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Oct. 1, 1999
Smithsonian Secretary to Lecture at Rhodes
(Memphis, Tenn.)---Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution I. Michael Heyman will be guest speaker Tuesday, Oct. 12, at the annual Rhodes College Frank M. Gilliland Symposium.
Heyman's lecture, titled "Museums at the Millenium," will begin at 8 p.m. in Hardie Auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public. Heyman became the 10th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1994. He heads a complex of 16 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park, as well as scientific and cultural research facilities in 10 states and the Republic of Panama.
Heyman served as chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley from 1980 to 1990. He began his career at Berkeley in 1959 as an acting professor of law and became a full professor in 1961. His distinguished teaching career has included service as a visiting professor of law at Yale and at Stanford universities.
He was counselor to Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit as well as deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of the Interior from 1993 to 1994, and is a member of the state bars of California and New York.
Born in 1930 in New York City, Heyman was educated at Dartmouth College, earning a bachelor's degree in government in 1951. After a year in Washington as legislative assistant to Sen. Irving M. Ives of New York, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a first lieutenant on active duty from 1951 to 1953, and as a captain in the reserves from 1953 to 1958.
Heyman received his juris doctor in 1956 from Yale University Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was an associate with the firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn in New York City from 1956 to 1957. He was chief law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1958 to 1959.
Over the years, Heyman has served on and chaired numerous boards and commissions, including almost four years as a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents (1990-1994). He served on Dartmouth's board of trustees from 1982 to 1993 and as chairman of the board from 1991 to 1993. Heyman also has been a member of the board of trustees of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law since 1977.
The Frank M. Gilliland Symposium was established in 1984 by Tandy Gilliland and by Jim and Lucia Gilliland. The symposium is presented in memory of Frank M. Gilliland, a prominent Memphis lawyer and active community citizen committed to the understanding of social and ethical issues confronting America. It brings to Rhodes well-known speakers in the fields of history, international studies and English to address social and moral issues of importance to America.
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