THE ASPEN INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE SEMINARS

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Aspen Institute for Humanistic Stud! ea
The
Aspen
Institute
Executive
Seminars
1980-81
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Thy-lxecutive Seminars
"As I look back over the past twenty-five years of my
life, the single most significant experience which
influenced my succeeding activities was my first two-
week participation in the Aspen Institute Executive
Seminar Program."
Gaylord Freeman, former Chairman of the Board,
First National Bank of Chicago
The Purpose:
For 30 years, the core of the Aspen Institute has been and
remains the Executive Seminars. Senior corporate
executives who enroll in one of these seminars commit
themselves to two weeks of intensive study, discussion
and interaction with their peers from business and
with leaders from other sectors of society worldwide.
The major purpose of the Executive Seminars is to
provide corporate decision makers with important
insights and analytical tools different from those of
traditional management training. The seminars
are oriented toward senior corporate officers' deepen-
ing concern with the world around them and the
rapidly evolving role and responsibilities of business
leadership. We know of no comparable program.
The Concept:
The Executive Seminars' fundamental concept is that
value considerations -whether explicitly stated or
unconsciously assumed- provide the basis of most sig-
nificant decision making, and that an understand-
ing of these considerations is essential for effec-
tive management.
The Focus:
Today's corporate executive works in a business envi-
ronment where pressures from foreign and domestic
governments, including legislatures and regulatory
agencies; from labor; and from consumer, environ-
mentalist and other public interest groups are
unprecedented and intensifying.
The swift rate of change- economic, political, social
and cultural -makes the task of management increas-
ingly complex. To react effectively to today's pressures
and to assume the responsibility of anticipating and
helping to guide change, the business leader needs to
comprehend not only his or her own personal and
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The format of the Executive Seminar, like its purpose, is
distinctive. Each-seminar has 20 to 25. participants, of-
whom two-thirds are corporate executives. The others
are leaders from government, labor, law, education,
communications , the arts,`the sciences, and the
humanities, from the United States and abroad.
Each seminar group is guided by one or two'experi
enced moderators.-The group convenes for struc- ?.
tured discussion every weekday morning and during
several afternoons, for two weeks. .
institutional value systems, but also the value systems,
of those with differing points, of view . ?
The Format:
The Issues:-. The discussions center on fundamental issues,such as
the changing perceptions of justice, freedom, equality
and property; the shifting relationships, among indi
viduals, corporations, other institutions and the state;
the tensions between. power, and morality and be-
tween efficiency and fairness, and the nature of moral
leadership. The issues also touch on corporate legi-
timacy and social responsibility, third-world self-
determination, the proper role for technology in society
and the place of dissent in the social contract.
The Readings:
The basis for these discussions is a specially prepared'
anthology of major writings from the past and present.
The Readings provide the participants with a shared
focus for discussion: The selections encompass the essen-
tial thoughts of human. experience and challenge the .
participants to relate to perennial concerns as-well as to
each other. The authors range from Plato, Aristotle
and Mencius to Thomas Jefferson, Rousseau, Machiavelli
and Karl Marx; from T.S. Eliot to Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Martin Luther'King; from Adam
In addition. to` attending. the seminar sessions, partici-
pants in the Executive Seminars are encouraged to
share.in the network of.ideas, individuals and institu-
tions represented at-the Aspen Institute by leaders from
a wide range of disciplines. Interaction with the partici-
pants in other Institute programs is facilitated by public
lectures, informal roundtables and commons-room
dining arrangements.
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The Moderators:
Moderators are responsible for maintaining the intellec-
tual quality of the seminar discussion, creating group
cohesion and promoting the seminar's openness and
candor. Recent moderators have included:
Mortimer J. Adler
Director, Institute
for Philosophical Research
Cyril E. Black
Director, Center for International
Studies, Princeton University
Lionel Landry
Executive Vice President
The Asia Society
Morris Lasker
United States District Judge
Southern District of New York
Thornton F. Bradshaw
President
Atlantic Richfield Company
Lisle C. Carter, Jr.
President, University of the
District of Columbia
Douglass Cater
President
The Observer International
Mohamed EI-Zayyat
Former Egyptian Foreign Minister
Cairo, Egypt
Nell Eurich
Senior Consultant
International Council for
Educational Development
Patrick J. Hannifin
Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.)
