 (May-June 2005): 37(2). General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007

"Judy Blume Celebrates the 35th Anniversary of 'Fudge' and His Debut in 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing'." Internet Wire (Sept 5, 2007): NA. General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007

"Interview: Judy Blume discusses her career as a successful and controversial author of books for young readers.(9:00-10:00 PM)(Broadcast transcript)." All Things Considered (Sept 15, 2004): NA. General OneFile. Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 27 Sept. 2007  

In the NMH Library (click on titles to check availability)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Bradbury Press, 1970.

Blubber. Bradbury Press, 1974.

Forever ... Pocket Books, 1976.

It's Not The End Of The World. Bradbury Press, 1972.

The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo. Reilly & Lee Books, 1969.

The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo. Dell, 1984.

Places I Never Meant To Be : Original Stories By Censored Writers. Aladdin, 2001.

Summer Sisters : A Novel. Dell Pub., 1999.

Superfudge. Dutton, 1980.

Tiger Eyes : A Novel. Bradbury Press, 1981.

* From The American Library Association

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual ALA event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. This year, 2007, marks Banned Books Week's 26th anniversary (September 29 through October 6).

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.”

 

State of the World Speaker, Josh Emmott '91

The NMH Center for International Studies presents

Josh Emmott '91

Mr. Emmott writes...

My presentation is entitled Facts on the Ground. I will be looking at the social, economic, health and political impact of the wall, security fences, and other infrastructure related to the settlements in the West Bank upon the Palestinians. This presentation is based on my 8 weeks in the West Bank in the summer of 2006. I spent the summer studying Arabic at Bir Zeit University and was able to travel extensively in the West Bank and experience live under occupation in an apartheid state.

Read about 2 sides of the Security Barrier issue

Cook, Catherine. "The Security Fence Between Israel and the Palestinians Undermines Peace Efforts."  Opposing Viewpoints: Israel. Ed. John Woodward. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 24 Sept. 2007.

Landau, Uzi. "The Security Fence Between Israel and the Palestinians Is Necessary for Peace."  Opposing Viewpoints: Israel. Ed. John Woodward. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2005. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 24 Sept. 2007.

WHEN: 6:45 PM on Wednesday, Sept.26 '07

WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

Legendary Malachy McCourt To be Commencement speaker for Class of 2007

WHEN: June 3, 2007, 11 AM

WHERE: Thorndike Field

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die,” said Malachy MCCourt.

Malachy McCourt is well known and respected for his talents as an actor, playwright, commentator, critic, newspaper columnist, historian, and radio and television personality.

In addition to his many accomplishments, Mr. McCourt is the grandfather of a member of the graduating class -- Mark McCourt '07.

Mr. McCourt's life story truly is a fascinating one and reflects a man who lives life fully and creatively. Born in Brooklyn, from the age of three McCourt was raised in Limerick, Ireland. His was a hardscrabble existence leading him to leave school early to begin work as a laborer in Ireland and England. At age 20, McCourt returned to the US where held a series of jobs as a manual laborer until he became an actor. Throughout his life and work, Ireland and his Irish heritage clearly have impacted McCourt's outlook, resilience and respect for the power of words. Mr. McCourt recently has been touring on stage in A Couple of Blaguards, a play he co-wrote with his brother Frank McCourt, noted author of Angela’s Ashes.

In addition to penning a weekly column Sez I To Myself that appears in three New York papers, McCourt has written eight books and published articles in such periodicals as National Geographic and The New York Times. His books include a New York Times best seller memoir A Monk Swimming and another memoir Singing My Him Song. In addition he had written several histories, including Voices of Ireland (an anthology), Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland, the history of the song Danny Boy, and a history of The Claddagh Ring. He also has written Harold Be Thy Name and Bush Lies in State.

In addition to serving as one of the first radio talk show hosts, Mr. McCourt has been a regular guest on television shows, including the Conan O'Brien Show on CBS. He has received awards and recognitions from numerous organizations. He has appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway stages, and has played parts on television and in films such as Molly Maguires, She's the One, The Devil's Own, Green Card, Gods and Generals and Ash Wednesday.

