Three Days of September:
"A Celebration, with Conversations about the Future"

To help commemorate its 40th, the Georgia Center for Continuing Education will hold a special conference for the field of adult and continuing education, September 23-25, 1997.

"A Celebration, With Conversations About the Future" will feature a "town hall" meeting with Harlan Cleveland, dean emeritus of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota and president of the World Academy of Art and Science, also at Minnesota. Performances of "Those Fabulous Forty Years," a program of Broadway music with special guest artists Norman Large and Victoria Strong and the Center's own Masters Hall Singers, will also be part of the conference activities.

The Guest of Honor, Harlan Cleveland

Cleveland's diverse career includes leadership positions in government, education, business, and volunteer organizations. Highlights have been many--a graduate of Princeton University and a Rhodes Scholar; United Nations rehabilitation administrator in the late 1940s; director of the China Aid Program of the Economic Cooperation Administration in the late '40s and early '50s; the Washington-based supervisor of the Marshall Plan for European Recovery in 1952; executive editor and later publisher of The Reporter magazine from 1952 to 1956; dean of the Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the late 1950s; assistant secretary of state for International Organization Affairs in the Kennedy Administration; U. S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with the Johnson and Nixon Administrations; president of the University of Hawaii (1969-1974); developer and director of a program for The Aspen Institute's Program in International Affairs; chair of the Weather Modification Advisory Board (1977-1978); a visiting professorship at the University of Texas in 1979; and then on to the University of Minnesota, where he was the founding dean of the Humphrey Institute.

Cleveland is a past president of the American Society for Public Administration, and has served as chair of The American Forum for Global Education, the National Retiree Volunteer Coalition, and the board of directors of VITA (Volunteers in Technical Assistance), in addition to his involvement with a variety of other service organizations. He holds 22 honorary degrees and is a recipient of the U.S. Medal of Freedom, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, and the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award. His books include Birth of a New World: An Open Moment for International Leadership (1993), The Knowledge Executive in an Information Society (1985), and The Global Commons: Policy for the Planet (1990).

"Harlan Cleveland is one of our nation's most distinguished leaders and thinkers. We are extremely fortunate, and indeed we are honored, to have him as our gust speaker for the Georgia Center's 40th celebration. Professor Cleveland brings rare insight and experience from his life's work of service to our country and higher education, and, as a perceptive futurist, he offers a unique vision about where we are headed. I look forward to what he will have to say about a variety of topics affecting those of us in higher education specifically, but also society generally," said Edward G. Simpson, Jr., director of the Georgia Center and UGA associate vice president for public service and outreach.

"Our sessions with adult and continuing education leaders from around the country, joined by our international visitors and our colleagues here at the University, promise to be truly enlightening as a result of the intellectual stimulation and provocative thinking of Professor Cleveland," said Simpson.

"Those Fabulous Forty Years"

"Those Fabulous Forty Years" brings special guest artists Norman Large and Victoria Strong to the Center's Masters Hall stage for a four-decade-plus Broadway musical revue. The Masters Hall Singers, with host Florence King, will round out the show.

Large, who was the Center's guest artist for "A Christmas Musicale", last December, will take a break from his work in the current San Francisco production of "The Phantom of the Opera," to take part in "Those Fabulous Forty Years." Large was in the original Broadway cast of "Les Miserables," and appeared in the Broadway shows "A Doll's Life" and "Silverlake," and in the Los Angeles production of "Cats." He has worked extensively in film and television, including roles in "Seinfeld," "Melrose Place," "Deep Space Nine," and "The Bold and the Beautiful." He also holds a "Star Trek" record, playing more different roles as a guest star than anyone in the history of "The Next Generation." He is pictured on two Star Trek trading cards!

Strong, in her first Masters Hall event, has appeared in numerous musicals and dramas, recently as "Eleanor Roosevelt" in the West Coast premiere of "Eleanor, A Musical Love Story." Other roles in regional theater productions include "Betty" in "Will Rogers Follies," "Maria" in "The Sound of Music," "Kathy" in "The Student Prince," "Sarah" in "Guys and Dolls," "Christine" in Kopit and Yestin's "Phantom," "Julie" in "Carousel," "Hodel" in "Fiddler on the Roof," "Widow Douglas" in "Big River," "Anna" in "The King and I," "Milly" in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Eliza" in "My Fair Lady," "Aldonza" in "Man of La Mancha," "Ann Sullivan" in "The Miracle Worker," and "Margaret" in "The Hasty Heart." She has also recorded a solo tape of inspirational music, "Because of Who You Are," and was part of the original cast recording for "A Winter's Tale."

King--UGA employee "by day" and accomplished performer and Masters Hall favorite "by night"--will host the show. King, as a permanent member of the production and direction group for Masters Hall Performances, provides advice and counsel in program development. "By day," King serves as personnel librarian for The University of Georgia Libraries.

Part of "A Celebration, With Conversations About the Future," the musical revue will be performed for Georgia Center staff and faculty, invited guests, and conference participants the evening of September 24, with a buffet reception. Conference participants will attend the complete show for general audiences the next evening. The general audience schedule for "Those Fabulous Forty Years" is September 25-27, 8:15 p.m. all three days, with a Saturday matinee at 2:15 p.m.

In addition to the session with Cleveland and the Masters Hall performances, "A Celebration, With Conversations About the Future," will include exhibits and tours of the Georgia Center.

While the conference is "invitation-only," those who wish to attend may contact, before September 15, 1997,
Margaret H. Caufield,
Department for Program and Conference Development,
Georgia Center for Continuing Education,
The University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia 30602-3603,
Phone: 706-542-1585,
Fax: 706-542-5990,
e-mail: caufieldm@gactr.uga.edu.

Information about Harlan Cleveland was gathered, with permission, from the World Wide Web site for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs (http://www.hhh.umn.edu/)

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