Four Presidential scholars who came to the College last year as Montgomery Fellows will be returning next week to take part in a panel discussion culminating last year's "Power and the Presidency" series.
Michael Beschloss, Edmund Morris, David Maraniss and Ben Bradlee, who all visited campus last year as Montgomery Fellows, will be returning to the College for the panel on Thursday, Feb. 24.
While last year's speeches focused on Presidential biographies, this year's culminating discussion will be the first effort at bringing the speakers together, and should focus more on the current Presidential race, according to Barbara Gerstner, executive director of the Montgomery Fellowship.
Beschloss is best known for his works on Eisenhower and Kennedy, and is also prominent in the news as a commentator for PBS "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" and ABC News.
Reagen expert and biographer Morris also received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt."
Journalist and formmer executive editor of the Washington Post, Bradlee led Post through the Watergate controversy.
Maraniss, another distinguished journalist for the Washington Post, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1993 and is the author of the Clinton biography, "First in his Class."
The Montgomery Fellowship has also initiated a new series entitled "Making Movies, Making Music." Singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow was the first Montgomery Fellow of the series that will visit the College intermittently over the next two years.
This winter, the next Fellow to come to campus will be Juan Demarco Gonzalez, producer of the Afro-Cuban All Star Band and co-producer with Ry Cooder of the film "Buena Vista Social Club." He will visit March 2 -3.
During Spring term, composer Steve Reich and his wife, Beryl Korot, a video artist, will come to campus to present a music video composition and a production of two of their pieces at the Hopkins Center.
The first two weeks in May noted Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal will visit the College. Boal is an accomplished director as well as a social activist, and is known for his theater of the oppressed, according to Gerstner.
This year will see a series of short visits by various Montgomery Fellows that represent a broad range of interests. In previous years Fellows have stayed in Hanover for a term but this year visits will likely be limited to a couple of days, depending on the availability of the Fellow and the endowment's resources.
Generally Fellows appear in one public event. There is also an effort for Fellows to visit as many classes as possible and to meet with various organizations around campus.
In previous years the Montgomery Endowment has brought writers and scholars such as Toni Morrison and former President Gerald Ford to Dartmouth.
Kenneth Montgomery '25, and his wife, Harle, created the Montgomery Endowment in 1977.