Mr. McCourt has been married for nearly 40 years to his wife Diana. They have five children, and Mark is one of their four grandchildren.

The Guy

Internet Movie Database Biography

His own website

 

His Works

The books

Read Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland at google books

A fascinating audio exclusive in National Geographic about Bombay India done by McCourt.

McCourt’s most recent play, A Couple of Blaguards, in which he performed together with his brother Frank McCourt.

Check out the books we have in the library, which are on display at the circulation desk.

Singing My Him Song

A Monk Swimming

Danny Boy: the legend of the beloved Irish ballad

Voices of Ireland

Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland

The Other Side of the Man

McCourt ran for Governor of New York in 2006 on the Green Party Ticket

Excerpt from his campaign speech in Times Square

Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby To Speak

Jeff Jacoby To Speak Thursday March 29th as part of the Jacqueline Smethurst Series.

WHEN:   Thursday, March 29th, 12:20 PM

WHERE:  All School Meeting in the Chapel, Parents are welcome to attend

Columnist for the otherwise liberal Boston Globe, Mr. Jacoby serves as "blue-state" Massachusetts' preeminent spokesperson for "red-state" conservatism. His provocative columns on the political and social issues of the day evidence his legal training.

• BIOGRAPHY

Jeff Jacoby became an op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe in February 1994. Seeking a conservative voice to balance its famously liberal roster of commentators, the Globe hired him away from the Boston Herald, where he had been chief editorial writer since 1987. The Boston Phoenix has dubbed his twice-weekly essays a ``a must-read,'' describing Jacoby as ``the region's preeminent spokesman for Conservative Nation.'' A native of Cleveland, Jacoby graduated with honors from George Washington University in 1979, and from Boston University Law School in 1983. He practiced law for a short time at the nation firm of Baker & Hostetler, but returned to Boston to become deputy manager of Ray Shamie's 1984 campaign for the U.S. Senate. In 1985-87, Jacoby was an assistant to Dr. John Silber, who at the time was president of Boston University. In addition to his print work, Jacoby has been a political commentator for WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio affiliate. For several years he hosted ``Talk of New England,'' a weekly television program, and has often appeared as a panelist on WCVB-TV's ``Five on Five.'' He is an overseer of the Huntington Theatre Company, the largest resident theatre in Boston, and is on the board of The Concord Review, a quarterly journal of essays on history by secondary students worldwide. In 1999, Jacoby became the first recipient of the Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, a $10,000 journalism prize. - bio from The Boston Globe site.  (https://bostonglobe.com/newsroom/Editorial-Opinion/jacoby.stm)

In 1999, Jacoby became the first recipient of the Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, a $10,000 journalism prize.

Jacoby's column appears every Sunday and Thursday in the Globe, and he writes a Web-only column on the fourth Thursday of every month.

Read The Columns...

• Search our Newsbank America's Newspapers database for all of his columns: 

Read about the man...

• http://www.slate.com/id/1005659/

Read about the issues...

• Election 2008 The Political System and Elections updated daily
• Article about Red/Blue Polarization in the Elections
• Information about the Red and Blue States Systems, its history and practical uses.
• Political Commentary from the HArvard Political Review

Feb 12, 2007 in Speakers & Events @ NMH | Permalink | Comments

Search our Newsbank America's Newspapers database for all of his columns: 

State of the World speaker

Jack Kenworthy to Speak on Experiential Education

WHEN: Wednesday, February 14th, at 6:45 P.M.
WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

 

Jack Kenworthy (NMH '95)

• Mr. Kenworthy will discuss the evolution of experiential education that the Island School has pioneered as it pertains to creating real world solutions to problems of environmental and resource management. In particular, he will show the potential for education at the high school level to be tied not only to authentic research opportunities, but for those research components to feed for-profit, mission-related activities that help endow the school's philanthropic and educational goals. Specific projects covered will include commercial biodiesel, offshore aquaculture, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy as core components of the organization.

