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Calendar of Great Lives Lectures

The 2008 lectures have been planned in conjunction with the Centennial Celebration. We are presenting great lives from the past century, 1908-2008. All lectures are open to the public free of charge and begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium. Lectures last about an hour.

2008 Lecture Presenter
January 17 Mary Ball Washington

Special Centennial Lecture
Martha Saxton
Amherst College
Departments of History and Women's and Gender Studies

January 24 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jean Edward Smith
Marshall University
Author of FDR

January 31 Theodore Roosevelt

Kathleen Dalton
Boston University
Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

February 7 Frank Lloyd Wright

Meryle Secrest
Author of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography

February 12 Ella Fitzgerald

Douglas Gately
UMW Department of Music

February 19 James Farmer

Timothy O'Donnell
UMW Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech

February 21 Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler

Robert Gellately
Florida State University
Author of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler

February 26 Douglas MacArthur

Porter Blakemore
UMW Department of History and American Studies

February 28 Eisenhower and Marshall

Mark Perry
Author of Partners in Command

March 13 Mary and George Washington

Special Centennial Lecture
Peter Henriques
Professor Emeritus of History
George Mason University

March 20 Margaret Sanger

Ellen Chesler
Hunter College, CUNY
Author of Woman of Valor

March 27 Betty Friedan

Daniel Horowitz
Smith College
Author of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique

April 1 Margaret Mitchell

Darden Asbury Pyron
Florida International University
Author of Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell

April 3 Billy Graham Michael Dufy
Time Magazine
Author of The Preacher and the Presidents
April 8 The Beatles

Gardner Campbell
UMW Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech

April 15 Dr. Seuss

Philip Nel
Kansas State University
Author of Dr. Seuss: American Icon

April 17 Babe Ruth

William Nack
Sports Illustrated, retired

April 22 Richard M. Nixon

Stephen Farnsworth
UMW Department of Political Science

April 24 Bill and Hillary Clinton

Sally Bedell Smith
Author of For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton