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Last updated April 7, 2008.
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Spring 2008 Calendar

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April 7, Monday – Music: "Classical Acoustic Guitar Solo" Acoustic Guitar Soloist Joshua Millard combines creative vision, depth of feeling, and effortless virtuosity. Joshua Millard belongs to a select group of young musicians who uphold the highest standards of artistic responsibility.
Conant Library, 7:00 p.m.
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April 9, Wednesday – Women’s History Month Speaker: "Enterprising Women" – Edith Mayo will celebrate 250 years of women in business. Her discussion is based on the traveling exhibition on women business entrepreneurs for the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is curator emeritus in political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. (co-sponsor Organization of American Historians History Club)
Davis Hall Room 205/207, 7:00 p.m.
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April 21, Monday – Fischer Memorial Symposium: "In Debt We Trust, the Crisis of Debt in America" – Dr. Robert Manning -- America’s attitudes toward credit and debt have experienced a profound transformation over the last three decades of the deregulation of the U.S. banking industry. As the banks’ best customers have changed from those who pay off their loans as soon as possible to those who are perpetually in debt, America has witnessed an historically unprecedented rise in household debt levels and record low consumer saving rates. Dr. Manning is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Consumer Financial Services at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Davis Hall Room 205/207, 7:00 p.m.
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April 22, Tuesday – Special Presentation: Barry Drake Presents "60’s Rock:  When the Music Mattered" – The decade of the 60s was one of the most interesting periods in American history. Through all of the good and bad times, it was the music that brought us together and sometimes tore us apart. The political turmoil, the social upheaval, the hippie movement, the Vietnam War and the generation gap were all reflected in the popular music of the day. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Supremes, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, and yes, even The Monkees, were the sounds filling the airwaves throughout those turbulent years.  60s Rock - When The Music Mattered will celebrate, examine, clarify and put into perspective one of the most exciting decades in our music history.
Daniels Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. (co-sponsored with CAB)
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For more information
Len Harmon
Director, Fischer Institute
508-213-2230

or

Kathy Sandstrom
Assistant to the Director
508-213-2330

The Cultural Enrichment Program