Former Director of Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Richard M. Hunt
Director of Program
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty
Fellowships in the Humanities
Harvard University
Sidney Hyman
Professor of Criminal Law
University of Illinois
William Lee Miller
Director
Poynter Center
Indiana University
Norval Morris
Julius Kreeger Professor
of Law and Criminology
University of Chicago Law School
Bill Moyers
Editor-in-Chief
Bill Moyers' Journal
WNET/13
Zygmunt Nagorski
Vice President
Lehrman Institute
John C. Sawhill
U.S. Deputy Secretary
of Energy
Donald P. Shaw
Colonel, U.S. Army
Director, U.S. Army
Military History Institute
Sir Huw Wheldon
Chairman
London School of Economics
Adam Yarmolinsky
Counsel-Kominers, Fort,
Schlefer & Boyer
Washington, D.C.
The Participants:
Included among workshop and seminar participants at
the Institute in 1979 were members of the United States
Government including Supreme Court Justices and
Federal Judges, Senators, Members of Congress and key
legislative staff, Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers;
foreign ministers, parliamentarians, and ambassadors;
senior military personnel; artists, scholars, and scien-
tists; university presidents and distinguished
faculty; labor leaders, and executives of foundations
and other private not-for-profit organizations.
A special effort is made to involve women, youth,
minorities and grassroots leaders.
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A-6election of Non-business Participants
in Recent Executive Seminars
William Aramony
National Executive
United Way of America
Jonathan Bingham
United States Congress
Rodrigo Botero
Former Minister of Finance
Colombia
H.R.H. Prince Bandar
Bin Sultan Al Sa'ud
Major, Saudi Royal Air Force
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Brenda Brimmer
Executive Director
MS. Foundation
Jose Cabranes
General Counsel and Director
of Governmental Relations
Yale University
Richard C. Clark
Ambassador-at-Large and
U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs
Alice Daniel
General Counsel
Legal Services Corporation
Thomas Ehrlich
Director
Planning Office
International Development
Cooperation Agency
Willard Gaylin, M.D.
President, Institute of Society,
Ethics, and the Life Sciences
Caryl Haskins
Chairman, The Carnegie Corporation
Alexander Heard
Chancellor
Vanderbilt University
Alexis Herman
Director, Women's Bureau
U.S. Department of Labor
Carl Holman
President
National Urban Coalition
Richard C. Hottelet
United Nations Correspondent, CBS
Damon J. Keith
United States Circuit Judge
Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Stuart Loory
Managing Editor
Chicago Sun-Times
Vilma Martinez
President and General Counsel
Mexican American Legal Defense
and Education Fund
Menachem Milson
Professor of Arab Literature
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Archibald R. Murray
Executive Director
The Legal Aid Society of New York
Bess Myerson
Consumer Consultant
M. Said Nabulsi
Governor
Central Bank of Jordan
Mitsugu Nakamura
President
Asahi Evening News, Tokyo
Dorothy W. Nelson
Dean, School of Law
University of Southern California
Sadako Ogata
Director, UNICEF
Edith B. Phelps
National Director
Girls Clubs of America
David Rothenburg
Executive Director
The Fortune Society
Stephen 1. Schlossberg
Director, Governmental and Public
Affairs, United Auto Workers
John Paul Stevens
Associate Justice
United States Supreme Court
Donald M. Stewart
President, Spelman College
J. B. Stockdale
Vice Admiral, USN
President, The Citadel
Lionel Tiger
Director of Research
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Donald Gilchrist Trelford
Editor, The Observer of London
James Twitty
Painter
Richard von Weiszacker
Member of the German Parliament
Osamu Watanabe
Executive Director
Japan Trade Center
Sarah Waddington
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Sahabsada Yaqub-Khan
Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S.S.R.
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The Settings:
In 1980 and 1981, the Executive Seminars will be offered
at an unprecedented variety of dates and locations.
Summer activity in Aspen, Colorado, will be extended
into late spring and early autumn and the schedule
of winter seminars in Aspen will be expanded.
We shall continue to hold seminars at the Aspen Insti-
tute's facility on the Big Island of Hawaii and shall offer
them in 1980 for the first time at Wye Plantation near
Washington, D.C. and at Winrock, Arkansas.
The Fee:
The fee for each Executive Seminar is $4000 per partici-
pant, or $4500 if accompanied by a second person, and
includes lodgings and meals. Fees can vary at locations,.
abroad. More elaborate housing or extra space for chil-
dren is available at an additional cost; and many par-
ticipants, particularly in Aspen during the summer,
come with their families..
Participation by Couples:
From its inception, the Executive Seminars have encour-_
aged participants to attend with their spouses, who
are invited to audit seminar sessions and other Institute
activities. In recent years, interested spouses have been
able intermittently to join the discussion at the seminar
table as well as to involve themselves fully in all aspects
of the Institute's program outside the seminar room.
This policy of participation by couples will be continued"
in most 1980 sessions. .
