Sponsored Events
| April 24, 1970 | Richard Wilbur reading in Johnson Chapel |
| April 23, 1971 | Richard
Murphy reading in Alumni House [jointly sponsored by the Friends and the English Department] |
| October 30, 1971 | Charles Carrington reading and recitation of Rudyard Kipling |
| April 21, 1972 | Evening program celebrating the publication of Poetry Amherst |
| May 1973 | Concert
featuring Roger Sessions sesquicentennial composition [attended jointly with the Friends of Music] |
| Spring 1973 | John Cruickshank
address on Charles Peguy John Cruickshank address "Malraux and Mid-Century Nihilism" |
| March 1974 | Richard
Poirier "Robert Frost, Safe in History" [Frost Centennial Lecture, Johnson Chapel, sponsored by the College] |
| April 5, 1976 | Mario DiCesare address "Irony and the Epic Tradition" |
| April 9, 1976 | Mario DiCesare address "Poetry and Prophecy" |
| April 30, 1977 | Inauguration of the Laurence B. Packard Memorial Collection, chiefly the work of John Bowditch 1936 and Alfred Havinghurst H1955 |
| April 28, 1978 | Herbert
S. Bailey, Jr. address "Scholarly Communications: Where
We Are and Where We Are Going. " Babbott Room |
| April 27, 1979 | F. T. Prince address at the Lord Jeffery Inn |
| April 25, 1980 | Thomas P. Whitney 1937 address on collecting Russian publications |
| May 4, 1981 | Thom Gunn
address on Ivor Winters. Merrill Center |
| April 29, 1982 | William Pritchard 1953 address "How to Write a Life of Robert Frost" |
| April 25, 1983 | James Merrill
1947 reading. Babbott Room |
| April 29, 1983 | James Merrill
1947 reading. Babbott Room |
| May 4, 1984 | Mary Hyde
address on Dr. Samuel Johnson. Merrill Center |
| May 1, 1985 | Helen Vendler
address "Shakespeare's Sonnets 73, 116 and 129" Babbott Room |
| May 3, 1985 | Helen Vendler
address "Keats and the Social Function of the Past." Merrill Dining Commons |
| April 26, 1986 | Robert A. Gross address on the social history of reading in Concord, Massachusetts. Merrill Dining Commons |
| May 15, 1986 | Program of readings to celebrate the Emily Dickinson centennial. Organized by David Porter and Elizabeth DeBevoise (1935). Johnson Chapel |
| October 6, 1986 | Wolfgang Milde address "The Art of Manuscripts from the Sixth to the Sixteenth Century: Codices Wolfenbuettel." |
| April 2, 1987 | Joseph
Amiel 1959 "Seriously, I Write Popular Fiction." Babbott Room |
| April 24, 1987 | Richard
Sewall address "The Herbarium and Beyond." Converse Assembly Room |
| April 30, 1987 | Richard
Sewall address "'The Chemical Conviction' Science and the
Poet: Emily Dickinson." Converse Assembly Room |
| April 22, 1988 | Twentieth
Anniversary program of Friends reading to themselves. Organized by John Peterson |
| April 28, 1989 | Werner
Gundersheimer 1959 address on Folger Shakespeare Library. Converse Assembly Room |
| November 13, 1989 | Richard
Wilbur 1942 reading. Converse Assembly Room |
| November 17, 1989 | Richard
Wilbur 1942 reading. Johnson Chapel |
| April 27, 1990 | Richard
Wilbur 1942 reading. Johnson Chapel |
| April 25, 1991 | Margaret
Geller address "Images in Science." Stirn Auditorium |
| April 25, 1991 | Barry Maurer
1959 address on his life as a reader and collector of books. Merrill Center |
| October 25, 1991 | Paul Ruxin
1965 address on James Boswell. Merrill Center |
| October 25, 1991 | Franco
Modigliani address " The S & L Debate: Who Should Pay?" Converse Assembly Room |
| February 10, 1992 | Donald
White address on the Thomas Mann Collection "Great Reader,
Great Collector: The Harold J. Bailey 1908 Collection." Special Collections |
| April 24, 1992 | Harry Duncan
address on the Cummington Press "New England Novitiate:
1939-1956." Converse Assembly Room |
| October 23, 1992 | Donald
