Friends of the Library

On the Tides of History -- From the Chesapeake Bay to a Recovered Family Villa on the Black Sea

May 9, 2002 at 2 pm

Heubeck Hall

Lecture by Jacqueline Waldman, Goucher College chemistry lecturer.

Jane Austen and Everyday War

March 5, 2002 at 7:30pm

Alumnae and Alumni House

Her public talk, "Jane Austen and Everyday War" addressed the famous "everyday" quality of Jane Austen's novels from the perspective that "everyday," for much of Austen's life, took place in wartime. Specifically dealing with Austen's novel Persuasion, Favret's talk focused on the wars between England and Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and how they felt to a public, far removed from the actual violence, which had no televised - or even photographic - access to information about them.                   

Lecture by Richard Hall, author of Uninvited Guests

February 2, 2002 at 1:30pm

Merrick Lecture Hall

Tour of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

October 31, 2001

A bus trip co-sponsored with the Goucher Club of Baltimore's Alumnae/Alumni Tours Committee.

What I Did Last Year: The Post-Cold War Role of the Voice of America

October 16, 2001 at 2 pm

Alumnae and Alumni House

A lecture by Sanford J. Ungar, president of Goucher College.