In addition, two experimental Executive Seminars
will be introduced in 1980 in which both the executive
and the spouse may be enrolled as full participating
members. This innovation will enable the corpo=
rate couple to share a significant intellectual and
social experience.
These experimental sessions will be held in Aspen
July 6-19 and August 17-30. In the July seminar, both
members of the couple will be in the same session; in
August, they will be in different but concurrent sessions.,
In every other way, the format and content of the Execu-
tive Seminars will be retained. The fee for the experi-..
mental session is $6500 per couple.
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L irporation and Society Seminars _:
The Focus:..
The Corporation and Society Seminar is the major new
element in the Aspen Institute Executive Seminars..
This seminar focuses on an explicit and in-depth
examination of the role of the corporation in relation
to other sectors of society and to society-at large.
The Format:
The Corporation and Society Seminars follow the two-
week format of the Executive Seminars with discussions
based on significant writings from the pastand present.
Although substantial proportions of the texts are drawn
from contemporary sources, the orientation of The.Cor-
poration and Society, reflecting that of the Executive .' -
Seminars, re-examines perennial human concerns and
their relationship to responsible ma_ nagementin today's
corporate environment.
Beginning in 1980,_ The Corporation and Society
Seminar will be offered in two formats: a traditional
two-week meeting with sessions running from Monday
through Saturday mornings and one afternoon a
week; and an "intensive" session with the curriculum
condensed into eight days. The fee for both formats
is the same.
The texts are oriented toward the intersection" of corpo-,
rate issues and human values; they are drawn from au-
thors such as Daniel Bell, Kenneth Boulding, Douglas
Fraser, John Kenneth Galbraith, John W. Gardner,
Robert Heilbroner, George Cabot Lodge, Michael
Maccoby, Ralph Nader and Daniel Yankelovich.
The Readings:. "
among them, shareholders; directors, executives,
The Issues:
This seminar is concerned essentially with questions of..
corporate legitimacy and governance. It explores the
place of the corporation in the' contemporary environ-:
ment and: the interactions of the corporation with other
major societal institutions, includinggovernment, the
media; organized labor, the community and the family."It
raises issues related to inflation, energy, job enrich-
ment and national planning. It also examines the rela-. .
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The Context:
Participants in the Corporation and Society Seminars
have the opportunity-through public lectures, informal
roundtables and commons-room dining arrange-
ments-to interact with the participants in other
Institute programs.
The Moderators:
Moderators for the Corporation and Society Seminars in
1978 and 1979 have included:
Jack Conway Frank Ikard
Senior Vice President Former President
United Way of America American Petroleum Institute
William Eberle George McGhee
President, United States Council Director, Mobil Oil Corporation,
International Chamber of Commerce Procter & Gamble, TWA
Gaylord Freeman Leonard Silk
Honorary Chairman and Director Economic Writer
First National Bank of Chicago The New York Times
Victor Gotbaum
Executive Director, District Council 37
American Federation of
State, City, and Municipal Employees
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn
Director, Center of Education
in International Management
Geneva, Switzerland
Gus Tyler
Assistant President
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union
The Settings:
In 1980 and 1981, the Corporation and Society Seminars
will be offered at Wye Plantation, Maryland; Hawaii,
and Berlin, as well as the traditional Aspen, Colorado,
setting. A special Wye Plantation Weekend Series will
be initiated in the fall of 1980.
The Fee:
The fee for each seminar on The Corporation and Society
is $4000 per participant, or $4500 if accompanied
by a second person. This includes lodgings and meals.
Fees vary at locations abroad. More elaborate hous-
ing or extra space for children is available at an
additional cost.
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Su-the Non-business Participants
in Recent Corporation and
Society Seminars
Abdul Aziz Alzamil
Vice Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bette B. Anderson
U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury
W. Michael Blumenthal
Former U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury
William M. Dietel
President
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
William R. Dill
Dean of Faculty of
Business Administration
New York University
John W. Gardner
Founding Chairman
Common Cause Inc.
Mark Green
Director, Corporate
Accountability Research Group
Charles R. Halpern
Director, Institute for
Public Interest Representation
Georgetown University Law Center
Simon Lazarus
Associate Director
U.S. Domestic Policy Council
Alan S. Morrison
Director
Public Citizen Litigation Group
Masahisa Naitoh
Director, Japan Trade Center
Christopher Stone
Professor of Law
University of Southern California
William E. Webster
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sandra Willett
Executive Vice President
National Consumers League
Harold Williams
Chairman, Securities and
Exchange Commission
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198L Aspen Institute
Executive Seminars
Executive Seminars
January 20-February 2 Hawaii
February 3-February 16 'Hawaii
February 10-February 23 Aspen.
