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THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES . Creating Global Understanding Through English nation’s capital area branch SEPTEMBER 2005 News & Announcements PRESIDENT THE ESU OPENS ITS 2005-6 SEASON WITH A SUNDAY RECEPTION Dr. Gerald B. Kauvar Graham Down Welcomes Us to a Festive Tea at the Westchester FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Mr. Thomas M. Pazzi With thanks for the kind hospitality of A. GRAHAM TREASURER DOWN, who chairs our Education Committee and who Mr. C. Braxton Moncure served for several years as President of the branch of the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ESU that represents the Dr. John F. Andrews, OBE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Nation’s Capital region, VICE-PRESIDENTS 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. we invite you to a gath- Mrs. Armida Colt ering in one of our met- 4000 CATHEDRAL AVENUE ropolitan area’s most Capt. Macauley Howard SUNDAY,Apartment SEPTEMBER 152 B 11 Mrs. Eleanor Ritchie 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. beautiful settings. Mr. Dr. Marjorie J. Williams Admission $25 Down’s apartment is Mr. F. Mark Wyatt 4000 CATHEDRAL AVENUE NW one of the jewels of a Apartment 152 B DIRECTORS WESTCHESTER complex that has long been proverbial for its elegant architecture and leafy vistas. Owing Mr. Stephen F. Black to his generosity,Admission all proceeds$25 from this get-together, including any supplemental donations that atten- Ms. D. Elizabeth Crompton dees give, will be used to support the ESU’s charitable activities. To reach Mr. Down’s residence Mr. William Fitzgerald, III you’ll need to go to the third entrance on the right, the one with the brick-and-stone porte cochere. Mr. Robert A. Fratkin Ms. Wendell Vilas Graham Mrs. Celia Josephs IME S ONNIE NGELO XAMINES MERICA S IRST AMILIES Mr. James C. Ledyard T ’ B A E A ’ F F Mr. Phillip H. Miller A White House Reporter Discloses Some Little-Known Problems Mr. Mark Olshaker Mrs. Gillian B. Quinby We’re pleased to join the WNDC EDUCATIONAL FOUN- Mr. William L. Renfro DATION for a luncheon with BONNIE ANGELO, an award Dr. Jeanne A. Roberts -winning journalist who spent more than 25 years report- ADVISORY BOARD ing for Time from Mr. Eric W. Beshers Washington, New TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Hon. Robert A. Brand York, and London. Dr. John Churchill Cash-Bar Reception 11:30 Mr. A. Graham Down During her decade as Lunch 12:30 Program 1:00 Mr. Gilbert M. Grosvenor WHITE HOUSE corre- 1526 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE Dr. Richard H. Howland, OBE spondent, Ms. Angelo Mrs. Priscilla Liggett served as co-host of Admission $25 Mrs. Diana M. Nicholson Panorama, a popular Mrs. Jane P. Plakias Frederic W. Schwartz, Jr., Esq. midday television program. From there she went to Britain as the first woman to head a major bureau Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg for a U.S. news-magazine. Ms. Angelo will introduce and sign copies of First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives, a book that appears destined to become a best-selling sequel OFFICE ADDRESS to her much-admired study of First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents. 1604 New Hampshire Avenue NW Washington, DC 20009-2512 TELEPHONE (202) 234-4602 Lynn Redgrave on Wednesday, September 28 FACSIMILE (202) 234-4639 For more on that and other upcoming programs, among them events WEB SITE & E-MAIL with FLORA FRASER, KEN LUDWIG, and JUDITH MARTIN, see the www.esuwdc.org pages that follow, or consult our Calendar at www.esuwdc.org. [email protected] number of years this endeavor has been conducted as a joint Recent Events venture with the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, repre- sented by Professor JOHN KROMKOWSKI of that institution’s FROM DARTMOUTH HOUSE ON THE 4TH OF JULY, Department of Political Science. Since 2003, thanks to Dr. GE- THE 2005 ALISTAIR COOKE MEMORIAL LECTURE RALD KAUVAR in the office of its President, GEORGE WASHING- TON UNIVERSITY has been playing an increasingly pivotal role in Shortly after the death of ALISTAIR COOKE in March 2004, our the undertaking, both as a sponsor of interns (averaging ap- branch’s most energetic and influential Vice President, MARJORIE proximately ten students per year from each side of the Atlantic) J. WILLIAMS, suggested that the ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION devise and as the provider of residence facilities for the British visitors an appropriate way to help perpetuate a great journalist’s legacy. who come here to study American politics and government. The first fruits of Dr. Williams’ inspired proposal were realized on Everyone agrees that activities such as these are valuable, and Monday, July 4, when SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN of Arizona deli- should be strengthened and expanded. For that reason we’re grate- vered the BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATI ON’s 2005 ALISTAIR