• Mr. Kenworthy is Co-Founder and Director of Cape Systems at the Cape Eleuthera Institute in The Bahamas. Prior to the launch of the Institute, he worked at The Island School for 3 years as a science teacher, research advisor and designer. As the Director of Systems, his work encompasses design and installation work on renewable energy projects, biological waste treatment facilities, green building projects, biofuels development, legislation reform, aquaculture, and education for sustainability. Mr. Kenworthy graduated from The University of Vermont (summa cum laude) in Environmental Studies. He has been awarded the George T. Kidder Award for Leadership, Scholarship, and Service and the Crow Award for excellence in systems thinking (Columbia University, 1998) as well as numerous honors from the University of Vermont.  He is now focused on the expansion of sustainable systems development throughout The Bahamas and greater Caribbean.

Read About the Country...

• "Bahamas", Encyclopedia Britannica, Online School Edition, 2007

Read about the school...

• The Island School

Read about the issues...

• What is Experiential Education?
• Sustainable Systems - the speaker's website, The Island School
• What is Biodiesel?  National Biodiesel Board
• Office of Sustainable Fisheries Program on aquaculture
• Sustainable Agriculture:  Definitions and Terms - USDA
• U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory - Learning About Renewable Energy

Jack Kenworthy to Speak on Experiential Education

WHEN: Wednesday, February 14th, at 6:45 P.M.
WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

Sister Helen Prejean, Founder's Day Speaker

Get ready! On Sunday, February 4, 2007,

NMH presents Founder's Day Speaker...

Sister Helen Prejean

Biography

• Helen Prejean Contemporary Authors Online, 2006. Biography Resource Center.
• Helen Prejean  Biography Resource Center
• Helen Prejean, CSJ., official website

Articles and Interviews

• Anderson, George M. "The other side of the death penalty: an interview with Helen Prejean." America 192.9 (March 14, 2005): 6. InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 31 Jan. 2007
• Ripley, Amanda. "10 Questions For Helen Prejean." Time 165.8 (Feb 21, 2005): 8. InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 31 Jan. 2007
• Scherer-Emunds, Meinrad. "Wrongful death." U.S. Catholic 70.4 (April 2005): 28(5). InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 31 Jan. 2007

In the NMH Library ..  Click on titles to check availablity.

• Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States Random House, 1993.
• The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions Random House, 2005.
• Dean Man Walking (Video) PolyGram Video, 1996.

Nuruddin Farah, SLC Speaker

Get ready! On Thursday, February 1, 2007, NMH presents author..

Nuruddin Farah

Biography

• Farah Nuruddin Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006. Biography Resource Center, NMH School.

Interview and Article

War and finding peace: Nuruddin Farah, 61, spoke with us about returning home to Somalia and his startling new work, Knots by Patrik Henry Bass. Essence, Feb 2007. InfoTrac, NMH School.

"Doing history": Nuruddin Farah's Sweet and Sour Milk, Subaltern Studies, and the postcolonial trajectory of silence. by John R. Williams. Research in African Literatures, Winter 2006. Biography Resource Center, NMH School.

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability.

• Gifts Penguin, 2000.

• Maps Penguin, 2000.

• Secrets Penguin, 1999.

 

• Under African Skies: Modern African Stories  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

damali ayo, MLK Jr. Day Speaker

d Get ready! On Thursday, Jan.18, 2007, NMH presents Martin Luther King Jr. Day Speaker...

damali ayo

Biography

damali ayo. artist. author. speaker

Articles and Interviews

"Don't worry, it's a rental. (Applications)." Harper's Magazine (August 2003): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Jan. 2007.

"Rent-a-Negro.com."  The Travis Smiley Show (6 June, 2003), National Public Radio: NPR.org. 11 Jan. 2007.

In the NMH Library. Click on title to check availability.

• How to Rent a Negro  Lawrence Hill Books, 2005.

Rick Lussen, State of the World Speaker

NMH presents, STATE OF THE WORLD speaker

Rick Lussen

Mr. Lussen will speak on complexities of history, life, and culture in post-Soviet Georgia. After teaching in the NMH History department  for over 20 years, Mr. Lussen assumed the Principal at Tbilisi's American Academy in the Republic of Georgia.

WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007, at 6:45 P.M.
WHERE: Rhodes Room, Beveridge

Get ready! Read about the country...

• "Georgia"  Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 8 Jan. 2007 <http://school.eb.com/eb/article-9108703>.

