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JANUARY 2007 News & Announcements THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES . Creating Global Understanding Through English nation’s capital area branch JANUARY 2007 News & Announcements PRESIDENT MEET RAFE ESQUITH, A CHARISMATIC EDUCATOR Dr. Gerald B. Kauvar A Chance to Talk with the Remarkable Teacher You’ve Seen on Television FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Dr. James C. Ledyard RAFE ESQUITH is a classroom genius who has received the President’s Medal of Arts and has been spotlighted in a PBS documentary about The TREASURER Mr. C. Braxton Moncure Hobart Shakespeareans. He’s coming to the LANSBURGH stage with eight remarkable students to illustrate EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR the marvels a gifted instructor can Dr. John F. Andrews, OBE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 achieve with immigrant youngsters in 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. VICE-PRESIDENTS a Los Angeles neighborhood that has THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE Mrs. Armida Colt SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11long been plagued by guns, gangs, 450 7th Street NW Mr. A. Graham Down and drugs. Mr. Esquith’s creativity Mr. William Fitzgerald III 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Admission Free, But Reservations Capt. Macauley Howard and dedication have been acclaimed Are Strongly Recommended 4000 CATHEDRAL AVENUE NWby Hal Holbrook, Ian McKellen, Mr. William L. Renfro Apartment 152 B Dr. Marjorie J. Williams and Oprah Winfrey, and he’ll be here to promote TEACH LIKE YOUR HAIR’S ON FIRE, an inspiring Admission $25 book from VIKING. Our friends at BORDERS will make copies available for purchase and inscription. DIRECTORS SHAKESPEARE IN WASHINGTON 2007 Mr. Stephen F. Black This gathering will be a featured event in the festivities for . Hon. E. R. Braithwaite Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton N VENING WITH THE UTHOR OF O IR ITH OVE Mr. Robert A. Fratkin A E A T S , W L Mrs. Wendell Vilas Graham Marking the 40th Anniversary of a Film Based on his Bestselling Memoir Mrs. Celia Josephs Mrs. Willee Lewis We’re delighted to co-host a conversation with one of the globe’s most Mr. Phillip H. Miller powerful emissaries for the English language. E. R. BRAITHWAITE is a Mrs. Gillian B. Quinby magnetic figure who’d just completed a Cambridge doctorate in physics Dr. Jeanne A. Roberts when he discovered that the color of his skin prevented him from landing ADVISORY BOARD a job in his chosen field. Before long Mr. Eric W. Beshers MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 he found his true calling at an embat- Hon. Robert A. Brand 7:00 p.m. tled school in east London, where he Dr. John Churchill tamed a group of unruly adolescents Mrs. Daisy Crowley CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART Mr. Gilbert M. Grosvenor 500 17th Street NW and prepared them for productive Mrs. Priscilla Liggett ESU Members & their Guests, $12 lives in a society that had largely writ- Mrs. Diana M. Nicholson ten them off. In 1959 he published Mrs. Jane P. Plakias TO SIR, WITH LOVE, a moving account of his trial by fire. It became an international best-seller, and Frederic W. Schwartz Jr., Esq. IDNEY OITIER Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg in 1967 it supplied S P with one of his most poignant film roles. Dr. Braithwaite went on to publish a number of other works, and he eventually became the first AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS from his native Guyana. During a dialogue with JOHN ANDREWS, he’ll talk about a O IR ITH OVE OFFICE ADDRESS stage adaptation of T S , W L that will open soon at a major West End theatre in London. 1604 New Hampshire Avenue NW Washington, DC 20009-2512 TELEPHONE (202) 234-4602 Hear Lady Manning Speak on Friday, January 19 FACSIMILE For details about that and other programs, among them an event at the (202) 234-4639 SMITHSONIAN’S MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN with the author WEB SITE & E-MAIL www.esuwdc.org of a classic novel about the rituals and traditions of a culture [email protected] which is seriously threatened, see the pages that follow. A WRITER WHO DOUBLES AS THE WIFE WHO’S TO BLAME FOR ABU GHRAIB? A OF BRITAIN’S AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S. PERSPECTIVE FROM JANIS KARPINSKI LADY MANNING is familiar to ESU WASHINGTON constituents as As Commander of the MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE in Iraq, the elegant hostess who stands by her husband’s side as she and COLONEL JANIS KARPINSKI was the only American woman in SIR DAVID preside over social charge of a combat opera- FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 occasions at the BRITISH THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 tion. And when word leaked Reception, 12:00 Lunch, 12:30 p.m. EMBASSY and elsewhere. But Cash-Bar Reception, 11:30 Lunch 12:30 out about the shocking pris- Program, 1:00 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY CLUB she is far more than the oner abuses that took place 1135 16th Street NW effervescent partner of her 1526 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE