RCLA Town Hall
Ringling College Library Association Town Hall: General John F. Kelly
It was an honor listening to and meeting General John F. Kelly, former White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security in Sarasota. Here are highlights from his lecture and Q&A.
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From World Leaders to Everyday Heroes, Photographer Platon Tells the Untold Stories
Platon, the London-born photographer, was in Sarasota, Fla., as part of the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series.
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Jenna Bush Hager Inspires in Sarasota, Fla.
“It wasn’t a philosophical moment,” Jenna Bush Hager told more than 500 members of the Ringling College Library Association last Monday at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, Fla., it was about “a man, his daughters, a stuffed animal and a little joke.”
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Tom Brokaw Talked Future of Media in Sarasota during RCLA Town Hall Series
“Good grief, there must be nothing going on here,” legendary broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw said upon entering the press conference at Sarasota, Fla.’s Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall this past April. Brokaw was in Sarasota for the final lecture of the Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall Lecture Series.
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Inspired by Dr. Benjamin Carson in Sarasota, Fla.
“Things that I said at the Prayer Breakfast were the same things I’ve been saying for 20 years. It just had a viral impact, you might say,” Dr. Benjamin Carson, said during a Feb. 27, 2013, press conference in Sarasota, Fla. Prior to Feb. 7, I knew the name “Ben Carson” but really didn’t know […]
Continue ReadingQ&A with Astronaut Mark Kelly in Sarasota
Following Astronaut Mark Kelly’s Sarasota lecture, he sat down with Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall Chair Stephanie Grosskreutz to answer questions. Several questions were asked but following are responses to five submitted by the audience (two were my questions!)…
Continue ReadingFormer U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Talks Military, CIA in Sarasota, Fla.
Traveling to Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2006 was one of the most influential life experiences I’ve had. On one level, it offered a snapshot to help me understand what the Afghan people were experiencing, particularity the hardships of women and children and opened my eyes to their feeling of abandonment from the U.S. On another and […]
Continue ReadingPart 1: Jerk and Genius, Biographer Walter Isaacson Talks Steve Jobs in Sarasota
Steve Jobs was a “jerk,” biographer Walter Isaacson said during the kick off of the Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall 2013 Lecture Series on Jan. 15, in Sarasota, Fla. Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute and former Chairman and CEO of CNN and editor of TIME magazine, penned “Steve Jobs“, the only […]
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