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Past speakers
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2024 Press Releases are posted when available. |
Date | Speaker and Topic |
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Oct 16 |
David P. Hunt, “Intelligence Threats to the US, from the French to the Chinese and More, Plus |
Oct 9 | Laura Palmer, Executive Director of Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, N.Y., World Class Garden in National Register of Historic Places, “"Innisfree: An American Garden"” |
Oct 2 |
Bob Heussler, "Ranking The Great Sportscasters: Golden Age to the Digital Age” |
Sept 25 |
David G. Hawkins, Director, Climate Programs, Natural Resources Defense Council; “Current Issues in Protecting Our Climate” |
Sept 18 |
Ted Aldrich, Author of “The Partnership”; “It’s Complicated: The decision by the United States on How – Not If – to Use the Atomic Bomb During World War II” |
Sept 12 | No speaker, RMA Picnic |
Sept 4 |
Thomas Graham, Author: “Getting Russia Right: Why Russia Became an Adversary and How to Deal with It” |
Aug 28 |
Ralph White: Author, “Getting Out of Saigon” |
Aug 21 | Bill Drake, Greenwich resident; "General Lafayette Visits Greenwich" |
Aug 14 | Daniel Schulman, Author, "The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America" |
Aug 7 | Lawrence Schulman, "Judy Garland; "Moments of Magic," Author of "Garland – That's Beyond Entertainment, Reflections on Judy Garland" |
July 31 | Joie Cooney, Rye Historical Society, "Native Americans in Greenwich and Rye" |
July 24 | Phillip Dodd, Historian, author, "An American Renaissance: Beaux-arts Architecture in New York City." |
July 17 | Panel on Aging: Dr. Steven Katz, Roni Lang, Dr. James Pallett, Linda Ziac, "Successful Aging at Home and in Our Community" |
July 10 | Foster Hirsch, PhD., Professor of film at Brooklyn College. Author of a new book "Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties" |
July 3 | Anastasia Mills Healy, Author; "100 Things to Do in Connecticut before You Die" & "Secret Connecticut" |
June 26 | Alexis Voulgaris, Moderator, Greenwich Representative Town Meeting; "The Representative Town Meeting: An Overview of Our Local Legislative Body" |
June 19 | Larry Kantor, PhD., Economist; "Prospects for the economy and inflation, and what it means for the Fed and financial markets" |
June 12 | Gary Myers, Sports Journalist and Author; "Once a Giant: A Story of Victory, Tragedy, and Life After Football" To be interviewed by Jim Campbell, author and host of radio show "Business Talk" |
June 5 | George Ubogy, RMA member and Cynthia Mackay, RMA friend; "Schubert Lieder, Irish Folk Songs, and Other Stuff" |
May 29 | Kelly Franco Throop, Attorney; "Getting Schooled on Baseball's Greatest Rivalries" |
May 22 | Rachel Kornfeld, CEO, and Lala Addeo, Director of Volunteer Services; "Jewish Family Services of Greenwich – Overview of Refugee Resettlement Program and Volunteer Opportunities" |
May 15 | The Grace Notes, A Capella Singers; "Connecting through Song since 1967" |
May 8 | Benjamin Lebwohl, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Columbia University; "The Illness and Death of Ludwig Van Beethoven" |
May 1 | Steve Gelbs, Sportscaster, SportsNet New York; "A Conversation with Steve Gelbs – Reporter and Studio Host for SNY" |
Apr 24 | B. H. Barry, Stage Fight Director and choreographer; "Shakespearean Theater, Broadway, Opera and Ballet" |
Apr 17 | Beth Evans, Greenwich Director of Environmental Affairs; "Our Greenwich Environment: Looking to the Future for Our Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren." |
Apr 10 | Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Director, Vatican Observatory, Author of "When Science Goes Wrong: The Desire and Search for Truth" |
Apr 3 | Fred Camillo, First Selectman, Town of Greenwich; "Greenwich: Knowing the way. Showing the way. Leading the way." |
Mar 27 | David Richards, RMA Member, attorney, author, historian; "Collecting Shakespeare's First Folio in America" |
Mar 20 | Peter Muir, musicologist; "Pioneers of Ragtime" |
Mar 13 | Mike Abrahams, RMA Member, Bridge Design Engineer; "Major Bridges in North America – Design and Construction Challenges" |
Mar 6 | Sam Romeo and Tony Johnson, Chairman and CEO of Greenwich Communities; "How Greenwich Communities Can Save Greenwich from Over-Development" |
Feb 28 | Phil Vitiello, Nautical Historian; "The Story of the Hunley" |
Feb 21 | Stuart A. Reid, Author, Executive Editor, Foreign Affairs, on his book "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination" |
