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FOUNDED 1974- "Our purpose is to assemble a diverse group of concerned individuals for discussions of social, political, literary and Parker House educational topics; our goal is to exchange challenging ideas and opinions that can lead to constructive change in our lives, our nation Boston, Massachusetts and our world"...The Dunfey Family March 7, 1990 CIRCLES PAST...

...For more than sixteen years we have enjoyed a lively and stimulating exchange of views and ideas. Some Circle topics and Discussion Leaders have been: "As never before, we have a chance to reshape public discourse and INDUSTRY • ECONOMICS • CITIES • NEIGHBOR- reorder national priorities... we can work far more out of hope than out HOODS • FARM CRISIS: of fear. The 1990s could be spectacular." —William Sloane Coffin JIMMY BRESLIN, DOUG FRASER, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, SENATOR TOM HARKIN, ED KOCH, (TIME, 1989) STANISLAV MENSHIKOV, BILL MOYERS, RALPH Welcome to New England Circle. This evening's Discussion NADER, JIM ROUSE, SENATOR WARREN RUDMAN and ANDY YOUNG. Leader, REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN is the President of SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security, the largest peace WORLD PEACE • NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL: and justice organization in the nation. As "America's Last Peacenik", DANIEL BERRIGAN, ROGER FISHER, JOHN HUME, he believes that America can help establish a real "peace on earth". GEORGE KISTAIKOWSKY, HENRY CABOT LODGE, CONGRESSMAN ED MARKEY and INGA THORSSON. Specifically, he has called for a commitment to cut 50 percent from the US military budget and to reinvest the savings in human needs; an FOREIGN AFFAIRS: ED ASNER, MUBARAK AWAD, end to aid in El Salvador; revocation of trade embargoes to Cuba, JENNIFER CASOLO, CHARLIE CLEMENTS, DOUGLAS Nicaragua and Vietnam; normalization of trade with the Soviet FARAH, PAUL FITZGERALD, TOM GIBB, ALLEN Union and Eastern Europe; a comprehensive test ban, and an GOTLIEB, MICHAEL HARRINGTON, BIANCA JAGGAR, MICKEY LELAND, ROBERT McNAMARA, MICHAEL agreement with the Soviets to stop the production of all materials MANLEY, REVEREND BEYERS NAUDE, CHRIS connected with the manufacture of nuclear weapons. NORTON, CLARA LOPEZ OBREGON, YOSEF OLMERT, TONY O'REILLY, JIM SHANNON, FRANK SMYTH, Tonight's Moderator is MARJORIE M. ARONS-BARRON, OLIVER TAMBO, ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU and Editorial Director for WCVB-TV, Channel Five in Boston. She is the WILLIAM WEBSTER. Producer and often hosts the widely acclaimed public affairs program "Five On Five". United Press International, the Associated Press, the CONGRESS • POLITICS • THE PRESIDENCY: American Trial Lawyers Association and the Alliance for the JULIAN BOND, SARAH BRADY, HODDING CARTER III, JIMMY & ROSALYNN CARTER, SENATOR WILLIAM Mentally Ill have all recognized Barron for her strong, clear and COHEN, HENRY STEELE COMMAGER, GO VERNOR KEN eloquent editorial positions. CURTIS, CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK, MARK New England Circle invites men and women of different cultures, GERZON, DICK GOODWIN, TED KENNEDY, TOM McINTYRE, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER GEORGE political persuasions and professions to exchange ideas and opinions. MITCHELL, "TIP" O'NEILL, JODY POWELL, PETE N. We invite as many guests as we can to participate in the limited number SHIELDS, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF JOHN of Circles held each year. SUNUNU and US ATTORNEY GENERAL DICK THORNBURGH. New England