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Annual Meeting Celebration
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Sue U. Malone We
are delighted that one of the world’s most eminent historians, David
M. Kennedy, Stanford’s Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and
2000 Pulitzer Prize Winner for his book “Freedom From Fear: The
American People in Depression and War, will be the featured speaker
at the 2004 Annual Meeting of Members to be held on Tuesday evening,
June 22, 2004, at the Crystal Springs Golf Club. Professor Kennedy has
published 10 books over the past 30 years, not to mention innumerable
articles. Beginning in 1970, his books include Birth Control in
America: The Career of Margaret Sanger and Social Thought in
America and Europe. A few years later he wrote Progressivism: The
Critical Issues, The American People in the Depression, and The
American People in the Age of Kennedy. In
the 1980s he continued his historical examination, this time with Over
Here: The First World War and American Society, Power and
Responsibility: Case Studies in American Leadership, The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic, and overlapping into the ’90s
with The American Spirit: United States History as Seen by
Contemporaries. In addition to the Pulitzer Price awarded in 2000,
he has received the Francis Parkman Prize, Ambassador’s Prize, and
California Gold Medal for literature, all for his latest book Freedom
From Fear: The American People in Depression and War. He was also a
Pulitzer Price finalist in history in 1981 for his book The First
World War and American Society. Clearly Professor
Kennedy has given a huge amount of thought to the course of our history
from the Gilded Age that Mark Twain coined in a book of that name
after the Civil War. Professor Kennedy later noted that the term Gilded
Age is an apt description of that era of true unbridled and booming
industrial growth with the railroad as a perfect symbol of the Gilded
Age, and perhaps a perfect symbol of the whole Industrial Revolution
of the 19th
century. Don’t miss this
special opportunity to hear Professor Kennedy and join your colleagues
in a salute to President Jim Missett upon completion of his year in
office, and the beginning of Barry Sheppard’s term as SMCMA president. To RSVP, call SMCMA. Cocktails will commence at 6:30, followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $50.00 per person. Call 342-0262, or mail your check to SMCMA, 400 S. El Camino Real, Ste. 575, San Mateo 94402.
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