February 24-March 8 Aspen'
'March 7-9; April 11-13; May 9;11;
May 30-June 1 Wye
March 9-March 22 Aspen_
April 13-April 26 Winrocki
Arkansas
June 1-June 14 Aspen.
June 15-June 29 , Aspen.
tJuly 6-July 19 (two sessions) Aspen
July 20-August 2 Aspen
*August 3-August 1.6 (two sessions) Aspen
tAugust 17-August 30 (two sessions) Aspen ?.
August 31-September 13 Aspen
September 14-September 27 (two sessions) Aspen
September 19-21;-October 17-19;
November7-9;'November 21-23 Wye,
September 28-October 11 (two sessions) Aspen
Corporation and Society Seminars
January 6-January 19
March 2-March 15
June 1-June 14
June 21-June 29
July 20-August 2
September 6-September 14
September 12-14; October 3-5;
October 24-26; November 14-16
Hawaii-
Aspen,:
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Note: Each Seminar at Aspen Institute-Wye Plantation meets from
late Friday afternoon to midday Sunday on four weekends
and covers the full two-week curriculum. Aspen Institute-
Wye Plantation, Maryland, is about 70 miles from
Washington, D.C.
*Mortimer J. Adler will moderate the Executive Seminar during the
winter/spring weekends at Wye and one of the concurrent Executive
Seminars August 3-16 in Aspen.
tSpecial sessions in which spouses may participate will be held July
6-19 and August 17-30.
Aspen Institute Executive Seminars
Seminars Staff
Martin Krasney, Executive Director
Virginia Privateer Corsi, Associate Director
Eva Popper, Associate Director
Susan Paris Lewis, Executive Director, Special Institute Projects
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16,; l Aspen Instituter
Executive Seminars Tentative
Executive Seminars'
January 4-January 17
January 18-January 31
February1-February 14 -
February 8=February 21
February 22=Mar6h 7
March 6-8; April 10-12; May8-10;
May 29-31
March 8-March21
March 22-April 4
May 31-June 13
June 14-June 27
July 19-August 1' '
August 2-August 15 (two sessions)
August 164ugust 29 (two sessions)-
September 11-13; October 2-4;'
October 23-25; November 13-15
September 13-September 26 (two sessions)
September 27-October 10 (two sessions)
Corporation and Society Seminars -
Wye
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
Aspen
January 4-January 17.' ? ?Hawaii
January 18-January 11. Hawaii
January 31-February 8 Aspen
March 8-March 21 ' Aspen
March 13-15; April 3-5; May 8-10;
May 22-24 Wye .: ,
April 12-April 25, Winrock,.
Arkansas
May.31-June13_ --Aspen
June 20-June 28 . - Aspen
July 19-August L Aspen'
September 5-September 13 Aspen ..
September 18-20; October 9-11;
October 30-November 1; November 20-22 . ..Wye
The 1981 calendar is tentative and may be expanded or changed. It.
is probable, for example, that additional seminars will be held at Baca Grande in Colorado and the. Wye '.Plantation on the Eastern
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Operating Committee'.
The Executive Seminars Operating Committee provides oversight and
meets monthly with the Institute staff for planning and development. The
committee's co-chairmen are Lisle C.Carterr Jr., President, University
of the District of Columbia, and William Kieschnick, Vice Chairman,
Atlantic Richfield Company.
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Sp;,ial Seminars
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The Aspen Institute conducts a number of seminars,
workshops and other activities in addition to the
Executive Seminars and the Corporation and Society
Seminars described above. The Aspen Institute strongly
encourages participation by corporate executives in all
its activities, including those relating to Governance
and its five "thought-leading-to-action" programs con-
cerned with the formulation of humanistic public policy.
The Special Seminars described below focus on par-
ticular issues or geographic areas and illustrate the activ-
ities planned by the Aspen Institute in which corporate
participation is desired.
Energy, Ethics and Governance
Beginning in 1980, the Aspen Institute will offer a one-
week seminar on Energy, Ethics and Governance. The
new seminar was established in association with the In-
stitute's Energy Committee, co-chaired by Robert 0.
Anderson, Chairman of Atlantic Richfield Company and
the Aspen Institute, and John C. Sawhill, the U.S. Dep-
uty Secretary of Energy on leave from the Presidency of
New York University.
The new Energy seminar will address the relations
among business, government and private citizens; the
role of institutions in dealing with societal problems;
and the need for individuals with imagination, innova-
tion and leadership. The Energy seminar will provide a
case study of how our complex and interdependent soci-
ety deals with an issue that reshapes our notions of pub-
lic and private; domestic and foreign; authoritarian and
participatory, and pragmatic and moral. While economic
and technological concerns will necessarily be consid-
ered, the principal focus of the seminar will be ethical
and humanistic.
