Southampton College

Currents
November - December, 1996

For more information call the Public Relations Office at (516) 287-8313, or write to this office at jfinalbo@sand.liunet.edu. Information about College events is also broadcast on WPBX 88.3 FM, Long Island's Public Radio.

* Events
* Sports Schedules

Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday, December 6, 1996
Friends of the Arts presents a one day excursion to the retrospective of the French Master Camille Corot on the occasion of his 200 anniversary.
$55 round trip from Southampton or Manorville, lunch at the Museum, exhibition admission, boxed dinner on trip home.
Reservations call 287-8427
Seminar Course
Current Topics in Cellular and Molecular Biology

Mondays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm through the semester.
Room W105, Natural Science Building.
For individual topics and speakers call 287-8400.

Small Business Development Center
The NY State Small Business Development Center, Abney Peak Building, offers free business counseling to existing business owners and to anyone interested in starting a new business. Call 287-0059.
The Continuing Studies Office offers a wide range of courses for those interested in broadening talents, skills, and career choices. Classes beginning in November and December include construction/building inspection, medical assistant certificate training, English and foreign languages, computers, insurance licensing, real estate, defensive driving, Yoga, horoscope reading, and landscaping. For a complete listing call the Continuing Studies Office at 287-8316.

Events

* Through December 6
CALVIN ALBERT ART EXHIBIT
Bronze, terra cotta, and fiberglass sculptures in the
Fine Arts Gallery.
Reception on Thursday, November 14, 5 - 7 pm.
Monday - Friday and by appointment.
287-8427

* Monday, November 4, 2 PM
MOVIES & DIRECTING
Director Anthony Harvey on Tennessee Williams. A McGrath Fund Lecture. Ocean View Lounge, Southampton Hall.
Free.
287-8420

* Monday, November 4, 7 pm
CONSUMING IMAGES
A lecture and discussion on how image distorts our news, based on the Bill Moyers? film from the PBS series The Public Mind.
Ocean View Lounge, Southampton Hall.
Call 283-6883 to reserve seats.
Sponsored by the Rogers Memorial Library and Southampton Graduate Campus. Free.

* Saturday, November 9, 4 pm
BROOKHAVEN LAB SPEAKS OUT
The World Affairs Council presents a panel of speakers from Brookhaven National Laboratory who will discuss reactor safety and security, environmental protection, and breast cancer. Free.
Fine Arts Theatre.
728-0823

* Saturday, November 9, 7:30 pm
HARVEST MOON DANCE
Food, drink and lots of prizes. A benefit for the Children's School, Polish Hall, Southampton. Tickets $30.
Call 287-8294

* Thursday, November 14, 6:30 pm
MARINE SCIENCE LECTURE
Dr. Charles Mazel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on The Photosynthesis of Coral Reefs.
Business Center Lecture Hall.
McGrath Lecture Series. 287- 8407

* Thursday, November 14, 8 pm
POETRY READING
Hettie Jones, author of The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin? Mama (Five Women in Black Music), will read selections from her poetry and prose.
Ocean View Lounge, Southampton Hall.

* November 14,15,16 & 21, 22, 23 at 8 pm
A FLEA IN HER EAR
Southampton Players present this fast-paced French farce, a new adaptation by Frank Galati of a play by George Feydeau. Directed by Michael Disher. Tickets: $8, general admission, $5, seniors and students.
Fine Arts Theater.
287-8427

* Sunday December 1, 7, & 8
UNDERSTANDING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
Fundamentals of real estate investments. This course satisfies the 22.5 hour CE course requirements. Register through Continuing Education Office, 287-8316.

* Monday, December 2 , 9 pm
UNMENTIONABLES
Elaine Benson, owner of the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton, on her just published book, Unmentionables, A Brief History of Underwear, Simon & Schuster.
Merit Fellows Lecture, Fine Arts Theatre.
287-8306

* Thursday, December 5, 6:30 pm
MAINE FISHERIES
Spencer Apollonio, former Maine Commissioner of Marine Resources, on Fisheries Oceanography of the Gulf of Maine.
McGrath Lecture, Business Center Lecture Hall.
287-8407

* Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 pm
EGYPTIAN MUMMIES
Dr. Robert Brier, archeologist, Egyptologist, and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at C.W. Post, on his most recent mummy research, the subject of an upcoming Discovery Channel special.
Merit Fellows Lecture, Fine Arts Theatre.
Free. 287-8306

* Thursday, December 5 - January 9
PLANT IDENTIFICATION: ORNAMENTAL CONIFERS
Michael Graham, owner of the Deerfield Nursery, will conduct this Continuing Education class and field trips. 287-8316.

* Friday, December 6, 5:30 pm
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Area residents are invited to attend the annual lighting of the College Windmill and celebrate the holiday season. Refreshments in the Cove (Wood Hall) followed by the light-up.

* Friday, December 6,
SEAmester
The 125-foot floating classroom, the Spirit of Massachusetts, ends its nine-week voyage in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, and its 22 student-sailors return to their homes to resume their land-locked educational efforts. For information call 287-8317.

* Friday, December 6
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART TRIP
One-day excursion to first American retrospective in 35 years of French master Camille Corot on his 200th anniversary. $55 includes transportation, meals, and admission. Reservations through the Arts and Media Division, 287-8427

* Monday, December 9, 7 pm
DR. MORRELL M. AVRAM
Dr. Avram, a pioneer in development of artificial organs and transplants on Nutrition and Good Health As We Enter the 21st Century.
Merit Fellows Lecture, Fine Arts Theatre.
287-8306

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