Feb 14 | David Michonski, RMA Member, CEO of Quigler, Inc.; "Greenwich Real Estate Market Review" |
Feb 7 | Josh Wright, Executive Director of ideas42, a non-profit that uses insights from behavioral science to improve lives, build better systems and policies, and drive social change world-wide; "Moving Beyond Nudges: The Role of Behavioral Science in Solving Some of the Most Complex Social Issues of Our Time" |
Jan 31 | Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, 14th Superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy; "After Eighty Years, the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Looks to the Future" |
Jan 24 | Jennifer Homans, PhD., Author, Dance Critic for The New Yorker, and Scholar in Residence at New York University, on her book, "Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century" To be interviewed by Travis Milliman of the Greenwich Library. |
Jan 17 | Odd Arne Westad, PhD., FBA, Elihu Professor of History, Yale University, Jackson School of Global Affairs - by ZOOM; "Histories of Asian Imperialism and Today's China" |
Jan 10 | Rick Lawrence, PhD., Scientist; "From Search Engine to Regenerative AI: How Chat GPT Changed the World in a Few Months" |
Jan 3 | Susan-Masino, PhD, Neuroscientist, Professor of Applied Science at Trinity College; "Why Our Brains Need Wildlands" |
2023 |
Dec 27 | Holiday, No RMA Meeting, No speaker |
Dec 20 | RMA Holiday Party, No speaker |
Dec 13 | Ryan Fazio, Connecticut State Senator; "Will the Lights Go Out in New England? The Future of the Electric Grid – And Your Electric Bill" |
Dec 6 | Cynthia MacKay, MD, Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Columbia Presbyterian College of Physicians and surgeons, Emeritus; "What You Need to Know about Your Cataract" |
Nov 29 | Dr. Joseph Feuerstein, Hospital internist and holistic physician, Stamford and Greenwich Hospitals; "Cannabinoids" |
Nov 22 | Thanksgiving, No RMA Meeting, No speaker |
Nov 15 | Will Friedwald, Critic and author on jazz and popular American music, on his book; "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018) |
Nov 8 | RMA Annual Banquet; No speaker |
Nov 1 | Sunil Saksena, Darien Men's Association member; "Fraud of the Century? The Presidential Election of 1876" |
Oct 25 | William Tong, 25th Attorney General of Connecticut; "Recent Multi-State Actions by Attorneys General" |
Oct 18 | Diane Kelly and Noel Appel, President and Development Director of Greenwich Hospital: "Greenwich Hospital Update" |
Oct 11 | Our scheduled speaker for Thursday, October 11, Dr. James Brodlie, was cancelled. Mark Perlman, author of "The Reluctant Soldier," will discuss his historical novel about the two World Wars and the intervening years in Paris. The book sets out the experiences, both the good and those laced with discrimination, of a fictional African American soldier. |
Oct 4 | Christopher Shays, Former US Congressman, Connecticut's 4th District, "We Have a Democracy If We Can Keep It" |
Sept 27 | Bob Morgan, RMA member and Piano Accompanist, "My Career as a Major Label Recording Executive in the 1960's with Artists Ranging from Bobby Vinton to the Dave Clark Five" |
Sept 20 | Steve Kemper, Author; "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" |
Sept 13 | RMA Picnic; No speaker |
Sept 6 | Jo Ubogy, Naturalist; "Raising Monarchs" |
Aug 30 | Page Knox, Ph.D., Adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University and a contractual lecturer and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the exhibition; "Van Gogh's Cypresses" |
Aug 23 | Caroline Simmons, Mayor of Stamford; "What's Next for Connecticut's Fastest Growing City?" |
Aug 16 | Susan Herbst, Political scientist and past President of the University of Connecticut 2011-2018. Author of "A Troubled Birth: The 1930's and American Public Opinion"; "How Public Sentiment is Formed" |
Aug 9 | Tim Brunner, Ph.D.in Physics from MIT; "Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography – Making the Next Generation of Computer Chips" |
Aug 2 | No RMA Meeting - No speaker |
July 26 | David Richards, RMA member, Real estate attorney, Kipling historian and author; "I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library 1656-2022", (2023) |
July 19 | No RMA Meeting - No speaker |
July 12 | Celeste Mancinelli, One Woman Show, written and performed by Broadway World Award-winner Celeste Mancinelli performing "Crying on the Camino" |
July 5 | John (Chick) Donohue, RMA member, Author, "The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War" |