Read about the issues...

• The art of diplomacy; Georgian culture.(A Caucasian nation does battle for the national patrimony). The Economist (US) (Oct 22, 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Jan. 2007.
• The rose revolution shows its thorns. David Zane Mairowitz. The Progressive 69.10 (Oct 2005): InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. Northfield Mt. Hermon School. 8 Jan. 2007.

State of the World

When: Wed, Nov 8, 2006, at 6:45 P.M.
Where: Rhodes Room
Presenter: Ned Lebo

Ned holds a Masters Degree in Ecological Teaching and Learning from Lesley University and a Bachelors from Bowdoin College. Last year he took a leave of absence to lead a semester program in Ladakh, India.

If you can't make the meeting but would like to talk with Ned, they can come to dinner at 545 in the Southeast dining room.

The Student’s Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL - see below) is an amazing success story. This 30-40 minute PowerPoint begins with an introduction to Ladakh - geographically, geologically, culturally, and politically. Then it addresses some of the problems Ladakh faces as it "develops," primarily problems with the education system. As a result of poor education in Ladakh, a group of student activists formed SECMOL in 1988. I'll explain the history and mission of SECMOL, and then list the
ways in which the organization has made incredible progress on a shoestring budget. Emphasis is placed on the design and construction of solar-powered schools, renewable energy and appropriate technology.

SECMOL is located in Ladakh, which is a district in the eastern part of the Jammu and Kashmir state of India. Ladakh is a dry, mountainous region (8,000 - 14,000 feet), through which the Indus River flows. Ladakh has been open to tourism in 1974, and is a popular destination for trekkers. It is also home to a large Tibetan community.

- Dick Schwingel
History Department, NMH

Used Book Sale for Gulf Coast Libraries

WHAT:  Sale of books weeded from the NMH Library System collection, 25 cents each

WHY: Proceeds to the American Library Association Katrina Fund to rebuild Gulf Coast libraries

WHEN: Saturday, May 6, 2006, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

WHERE: Dolben Library, Northfield Campus, Northfield Mount Hermon School

Terry Tempest Williams

Get ready! On Tuesday, April 25, 2006, NMH presents ...

Terry Tempest Williams

Biography

• Terry Tempest Williams Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Biography Resource Center.

Interviews

• Writer says environmentalism still alive by Mark Melady. Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass.: Apr 13, 2005. pg. B.5. ProQuest.

• From idea to publication: Nature writing today Online broadcast of a panel discussion from radio station KCRW's bookworm, Oct.10, 1966.

• The politics of place: An interview with Terry Tempest Williams by Scott London. Adapted from the radio series Insight & Outlook.

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability.

• Desert Quartet  Pantheon Books, 1995.

• The Open Space of Democracy  Onion Society, 2004.

• Pieces of White Shell: : a journey to Navajoland  Scribner, 1984

• Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place  Pantheon, 1991

• An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field  Pantheon, 1994.
  

Bill McKibben

Get ready! On Thursday, April 13th,2006

NMH presents.......

Bill McKibben

• Here's his personal webpage:http://www.billmckibben.com/

In the NMH Library. Click on title to check availability.

• Wandering home: a long walk across America's most hopeful landscape, Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
• Enough: staying human in an engineered age
• The return of the wolf: reflections on the future of wolves in the Northeast
• Hope, human and wild: true stories of living lightly on the earth
• The age of missing information
• The end of nature

An Interview with the Sierra Club

Dave King

Get ready! On Monday,January 16, 2006, NMH presents ...

Dave King

• Dave King:The Official Website  Read about Mr. King and read an excerpt from his novel.
• Q & A Dave King (Interview). Barbara Hoffert. Library Journal, Nov 1, 2004.  

In the NMH Library. Click on title to check availability..

• The Ha-Ha: a Novel.  Dave King.  New York: Little, Brown, 2005.

Louise Schwingel writes:

Dave King, NMH '73, the award-winning author of the novel, The Ha-Ha, will be reading from his novel and taking questions from his listeners on Monday, January 16, from 6:45-7:45 in the Rhodes Room.  Refreshments will be served and Mr. King will be available to sign copies of his book following his presentation. (Copies of his book will be available for purchase on Monday night and are now available in the NMH bookstore.)

