Throughout the summer, Great Books Summer Program welcomed special guests, authors and journalists to campus to join our discussion. This series is a major feature of the program and brings fascinating and sometimes well-known visitors to engage with our young people.

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Select 2006 Guest Speakers

Doris Kearns Goodwin Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and biographer. Author of the current bestseller, A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Joined discussions on Lincoln, Leadership and the Constitution. Great Books 2006 Video: Put yourself in the classroom as Doris Kearns Goodwin conveys Leo Tolstoy’s thoughts on the character of Abraham Lincoln.                                   Windows Media Player           Quicktime                                   Broadband   Dial-Up                   Broadband   Dial-Up

Chuck Scarborough News anchor and journalist at NBC Channel 4 New York. Winner of 28 Emmys. Joined discussions on Freedom of the Press.

Michael Obel-Omia Educator, writer, and director of admissions at the Roxbury Latin School. NPR radio “columnist” and expert on Dr. Martin Luther King. In-residence discussion leader.

Dr. David Johnson Rowe Past president of Habitat for Humanity, Congregational Minister, and author. Founder of schools, orphanage and hospital programs in India. Joined discussions on the idea of the Brotherhood of Man.

Student Film Makers College film makers showed and discussed their work on relevant themes as part of the Great Books Summer Program film festival.

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