Sponsored by:
The American Association of University Women
League of Women Voters
Sandhills Community College
Moore County Schools
All lectures are free and open to the public.
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Sandhills Community College

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Ruth Pauley Lecture Series Purpose Statement
"To Deepen Society's Understanding of Key Issues, Thereby Encourage Participation in their Resolution."
The series brings to Moore County highly qualified speakers, debaters and discussion leaders to present objective and varied points of view on important issues.
The Ruth Pauley Lecture Series offers at least one annual critical study of a local, state, national or world issue of concern to the citizens of Moore County.

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Board of Directors
An active and diverse Board of Directors works diligently to ensure that the Programming for each season meets the high standards set by Ruth Pauley. Board members serve a three year term and one-third are elected each year to enable the infusion of new ideas with the continuity afforded by staggered terms of office. These members include three from each of the four sponsoring organizations. There are ten members representing the community at-large and every effort is made to mirror the demographics of the community. In addition, at present there are five Lifetime Members who were involved in the establishment of the lecture series and personally knew Ruth Pauley.

THE 2004-2005 BOARD
LIFE MEMBERS
Larry Allen	Jane McPhaul
Mary Dezarn	Raymond Stone
HONORARY MEMBERS
John Gent
Annette Morgan Galbraith
OFFICERS
Chairman: Peggy Olney
Vice Chair: Gary Southard
Secretary: Donna Gephart
Treasurer: Stu Warshauer
Assistant Treasurer: Carl Munro
BOARD MEMBERS
Aziz Ahmad	Lois McCarthy
Carole Angle	Susan Purser
Marshal Berg	Bea O'Rand
John Dempsey	Bill Samuels
Robert Desowitz	Alfreda Stroman
Lee Evans	John Turner
Dee Fordree	John Urbinati
Vincent Greene	Susan Williamson
Henry Lowder	Deborah Wilson

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History
RUTH M. PAULEY retired to Moore County, North Carolina after a distinguished career in social services in the United States and abroad. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, she began her career in Cleveland and never wavered in her deep conviction that the public had a right to know about key issues facing society and to participate in the resolution of those issues. Her activities in the area of community awareness continued when she retired to Moore County. She was an active member of the " chapter of the League of Women Voters, served on the board of the American Association of University Women, acted as a volunteer consultant for the Moore County Department of Social Services and was a leader of the Moore County Senior Citizen Advisory Council. Deeply committed to the cause of world peace, Ruth Pauley chaired a 1983 committee to organize a series of lectures on the arms race. This sparked an on-going interest in establishing a lecture series to honor the memory of Ruth Pauley and to continue her efforts to inform the public about important issues and to encourage their participation in resolving such issues. In the spirit of Ruth Pauley the series supports a high level of study of key issues facing society.

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For further information regarding the lecture series, please write to:

The Pauley Series
Sandhills Community College
3395 Airport Road
Pinehurst, NC 28374

Dr. Bart Ehrman

The Ruth Pauley Lecture Series:

Sept. 21, 2006 at Owens Auditorium
Biographer Mary Skutt will speak on the life of Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Scutt has published three books on Marshall: Growing Up, By George: 1880-1901, George C. Marshall, Reporting for Duty: 1902-1945, and George C. Marshall, Man Behind the Plan: 1945-1959.

Sept. 30, 2006 at Owens Auditorium
Academy Award winning actress Patty Duke will speak on the topic of mental illness. Duke has published two books . Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness addressing the problems of Manic-Depression. This talk is sponsored by NAMI.

Oct. 4, 2006 at Pinecrest High School Auditorium
Jack Hanna, host of the nationally syndicated television program Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures will discuss animal education and introduce you to some of his animal friends. Hanna is the Director Emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and Aquarium.

Nov. 7, 2006 at Owens Auditorium
President Nixon's Deputy Campaign Director Jeb Magruder will discuss "Watergate: An Insider's View". High official in the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) and author of An American Life: One Man's Road to Watergate, he asserted that Nixon knew of the Watergate burglary from the beginning.

Feb. 15, 2007 at Owens Auditorium
Actor Fred Morsell will present a one-man show "Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass: His Life and Times". Morsell's career spans 34 years including both on and off Broadway plays, musicals and has an extensive background in film and television. Morsell was featured as Frederick Douglass in Bill Moyer's Journal.

March 22, 2007 at Owens Auditorium
Bishop John Shelby Spong will discuss modernity in religion. Spong served as the Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, NJ. He has authored numerous books including The Hebrew Lord, Dialogue: In Search of Jewish-Christian Understanding, Rescuing the Bible form Fundamentalism, and Living in Sin.

The Ruth Pauley Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Moore County League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, the Moore County Schools, and Sandhills Community College. Lectures are at the Owens Auditorium on the Sandhills Community College campus in Pinehurst. Talks are free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Lectures begin at 7:30 PM. For additional information call 910-245-3132.