Please come and support our Writer in Residence program and meet a highly regarded author and alum!

Tim Wise

Get ready! On Thursday, January 19, 2006, NMH presents ...

Tim Wise

From the Tim Wise Home Page

Tim Wise is the Director of the newly-formed Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville, Tennessee. He lectures across the country about the need to combat institutional racism, gender bias, and the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. Wise has been called a "leftist extremist" by David Duke, "deceptively Aryan-looking" by a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and "the Uncle Tom of the white race," by right-wing author, Dinesh D' Souza. . . Read on ...

Read a speech by Tim Wise and an interview.

• "Breaking Myths, Moving Forward" University of Washington, November 15, 2003
• "Whiteness and Social Entropy of Privilege: An Interview with Tim Wise." by Brian Brasel Nov.19, 2002

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability..

• Affirmative action : racial preference in black and white. New York : Routledge, 2005.
• White like me. Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2005.

 

Gopal Nakarmi

NMH School presents State of the World speaker..

GOPAL NAKARMI
Community Development in Nepal

Thursday, Dec.8, 2005
6:45-7:55
Rhodes Room, Beveridge Hall

Get ready!

• Nakarmi, Gopal. "Rooftop water in Nepal." Alternatives Journal, Spring 2003. ProQuest.
• Fleury, Jean-Marc. "The mountain sculptors: Mountain soils are on loan only." International Development Research Centre.
• World Neighbors  "Founded in 1951 and rooted in the tradition of neighbor helping neighbor, World Neighbors is a nonprofit, non-sectarian, self-help organization supported by private donations."

Dr. Spencer Wells

Get ready! On Thursday, December 8, 2005, NMH presents ... 

Dr. Spencer Wells

From Emerging Explorers: National Geographic's Next Generation:

By collecting blood samples from thousands of men living in isolated tribes around the world and analyzing their DNA, 34-year-old geneticist Spencer Wells and his colleagues discovered that all humans alive today can be traced back to a small tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago.  .. Read on ..

Read interviews with Dr. Wells:

• "Interview with geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells." Indianatelevision, Dec. 2005.
• "We are all Africans under the skin." The Rediff Interview, Nov.27, 2002.
• "Spencer Wells Discusses his Study of the historical migration of the human race using DNA." Day to Day, National Public Radio, Apr.13, 2005.

In the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability..

• The Journay of Man: A Genetic Odyssey.  New York: Random House, 2004.
• Journey of Man [DVD]  Alexandria, VA: PBS Home Video, 2004

 

Frances Moore Lappe

Get ready! On Thursday, October 27, 2005, NMH presents ...

FRANCES MOORE LAPPE

Who is Frances Moore Lappe? Read her biography. Read interviews with her and her daughter. Visit her website to learn more about her work:

• Frances Moore Lappe. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003, Biography Resource Center.
• "3 questions for Anna Lappe."(Interview), by Nick Liever. O, The Oprah Magazine 4.6 (June 2003): 72(1). General Reference Center Gold.
• An Organic Interview with Frances Moore Lappe By Amber DiNenna Veggie Head Online
• Small Planet Institute

BOOKS in the NMH Library. Click on titles to check availability..

Aid as obstacle : twenty questions about our foreign aid and the hungry. Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, David Kinley. San Francisco : Institute for Food and Development Policy, c1980.

Betraying the national interest. Francis Moore Lappé, Rachel Schurman, Kevin Danaher. New York : Grove Press, 1987.

Diet for a small planet. Frances Moore Lappé. New York : Ballantine Books, 1991.

Diet for a small planet. Frances Moore Lappe. New York : Ballantine Books, 1975.

Food first : beyond the myth of scarcity. Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, with Cary Fowler. Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, 1977.

Hope's edge : the next diet for a small planet. Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé. New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003.

World hunger : ten myths. Frances Moore Lappé & Joseph Collins. San Francisco : Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1979.

World hunger : twelve myths. Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins. New York : Grove Press, 1986.

State of the World Seminar

Presents...
Stephen M. Young, U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, speaking on the U.S. policies in Central Asia.

