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SAS
Dean's Forum: A Celebration of
Intellectual Excellence
Each
year since 1984, the School of Arts and
Sciences Dean's Forum has presented leading
intellectual figures who exemplify the liberal
arts tradition. Dean Samuel H. Preston has
announced that this year's Forum will feature
author David McCullough as he discusses
the Qualities of Leadership on Tuesday,
February 18. The Forum takes place at 4:30
p.m., in Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center.
Mr.
McCullough is a two-time winner of
the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize,
and has been honored by the National
Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters Award, the National
Humanities Medal, the St. Louis Literary
Award, the Carl Sandburg Award, and
the New York Public Library's Literary
Lion Award. Mr. McCullough is the author
of The Johnstown Flood, The
Great Bridge, The Path between
the Seas, Brave Companions,
Mornings on Horseback, and Truman.
Mr.
McCullough's latest biography, John
Adams, hit the New York Times bestsellers
list at number one and continues to
entice readers with the life story
of one of America's greatest-but almost
forgotten--heroes: John Adams.
The
SAS Dean's Forum has brought to Penn's
campus leading intellectual figures
who exemplify the liberal arts tradition.
Previous Dean's Forum speakers include:
Craig Venter, Tom Wolfe, John Updike,
Maxine Hong Kingston, Garry Wills,
Floyd E. Bloom, Jonathan Miller, Donald
C. Johanson, Arthur Schlesinger, Philip
Roth, Toni Morrison, Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Governors Pierre S. duPont of Delaware
and Gerald Baliles of Virginia, Gerald
Edelman, Baruch Blumberg, James Watson,
Susan Sontag, and Arthur Miller.
During
the Dean's Forum, several undergraduate
and graduate students are honored as
Dean's Scholars in recognition of their
outstanding academic performance and
intellectual promise.
The
Dean's Forum is free and open to the
entire University community and the
public.
For
more information and to RSVP call (215)
898-5262 or e-mail tamburri@sas.upenn.edu.
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