B. Engley address on Rockwell Kent. Merrill Center |
| March 27, 1993 | Symposium "Emma Willard and the Changing Tradition of Women's Education." Funded by the Howard A. Newton 1906 Memorial Fund |
| October 29, 1993 | Leo Marx address on the sixties at Amherst [30th Anniversary of the Frost Library dedication |
| October- November 1993 |
Exhibit of photographs (mostly by Robert Sargent Fay1956 of the convocation and ground-breaking ceremonies for the Frost Library.) |
| April 22, 1994 | Anthony
Hecht reading Converse Red Room |
| October 14, 1994 | Gerald B. Gibson address. Co-sponsored with the Friends of Amherst College Music. |
| October 20 & 27, 1994 | Martin Daly and Margo Wilson lectures: "Violence against Wives: An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective" and "The Truth about Cinderella." |
| October 28, 1995 | Rededication of the Robert Frost Library and the Merrill Science Library. Speakers: Tom Gerety, Willlis Bridegam, Samuel Ellenport, William Pritchard. |
| April 15, 1996 | Hans-Albrecht
Koch lecture and presentation "Dresden — Crossroads
of Europe." Converse Red Room |
| April 26, 1996 | Joe Stiglitz
address "Economic Growth and Workers' Anxiety: Policies
for Today and the Twenty-First Century." Converse Red Room |
| October 11, 1996 | Timothy
Steele reading Converse Red Room |
| April 18, 1997 | John Solt
lecture and presentation: "Modern Japanese Book Designers." Frost Library Media Room |
| October 24, 1997 | James
Carroll address "The Virtue of Writing: Politics, Art,
and Moral Responsibility." |
| April 17, 1998 | John Moon
address "As Others See Us." Robert Frost Library |
| April 22, 1998 | Paul
O'Rourke lecture "Books and Learning in Ancient Egypt." |
| April 23, 1998 | Alina Paynes address. Co-sponsored with the Department of Fine Arts. |
| October 15, 1999 | Jay
Parini "Reading Poems and Talking." |
| October 23, 1999 | Stanley
Rabinowitz address Webster Hall |
| November 3, 1999 | Tad Mosel
address "Befriended by Books." Robert Frost Library, Barnet Reading Room |
| January 28, 2000 | Dedication
of the Barbara and Frederick S. Lane '36 Room. Robert Frost Library |
| May 5, 2000 | Robert
DeMaria address "Lying and Literature in the Eighteenth
Century." |
| July 19, 2000 | Ellen Louise
Hart address "Editing in Amherst. The History and Mystery
of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts to Susan Dickinson." Robert Frost Library, Barnett Reading Room |
| October 20, 2000 | Four Oral
History Tapes: M. Abbott Van Nostrand, Charlotte S. Turgeon,
Theodore P. Greene, Elizabeth M. Guest. Robert Frost Library, Barnett Reading Room |
| October 26, 2000 | Beeke Sell
Tower "GIRLKULTUR — Americanism and the New Woman
in the Weimar Republic." Robert Frost Library, Archives/Special Collections |
| March 13, 2001 | Meredith
McGill address "Piracy and Publishing in the Antebellum
United States." Robert Frost Library, Alfred Friendly Periodicals Reading Room |
| April 27, 2001 | Daniel
Hall address "Form and Freedom: Thom Gunn in America." |
| October 26, 2001 | Marianne
Constable address "Silences in the Library." Converse, Porter Lounge |
| November 14, 2001 | Alfred Habegger address
"No Manuscript is an Island: the Local and the Global in
Biographical Research." Robert Frost Library, Barnett Reading Room |
| April 19, 2002 | Domhnall Mitchell lecture, "Getting Nearer, Knowing Less: Reading Emily Dickinson Manuscripts." Converse, Porter Lounge |
| October 18, 2002 | David Ferry 1946 reading. Converse, Cole Assembly Room |
| December 10, 2002 | Polly Longsworth (1951) lecture, "Abyss Has No Biographer: Researching the Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson." Robert Frost Library, Barnett Reading Room |
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