June 28 | Stephen Meskers, CT State Representative for the 150th district, Chair of Commerce Committee; "Economic Growth and the Structure of Connecticut's Economy" |
June 21 | Panel Discussion, "Prostate Disease, Complexities of Cancer Detection and Treatment" Facilitated by Dr. Jeff Puglisi, internist at Greenwich Hospital with three physicians from Yale School of Medicine/Greenwich Hospital: Bruce McGibbon, Radiologist, Daniel Petrylak, Oncologist and Gerald Portman, Urologist. |
June 14 | Gregg Pascal Zachary, Professor of Practice, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University School for the Future and Innovation, on his biography: "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century" Zoom presentation |
June 7 | Larry Kantor, Ph.D., Economist; "Inflation and the Fed: What Does It Mean for the Economy and Financial Markets?" |
May 31 | Howard Husock, Vice President for policy research at the Manhattan Institute and Senior Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute where he focuses on municipal government, urban housing policy, civil society and philanthropy, on his new book: "The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It" |
May 24 | RMA's Melody Men singers! |
May 17 | Peter McCornick, Ph.D., Professor of biological systems engineering & Executive Director of Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. "Water and Food Security in a Changing World" |
May 10 | John Blankley, RMA member, entrepreneur, politician, history major at Oxford University; "What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Say About Democracy in America Today?" |
May 3 | Andrew Woelflein, Presiding Trustee, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University; "The WWII Art & Letters of John Cullen Murphy; an American Soldier-Artist in the Pacific Theater and Longtime Greenwich Resident After the War." |
Apr 26 | Robert Wolterstorff, director of the Bruce Museum; "The New Bruce Museum: A World Class Destination for Art, Culture and Science Education" |
Apr 19 | C. Flemming Heilmann, business executive, philanthropist, author and translator of Halfdan Lefevre's "The Men In Denmark's Freedom Council", the story of the Danish resistance movement that saved thousands of lives during WWII. |
Apr 12 | Jose Niell, "Piano Classics from Around the World: Recital with Commentary" |
Apr 5 | U.S. Congressman Jim Himes, representing Connecticut's 4th district; "Report from Washington D.C." |
Mar 29 | C. Griffith Mann, Ph.D., Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; "Unicorns and Heroes: John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Tapestries at The Met Cloisters" |
Mar 22 | Robert Doubek, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, on his book: "Creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: The Inside Story" |
Mar 15 | Dr. Alexander Delvecchio, Cardiologist, Greenwich Hospital/Yale New Haven Hospital: "Heart Health and Arrhythmias" |
Mar 8 | Jim Lockhart, RMA member, US Naval Officers, business executive, financial manager and high ranking government official, on his new book; "America: Underwater and Sinking: Time to Surface with Lessons Learned" |
Mar 1 | Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Policy Director, American Immigration Council, Washington, D.C.: "The Border Crisis: The Current State of Immigration in America" |
Feb 22 | John Reese, RMA member, founder and CEO of the financial website Validea and the author of two books on quantitative investing, including The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History's Best Investment Strategies. He is also the founder of Validea Capital Management, a wealth management firm utilizing the strategies of legendary investors. "Learning from Luminary Investors – the Wisdom of Warren Buffett, Ben Graham, and Peter Lynch." |
Feb 15 | Stuart Malina, Music director and conductor, Greenwich Symphony Orchestra: "Dvorak, Elgar, and the future of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra" |
Feb 8 | Keith Hirsch & Daniel Paladino, Police Officers, Town of Greenwich: "What to do if in an active shooter situation" |
Feb 1 | David Fitzpatrick, a member of the Darien Men's Association, currently a staff writer for CNN's flagship prime time newscast: "Anderson Cooper 360". He has been at CNN as an anchor producer, senior executive producer and investigative producer since 2001. Previously, he spent 25 years at CBS News in a variety of editorial positions including a stint with "60 Minutes" as a producer attached to the late Morley Safer; "Cable News and How It Changed the American Landscape." |
