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This evening's discussion on Individual and Social Rights and The Tobacco Industry is led by LAURENCE H. TRIBE, Tyler professor of constitutional law at Harvard and Supreme Court litigator. Professor Tribe recently represented, pro bono, against three cigarette makers, the family of a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking for 42 years. The high court decided in favor of Tribe. Now, tobacco smokers can sue the tobacco industry for concealing fact or lying about the health dangers of smoking. "The kinds of cases I agree to do are affected by what my beliefs are and by what interests me in terms of teaching and writing." Widely known as a civil libertarian, Tribe's constitutional philosophy is eclectic. He has argued cases involving abortion counseling in federally funded clinics, federal protection for migrant farm workers, free speech rights of "dial-a-porn" services, gay rights advocacy, right of privacy for consensual sodomy, school busing, religious free speech, and the rights of press and public to attend criminal trials. Tribe has defended California's Nuclear Power Plant Moratorium as well as "big oil" against a state court judge- ment that violated principles of federalism. He has served as constitutional advisor to the Russian Federal Republic and the Government of Lithuania and has worked on creating and revising con- stitutions for the Marshall Islands and, more recently, Czechoslovakia. Larry Tribe has been honored for distinction as "the foremost constitutional thinker of our time." Tonight's moderator is MARJORIE CLAPPROOD, talk show host for WHDH Radio and New England Cable Network News. Well versed on numerous social issues, Ms. Clapprood is a former State Representative who has been named Legislator of the Year by the National Organization for Women, Massachusetts Coalition for Choice, Association for the Mentally Retarded, the Pharmaceutical Association, Elder Services and the Cardiac Rehabilitation Association. She has taught and lectured on health education and politics at Stonehill College, Clark University, the Kennedy School of Government and College. New England Circle invites women and men of different cultures, political persuasions and pro- fessions to exchange ideas and opinions. The Circle evolved out of a 19 th century tradition called The Saturday Club, a group of concerned individuals such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell who gathered monthly at the Parker House for lively, informal discussions. 1992 Catherine A. Dunfey Award

Presented to: Arnold Hiatt

Well known as a successful and innovative businessman with a social conscience and a commitment to public service, Arnold Hiatt, as president and CEO of The Stride Rite Corporation for twenty-five years, changed the traditional role of corporate leadership in America by pioneering the first day care , clean air work environ- ment, and intergenerational center. Last year, he redirected prime time advertising dollars to The American Library Association to encourage young children to read and use public libraries. Leaving the helm of the corporation to take full reins as chairman of The Stride Rite Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the corporation, Mr. Hiatt has furthered his compassionate leadership to institute an employee volunteer program to tutor inner-city students on company time and a public service program to financially assist minority students at Harvard who commit to returning to the inner city to serve as role models and assume teaching and public service careers. A believer that corporate and community well-being must converge, Mr. Hiatt reaches out to government. "More and more businessmen have to speak up and I'm hoping we can figure a way of making our collective voice influence Congress to make investments in ways that will benefit the community." "The point is business can affect social change."

The Catherine A. Dunfey Award is given annually to a person or organization that exemplifies the personal courage, commitment and compassion of Catherine Dunfey: mother, grandmother and great grandmother of the Dunfey family. The Award designee will have demonstrated leadership, reflecting a significant and positive impact on a pressing human or social condition somewhere in the world. The recipient will also evidence the capacity to work closely with women and men of different races, ideologies, and professions while striving to bring about constructive change in our world.

Past Catherine A. Dunfey Award recipients: 1988 , Founder & President, Children's Defense Fund.

1989 Charles Clements, Executive Director, SateLife.

1990 Henry E. Hampton, Founder & President, Blackside, Inc. and Executive Producer of "Eyes on the Prize". 1991 Walter and Albertina Sisulu, Deputy President and President of the Women's League, respectively, African National Congress. Catherine A. Dunfey Award

