PROGRAM GUEST

DR. BERNARD BAILYN
Bernard Bailyn is Adams University Professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is one of the most honored historians in America. Professor Bailyn is a distinguished educator who has taught at Harvard for more than 40 years. His work centers on the history of the colonies, the American Revolution, and the Anglo-American in the pre-industrial era. He has earned innumerable high honors, including 10 honorary degrees, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and two Pulitzer Prizes for History.

PROGRAM GUEST (cont'd)

VINCENT J. SCULLY, Ph.D.
Dr. Vincent Scully is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also one of the world's leading architectural historians and critics. At age 16, Vincent Scully entered Yale on a full scholarship and signed up for an art history course. He earned his doctorate and began teaching at Yale and, over the next 44 years, taught to audiences of enraptured students. Professor Scully inspired not only many of today's important American architects but also the field's leading historians, critics, and professors. This brilliant author and commentator received an emotional farewell during his final lecture, attended by dozens of architects whose lives he had touched. They collectively presented him with a standing ovation, in tribute to their beloved professor, "the most influential architecture teacher in American history."

When architectural historian Vincent Scully retired from Yale last April, his final lecture to a freshman class made the front page of the New York Times. There sat Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while a student of Scully's. Beside her was New York's Battery Park City designer, Cesar Pelli, and Prince Charles' architectural adviser, Leon Krier. All had come to give an ovation to the man once described by Philip Johnson, arguably the most powerful architect in America, as "the most influential architecture teacher, ever."

Scully argues, as he has for decades, for the creation of a more humane architecture that returns to classical and vernacular traditions to restore the fragile urban fabric that sustains community. It is a mark of his persistence that his vision, scorned in the postwar decades by disciples of European modernism, is now at the center of the best contemporary architecture.

But it has been a long struggle. As a graduate student at Yale just after World War 11, when everyone else was swooning over the grand concrete, glass and steel visions of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, Scully fell in love with traditional American architecture, especially New England's "shingle style." While others still dismissed Frank Lloyd Wright as a provincial redneck, Scully championed him as the intellectual equal of his European peers.

"There is not one solution for everything. You have to love diversity rather than be afraid of it. You have to go beyond concepts of perfection to the unaccountable richness of life. Towns, like human life, are complex, ambiguous, humane, ironic." So, too, is the generous vision of Vincent Scully.

DAVID McCULLOUGH
David McCullough is a master storyteller and one of America's most distinguished historians. He is the recipient of many honors, including the National Book Award for "The Path Between the Seas: The Creating of the Panama Canal" and a rare second National Book Award for "Mornings ; on Horseback," the story of young Theodore Roosevelt's struggle to manhood. David is also the recipient of the Diamond Jubilee Medal for excellence from the City of New York, for "The Great Bridge," a fascinating story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He recently authored "Truman," the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary man from Missouri who was perhaps the most courageous President in our history. This best-seller earned Mr. McCullough the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

Writer and historian David McCullough is the author of five distinguished books, each of which has received wide critical and popular acclaim: The Johnstown Flood (1968); The Great Bridge (1972), the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; The Path Between the Seas (1977); Mornings of Horseback (1982), which won for Mr. McCullough a rare second National Book Award for Biography (renamed the American Book Award); and Truman.

"We have no better social historian, " wrote John Leonard in The New York Times in his review of Mornings on Horseback, the story of young Theodore Roosevelt's struggle to manhood. A national best-seller, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, it was also the winner of the Los Angeles Times prize for biography.

Mr. McCullough's celebrated history of the Panama Canal, The Path Between the Seas, an overnight best-seller, was winner of the National Book Award for History, the Parkman Prize, the Cornelius Ryan award, and the Samuel Eliot Morison award. It is a work of history that also helped influence history, playing an important part in determining the nation's policy concerning the future of the Canal.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1933, Mr. McCullough was educated there and at Yale. In addition to the honors already mentioned, he has received the New York Diamond Jubilee Award for excellence (for The Great Bridge) and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award for the best magazine article dealing with a Western subject ("Glory Days in Medora," Geo, October 1979). He has been granted honorary membership in the American Society of Civil Engineers, their highest honor, bestowed for distinction in the field. (Mr. McCullough is one of the few non-engineers to be so recognized.) He is Senior Contributing Editor of American heritage magazine, a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the advisory boards of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress and the Wesleyan University Writers Conference. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico. He has written for numerous publications, lectured widely, and figured in several television specials dealing with historical themes. The Public Broadcasting film, "The Brooklyn Bridge," which he narrated, was an Academy Award nominee in the documentary category.

Mr. McCullough is married to the former Rosalee Barnes. They have five children and make their home in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

THE HONORABLE SOL LINOWITZ Attorney and Ambassador
Ambassador Sol Linowitz is a Senior Partner of the international law firm Coudert Brothers in Washington, D.C. He emerged from an immigrant Jewish household to become a Phi Beta Kappa college graduate who earned his law degree from Cornell, where he was first in his class. Sol later rose to the Chairmanship of Xerox Corporation in its early years of spectacular growth and then became the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. He was appointed by President Carter as Co-Negotiator of the Panama Canal Treaties and the Personal Representative of the President for Middle East Negotiations. Ambassador Linowitz has been awarded honorary degrees from more than 35 colleges across the nation, in recognition of his distinguished career and sterling accomplishments.