Jan 25 | Stephen Roach, Ph.D., formerly chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and chief economist at Morgan Stanley, senior lecturer at Yale School of Management, and author on his new book: "Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives" |
Jan 18 | Captain Michael Fredie, Director of Admissions, U.S. Coast Guard Academy: "The U.S. Coast Guard and its Role in our Nation's Defense" |
Jan 11 | Pete Gogolak, former place kicker for the New York Giants; "How an Immigrant Changed the Game of American Football" |
Jan 4 | Patrick LaRow, Town Planer, Greenwich, and Margarita Alban, Chair, Planning and Zoning Commission, Greenwich; "Issues in Greenwich Land Use" |
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2020 |
Dec 30 | No Program | |
Dec 23 | Holiday Fellowship: RMA members will exchange anecdotes, jokes, human interest stories, vacation experiences, recreation ideas for pandemic times, etc. | |
Dec 16 | Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC): “AMC's Maine Woods Initiative; A New Model for Conservation in the 21st Century" | |
Dec 9 | David Michaelis, author of the new biography "Eleanor" Co-sponsored with Greenwich Library. | |
Dec 2 | Josh Geballe, Chief Operating Officer for the State of Connecticut and Commissioner of the Department of Administrative Services (DAS); Appointed COO at the end of Feb, 2020: “Governor Lamont’s State Modernization and Streamlining Agenda” | |
Nov 25 | Radley Horton, Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Science, Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research at Columbia University: "The Heat is On: The Climate Imperative" | |
Nov 18 | Damien Cregeau, Area historian: "Major General Alexander Hamilton's Military Career" | |
Nov 11 | Stephen Wertheim, Ph.D., historian and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Author of new book "Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy" Co-sponsored with Greenwich Library | |
Nov 4 | Marc Jaffe, CEO of Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County (CLC): "Early Childhood Education's Critical Role in Connecticut's Workforce" | |
Oct 28 | Reverend Dr. Thomas L. Nins, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Greenwich, sponsored in conjunction with Greenwich Library's program "Greenwich Reads Together" and one of this year’s book selections "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson: "Diversity in Greenwich - Today's Opportunities and Challenges" | |
Oct 21 | Claudine Humure, Partnership Coordinator at University of Global Health Equity, working in Rwanda, and Lesley King, Board Member of Partners In Health, an organization strengthening health care systems in 11 countries. Sponsored in conjunction with Greenwich Library's program "Greenwich Reads Together" and one of this year’s book selections "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder : "Partners In Health: a Second Chance at Life" | |
Oct 14 | Joseph Cirincione, one of the nations leading authorities on nuclear weapons and policy. Former President of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation: "National Security and Nuclear Policy after the 2020 Election" | |
Oct 7 | Roberto Lenton, Ph.D., Chair, International Water Management Institute, Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska – Lincoln: "Food, Water and Global Development" | |
Sept 30 | Hagar Hajjar Chemali, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Greenwich Media Strategies, LLC. Expert on foreign affairs and the Middle East: "A Closer Look at the Middle East: Key Developments, Insights, and Where Things are Headed" | |
Sept 23 | Barbara Omerod-Glynn, Director, Greenwich Library: "Reimagining Greenwich Library - Renovation Update and Future Plans" | |
Sept 16 | Miles S. Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School and Former Secretary of the State for Connecticut: "What Will the November Election Look Like? Unprecedented Challenges" | |
Sept 9 | Jet Vertz, Retired Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as VP of GP7000 engine sales and responsible for Engine Alliance, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and GE. Teaches at the U. of Rhode Island Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and consults for commercial aviation business: "The Boeing B737Max Crisis" | |
Sept 2 | Evan Osnos, Author of Age of Ambition, Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China, winner of the 2014 National Book Award for non-fiction, and staff writer for the "New Yorker": Greenwich H.S. graduate: "The Future of US-Chinese Relations" | |
