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DePauw Discourse 2005 also offered a seasoned panel on business ethics, moderated by Chicago Tribune Chief Business Correspondent David W. Greising ’82 and featuring Theodore “Tim” M. Solso ’69, CEO of Cummins Inc.; Darlene Montgomery Ryan ’76, CEO of PharmaFab; and Timothy R. Pearson ’76, vice president of global marketing for KPMG. The four engaged in a discussion of ethical issues, ranging from outsourcing jobs to the kinds of probing questions they use to interview and select employees of the highest standards. Following a dinner that included a surprise announcement of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics (see story on page 6), DePauw Discourse 2005 participants joined DePauw students to go back two centuries in time for “An Evening with Thomas Jefferson.” Humanities scholar and award-winning historical impersonator Clay S. Jenkinson gave an oration in Jefferson’s voice about the principles and vision of the author of the Declaration of Independence. He later engaged in what he called his first presidential press conference, during which DePauw students and alumni engaged him in a philosophical and oftentimes humorous give-and-take on Jefferson’s life and leadership as well as his Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power, right, and perspectives on the state of the modern republic. moderator Ken Bode held a conversation in East The final day of Discourse offered, in addition to the “Civility & Politics” panel conversaCollege’s Meharry Hall. tion with Vernon Jordan, a roundtable lunch in which participants could engage each of the symposium’s presenters in small group discussions and back-to-the-classroom seminars featuring small, interactive faculty-led seminars, such as Mary (English) Dixon’s “Up, Up, and Away? The Economy, Interest Rates, and the Stock Market” and Nafhat Nasr’s “Perspectives from Lebanon: A Viable Model for the Coexistence of Christianity and Islam.” DePauw Discourse 2005 closed on the evening of Sept. 17 with an elegant dinner in the renovated William Weston Clarke Emison Museum of Art followed by a light-hearted performance by the Capitol Steps, a troupe of current and former Congressional staffers, whose music and political satire brought down the house of alumni and students in Moore Theatre.
DEPAUW DISCOURSE You can read more about DePauw Discourse 2005 events and access a photo gallery by going to the comprehensive DePauw Discourse 2005 Web site at www.depauw.edu/discourse. On presidential personnel: Liza Wright, left, assistant to President Bush for presidential personnel, and Lisa Hollander, DePauw vice president for development and alumni relations.
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