Circle evolves out of a tradition inaugurated here at the Parker House in the 18th Century. Tonight's discussion of peace HUMAN RIGHTS: HARRY BELAFONTE, VICTORIA and justice could awaken the spirit of those who inaugurated those GARRON de DORYAN, MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN, colloquiums, then called the Saturday Club. Literary giants, such as GERALDINE FERRARO, JANE FONDA, DICK GREGORY, CORETTA SCOTT KING, ISABEL LETELIER, REVEREND Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Long- PAUL MAYER, MARGARET PAPANDREOU, CARMEN fellow and others, gathered regularly for lively informal discussions. SAENZ de PHILLIPS, MARTIN SHEEN, MITCH SNYDER, These meetings formed a tradition that continues to influence today's New England Circle is a nonprofit, GLORIA STEINEM, SUSAN WOOD and DONALD Circle which started here sixteen years ago. WOODS. nonpartisan foundation for educational purposes. JOHN ANGELONE, Manager, Lauriat's Book Store, PATRICIA P. ELLEN, Controller, The Dunfey Group, BRIAN WRIGHT O'CONNOR, Managing Editor, BAY Manchester, NH Portsmouth, NH STATE BANNER, Dorchester, MA ANDREW ARNOFF, Product Manager, Appex-Lunayach ELIZABETH CAMPBELL ELLIOT, Chair, SANE/FREEZE, YARON OFEK, Product Manager, Appex Lunayach Systems, Systems, Arlington Heights, MA Cambridge, MA Boston, MA GIAVANNA ARNOFF, Arlington Heights, MA DEXTER D. EURE, Member, The Boston Globe Foundation, WILLIAM L. PATTON, Attorney, Boston, MA MARJORIE M. ARONS-BARRON, Editorial Director, WCVB Sharon, MA CHRISTOPHER PERRY, Information Systems Assistant, Berklee TV-5, Needham, MA JOYCE FERRIABOUGH, Private Media and Political School of Music, Boston, MA JERILYN ASHER, Executive Vice President, Protocare, Consultant, Cambridge, MA THOMAS W. PORTER, Partner, Melick & Porter, Boston, MA Incorporated, Waltham, MA JOHN J. FLYNN, Centerville, MA JAMES A. PUTNAM, Vice President/General Manager, WENDY O'DONNELL BALLINGER, Executive Director, Ford RUTHE FLYNN, Centerville, MA MARKEM Corporation, Keene, NH Hall Forum, Boston, MA SHELAGH FOREMAN, Chair, Program Committee, GEORGE W. RATHJENS, Professor, Political Science, JAMES BARRON, Attorney, Boston, MA SANE/FREEZE, Cambridge, MA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA WILLIAM BATSON, Student, Harvard University, Cambridge, ELEANOR DUNFEY FREIBURGER, Assistant Professor, New RICHARD W. "HAP" RIDGWAY, Headmaster, Berwick MA Hampshire College, Manchester, NH Academy, South Berwick, ME CHARLES J. BEARD, Attorney, Boston, MA PAUL GARRITY, President, Alternative Dispute Resolution, LEROY S. ROUNER, Director, Institute for Philosophy, Boston FREDERICK BROWN, Justice, Massachusetts Court of Boston, MA University, Boston, MA Appeals, Boston, MA ALAN F. GORDON, Reporter, NEWSDAY, Watertown, MA ROBERT RUBEN, M.D., Physicians, GI Professional DORIS BUNTE, Administrator, Boston Housing Authority, DEBRA DUNFEY GRABILL, Hanover, NH Association, Dover, NH Boston, MA NADINE HACK. New York, NY C. THERESA RYDER, Boston, MA JAMES CARROLL, Author, Boston, MA SUSAN KRESS HAMILTON, Designer, Phineas, KENNETH G. RYDER, Chancellor, Northeastern University, ARN CHORN, Student, Providence College, Providence, RI Portsmouth, NH Boston, MA CHARLIE CLEMENTS, M.D., Executive Director, SATELIFE, WILLIAM HAMILTON, Owner, Phineas, Portsmouth, NH BILL SALLEE, Director of AES A A, Bunker Hill Community International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, KATHERINE M. HANNA, Attorney, Concord, NH College, Boston, MA Cambridge, MA WILLIAM B. HART, JR., Chair, New England Circle, DEBORAH S. SANDERS, Director, Board of Directors, New DAVID COFFIN, Musician, Essex, MA