Sessions of the Energy, Ethics and Governance Semi-
nar will be held in Aspen, March 23-29, June 22-28 and
August 31-September 6. The fee is $2500 for an indi-
vidual and $3000 if accompanied by another person.
Justice and Society
A Seminar on Justice and Society, patterned on the tra-
ditional Executive Seminar, was offered for the first time
during the summer of 1979 by the Institute's Program on
Justice, Society and the Individual. The session provided
an opportunity for practicing lawyers, corporate coun-
sel, judges, legal educators, public interest lawyers and
a number of participants from related disciplines to
spend two weeks discussing basic concepts of justice.
This first seminar was co-moderated by Justice Harry
A. Blackmun of the United States Supreme Court and
Professor Norval Morris of the University of Chicago
Law School.
Among the topics selected for discussion were the rela-
tionship between law and morality; retributive and
distributive justice; freedom of expression and tolerance
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for alternative life styles; racial discrimination and
affirmative action; gender-based discrimination; inter-
national justice and human rights, and the various
professional roles of the lawyer.
Two Justice and Society Seminars are scheduled for
the summer of 1980, July 13-26 and August 24-
September 6. The seminars, like the Institute's Justice
Program, are under the direction of Robert B. McKay,
former Dean of the New York University Law School.
Arab World
This two-week seminar, sponsored jointly with the
Aspen Institute's Middle East Project, is designed pri-
marily for American leaders and decision makers in
business, government, academia and media and serves
to introduce them to the history, religion and culture
of the Arab World as well as contemporary social, politi-
cal and economic concerns. The objective of the semi-
nar is to develop better understanding of contemporary
issues and relationships with a changing Middle East.
Half the participants in each session will be Middle
Easterners or persons with a particular expertness
in the area.
Two Arab World Seminars will be held in 1980, June 29-
July 12 and September 7-20, under the direction of
Colin W. Williams, former Dean of the Yale University
Divinity School and Director of the Aspen Institute's
Middle East Project.
Modern China, Korea and Southeast Asia
This seminar- under the leadership of Phillips Talbot,
President of The Asia Society and a Trustee of the Aspen
Institute -focuses on three of the most dynamic areas in
the world today. Its goal is to provide insights into how
their civilizations have evolved and where they fit in
today's interdependent global society. Asians constitute
more than half the world's population and have moved
vigorously onto the international stage. They have be-
come America's largest trading partners and figure
prominently in investment, political and security ar-
rangements. Informed Americans and Europeans are
recognizing the need to understand the traditions of
Asia as well as the issues that concern that continent
today. The Modern China, Korea and Southeast Asia
Seminar, to be held in Aspen July 27-August 9,1980; is
a comprehensive introduction to those societies.
Modern Japan
This seminar, to be offered in Aspen, August 10-23,1980,
responds to a need in the American business community
for an in-depth introduction to Japan among execu-
tives who are significantly involved with that society
or who expect to be. The three parts of the seminar
will examine the evolution and contemporary culture
of Japanese society as a whole, the structure and
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dynamics of business in today's Japan and'the cur-
rent and future policies- of Japan as they relate to the
United States and other nations.
Conceived and developed by social scientists Daniel
Okimoto and Thomas Rohlen, American experts on
Japan, the Modern Japan Seminar will use a newly
created anthology of texts by Japanese and Western
authorities and will supplement it with films and
lectures. The inclusion of leaders from Japanese busi-
ness, labor, media and government among the 25.' , -
participants will assure'a rich experience interperson-
ally as well as-intellectually.
Special Seminar Fees
The fee for two-week Special Seminars is $4000 for a'
participant 6r'$4500 if accompanied-by a second person,
except the Justice and Society Seminar for which
the fees are respectively $3500 and $4000.
Special Seminars-1980 ' ' -
Among the many Aspen Institute activities which are now scheduled
and in which corporate participation is encouraged are the following
special' seminars:
March 23-March 29
'Energy, Ethics
and Governance
Aspen
Energy, Ethics
'
and Governance
Aspen
June 29-July. 12
The Arab World' - - ? "
Aspen
July 13-July 26' `
Justice and Society
Aspen_
July 27-August9
Modern China, Korea and ' '
Southeast Asia
Aspen
August 10-August 23 Modern Japan -
Aspen
August 24-September 6 Justice and Society -
Aspen
August 31-September 6
Energy, Ethics
and Governance ? '
Aspen
September 7=
September 20 ' =
The Arab World' - '
Aspen
Corporate participation will be welcomed in all Aspen Institute activi
ties in 1981. Dates will be announced forspecial seminars on Justice.
and Society; The Arab, World; Modern Japan; and Modern China, .
