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Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins Visits Curry
Ann Levin's class "Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class" welcomed guest speaker Chuck Collins in November 2003.

Chuck Collins is co-founder of United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based, national nonpartisan organization concerned with America's growing income and wealth gap. In 1997, he co-founded Responsible Wealth, to enlist business leaders and wealthy individuals to speak out for public policies to share prosperity.

Collins is co-author, with Bill Gates, Sr., of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes. He also is the author of Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity.

Collins is the great-grandson of Oscar Mayer.

Atty. Scott Harshbarger
Discusses Governance, Practice & Leadership Post 9/11 at DIOP Roundtable Curry College welcomes Attorney Scott Harshbarger to the 9th Annual DIOP Roundtable titled "Governance, Practice & Leadership Post 9/11." Atty. Harshbarger joins Senior Lecturer Dr. Karen Lischinsky, Senior Lecturer Dr. Souliy wan-N'Tani, and student Kristen Salera as part of a panel discussion moderated by Sociology Professor Dr. Magueye Seck.

Mr. Harshbarger has served as national President and CEO of Common Cause, Attorney General for the state of Massachusetts, and Middlesex County District Attorney, among many other positions of leadership. He is currently an attorney at Hesse, Toomey, Lehane, a board member of DC Vote and the Epilepsy Foundation, on the steering committee for the American Public Health Association, and a principal for the Council on Excellence.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Harshbarger taught legal ethics at Boston University Law School, and was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Northeastern Law School.

Coming up
In The Spring 2004 Semester

Jackie MacMullan
Next Littlefield Lecturer

The next creative writing lecture in the popular series led by Writer in Residence and Professor Bill Littlefield will be held in March 2004 featuring Boston Globe columnist and associate editor Jackie MacMullan. Ms. MacMullan, who began her career with the Globe in 1982, has been a senior sports writer for Sports Illustrated (1995-2000) covering the National Basketball Association; a regular contributor to CNN/SI, the 24-hour news network (1990-1995); and an ESPN correspondent. She is currently a correspondent for WHDH-TV in Boston and New England Sports Network (NESN).

Ms. MacMullan has won numerous national writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors. She collaborated with Larry Bird on his biography Bird Watching.

All community members are welcome to attend the lecture which will be held on Monday, March 15 in the Parents' Lounge beginning at 7:00 p.m. For more information, visit the new Curry College events calendar on the web at www.currycollege.net/calendar.

3rd Annual Blue Hills Writing Institute at Curry College


Robert Atwan
is founder and series editor of the annual Best American Essays. Editor of numerous anthologies, his critical essays and poetry reviews have appeared in many national periodicals.

presents
Life Writing, August 8-13, 2004

Institute Director Robert Atwan welcomes Suzanne Strempek Shea to Life Writing 2004, a one-week concentrated writing program for adults that focuses on the art of autobiography, memoir and journal writing. Curry College professors Sandy Kaye and Allan Hunter join Robert Atwan in hosting this dynamic week.

For more information, please contact:
Blue Hills Writing Institute

at Curry College
1071 Blue Hill Ave., Milton, MA 02186
Phone: (617) 333-2364 | Web Site: www.curry.edu


Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of a recent memoir, Songs From a Lead-lined Room, an account of her radiation treatments for breast cancer, and four novels: Selling the Lite of Heaven, Hoopi Shoopi Donna, Lily of the Valley, and Around Again.

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