Dan Price talks to Con Alday, William Epstan and Abraham Chaise about nuclear power and developing countries. Side One: Host Dan Price speaks with Con Alday (Managing Director of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.), William Epstan (visiting Professor at the University of Victoria and speacial fellow at Unitar-United Nations Institute ofr training and research); and Abraham Chaise (Professor of Law from Harvard Law School), Dan Price asks the other their assessment of the attractiveness of nuclear power to the developing countries. They discuss concerns as well. Side Two: blank.
Conversations from Wingspread. Side One: Hos Dan Price speaks with guests Edward J. Epstein (writer), Irving Crystal (editor of the Public Interest and Professor of Urban Values at New York University) and Robert L. Bartley (Editor of the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal) Discuss the role of scientists as advisors and the media. Side Two: Host speaks with Ruth Atkins (Associate Director for Health Programs at the National Urban League), Gleason Glover (Executive Director of the League, in Minneapolis, MN) and Dean S. Londa (with the NUL in New York). Guests discuss the league as a National Civil Rights Social Welfare Organization. Started to help rural blacks to adjust to urban life. Works with civil rights now.
Key note address at the Science Teachers Association of Ontario Meeting by Dr. George Wald of Harvard University. Nobel Price Winner in 1967. Side One: Dr. George Wald's key note address, entitled "Science and Survival". Dr. Wald talks about the age of information, the industrial revolution and nuclear power and how it has brought the world to the brink of destruction. Side Two: Continuation of talk. Question and answer period.
Awards ceremony for distinguished service awards at Queen's University, May 9, 1985. Recipients described. Side One: Awards given to Eleanor Mae Good, John Lorne MacDougal, George Owen Toller, William Donald Wood, John Hamilton Woods. Fred W. Gibson introduced, then gives a talk on the Historical Root of the Queen's Community. Side Two: blank.
Side One: Continuation of talk given by Fred W. Gibson started on sr625. Dr. Kilpatrick thanks Fred Gibson. Short presentation by Robert Walsh to the Chancellor. Side Two: blank.
Address at Queen's University by Sean Conway (January 31, 1984) and Dr. Chandgashekhav (Feb. 7, 1984). Side One: Politician Sean Conway discusses the problems of underfunding to Universities by the Ontario Government, and the current government student assistanance program. He discusses the possibility of drastic restructuring of higher education and with the lack of accessibility of universities to those of lower incomes. Side Two: Former Minister of Health and Family Planning in India, Dr. Chandrashekhav, provides statistics to demonstrate the phenomenal growth of the world's population in the last couple of centuries relative to the preceeding 2 million years. He indicates that this growth is a serious problem since it is associated with poverty and starvation in some parts of the world. He describes various methods that have been used to control population growth in India, and why they have failed. He also describes China's population policy.
Maureen Forrester tells the story of her life to convey the message that whatever one's backgorund one can be successful. Side One: Introduction. Address by Maureen Forrester. Side Two: blank.
Charles Stewart Almon Ritchie gives a talk relating to his forty years in the Canadian Foreign Service. Side One: Ritchie reflects on what the life of a diplomat was like in the 1930's and 1940's and relays anecdotes from his experience working under 6 prime ministers. He outlines some of the difficulties faced by an ambassador. He also offers a view of how Canada is perceived abroad. Question and answer period. Side Two: blank.
This recording represents an effort to understand the Soviet Union and the Soviet People in the Realization that this is a necessary prelude to peaceful cohabitation. Side One: Mr. Pearson outlines similarities and differences between Canada and the Soviet Union in the Cultural, Geographic, Economic, Historical and Political Contexts. He notes that Canada should have strong cultural and personal ties with the Soviet Union but in fact, we don't. He describes reasons for this and efforts to overcome the charms of misunderstanding including specifically the peace initiation of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Side Two: continuation of above talk. Question and answer period.
Address in AMS Speakers committee series, Queen's University. Side One: Professor Calvin Gotlieb discusses two important issues resulting from the new focus on information technology: The political and cultural effects of the concentration of information processing; and the issue of privacy, which is associated with the rise in personal and corporate information now stored in computer data banks. Side Two: side 2 of above talk, followed by question and answer period.
