Events & Reunions
Tufts Alumni Ft. Lauderdale - A Conversation with Sol Gittleman
Sponsored by:
Tufts Alumni Ft. Lauderdale
Location:
Faculty Shark Club
Nova Southeastern University
3301 College Ave, Ft. Lauderdale | See Map
When: Saturday, February 06, 2010, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (iCal)
Description
Tufts Alumni Fort Lauderdale cordially invites you and a guest to a special reception for our alumni, parents and friends in the region.
Join us at the Faculty Shark Club at Nova Southeastern University as Sol discusses “Teaching the National Pastime: American History and Baseball in the Classroom.” Get a taste of the senior seminar taught by Sol where he examines “The National Pastime” both inside and outside the lines, how it was played, and the place of this children’s game in the American psyche.
Sol Gittleman's talents as a storyteller with a keen eye for historical details were recently illustrated in An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts, 1976–2002. As for baseball, Gittleman has been a lifelong fan and sees the game as a metaphor for life in the modern world. "As you watch the evolution of American values in the twentieth century, baseball is a metaphor for almost all the social and political change that went on in the last 100 years," he says. "Integration, American business practices, anti-trust laws, crime, corruption — baseball has every aspect of American life."
RSVP
Please register online by Tuesday, February 1, 2010.
Cost
$20.00 per person. Choice of entrée: Mediterranean Chopped Salad, Blackened Mahi Mahi, or The Club Burger.
Contact
For more information about this event, contact the Regional Programs Team in the Office of Alumni Relations, at regionalprograms@tufts.edu.