Florence Allen, Office Manager, Teens As Community Resources, John H. Farrell, Vice President, Working Assets Capital Management, Boston, Mass. Portsmouth, N.H. Niathan Allen, President, Lena Park Community Development Corp., Stephen C. Farrell, Director of Development, John F. Kennedy Library Dorchester, Mass. Foundation, Inc., Boston, Mass. Damon Anastasia, Judicial Intern to Judge Nelson, Brighton, Mass. Julie Ferguson, Law Clerk to Judge David Nelson, Cambridge, Mass. Jerilyn Asher, Chairman and CEO, Protocare, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Yvonne A Franklin, Secretary to Judge David Nelson, U.S. District Court, Boston, Mass. Gary L. Avigne, President, Coventry Hotel Associates, E Windsor, Conn. Eleanor Freedman, Education Consultant, Bedford, N.H. H. Carter Barger, President, Barger & Sargeant, Inc., Concord, N.H. Eleanor Dunfey Freiburger, Associate Professor, College, William Batson, Executive Director, Teens As Community Resources, Manchester, N.H. Boston, Mass. Carolyn Friday, Correspondent, NEWSWEEK, Boston, Mass. Channing L. Bete, Jr., President, Channing L. Bete Co., Inc., South Deerfield, Mass. Nancy Gist, Deputy Chief Counsel, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Darren Binder, Newton, Mass. Boston, Mass. Joan J. Green, Social Worker, New Hampshire Dir. For Children Youth Anne Bonner, Director of Communications, Chamber of (ret), Manchester, N.H. Commerce, Boston, Mass. William S. Green, Attorney, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, Lavall Brown, Executive Director, Dorchester Youth Collaborative, Boston, Manchester, N.H. Mass. Angel A Guadalupe, Attorney, Boston, Mass. Susan R. Bunting, Executive Director, Foundation for Seacoast Health, Portsmouth, N.H. Henry Hampton, President/Executive Producer, Blackside, Inc, Boston, Mass. Lois Burdon, Warwick, R.I. William B. Hart, Jr., Chair, New England Circle, Portsmouth, N.H. Margaret A Burnham, Partner, Burnham, Hines and Dilday, Boston, Mass. L Howard Hartley, M.D., Cardiologist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, James Carroll, Author, Boston, Mass. Wayland, Mass. Arnold Hiatt, Chairman, The Stride Rite Foundation, Boston, Mass. Nanci Carroll, Realtor, Warwick, R.I. Louise Hirshberg, Health Educator and Counselor, Beverly Hospital Center Marjorie Clapprood, Talk Show Host, WHDH Radio, Boston, Mass. for Family Development, Marblehead, Mass. Sophia Collier, Trustee, Working Assets Money Fund, Portsmouth, N.H. Cheryl B. Homer, Consultant, United Way of Mass Bay, Lexington, Mass. Patricia Corey, Main Court Mediation Service, Portland, ME Jackie Jenkins-Scott, President, Dimock Community Health Ctr., Roxbury, Kathleen Cross, Law Clerk to Judge David Nelson, Brighton, Mass. Mass Linda DiSilva, Chief Investment Officer, Working Assets Capital Alan S. Johnson, Esq., McCormack Associates, Boston, Mass. Management, Portsmouth, N.H. Celeste Johnson, Chief of Staff, Department of Health &. Hospitals, Boston, John Donnelly, New England Circle Intern, Class of '93, Durham, N.H. Mass. Priscilla H. Douglas, Asst. Sec. of Public Safety, Cambridge, Mass. Kerry Kelly, New England Circle Staff, Bedford, N.H. Catherine M. Dunfey, Consultant, Director, Odyssey House, Rye, N.H. Philip Kenney, Monsignor, Chaplin, New Hampshire State Prison, Jerry Dunfey, President, New England Circle, Portsmouth, N.H. Concord, N.H. John P. (Jack) Dunfey, Founder, Omni/Dunfey Hotels, Portsmouth, N.H. Lesley King, Director of Special Events, The American Ireland Fund, Boston, Rick Dunfey, Publishing Director, Sports Marketing Group, Boston, Mass. Mass. Ruth N. Dunfey, Brookline, Mass Florencia La Chance, Boston, Mass. Robert J. Dunfey, Jr., Hotel Consultant, York, ME Michelle Larkins, Foundation Assistant, Jesse B. Cox Charitable Fund, Robert J. Dunfey, Sr., Director, The Dunfey Group, Portsmouth N.H. Boston, Mass. Gordon I. Erikson, Regional Vice President, Key Bank of , Margaret Leipsitz, Charlestown, Mass Portland, ME Dora Present Lewin, Financial Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank, Brookline, Mass. Teresa M. Evans, Press & Public Affairs Officer, British Consulate General, Sheila Leyne, Sr. Account Executive, Mullen Agency, Wenham, Mass. Boston, Mass.