Korea and Southeast Asia. At present, dates have been established
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ng special seminars:
January 18-January 24 Energy, Ethics
March 22-March 28 Energy, Ethics
June 21-June,27 Energy, Ethics
August 30-September 5. Energy, Ethics
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Seminar Sites
. The Aspen Institute's Executive Seminars, Corporation
and Society Seminars, special seminars and other
activities are-held at a variety of locations in the United
States and abroad.
The Executive Seminars concentrate during sum-
mer and late winter at the campus in Aspen, Colorado,,
where the Institute began.in 1949. The 120-acre site
there includes meeting rooms, an auditorium, a library,.
an art gallery,. lodgings,.dining rooms. and a health:. ..
center.
Historic Wye Plantation on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland is Arthur Houghton's generous gift to the In-
stitute and provides ready-access to Washington, D.C.
Guests are housed in newly-renovated buildings at this
Punalu'u, on the Black Sand Beaches of the Big Is-
land of Hawaii, has'a gentle climate and a serene tropi-'
cal setting. The participants reside in studio apartments
at SeaMountain.
Baca-Grande is the Institute's new Western-style
"pioneering facility near Crestone in south=central ?
Colorado..
Aspen Institute Berlin serves as a.crossroads
facilitating interaction among North America, Western
Europe.and Eastern Europe: Meetings are held in the
Institute's converted mansion, a gift from the City of
West Berlin.
Winrock International, situated on top of Petit. Jean
Mountain near Morrilton, Arkansas, will be the location
of the first Executive Seminar held outside Aspen Insti-
tute premises. Participants will reside in the guest.
accommodations built there by Winthrop Rockefeller.
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The Aspen Institute
for Humanistic Studies
J
The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies is a continu-
ing experiment to help shape a world in which there
is individual freedom, creativity and fulfillment as well
as social justice and fairness.
This goal is difficult and challenging in an increas-
ingly complex society. To wrestle with the critical issues
of our time from a human-centered viewpoint, the Aspen
Institute brings together some of the ablest people
from all sectors of society, worldwide. The Institute
gives them a unique means to debate their convictions
and define policies needed to enhance the human con-
dition-while there is still time to make choices.
The Institute has become a catalyst by which people
who make or influence decisions can convert ideas
and values into action. It encourages individuals and
institutions to reach beyond their self-interest and try
to form a more humane future.
In addition to the Executive Seminars -which bring
together leaders from business, labor and the aca-
demic and public sectors to discuss the relevance of the
great ideas of mankind to contemporary issues- the
Institute has ongoing programs that concentrate on five
areas of concern: International Affairs; Commun-
ications and Society; Justice, Society and the Individual;
Science, Technology and Humanism; and Education
for a Changing Society.
As a central theme, the Institute is undertaking a
sustained examination of crucial issues of Governance:
How should we govern and be governed? Subjects in-
clude Financing the Future; Human Rights; Energy;
The First 20 Years of Life; Ethics, Religion and Gov-
ernance; and Work, Industrial Policy and Society. The
Institute also integrates able people from various
global regions in all its activities and studies issues of
concern to these areas.
The Institute has an extensive publishing program
that produces and disseminates books and monographs
based on its meetings and concerns.
The Aspen Institute is independent, international,
nonpartisan and nonprofit. It is directed by an inter-
national 37-person Board of Trustees, representing all
sectors of society, and a global network of Special
Advisers and participants. It is supported by founda-
tions, individuals, corporations, and grants from
national and international public organizations. Its
central office is in New York City, and it has major
centers of activity in Aspen, Colorado; at Wye
Plantation outside Washington, D.C.; and in Berlin,
Hawaii and Tokyo.
