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3779 Lawrence Egan and Alexander Hays to Bernard J. Reid, 1861
No full textLetter from Lawrence Egan and Alexander Hays to Bernard J. Reid
First Lady Michelle Obama Speaking Sept. 28 at Alexander Gymnasium
No full textFirst lady Michelle Obama will deliver a campaign address Friday, September 28 in Alexander Gymnasium on the Lawrence University campus.
“While Lawrence is very careful not to endorse candidates for political office, we do encourage our students to learn about the political process and to be involved in making informed decisions about candidates. As such, the first lady’s appearance is an excellent educational opportunity for Lawrence students to experience first-hand the political process in the homestretch of an important election cycle,” said David Burrows, provost and dean of the faculty. “One of the founding traditions of a liberal arts college is the education and creation of good citizens and good citizenship includes understanding the issues in any election. This should offer a great teaching moment for the entire Lawrence community.”
Mrs. Obama’s visit to Lawrence will be the second appearance by a major figure in the 2012 presidential election. Gov. Mitt Romney spoke at Lawrence on March 30.
“Despite an easy Wisconsin victory in 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign recognizes that the state is no shoo-in in 2012,” said Arnold Shober, associate professor of government at Lawrence. “Michelle Obama’s stop at Lawrence University shows how pivotal the Fox Valley is to win the state. Mitt Romney can count on suburban Milwaukee, and Barack Obama can rest assured in Madison, but neither candidate can take northeast Wisconsin for granted.”
Earlier this year to foster engagement in the national political arena, Lawrence launched an Internet tool — MyElectionDecision.org— to help voters intelligently search for their own individual “best candidate.” The interactive website allows voters to see which of the two major presidential candidate’s positions best match their own on a variety of important national issues.
Lawrence University does not endorse or sponsor either this event or Obama for America. Neither the university nor the LUCC is affiliated with Obama for America. The campaign is renting university facilities at its cost and the first lady is appearing at a campaign event for Obama for America
James Alexander to John Lawrence: Pine Lands, March 25, 1743
No full textJames Alexander wrote to John Lawrence regarding instructions concerning the Pine Land, unaddressed. James Alexander provided further instructions to the Deputy Surveyors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. When they surveyed any lands upon pine warrants, they were also to return the value of the lands to the best of their judgment and note how much land was worth thirty pounds per hundred acres.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1740s/1003/thumbnail.jp
Lawrence L. Alexander
No full textFuneral program for Lawrence L. Alexander. Service held on November 23, 2013 at Wonderly-Hovarth-Hanes Funeral Home Chapel.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/willowhillheritage-obituaries/8649/thumbnail.jp
Lawrence Alumnus Examines Human Rights, Democratic Politics in Argentina, Chile
No full textAlexander Wilde, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., examines the role social movements for human rights played in shaping politics in Argentina and Chile as they moved from dictatorships to democracies in the third installment of Lawrence University’s 2011 Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies “Latin America: Past, Present and Future.”
A 1962 Lawrence graduate, Wilde presents “Argentina and Chile: Democratic Transition and Human Rights,” Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Argentina and Chile exemplify two of the most successful democratic transitions in Latin America, overcoming legacies left by the harshest dictatorships in their respective histories. Wilde will discuss how both countries, through official truth commissions, hundreds of trials and a range of public memorials and museums, have embraced the idea that their citizens possess fundamental human rights that no government must ever again be allowed to violate.
The former director of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), an independent nongovernmental organization concerned with human rights and U.S. foreign policy, Wilde lived and worked in Chile for more than a decade during its long transition to democracy after 1990.
He served as vice president for communications of the Ford Foundation (2000-04) after directing Ford’s regional office in Santiago, Chile from 1994-99 where he developed new programming in human rights, historical memory, freedom of expression, and audiovisual documentary.
Wilde returns to his alma mater again this fall as the college’s Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Distinguished Visiting Professor. He will spend four weeks in October teaching in the government department.
After graduating from Lawrence, Wilde studied politics, philosophy and economics at Keble College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship and earned his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
The “Latin America: Past, Present and Future” lecture series is sponsored by the Mojmir Povolny Lectureship in International Studies. Named in honor of long-time Lawrence government professor Mojmir Povolny, the lectureship promotes interest and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions
Lawrence Student Pianist, Wind Quintet to Perform on Wisconsin Public Radio
No full textSix Lawrence University students will reprise their winning performances from the recent Neale-Silva Young Artists’ Competition on Sunday, April 29 at 12:30 pm in a special recital at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the UW-Madison campus.
A woodwind quintet — Kelsey Burk, oboe, a senior from Stacy, Minn.; Jake Fisher, bassoon, a senior from Lake Forest, Ill.; Kinsey Fournier, clarinet, a senior from Conway, Ark.; Sam Golter, flute, a senior from Springfield, Va.; and Emma Richart, French horn, a senior from Olympia, Wash. — will perform works by Alexander Scriabin and Franz Liszt. Cameron Pieper, piano, a sophomore from Fond du Lac, will play pieces by Vincent Persichetti and Elliott Carter.
Vocalist Rachel Holmes, who has completed her master’s degree in music at Colorado State University, and cellist Chris Peck, a sophomore at UW-Madison, will join the Lawrence musicians as part of the winner’s recital.
Wisconsin Public Television will tape the concert for later broadcast on their Wisconsin Channel.
The Neale-Silva Young Artists’ Competition was established to recognize young Wisconsin performers of classical music who demonstrate an exceptionally high level of artistry. It is supported by a grant from the estate of the late University of Wisconsin Madison professor Eduardo Neale-Silva, a classical music enthusiast who was born in Talca, Chile and came to the United States in 1925
Lawrence, Leonard Alexander
No full textMemorial Statement for Professor Leonard Alexander Lawrence who died in 1947. The memorial statements contained herein were prepared by the Office of the Dean of the University Faculty of Cornell University to honor its faculty for their service to the university
Alexander, Charles
No full text"Ardmore Resident Only Survivor of O.N.M.& P. Railway" by Lawrence Gibbs, from a Stillwater newspaper, March 1974. Mr. Alexander began work with the "Ringling Railroad" in 1918. Recollections of the early day railroad are included in the article. newspaper articl
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Alexander duality in subdivisions of Lawrence polytopes
No full textThe class of simplicial complexes representing triangulations and subdivisions of
Lawrence polytopes is closed under Alexander duality. This gives a new geometric model for
oriented matroid duality
The Things That Count
No full textProgram from the Little Theatre of Dallas' 1922 production of 'The Things That Count,' written by Lawrence Eyre and directed by Alexander Dean
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