on her watch at ABU GHRAIB, $40 If Booked Through the Club nation’s AMBASSADOR TO THE ESU Members, $25 Others, $30 she ended up as the only high UNITED STATES. Under the Program Only, $10 -level officer who received a name ELIZABETH IRONSIDE, Lady Manning is a widely acclaimed demotion. To what extent fiction writer, with a roster of crime mysteries that includes A was she responsible for what happened there? And were others, Very Private Enterprise (1984), both below her and higher up n the chain of command, more The Art of Deception (1998), The culpable than we’ve been led to believe? Accomplice (1995), Death in the These are the kinds of issues that Colo- Garden (1995), and A Good Death nel Karpinski focuses upon in One (2000). Thanks to OLSSON’S, copies Woman’s Army, her new book about a of her novels will career she describes as characterized be on hand for from the outset by degrading and humili- purchase; and ating treatment not only for her but for Lady Manning hundreds of other women in our nation’s has graciously armed forces. Copies of this controver- agreed to inscribe sial volume will be on hand for those them. We’re very who wish to purchase them, and the author will not only sign pleased that the UNIVERSITY CLUB is making them but respond to any questions that attendees have. this event available to the author’s many admirers in the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION. PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND: THE QUEST We’re also grateful that registrants who book online at www.universityclubdc.com or call Norbert FOR HOPE ON A RECEDING HORIZON Kupinski at (202) 824-1390, are being extended the Club’s Why, after more than five decades, is an Israeli-Palestinian peace special member-only rate of $40. so elusive? And do the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group offer any prospect of resolving the conflicts that persist? AMBASSADOR WARREN CLARK ASSESSES These are topics that will be TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 on the mind of Ambassa- THE CHALLENGES OF WORLD POVERTY dor SAMUEL W. LEWIS as he Cash-Bar Reception, 11:30 Lunch 12:30 Seven years ago UNITED NATIONS members agreed unanimously Program, 1:00 p.m. speaks during another on economic and social development goals that were designed to 1526 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE thought-provoking lunch- reduce world poverty by ESU Members, $25 Others, $30 eon that has been arranged TUESDAY, JANUARY 23 more than half between now Program Only, $10 by the WOMAN’S NATIONAL Cash-Bar Reception, 11:30 Lunch 12:30 and 2015. These objectives DEMOCRATIC CLUB. Mr. Program, 1:00 p.m. are laudable, of course, not Lewis was U.S. AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL for eight tumultuous 1526 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE only as a way to reduce hu- years (1977 to 1985) under Presidents Carter and Reagan, a pe- ESU Members, $25 Others, $30 man misery but as a means riod which spanned the negotiation of an Egyptian-Israeli peace Program Only, $10 of avoiding the chaos and treaty, the assassination of one of the leaders who signed that conflict that result from accord, and the 1982 Lebanon War. Mr. Lewis was the first failed states. But are they realistic? To address these questions, President of the UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE. He is we’re joining the WOMAN’S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB in a now a senior advisor to the WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR AMBASSADOR WARREN EAST POLICY and to the ISRAEL POLICY FORUM. luncheon session with CLARK, a diplomat who served for more than three decades in the U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE. NORMAN ORNSTEIN REFLECTS ON THE Mr. Clark is Senior Advisor with the Center NEW CONGRESS AND THE YEAR AHEAD for Global Justice and Reconciliation at WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL and As we move into another period of divided government, with Chairman of the Commission on Peace for Republicans in control of the White House and Democrats the EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON. newly installed in leadership positions on Capitol Hill, it seems He has written extensively, and he draws timely to ponder what appears likely to occur during the months upon experience as DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE ahead. For that reason it will be a pleasure to hear one of Amer- FOR AFRICA and as the American AMBASSADOR TO GABON. ica’s most respected observers as he looks at an institution he 2 ESU News & Announcements January 2007 recently described as The Broken Branch. Thanks to our asso- sign copies of Ceremony, the story of a Native American who ciates at the WOMAN’S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB, we’re returns to his roots after suffering the horrors of a Japanese being treated to a luncheon at which a policy analyst from the prison camp in World War II AMERICAN ENTERPRISE and finds comfort in the THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 THURSDAY,THURSDAY, JANUARY FEBRUARY 25 1 INSTITUTE explores the heritage of his forefathers.
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