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Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts lectured to a spellbound audience at the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in October 1997. A spoof of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel antics feature actual Nobel laureates in an evening of Harvard hilarity. |
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Columnist William F. Buckley(left) hailed John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, at the Kennedy School of Government premiere screening of Thus Galbraith: The Life and Times
of John Kenneth Galbraith, a film written and produced by Lorie
Conway for WGBH-TV. The event was held in November 1997 at the ARCO
Forum at the Kennedy School. |
| The Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes (right) welcomed Malcolm
Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Sister
Wendy Beckett to tea at Sparks House in September 1997. Sister Wendy
was in Boston promoting her television series, The Story of Painting,
broadcast on WGBH. |
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The Harvard Lampoon named Randy "Macho Man" Savage its Real Man of the Year in February 1998. |
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| Actress Jane Fonda visited with SPH Acting Dean James Ware (left) and his wife, Janice Ware, and Provost Harvey Fineberg in March 1998.
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Film critics Gene Siskel (left) and Roger Ebert (right) gave "two thumbs up" to their visit with Law School Dean Robert Clark following their speaking engagement with Law School students in December 1997. |
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His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, spoke at Harvard in February 1998 as a guest of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. |
| Kim Campbell (left), former Prime Minister of Canada, spoke with guest Deborah Penn, sophomore Sarah Melvoin, and Public Policy Fellow Wendy Kaminer at a reception for the Tenth Annual Harvard Women's Leadership Celebration in September 1997. |
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Chinese dissident Harry Wu addressed the crowds protesting Jiang's policies on the same day that Jiang spoke. |
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Chinese President Jiang Zemin spoke at Harvard in November 1997 amid protests. |
| Former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder (left) was greeted by Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson in April 1998. Schroeder spoke at Radcliffe
to kick off a national book tour for her autobiography, 24 Years of House Work . . . and the Place Is Still a Mess. |
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Anne Sweeney (center), EdM '80, president of the Disney Channel, donated hundreds of hours of videotapes, including original Disney Channel productions, films, and home videos to the Graduate School of Education in April 1998. Pictured with Sweeney are Peggy Charren (left), founder of Action for Children's Television and GSE visiting scholar, and
Jerome T. Murphy, Dean of the Graduate School of Education. |
