Chef Gray brings attitude, work ethic to President’s Cottage, Athenaeum, Page 5 The Chautauquan Daily Seventy-Five Cents Chautauqua, New York The Official Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Thursday, August 23, 2012 Volume CXXXVI, Issue 53 SMITH Smith explores ‘exclusive trade union’ between early presidents JEN BENTLEY Staff Writer If you asked Richard Norton Smith what his job is, he probably wouldn’t tell you that he is a presi- dential historian. Despite rightfully earning his title from years of work as a biographer, head of six presi- dential libraries and a scholar-in- residence of history, Smith’s passion has always been his love of history, not fulfilling titles. “I know it when I see it. I’m not sure how to define it,” Smith said about being a presidential scholar. “I never really stopped to think about it as such, and I’ve certainly never claimed it as such. It’s only A ‘SUMMER SONG’ looking back that it sticks together. Lettermen to serenade audience with classic love ballads tonight at the Amp What it’s really about, in a sense, is taking a love of history and sharing KELSEY BURRITT it with as many people as possible.” Staff Writer See SMITH, Page 4 n almost 50 years of performances with The Lettermen, I Tony Butala has received a standing ovation every single show. But when the popular vocal group was formed in 1958, the members were paid $125 a week for 14 performances, and nobody knew their name. “We could have been called The Three Ashtrays,” Butala said. “It meant nothing, absolutely nothing.” Having recently completed their 76th album, The Lettermen are cer- tainly more than nothing. The group became a hit in the 1960s, known ROBENALT DEAN for its love ballads such as “The Way You Look Tonight,” “When I Fall In Love,” and “Goin’ Out of My Head / Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.” Overall, the group has 16 Top 10 singles and five Grammy nominations. THE LETTERMEN Robenalt, Dean The Lettermen will perform at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphithe- ater as part of the evening entertainment series. “I often tell people that when I chose to be an entertainer, it’s like speak on ethical The current members of The Lettermen are Tony Butala, Dono- being a country doctor,” Butala said. “We go into certain areas, we van Tea and Bobby Poynton. There have been eight members of The have to analyze an audience, and we have to entertain that audience. Lettermen throughout their more than 50-year career, but this is the We have to make sure that we have the combination of shticks and lapses behind group’s longest standing membership in its history. Besides Butala, songs and laughs and participation to make that audience heal, and the group has been held together by its timeless hits, its love for its give them something that they can walk out of that auditorium that Watergate scandal audience and its dedication to quality showmanship. they didn’t walk in with.” LETTERMEN JESSICA WHITE See , Page 4 Staff Writer People hate losing more than they love winning. It is knowledge that might seem Duffy, Gibbs discuss research process in writing ‘Presidents Club’ common to competitive types, but it now has a name — prospect theory JENNIFER SHORE ing to get a little closer to the day in the Amphitheater — the White House in 2007. The — and a Nobel Prize to back it. The Staff Writer action on this trip.” the morning lecture theme Presidents Club, which was theory, which describes behavioral Duffy and co-writer Nan- for this week is “The Presi- released earlier this year, is economics and found that people During the late 1960s, Mi- cy Gibbs will present their dents Club” — and the two a New York Times best-seller. dislike losing more than they like chael Duffy and his Nebras- book, The Presidents Club: In- authors will finish out the “The research is great winning by a factor of 2 to 3, ex- ka-born, Congregationalist side the World’s Most Exclusive week and 2012 Season Fri- fun, but the interviews are plains why people lie, cheat, cover mother were driving to Ohio Fraternity, the Chautauqua day on the Amp stage. challenging, and there are up and act irrationally when they from somewhere in the north- Literary and Scientific Circle The authors are both edi- certain traps that are easy are in trouble. See the Monica Le- east, and they stopped by the selection for Week Nine, at tors of Time, and this is their to fall into when writing winsky or Penn State scandals, said Chautauqua Institution. 