ful to those members of ESU’s local branch who have done so COOKE MEMORIAL LECTURE at DARTMOUTH HOUSE in London. much to sustain them, not least by the logistical support and hospi- This gathering was hosted by the ESU, with its International tality they’ve extended to recent graduates of Bristol, Cambridge, Chairman, LORD WATSON OF RICHMOND, its Director-General, Durham, Edinburgh, London, Oxford, St. Andrews, and other MRS. VALERIE MITCHELL, its Washington Executive Director, universities. In the last few weeks, for instance, ROBERT AND SUSAN JOHN F. ANDREWS, and FRATKIN, CELIA AND JUL IAN JOSEPHS, BRAXTON AND DEBROAH branch members JAN MONCURE, and WILLIAM AND SANDRA DENTON (who took the RENFRO have all contributed enormously to photograph at left) and the success of this effort. ROGER AND PATRICIA PLASKETT on hand for The Renfros, meanwhile, have been host- the proceedings. ing another future leader from abroad, Others who partcipated KSENIA COPYLOVA of ST. PETERSBURG in the festivities in- UNIVERSITY. Ms. Copylova, who impressed cluded Alistair Cooke’s all the delegates she assisted at the ESU’s daughter and literary 2003 WORLD MEMBERS’ CONGRESS in Rus- sia, has been auditing courses in political executor, SUSAN COOKE KITTREDGE; his biographer, BBC RADIO history at GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVER- 4’s NICK CLARKE, who introduced the program and presided over the question-and-answer session that followed Senator McCain’s SITY for the last two months, and she says that she now hopes to return to the U.S. a year from now to begin a doctorate. prepared address; one of Mr. Cooke’s TV producers, RICHARD PRICE (former chairman of BAFTA, the BRITISH ACADEMY OF In a related development that augurs well for the future, ESU FILM AND TELEVISION ARTS); Mr. Cooke’s BBC editor during the WASHINGTON has subscribed to the ESU NATIONAL OFFICE’s final years of his celebrated LETTER FROM AMERICA series, MARIA BOOKS-AS-ENVOYS program (earmarking $150 a year to contrib- BALINSKA (shown above with Senator McCain and Mr. Clarke); ute five AMBASSADOR BOOK AWARD selections about American the Comissioning Editor for BBC RADIO 4, ANDREW CASPARI; the culture to the libraries of other ESUs around the world) and Controller of BBC RADIO 4, MARK DAM AZER; the Director of BBC thereby initiated one-to-one relationships with the BATH com- WORLD SERVICE, PHILIP HARDING; and the Director-General of munity in England and the PARIS community in France. This is the BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATI ON, MARK THOMPSON. particularly pleasing to the ESU’s international headquarters in Senator McCain’s topic was An American Patriot Today. And London, and on July 6, two days after the ALISTAIR COOKE as expected, his comments, particularly during the discussion that MEMORIAL LECTURE at DARTMOUTH HOUSE, JOHN ANDREWS followed his lecture, included a few carefully phrased declarations and JAN DENTON were invited to a tea hosted by International of interdependence. His observations could be heard live over Chairman ALAN WATSON BBC RADIO 4 at 8:00 p.m. (3:00 in the eastern U.S.), both over the at the HOUSE OF LORDS. air in the U.K. and online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4. The fol- MRS. MITCHELL (to the lowing day they were broadcast around the globe over the BBC left in the adjoining pic- WORLD SERVICE. They can now be downloaded through a link ture) and LORD WATSON provided at www.esuwdc.org/calendar.html, a Web page that used the occasion to also offers a means to obtain a transcript of the Senator’s lecture. introduce Mr. Andrews and his wife, not only to this year’s Parliamentary SUMMER EXCHANGES AS WAYS OF FURTHERING interns from the United THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION’S OBJECTIVES States, but to LUCETTE LOUSSOUARN, President of ESU PARIS, Among the activities that connect the ESU WASHINGTON commu- and COLIN MCCORQUODALE, President of ESU LONDON nity with its counterparts elsewhere are exchange programs such (standing to the right of Lord Watson). Everyone concurred as the WESTMINSTER - CAPITOL HILL INTERNSHIPS that permit with Lord Watson’s view that the time is right for a concerted students from the United Kingdom to spend several weeks each three-city initiative that will bring the ESU communities in Lon- summer in the offices of Senators and Congressmen and students don, Paris, and Washington into more sustained, productive, from the United States to assist Members of Parliament. For a and mutually beneficial relationships with one another. 2 ESU News & Announcements September 2004 dary THE ATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET and from there to a Tony Current Attractions nomination on Broadway. Her latest triumph, Nightingale, a meditation based upon the life of her maternal grandmother, was a sensation when it premiered at A NATION COLUMNIST RUMINATES ON Manhattan’s NATIONAL ARTS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 THE FERMENTING OF INSURRECTIONS CLUB in June, and we’re hon- Program 7:00 p.m.