Friday, April 29, 2005
3:00 - 4:00 PM
The Rhodes Room, Beveridge

Biography: Stephen M. Young  U.S. Department of State

Interviews:

Stephen Young's interview in  Argumenty i Fakty , Feb.2, 2005
Interview to Radio Azattyk and Radio BBC Kyrgyz, Feb. 18, 2005

Available on the NMH network only:

Kyrgyzstan Britannica Student Encyclopaedia

Articles:

"United States closely following events in Kyrgyzstan" The America's Intelligence Wire, March 24, 2005. InfoTrac.

Carl, Christian, "Turning a Blind Eye." (U.S. relations with Central Asia) Newsweek International, June 3, 2002. InfoTrac

State of the World Series

Presents ...
BENJAMIN R. BARBER, speaking on
"Democracy, Terrorism and Interdependence"

Wednesday, April 6, 2005
6:30 PM
Dolben Theater

Benjamin R. Barber   Contemporary Authors Online. Gale: 2003. Biography Resource Center, InfoTrac

Benjamin R. Barber  Official Website

A Call To Action: The CivWorld Citizens Campaign  by Sondra Myers,  Benjamin R Barber. UN Chronicle. New York: Mar-May 2004. ProQuest.

Check it out!   Books and videos in the NMH Library

Kimmie Weeks. Get ready!

On Monday, February 28th, 2005, NMH presents ..
NMH graduate and child rights activist, Kimmie Weeks.
 
Read about Kimmie Weeks:

• Biography of Kimmie Weeks Action for Nature: Amazing Stories @ Messages

• Africa - Kimmie Weeks: African Youth Flees Homeland to Work for Peace Building a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World

• Child Rights Activist to End Five Year Political Exile  Pressbox.co.uk

Read articles about the issues Kimmie is involved with: (Available on NMH network only)

• Hunger, hate, and the lure of adventure. Mariam Ayoti. World Press Review, Jan 1996. Academic ASAP, InfoTrac.

• Child soldiers in Africa: a disaster for future families. Elliott P. Skinner. International Journal on World Peace, June 1999. Academic ASAP, InfoTrac.

• U.N. condemns a growing trend. Linda Fasulo. U.S. News & World Report, July 13, 1998. Academic ASAP, InfoTrac.

• Conscription of children in armed conflict.  D G H de Silva, C J Hobbs. British Medical Journal June 2, 2001. Academic ASAP, InfoTrac.

• Face to face with former child soldiers--and hope: Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas visits Sierra Leone.  Yvonne Acosta. UN Chronicle June-August 2003. Academic ASAP, InfoTrac.

Be educated! Be inspired!

Shared Heart Exhibit

Visit the SHARED HEART Exhibit at Schauffler Library. Affirming Images of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Young People
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Meet the photographer! Gail Demaine writes: There will be an opening/reception/presentation by the photographer, Adam Mastoon on Friday, Feb 4, 2005, at 7:00 in Shauffler Library on MH. Students and others present will have a chance to hear from Adam and ask questions of him. Refreshments will be served.
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READ personal accounts from young gays. (Only available on NMH network)

Gay youth revolution (my perspective)  The Advocate, Mar.18, 2003

A Lack of role modes The Advocate, Dec.9, 2003

Beyond Black and White The Advocate, Nov.25, 2003Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People

Coming out gay -- and happy  New York Times Upfront, Mar.25, 2002
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READ the book! SHARED HEART: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Young People. HarperCollins, 1997.

Paul Winter

Paul Winter, the Earth Band and the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Ensemble present:

          WORLD TREE in Forslund Gym at 7:00, January 27, 2005 (NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)

The Jacqueline Smethurst Series sponsors "The World Tree" by Paul Winter and The Earth Band, with the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Ensemble. Paul Winter's objective in this performance is "to create ‘universal music’ accessible to people of any background or culture; to provide audiences with an experience of connectedness to nature; and to awaken in people a receptivity to becoming more deeply involved in the world.”

here is a link to bio info

ALSO -  workshop for the community led by Paul Winter in Grandin on   Tuesday 1/25 at 2:15