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PresentationoftheTANNENBAUM-WARNERAWARD

FORDISTINGUISHEDSCHOLARSHIPANDGREATSERVICETOTHEUNIVERSITYSEMINARS

toSIDNEYM.GREENFIELD

FollowedbytheTANNENBAUMLECTURE

”THEBIRTHOFSOCIALJUSTICE”

GivenbyDAVIDJOHNSTON

“The Tannenbaum Lectures honor the memory of Professor Frank Tannenbaum,founder of the University Seminars in 1945 and director until his death in 1969. Heand his wife, Jane Belo, established a trust to be invested, reinvested, and includedin Columbia’s permanent endowment.

TheUniversity Seminars

FrankTannenbaumphotographedbyO.E.Nelson

JaneBelo,1935, photographedbyCarlVanVechten

AyoungFrankTannenbaumonhiswaytocourtafterhisarrestforparticipatinginalabordemonstration,1914

“His fine qualities held out the hope that Frank would some day play an importantpart in the labour struggle. None of us had expected however that our studious,quiet friend would so quickly respond to the call of the hour.

EmmaGoldman, LivingmyLive:Volume2,1931

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April28,1971,fromlefttoright:AlbrechtM.Lederer,Mrs.StanleyGordon,Mrs.AlbrechtLederer,BustofFrank

Tannenbaum, StanleyGordon,ChaunceyG.Olinger,Jr.,JamesGutmann

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April13,2016,MiriamWarner,AliceNewton,RobertHanning

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April26,1967,Panelists:A.DoakBarnett,Chang-tuHu,andFrederickT.C.Yu

“Back in 1944 nineteen leading members of the Columbia University faculty sent ajoint letter to Frank Frackenthal, then acting president, suggesting the establishmentof a series of permanent seminars. These educators outlined a plan whereby thebest minds of the institution could be brought together to seek scholarly conclusionson significant problems of the day.

BenjaminFine, TheNewYorkTimes,May10th, 1953

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March12,2014,IvanandRajka Gorup

PortraitofFrankTannenbaum,AliceH.Maier,JosephB.Maier

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March23,2011,HarrietGreisser, RobertRemez

“Obviously they should have failed, because they have no money, publicity,organization, or official status − but they continue to thrive and multiply likebacteria, until their infectious ideas have almost become an epidemic.

PaulGoodman, Harper’sMagazine,January,1964

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March23,2011,EsterFuchs, RobertNewton

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April26,1967,C.MartinWilbur, RalphS.Halford

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April3,2013,PeterV.Norden,RobertPollack

“…[TheSeminars]gatherunder thesameroofscholarsfromother institutions, andmanymen[sic]fromtheactiveworld…becauseofthat[theSeminars]havesomebitofwisdomandusetoaddtopracticalpeoplewhospend theirlivesinmendingthestructureofanylivinginstitution.

FrankTannenbaum,PoliticalScienceQuarterly,1953

PortraitofFrankTannenbaum (1893-1969), late1960’s, oiloncanvas,giftofMr.ShermanTanenbaum

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April12,1972,MinaRees

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March23,2011,PatriciaJ.Williams

“In its outreach to the community and to scholars from here and abroad, theseminar program has brought recognition and credit to itself and to thesustaining university, which in turn has encouraged and facilitated theUniversity Seminars’ scholarly achievements.

AaronWarner,TheUniversitySeminars:Past,PresentandFuture50thAnniversaryMeeting

HerbertTerrace,RobertPollack,RobertRemezTheTannenbaum-WarnerAwardpresentedtoHerbertTerrace,April13,2016

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April25,1973JamesGutmann meetingJ.M.Morley

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April13,2016,JerrySpivak, SidneyM.Greenfield, PamelaGuardia,JeffreyWayno

“It must grow like a living thing, in accordance with its own internal necessities,but it must develop safely, like a domesticated plant − not a weed or a runaway.

Margaret Mead, “A Sturdy New Institution”, A Community of Scholars, 1965

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March12,2014,Joseph E.Stiglitz

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April21,1982

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March23,2011,Ene Sirvet,ProfessorKim

“The Annual Dinner to which all participants are invited has added an importantelement of companionship and common identity amongst the members andassociates of the various seminars and helped to maintain the feeling of friendshipand good will so important to a voluntary association.

FrankTannenbaum, TheConstitution, March16,1966

AnnDouglasgivestheTannenbaum Lecture,April13,2016TheUniversity Seminars“Pop-UpAnnualDinner”heldattheColumbia/BarnardHillelKraftCenter

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April5,1973,fromlefttoright:C.M.Wilbur,Mrs.andMr.Bates,A.Lederer

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April3,2013,KlausLackner,WallaceS.Broecker,RobertPollack

“The University Seminar is an independent universe.Its boundaries are limited only by its horizons.

FrankTannenbaumPoliticalScienceQuarterly,VolumeLXVIII

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April21,1982,Mrs.Mintz,NormanMintz(center)

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March12,2014,KennethT.Jackson, LisaKeller

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April26,1967,JacobTaubes, FrankTannenbaum

“Thesearetheplacestomakemistakesandtotakeintellectualrisks.

RobertL.BelknapTheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April18,2001

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,March21,2012,PeterH.Juviler, RobertL.Belknap, RobertPollack

RobertL.Belknap, 1959

RuthandPeterNorden, TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April1,2015

“Today, we celebrate that “bit of use and wisdom” that keeps the Seminars aliveand important to Columbia and the world.

RobertPollack,Director,TheUniversity Seminars,March2014

DouglasChalmers,RachelE.Chung,DavidJohnstonTheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April13,2016

TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April12,1972,fromlefttoright:WilliamTheodoredeBary,JamesGutmann,MinaRees,DorisandBorisW.Vallejo,

Philip C.Jessup, JosephB.Maier,AliceH.Maier

ChaunceyG.Olinger Jr.receivestheTannenbaum Award,TheUniversity SeminarsAnnualDinner,April1,2015