Parker House Boston Massachusetts September 15, 1992 Yvette Longus, Receptionist, Working Assets Capital Management, Steven P. Smith, Executive Director, American Lung Association of New Portsmouth, N.H. Hampshire, Manchester, N.H. David Mahoney, Granite State Minerals, Inc., Portsmouth, N.H. MaryBeth Sorgi, Program Director, New England Circle, Portsmouth, N.H. Jacqueline Mahoney, North Hampton, N.H. Stephen Spaloss, City Year, Boston, Mass. Joseph L. Marcille, President & CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Christopher Spinazzola, President and CEO, The Spinazzola Foundation, Hampshire, Concord, N.H. Stoughton, Mass. George Marcus, Attorney, Pierce Atwood Scribner Allen Smith & Lancaster, David Stockton, Director, Health Services, University of Massachusetts at Portland, ME Boston, Boston, Mass. Chauncey Mayfield, Deputy Director, Economic Development and Michael Stovall, Scarborough, ME Industrial Corp., Boston, Mass. Wendy Strothman, Director, Beacon Press, Boston, Mass. Paul F. McDonough, Jr., Partner, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass. Jeanne J. Taylor, Ph.D., Executive Director, Roxbury Comprehensive William J. McNally, Executive Director, American Ireland Fund, Boston, Health Center, Inc., Roxbury, Mass. Mass. Jeffrey Thomas, Legislative Aide, Senate, Boston, Mass. Bernard M Mucci, Executive Director, Greater Seacoast United Way, Kenneth P. Trevett, General Counsel, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Portsmouth, N.H. Boston, Mass. Leon T. Nelson, President, Greater Roxbury, Chamber of Commerce, Carolyn Tribe, President, Newbury Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. Boston, Mass. Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Deborah Neswold, Assistant Program Director, , Boston, University, Cambridge, Mass. Mass. Pamela Trimble, Plymouth, Mass. Bik Fung Ng, Festival Director, Boston, Asian Festival, Boston, Mass. John Whiteman, Managing Editor, The Portsmouth Herald, Victoria Nunez, Program Officer, Hyams Foundation, Boston, Mass. Portsmouth, N.H. Paul Parks, President of Boston School Committee, Paul Parks and JoAnne Wilburn, Conference & Development Coordinator, Institute of Associates, Boston, Mass. Politics, Cambridge, Mass. Bonnie J. Peak-Graham, Director of Public Affairs, Universalist Service Anthony A. Williams, Deputy Comptroller, State of Connecticut, Hartford, Committee, Cambridge, Mass. Conn. David B. Peck, Jr., Director of Facility Planning, Children's Hospital, Nedra Williams, Director, Adolescent Services, Roxbury Comprehensive Boston, Mass. Community Health Center, Roxbury, Mass. Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Joyce Williams-Mitchell, Director of Community Relations, Medical School, Boston, Mass. International Ltd., Stoughton, Mass. Kenneth E. Reeves, Mayor, City of Cambridge, Cambridge, Mass. Anne Willis, Controller, Working Assets Management Company, John Reinstein, Attorney, Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Boston, Portsmouth, N.H. Mass. Leon E. Wilson, National Director of Risk Management, Bank of Boston, Sheila Scott Robinson, Dental Office Manager, Milton Mills, N.H. Boston, Mass. Deborah S. Sanders, Director of Administration, The Dunfey Group, Henry Winn, M.D., Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Portsmouth, N.H. Hospital, Boston, Mass. Jim Scott, President, Jensco Associates, Boston, Mass. Elizabeth Zachos, Architect, Cambridge, Mass. Craig Shepard, Real Estate Developer/Broker, L & S Builder's Corp., Ben Zander, Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge, Mass. C Michael Sheridan, Chief Financial Officer, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass. Vaughn Simkins, Networking Coordinator, Violence Prevention Project, Boston, Mass. Kenneth G. Smith, Executive Director, CORES, Boston, Mass.

