Seminars at Steamboat 2008 | Steamboat Springs, Colorado

We are getting ready for another Seminars at Steamboat - our sixth season - and I want to bring you up to date on our plans for the summer. We will again have four provocative and timely seminars. We look forward to seeing you all there. This year all of the seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons at 5:00 pm at the new Strings in the Mountains Festival Pavilion. We are delighted to again be partnering with Strings during the first year of their new facility.

Each of the speakers will bring special expertise to the seminars and each deals with an issue of critical concern in the 2008 election year. They will treat both domestic and foreign policy issues and we are pleased to be able to present them.

Here is a preview of our 2008 summer schedule of speakers and their topics:

July 10 - Michael Osterholm, The Next Influenza Pandemic: A Harbinger of Things to Come? Michael Osterholm is Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Professor at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.

August 7 - Strobe Talbott, Why Foreign Policy Issues in the 2008 Election Matter So Much to the World - Strobe Talbott is President of The Brookings Institute in Washington, DC, former Deputy Secretary of State, and former Washington Bureau Chief of Time Magazine. He is the author of many books on foreign affairs and world governance.

August 14 - Swanne Hunt, Women Waging Peace: Lessons from the Bosnian War
Swanee Hunt is Director of Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, founder of the Women's Foundation of Colorado, and former Ambassador to Austria.

August 21 - Galia Golan, Israel, Palestine and the Chances for Peace
Galia Golan is Professor of Soviet and East European Studies, emerita, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently on the faculty of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel and is a founder of Peace Now.

Please save the dates in your summer calendar.

Last year we held two extremely successful "Dutch Treat" dinners for Friends of the Seminars. This year we will be holding a dinner after each of the seminars. The dinners enable seminar participants the opportunity to continue the discussion and also ask further questions of the speakers. We will have smaller tables at the dinners to facilitate more active discussions. Space will be limited and later this spring and over the summer we will ask you to register for the dinners. You must be a Friend of the Seminars (or a guest of a Friend) in order to attend.

To better serve the entire Steamboat community, the Seminars are free. But, for us to be able to continue this tradition, we rely on the generosity of our Friends. If you have not already become a Friend of the Seminars, I encourage you to do so. Your contribution will be used for speaker and related programmatic expenses. As noted above, the post-seminar dinners will only be open to Friends of the Seminars. Contributors of $250 and over will receive a book to be selected from a list provided by the speakers as we expect to continue our partnership with Off The Beaten Path. CDs of the Seminars are available to those giving more than $250 who have missed a seminar and request one. Contributors of $500 and above will receive a special invitation to meet with a speaker in a smaller setting.

All contributions made through the Foundation are tax-deductible and will be acknowledged for income tax purposes. Please make out your checks to "The CMC Foundation/Seminars" and send them with the bottom part of this letter to:

Seminars at Steamboat
P.O. Box 774731
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

We also need accommodations for several of our speakers and their families during their stays in Steamboat. If you are able to make an accommodation available please fill out the portion of the form below that refers to lodging. Finally, volunteers are needed to serve as ushers during the seminars. If you are interested in helping out in that way please indicate below.

The support of the Steamboat community to our seminars has enabled us to provide five years of quality seminars. We encourage you to come to the seminars this our sixth season and to become Friends of the Seminars. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Seminars at Steamboat, thank you for your support and we all look forward to seeing you this summer.

John E. Worthen

John E. Worthen
Chair, Board of Directors
Seminars at Steamboat
P. O. Box 774731
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477