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of second collaboration on a about these much chronicled Thompson Hine LLP partner James “I recall peering through Philosophy. book about presidents. They men,” Gibbs said. Robenalt, who has studied prospect a fence as if at the Promised Gibbs introduced the published The Preacher and theory in legal ethics. Land,” Duffy said. “I’m hop- week with an address Mon- the Presidents: Billy Graham in See GIBBS-DUFFY, Page 4 See ROBENALT-DEAN, Page 4 Review: Trifonov Braham Fund ‘terrifically Nash: As with honors former exciting’ in guest A-bomb drops, Institution Raynor spot with CSO, presidential president, sisters keep Zur; Zemach decisions full family’s Chautauqua receives dignified of moral gray dedication to tennis all in the send-off areas Chautauqua family Page 2 Page 8 Page 9 Page 11 HIGH 80° LOW 60° HIGH 83° LOW 65° HIGH 82° LOW 77° TODAY Rain: 0% FRIDAY Rain: 0% SATURDAY Rain: 0% Sunset: 9:50 p.m. Sunrise: 6:50 a.m. Sunset: 9:50 p.m. Sunrise: 6:50 a.m. Sunset: 9:50 p.m. See the story of every weekday and weekend of the 2012 Season, as told by the Chautauqua community through social media platforms, at storify.com/chqdaily www.chqdaily.com Page 2 The Chautauquan Daily Thursday, August 23, 2012 SYMPHONY Briefly NEWS FROM AROUND THE GROUNDS Artists at the Market The Artists at the Market is open 1–4 p.m. at the Farm- ers Market. Artists and vendors bring a variety of unique items. Artists change daily and weekly. Chautauqua Dialogues sign-ups The Chautauqua Dialogues program will hold sign-ups 30 minutes prior to the 2 p.m. lecture today in the Hall of Phi- losophy. The program is sponsored by the Department of Religion and is held Friday from 3:30–5 p.m. to discuss the week’s 2 p.m. lecture theme. CWC Cookbook The Chautauqua Women’s Club invites the Chautauqua community to submit recipes for the CWC cookbook proj- ect. Recipe submission forms and additional information about the project are available in the Clubhouse. Amphitheater information session Chautauqua Institution has completed a schematic design for the rehabilitation of the Amphitheater. To keep com- munity members informed on the progress of the project, a public information session will be held at 4:30 p.m. today in the Amphitheater. Members of the design team will de- scribe the preliminary design, answer questions and pro- vide an opportunity for public comment. Short story discussion There will be a short story discussion of “Water Names” by Lan Samantha Chang from 9:15–10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Smith Memorial Library classroom. Copies of the story are available at the library circulation desk. Live music at Brick Walk Cafe ERIC SHEA | Staff Photographer The Brick Walk Cafe offers live music from 5–7 p.m. to- TO P: Guest conductor Noam Zur makes night. Kris Meekins is performing. his North American debut in leading the Science in the Streets Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in its final performance of the 2012 Season Tuesday The Carnegie Science Center Program offers “Science in evening in the Amphitheater. the Streets” from 4:30–5:45 p.m. Friday on Bestor Plaza. ABOVE: Guest pianist Daniil Trifonov, a rising Activities offered include “Playing with Polymers” and 21-year-old superstar, performs Chopin’s Piano “What’s Wafting in the Air?” Concerto No. 2, Op. 21, in F Minor with the CSO. LEFT: The CSO’s brass sections shone in the Chautauqua Community Cache spotlight of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Calling all geocachers and lovers of all things Chautauqua. Bring your trinkets, knick-knacks and doodads, and join oth- ers in hiding them in a community geocache somewhere on the grounds. Meet in Bestor Plaza at 9 a.m. Friday and bring Trifonov ‘terrifically exciting’ in guest spot with a pen as well as a little gizmo you’d be willing to part with. If you’ve ever wanted to hide a geocache, learn how it’s done. CSO, Zur; Zemach receives dignified send-off CORRECTION JOHNC CHA ONA dom and impetuousness that but there were startling mo- The headline of the Wednesday recap of Timothy Naftali’s Guest Reviewer REVIEWwas terrifically exciting. Ru- ments in Zur’s conception of Tuesday morning lecture should have read “Naftali: JFK, benstein boasted of playing this thrice-familiar music. Ike put presidency above partisanship despite frosty rela- It was a night for begin- that way early in his career, tions.” The mistake has been corrected in the online ver- al Piano Master Competition. The former trombonist nings and endings in the sion of the story. As luck would have it, and if Trifonov doesn’t yet from Tel Aviv got predict- Amphitheater on Tuesday. Trifonov soon after took the have the Polish master’s re- ably fine brass playing, by This being the final Chau- gold medal at the 2011 Inter- finement and elegance, give and large, and brought out tauqua Symphony Orches- national Tchaikovsky Com- him time.