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Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
717 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10022
[phone]
*Robert O. Anderson, Chairman of the Board, Aspen Institute
for Humanistic Studies
'Joseph E. Slater, President and Trustee of the Aspen Institute
for Humanistic Studies
Program Council
J. E. Slater, Chairman, Program Council
Ernest L. Boyer, Special Adviser to the Institute
Lord Bullock, Aspen Institute Fellow; Special Adviser
Douglass Cater, Aspen Institute Senior Fellow
Harlan Cleveland, Director, Aspen Institute Program in International Affairs
Paul Doty, Director, Aspen Institute Program in Science,
Technology and Humanism
Sidney Harman, Special Adviser to the Institute
Jane Wilder Jacqz, Executive Director and Vice President, Aspen Institute
Francis Keppel, Director, Aspen Institute Program in Education for a
Changing Society
Henry A. Kissinger, Aspen Institute Senior Fellow; Special Adviser
Martin Krasney, Executive Director, Aspen Institute
Executive Seminar Program
Susan Paris Lewis, Executive Director, Special Institute Projects
Lyn Lindsay, Program Coordinator; Secretary, Program Council
Robert B. McKay, Senior Fellow and Director, Aspen Institute Program
on Justice, Society and the Individual
J. Robert Moskin, Editorial Director of the Aspen Institute
Waldemar A. Nielsen, Aspen Institute Fellow; Special Adviser
Michael Rice, Director, Aspen Institute Program
on Communications and Society
Walter Orr Roberts, Aspen Institute Fellow; Program
in Science, Technology and Humanism
Shepard Stone, Director, Aspen Institute Berlin
Stephen P. Strickland, Vice President, Aspen Institute
Colin W. Williams, Aspen Institute Senior Fellow, Mideast Activities and Ethics,
Religion and Governance
Daniel Yankelovich, Special Adviser to the Institute
Charles W. Yost, Coordinator, Eastern Europe, China and
International Organizations; Special Adviser
George W. Aldridge, Jr., Manager, Aspen Institute at Wye
Plantation (Washington)
Libby A. Cater, Special Consultant to the Aspen Institute
Maureen Corr, Assistant Secretary, Aspen Institute
Jessie K. Emmet, Coordinator of Fellowships
B. R. Kraft, Jr., Special Assistant to the President for
Planning and Development
Eva Popper, Special Assistant to the President
Marc Porat, Program Fellow and Associate Director, Program
on Communications and Society
Fanny L. Stiller, Treasurer, Aspen Institute
King R. Woodward, Conference Coordinator, Aspen, Colorado
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Trustees
Rodrigo Botero Montoya
Former Minister of Finance,
Bogota, Colombia
Thornton F. Bradshaw
President, Atlantic
Richfield Company
Lord Bullock
Master, St. Catherines, Oxford
Aspen Institute Fellow
-Lisle C. Carter, Jr.
President, University of
the District of Columbia
Douglass Cater
President, The Observer
International, Inc.
Aspen Institute Senior Fellow
Jack T. Conway
.Senior Vice President. ,?
Publisher, Die Zeit
Hamburg, Germany
Douglas Fraser
President
Donald C. McKinley
Holme Roberts & Owen;
General Counsel and Secretary,
Aspen Institute. ' . . ,
Robert S. McNamara
President, World Bank
Robert Mosbacher
Alfonso Ocampo,Londono
Foundation for Higher
Education, Cali, Colombia
Saburo Okita
Chairman, The Japan
Economic Research Center
Tokyo, Japan
','James A. Perkins,
Chairman, International. Council
for Educational Development *Walter Orr Roberts
Aspen Institute Fellow:
Program in Science, Technology
and Humanism-Food and Climate
James H. Smith, 'Jr.
Co-Vice-Chairman, Aspen Institute
Soedjatmoko ? . '
National Development Planning
Agency, Jakarta, Indonesia
Maurice F. Strong
United Automobile Workers
*Gaylord Freeman
Vice Chairman, Aspen institute
William Gomberg
Professor of Management
and Industrial Relations
The Wharton School
William C. Greenough
Chairman, Teachers Insurance
and Annuity Association-
College Retirement Equities Fund.
Pehr G. Gyllenhammar
President, AB Volvo
Goteborg, Sweden
Najeeb E. Halaby
President
Halaby International Corporation
Shirley M. Hufstedler
Judge. U.S. Court'of Appeals
*Robert S. Ingersoll
Vice Chairman. Board of Trustees
The University of Chicago
*Howard W. Johnson
Chairman of.the Corporation
Massachusetts Institute
of. Technology
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
President, National
Urban League, Inc. , ..
Henry A. Kissinger
Aspen Institute Senior Fellow
and Special Adviser
Alexander A. Kwapong
Vice-Rector for Planning and
Development, United Nations
University. Tokyo, Japan
Jerry McAfee
Chairman of the Board
Gulf Oil Corporation
*George C. McGhee
McGhee Production Company
Chairman, AZL Resources, Inc. . . '
Phillips Talbot
President, The Asia Society
Glenn E. Watts-
President, Communications
Workers of America
Leonard Woodcock .
U.S. Ambassador
People's Republic of China
Trustees Emeriti . .
Herbert Bayer
Aspen Institute Fellow
*Robert L. Hoguet
Tucker, Anthony and R.L. Day
John F. Merriam
John M. Musser
President
General Service Foundation
Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced
International Studies
The Johns Hopkins University
.Elizabeth, Paepcke
William E. Stevenson
Shepard Stone
Director, Aspen Institute Berlin
Honorary Trustees
Mortimer J. Adler ?
