Schedule of Events
Monday, Sept. 21, 2009
4 p.m. Reflections on Leadership for Social Change. Spaulding Auditorium, The Hopkins Center. This event will be broadcast live via webcast.
- Welcome: Carol Folt, The Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences and Dean of Faculty, Arts & Sciences
- Introduction: President Jim Yong Kim
- Moderator: Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business; author with J. Whitehead and A. Campbell, Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep It From Happening to You, Harvard Business School Press (forthcoming 2009)
- Panelists: Paul Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health; the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Ed Haldeman ’70, chair of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees; chief executive officer, Freddie Mac; Jeffrey Immelt ’78, Dartmouth trustee; chairman of the board and chief executive officer of GE; Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School; Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University
8:45 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Watch Party for "Dartmouth and the Performing Arts." Alumni Hall. Open to the Dartmouth Community.
Live streaming video feed of a dynamic show presenting a wide range of accomplished alumni and student artists, produced by Paul Lazarus ’76 with MC Rachel Dratch ’88, formerly of Saturday Night Live.
"Dartmouth and the Performing Arts" features:
- Pilobolus, which started 35 years ago in a Dartmouth dance class and is now “the most popular modern dance company in the country” (New York Post).
- Ed Kim ’09, piano
- Buck Henry ’52, writer and actor
- Jennifer Leigh Warren ’77, singer and actress
- David Beach ’86, actor
- Courtney Davis ’09, singer and actress
- “The Civilians”, a theater group founded by director Steve Cosson ‘90
- Dartmouth Gospel Choir
- Plus film excerpts from “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” directed by Chris Miller ’97 and Phil Lord ’97, and “The Trials of Darryl Hunt” directed by Ricki Stern ’87 and Annie Sundberg ‘90
- Cast members, including Rachel Dratch and Paul Lazarus, will visit the Watch Party at the conclusion of the live show.
- “Dartmouth and the Performing Arts” will also broadcast live on DarTV (on-campus only).
Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009
11 a.m. Inauguration of President Jim Yong Kim. The Dartmouth Green. The rain location is Leverone Field House. This event will be broadcast live via webcast.
1 p.m - 3 p.m Community celebration featuring the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir and Band, and other student performances. The rain location is Leede Arena.
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