Aug 26 | Adam Clayton Powell III, journalist, media executive, and scholar, Director of Washington Policy Initiatives for the University of Southern California and University Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy: “Tools and Information to Protect the 2020 Election from Cyber Attacks” | |
Aug 19 | Norman Roth, President of Greenwich Hospital and Executive Vice President of Yale New Haven Health System: "Innovations at Greenwich Hospital" | |
Aug 12 | Nelson Tebbe, J.D. and Ph.D., Professor of Law, Cornell University: "The First Amendment and the Supreme Court’s 2019 Term" | |
Aug 5 | Robert Gallucci, American academic and diplomat, former Dean of School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and ex-president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: “America’s Place in the World.” | |
July 29 | Brian Desrosier, President of Lighthouse Technology Partners: “Surviving 35 Years in the IT Business in Our Changing World” | |
July 22 | Panel Discussion: “Greenwich Small Businesses and the Impact of the Pandemic,” with accountant Sean Dowling, restaurateur Caren Vizzo St. Phillip, and retail shop owners Randy and Kimberly Caravella. | |
July 15 | Harold T. Shapiro, Ph. D. Economist, Past President of Michigan University and Princeton University, Past Chairman of National Bioethics Advisory Commission:“Genetic Engineering: Altering Ourselves and Our Progeny” | |
July 8 | Steven Levitsky, noted comparative political scientist, is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies/Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University: “American Democracy in Crisis: Outlook for the Future” | |
July 1 | Page Knox, Ph.D., Adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University and lecturer and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Vincent Van Gogh and the Seasons” | |
June 24 | Ed Miller, Dean of the Medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University and Chief Executive Officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine from 1997 to 2012: "Past and Future of Medical Schools and the Health Care System" | |
June 17 | Larry Kantor, Ph.D., Economist, former Managing Director and Global Head of Research at Barclays: "The Economy, Financial Markets and the Pandemic: Where Do We Go From Here?" | |
June 10 | David Richards, distinguished Real Estate Lawyer in NYC, author of two books on Rudyard Kipling and the collector of the largest assemblage of Kipling memorabilia in the US now housed at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University: "Kipling: Bard of Two Empires" | |
Mar 18 -June 3 | All Speakers during this period were cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic | |
Mar 11 | Donna Spellman, Director of River House Adult Day Center: "Dimentia Friends" | |
Mar 4 | Amy Siebert, Director of Public Works, Town of Greenwich: "Greenwich Public Works: What Does the Future Hold?" | |
Feb 26 | Fred Camillo, First Selectman of Greenwich, “Greenwich's Future: A Vision for the Next Decade” | |
Feb 19 | Katie Deluca, AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners), Director of Planning and Zoning and Town Planner, Town of Greenwich: "Implementing the Plan of Conservation and Development" | |
Feb 12 | Alan Barry, Ph.D., Commissioner, Human Services, Town of Greenwich, “Safety Net To Self Sufficiency: Narrowing The Wealth Gap” | |
Feb 5 | Tom Shachtman, Author: "The Founding Fortunes; How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America's Revolution" Community Discussion Group with Tom Shachtman at Greenwich Library at from 2:00 - 3:30 PM - "Money and Wealth in Politics, Past and Present" | |
Jan 29 | Howard Husock, Senior Fellow, Contributing Editor, City Journal, Manhattan Institute, Author of "Who Killed Civil Society? The Rise of Big Government and the Decline of Bourgeois Norms": "Effective Ways to Lift People Out of Poverty" | |
Jan 22 | Dr. Bruce McGibbon, Director of Radiation Oncology for the Smilow Cancer Care Center in Greenwich and Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology at Yale School of Medicine: "Advances in Radiology Therapy in Cancer" | |
Jan 15 | Paul Hicks, Author, "The Litchfield Law School: Guiding the New Nation." The Litchfield Law School was the most innovative and successful legal education program in the US for almost fifty years (1784-1833) and its graduates helped shape the young republic. | |
Jan 8 | Pat Sesto, Director, Environmental Affairs, Town of Greenwich, "Greenwich's Environmental Future" | |
Jan 1 | NO MEETING |
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