Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn In Celebration of 175 Years | Page 17

Celebrating 175 Years
“Facets of Mount Auburn”
Lecture Series
Audience at the Peter Dobkin Hall lecture
October 18, 2006, Skip Gates at
the Boston Public Library
Above: Henry Louis (Skip) Gates,
Jr., Harvard University W.E.B.
DuBois Professor of Humanities,
speaking to members of the capacity
crowd after W.E.B. DuBois and the
Encyclopedia Africana, the open-
ing lecture in the “Facets of Mount
Auburn” 175 th Anniversary lecture series at the Boston Public Library.
Recovering from leg surgery, Dr. Gates delivered much of his lecture
standing, but took time to sit on occasion during the reception that
followed.
Above right: Dr. Gates speaking.
February 7, 2007, Peter
Dobkin Hall
Above right: Peter Dobkin
Hall of the Kennedy School
of Government at Har-
vard speaks about Mount
Auburn Cemetery as a
charitable enterprise.
Above left: Carolyn Osteen, senior partner in planned
giving in the Boston office of Ropes & Gray, her hus-
band, Robert Osteen, MD, and Jim Roosevelt, president
and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, and his wife, Ann, a
Friends Trustee, all of Cambridge, at the Dobkin Hall
lecture reception.
January 24, 2007,
Steven Ledbetter
Above left: Bill Clendaniel and musicologist Steven Ledbetter at
Steven’s lecture about Boston’s 19th-century music life.
Above right: John Marksbury, Brian Jones and Bill French, all of Bos-
ton, join Bill Clendaniel at the Ledbetter lecture.
Right: Friends Trustee Susan Paine of Cambridge and Bill Clendaniel.
(All photos by Jennifer Johnston)
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