CONNECTICUT
Past, Present and Future

Welcoming Remarks
Franklin Robinson, President, CAAS

Introduction to the Morning Session
H. Catherine W. Skinner, Chairman, Publications Committee, CAAS

Lands Discovered, Lands Transformed
Robert Gordon, Yale

Connecticut Towns: Risings and Fallings
Christopher Collier, Connecticut State Historian

The Women of Connecticut
Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Consultant

Farming, Good Times and Bad
Paul Waggoner, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

Benjamin Silliman's Influence on Nineteenth-Century American Science
Leonard G. Wilson, Department of History of Medicine, University of Minnesota

Contemporary Challenges
David Gergen, Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report

The Hyper-Link between Technology and the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
William Ferris, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

Images of the Future for Our Time
Wendell Bell, Yale

Teaching and Learning in the Next Millennium
Joseph L. Dionne, Chairman of the Board, McGraw Hill Companies, New York City

Lessons from the Past: Guide to the Century Ahead
Howard Lamar, Vice President, CAAS, Yale

The following two papers were solicited for the Celebration but not presented. They are printed here in their entirety:

A Sampling of Meteoritics at Half-Century Anniversaries of the Academy
Dorrit Hoffleit, Yale

The Founding of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, A Personal Recollection
David M. Wetstone, CASE

180 pages 6" x 9" (1999) Paper: $25.00

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