Director, Institute,
for Philosophical Research
Henry Steele Commager,
Professor and John Woodruff
Simpson Lecturer,
Amherst College
Paul Horgan
Aspen Institute Fellow
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Masaru lbuka
Honorary Chairman, Sony
Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeharu Matsumoto
Chairman, International
House of Japan, Inc.,
Tokyo, Japan
John J. McCloy
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Karl Menninger
The Menninger Foundation
Farah Diba Pahlavi
Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson,
Baroness of Lodsworth)
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
IBM Corporation
Special Advisers
to the Institute
Ernest L. Boyer
President
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching
Lord Bullock
Master, St. Catherine's, Oxford
Aspen Institute Fellow
John A. Busterud
President
RESOLVE (Center for
Environmental Mediation)
Antonio Carrillo-Flores
Former Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Mexico
Alvin C. Eurich
President, Academy for
Educational Development
Sidney Harman
Work, Industrial Policy and Society
Fereydoun Hoveyda
Elmore Jackson
Teddy Kollek
Mayor of Jerusalem
Thomas H. Lenagh
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
U.S. Senator -Maryland
Elizabeth J. McCormack
Associate, Rockefeller
Family and Associates
Martin Meyerson
President
University of Pennsylvania
Zygmunt Nagorski
Waldemar A. Nielsen
Aspen Institute Fellow
Gail L. Potter
John G. Powers
Academy for Educational
Development
John Richardson, Jr.
President, Youth
for Understanding
Glen O. Robinson
John C. Sawhill
U.S. Deputy Secretary
of Energy
L. William Seidman
Senior Vice President
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Jan SzczepanskI
Vice President, Polish Academy
of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Mostafa K. Tolba
Executive Director
United Nations Environment
Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Colin W. Williams
Aspen Institute Senior Fellow
Daniel Yankelovich
President, Yankelovich,
Skelly and White, Inc.
Charles W. Yost
Coordinator, Eastern Europe, China
and International Organizations
Dorothy S. Zinberg
John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
Offices
Headquarters
(Including Executive
Seminars)
717 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10022
[phone]
Washington Office
2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
[phone]
Summer Center
1000 North Third Street
Aspen, Colorado 81611
[phone]
Aspen Institute at Wye
Plantation (Washington)
Box 222
Queenstown, Maryland 21658
[phone]
Aspen Institute Berlin
Inselstrasse 10
1000 Berlin 38, Germany
Aspen Institute Facility
International House
of Japan, Inc.
11-16 Rdppongi, 5' Chome
Minato-Ku, Tokyo 106. Japan
Aspen Institute Hawaii
SeaMountain
Island of Hawaii, Hawaii 96777
Programs
Communications and Society
2010 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
[phone]
Education for a Changing Society
6 Appian Way
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
[phone]
International Affairs
Box 2820
Princeton, N.J. 08540
[phone]
Justice, Society and the Individual
36 West 44th Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
[phone]
Science, Technology and Humanism
79 Boylston Street
Cambridge, Mass. 02138
[phone]
Food and Climate Project
1919 14th Street, #811
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A 0 Selection of
Participating Companies
in 1979
Aetna Life & Casualty Company
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Armco Incorporated
Atlantic Richfield Company
Avery International
Bank of America NT & SA
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
Bristol-Myers Company
Capital Research and Management Co.
CBS Inc.
Champion International Corp.
Chemical Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Clorox Company
Coca-Cola Company
Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.
Continental Bank
Corning Glass Works
Crown-Zellerbach Corporation
Dean Witter Reynolds Inc.
Dictaphone Corporation
Digital Equipment Corp.
Dresser Industries, Inc.
Estee Lauder International
Ernst & Whinney
First National Bank of Chicago
Ford Motor Company
General Electric Company
General Foods Corporation
General Mills, Inc.
Gulf Oil Corporation
Honeywell Inc.
Houston Natural Gas Corp.
INA Corporation
International Business Machines Corp.
International Paper Company
S.C.Johnson and Son, Inc.
Kaufman & Broad, Inc.
Lincoln Savings Bank
Mars, Incorporated
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Mead Corporation
Mobil Oil Corporation
Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc.
Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis
Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company
Pennsylvania Power and Light Company
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Plessey North America Corporation
Prudential Insurance Co. of America
Rose Associates
Rowan Companies, Inc.
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Security Pacific National Bank
Sperry Rand Corporation
Stanley Works
Star Manufacturing Company
Steptoe and Johnson
Sun Company, Inc.
Tektronix, Incorporated
Texaco Incorporated
TIAA-CREF
Time, Inc.
Union Carbide Corporation
United Bank of Denver N.A.
United Telephone System
Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
Weyerhaeuser Company
Xerox Company
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