Parker House Boston Massachusetts September 15, 1992 6:00 P.M. Reception Martin Luther King, Jr. Room

6:45 P.M. Dinner Press Room

8:00 P.M. Welcome and Film Introduction William B. Hart, Jr., Chair, New England Circle Film ABC "Person of the Week" Catherine A. Dunfey Award Presentation to Arnold Hiatt by Eleanor Dunfey Freiburger Director, New England Circle

8:15 P.M. Discussion Introduction William B. Hart, Jr. Opening Remarks Professor Laurence H. Tribe Discussion Opened by Moderator Marjorie Clapprood

10:00 P.M. Formal Program Ends All are invited for refreshments and informal discussion

PRESIDENT Jerry Dunfey / CHAIR William B. Hart, Jr. / VICE CHAIR John P. Dunfey / TREASURER Robert J. Dunfey, Sr. / SECRETARY Deborah S. Sanders / PROGRAM DIRECTOR MaryBeth Sorgi / BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jerry Dunfey, John P. Dunfey, Robert J. Dunfey, Sr., Eleanor D. Freiburger, William S. Green, Esquire, William B. Hart, Jr., Frederick Jervis, Ph.D., William J. McNally, Honorable David S. Nelson, Deborah S. Sanders, JoAnne Wilburn / FOUNDER Walter J. Dunfey, 1932-1989 / FOUNDER William L. Dunfey, 1925-1991 FOUNDED 1974. "Our purpose is to assemble a diverse group of concerned, individuals for discussions of social, political, literary and educational topics; our goal is to exchange challenging ideas and opinions that can lead to constructive change in our lives, our nation and our world" ... The Dunfey Family

Circles Past...... For nearly twenty years we have enjoyed a lively and stimulating exchange of views and ideas. Some Circle topics and Discussion Leaders have been:

Industry • Economics • Cities • Neighborhoods • Farm Crisis: BEN BRADLEE, JIMMY BRESLIN, DOUG FRASER, , SENATOR TOM HARKIN, ED KOCH, STANISLAV MENSHIKOV, BILL MOYERS, , JIM ROUSE, SENATOR WARREN RUDMAN and ANDY YOUNG.

World Peace • Nuclear Arms Control: DANIEL BERRIGAN, WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, ROGER FISHER, JOHN HUME, GEORGE KISTIAKOWSKY, HENRY CABOT LODGE, CONGRESSMAN ED MARKEY and INGA THORSSON.

ED ASNER, MUBARAK AWAD, JENNIFER CASOLO, CHARLIE CLEMENTS, DOUGLAS FARAH, PAUL FITZGERALD, TOM GIBB, ALLEN GOTLIEB, MICHAEL HARRINGTON, BIANCA JAGGAR, MICKEY LELAND, ROBERT McNAMARA, MICHAEL MANLEY, REVEREND BEYERS NAUDE, CHRIS NORTON, CLARA LOPEZ OBREGON, YOSEF OLMERT, TONY O'REILLY, OLIN ROBISON, JIM SHANNON, WALTER & ALBERTINA SISULU, FRANK SMYTH, OLIVER TAMBO, ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU and WILLIAM WEBSTER.

Congress • Politics • The Presidency: JULIAN BOND, SARAH BRADY, HODDING CARTER III, JIMMY & , SENATOR WILLIAM COHEN, , GOVERNOR KEN CURTIS, CONGRESSMAN , MARK GERZON, DICK GOODWIN, , MADELEINE KUNIN, TOM McINTYRE, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER GEORGE MITCHELL, "TIP" O'NEILL, JODY POWELL, PETEN. SHIELDS, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN SUNUNU, US ATTORNEY GENERAL DICK THORNBURGH and MAXINE WATERS.

HARRY BELAFONTE, VICTORIA GARRON de DORYAN, MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, , JANE FONDA, , CORETTA SCOTT KING, ISABEL LETELIER, REVEREND PAUL MAYER, MARGARET PAPANDREOU, CARMEN SAENZ de PHILLIPS, MARTIN SHEEN, MITCH SNYDER, , SUSAN WOOD and DONALD WOODS.