Thursday Noon Meetings, 1967 - 1987

The Thursday Noon Meetings were a weekly program carried out in College Parlor (now Sulzberger Parlor) during the academic year, in which students, faculty, and guest speakers would convene to discuss problems of "philosophical, moral, or religious significance". The program started in 1953, created by then President McIntosh and several faculty members. The meetings had an outlined structure: the guest speaker of the week introduces a discussion of their choice--with a talk of no longer than thirty minutes--followed by a lunch break, and finished with a Q&A section. Archivist assumes the program ran through 1987 and was mostly managed by Professor Serge Gavronsky.