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- Sunday Speaker Series May 15th 20112011-04-25Carol A. O222Connor, Interim Dean and Professor of History at Arkansas State University, earned her doctorate at Yale and has written extensively about Scarsdale222s community planning and innovative school system. O222Connor222s book, A Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, 1891-1981, is a must for students of Scarsdale222s local history. She returns to Scarsdale to present: 223Studying Scarsdale: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Writing about My Hometown224
- Sunday Speaker Series December 12, 2010Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for National Public Radio. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award winning newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC focusing on the White House and Congress and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway. Years of experience allow her to offer an interesting perspective on the role and responsibilities of the media in today's society. A Scarsdale High School graduate, Liasson returns to Scarsdale to present: "A View from Washington"
- Sunday Speaker Series March 20th 2011Alan Schwarz, a reporter for The New York Times, has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his dozens of high-profile articles that have exposed the epidemic of sports-related concussions. His stories have helped uncover the high rates of dementia among retired National Football League players, unsafe conditions on high school fields, and concussion-related disorders among female youth athletes in soccer and basketball. His 2010 investigation into the dark cave of football helmets led immediately to ongoing investigations by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. A graduate of Scarsdale High School, Schwarz returns to Scarsdale to present: 223Knocken 222em Straight: Football222s Collision with Head Injuries224
- Sunday Speaker Series October 17th 2010"The Economy and the 2010 Elections" Tom Herman wrote for The Wall Street Journal for more than 40 years. He currently teaches an undergraduate seminar "Behind the Headlines: The Press, Business and the Economy" at Yale University and a course on business and financial news coverage at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Herman writes a weekly column "Ask Dow Jones" in The Wall Street Journal Sunday, a personal finance section that appears in approximately 70 newspapers. He is also a columnist for The Fiscal Times, an online news organization.