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CAMPUS VISITORS
SCHOLARS, AUTHORS, AND MUSICIANS WERE AMONG VISITORS ON CAMPUS DURING THE FALL SEMESTER.
Summers Lecture
Saffron Cross
Paul Ramsey Birthday Celebration
ARTS & LECTURE SERIES The Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series began its 46th season with four programs during the fall of 2013. Read more about these programs and the rest of the season at www.millsaps.edu.
SUMMERS LECTURE Emily Saliers, a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and a member of the Indigo Girls, and her father, Dr. Don Saliers, the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship, Emeritus, at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, spoke about the intersections of their music and theological work during “The Harmony of Liturgy & Life: A Day with Don & Emily Saliers” in September. They presented “A Father/Daughter Intergenerational Concert & Musical Dialogue” as part of the Summers Lecture.
ELSE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT FALL FORUM Darrin Webb, senior economist for the state of Mississippi, and Douglas Handler, chief U.S. economist at Information Handling Services and head of North America Macroeconomics, spoke about the economy during the Else School of Management Fall Forum in September.
SAFFRON CROSS Author J. Dana Trent and her husband, Fred Eaker, joined the Millsaps College community for a series of events in November that celebrated Trent’s book, Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk. The events included a Friday Forum, a Millsaps Multi-Faith Initiative conversation, a workshop on writing as a spiritual discipline, and a community conversation.
VISITING WRITERS SERIES Ann Fisher-Wirth, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, poet, and author of Dream Cabinet, Carta Marina, Five Terrac-
es, The Trinket Poems, and Blue Window, spoke and read from her work in November as part of the Millsaps Visiting Writers Series.
PAUL RAMSEY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Some of the most prominent ethicists in the world including Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke; Dr. Jeffrey Stout, professor of religion at Princeton University; and Dr. M. Cathleen Kaveny, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame Law School, gathered in December to celebrate the 100th birthday of Millsaps alumnus Paul Ramsey. They had all studied directly under Ramsey, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Dec. 10, 2013. Ramsey graduated from Millsaps in 1935 and spent 40 years as a professor of religion and ethics at Princeton University. Millsaps Magazine | Winter 2014
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