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