Portsmouth, NH England Circle, Portsmouth, NH REVEREND WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, President, JUNE ALICE HAYES, Executive Assistant to Robert J. Dunfey, RENAE SCOTT, Director, Womens Service Club, Cambridge, SANE/FREEZE: Campaign for Global Security, Sr., So. Portland, ME MA Washington, D.C. CHARLESE HILTON, Production Assistant, WBZ TV-4, SAYRE SHELDON, President Emeritus, Women's Action for PETER DANFORTH, General Partner, Kearsarge Ventures, Boston, MA Nuclear Disarmament and Professor, Boston University, Manchester, NH VINCENT H. HOWELL, Administrative Aide to Representative Cambridge, MA NICHOLAS DANILOFF, Professor, School of Journalism, Byron Rushing, Boston, MA CRAIG SHEPARD, Real Estate Developer/Broker, Northeastern University, Boston, MA JEFF JACOBY, Chief Editorial Writer, THE BOSTON Cambridge, MA DAVID W. DAVIS, Executive Director, Massport, Boston, MA HERALD, Boston, MA PHYLLIS SIMPKINS, Manager, Annual Fund, Museum of STEVEN L. DAWSON, Publisher, THE SPECTATOR, JUDY JAR VIS, Host and Producer, "Point of View", WLVI Science, Boston, MA Brentwood, NH TV-56, Cambridge, MA ELISA M. SPERANZA, Special Projects Manager, Boston Water WILLIAM DEERY, Consultant, Democracy for China Fund, MICHELLE JOURDAK, President, Human Rights Project, and Sewer Commission, Boston, MA Boston, MA Portsmouth, NH MARK STARR, Bureau Chief, NEWSWEEK, Boston, MA DUANE J. DESKINS, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. District JOYCE KING, Chairperson, Trustees of Roxbury Community REVEREND CHARLES STITH, Senior Pastor, Union United Court, Boston, MA College, Boston, MA Methodist Church, President, Organization for a New Equality, JAMES DONCHESS, Mayor, City of Nashua, Nashua, NH MEL KING, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston, MA RAYMOND DOOLEY, Director, Administrative Services, City of President, Rainbow Coalition, Boston, MA JEFFREY THOMAS, Real Estate Consultant, Cambridge, MA Boston, Boston, MA KAREN KOSHNER, Journalist, Brookline, MA PHILIPPE VILLERS, President, Families Limited for Senior JERRY DUNFEY, President, New England Circle, Boston, MA ROBERT L. KUTTNER, Columnist/Author, THE BOSTON Action Foundation, Concord, MA JOAN DUNFEY, Instructor, Lesley College, Jamaica Plain, MA GLOBE; The New Republic, Brookline, MA JUANITA WADE, Member, Boston School Committee, JOHN P. DUNFEY, Founder, Omni/Dunfey Hotels, JAMES W. LAWSON, Attorney, Cambridge, MA Boston, MA Portsmouth, NH KER LEE, Political Science Student, Providence College, CHARLES WALKER, Professor of Law, New England School of RICHARD P. DUNFEY, Chief Justice, Superior Court, Providence, RI Law, Boston, MA Concord, NH MELVIN MILLER, Editor and Publisher, BAY STATE MATTHEW WALSH, Student, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, RUTH DUNFEY, Boston, MA BANNER, Dorchester, MA MA ROBERT J. DUNFEY, SR., Chair, Dunfey Properties, South LOIS MIRSKY, Development Executive, U.S. Committee for JOANNE WILBURN, Program Director, New England Circle, Portland, ME UNICEF, Cambridge, MA Boston, MA E. LOVELL DYETT, Television Journalist/Radio Talkmaster, DAISY NELL, Musician, Essex, MA CURTIS WILKIE, Reporter, THE BOSTON GLOBE, Newtonville, MA DAVID S. NELSON, Judge, United States Federal District Court, Boston, MA CONSTANCE EATON, Portsmouth, NH Boston, MA DESSIMA WILLIAMS, Fellow, Radcliff College, Boston, MA NASSER EGA-MUSA, Director, Human Rights Project, Reebok KEVIN O'CONNELL, Executive Director, SANE/FREEZE, ELIZABETH WINSHIP, Author, "Ask Beth", THE BOSTON International, Stoughton, MA Cambridge, MA GLOBE, Boston, MA THOMAS WINSHIP, President, Center for Foreign Journalists, Boston, MA