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The first man in the job as president of the United States was a man of vanity, disappointment and longing, noted biographer Richard Norton Smith says.

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The focus of the 1999 Virginia Water Research Symposium will be to increase communication between researchers and professionals in government and the private sector and to facilitate coordination of water monitoring programs and efforts in all water environments.

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The Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology's monthly forums explores current issues affecting older adults' lives. The October and Novermber programs look at the "Court Opinions About Grandparent Visitation Rights" and "Diversity in Older Adults' Lives."

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St. John's University will host an all-day conference exploring "The Moral Dimensions of Poverty" on Saturday, October 16, on the University's Queens campus. Nationally-recognized experts will deliver keynote addresses.

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If you shop online do you have any consumer rights? Can the elderly be protected from financial scams? Do Direct selling organizations have responsibilities? These guestions and more will discussed at "Consumer Advocates on Campus".

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Six internationally recognized humanities scholars will share their expertise with Central Michigan University audiences during a year-long speaker series. "Humanities at the Millennium: Transforming Conversations" will feature experts in the fields of literature, religion, history and philosophy discussing the role of the humanities in the university as well as how those disciplines might most fruitfully interact with American culture as a whole.

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Violinist Midori, who first came to public attention at age 10 when she debuted with the New York Philharmonic, and her partner-pianist Robert McDonald will perform at Colgate University on Thursday, October 7, at 8:00 pm

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Once called "the Princess of Black Poetry," Nikki Giovanni will be the featured speaker at Agnes Scott's College's Martin Luther King, Jr., convocation on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

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The fourth annual American Music Masters Conference will focus on the life of legendary saxophonist Louis Jordan. "At the Swing Cat's Ball: Louis Jordan's Rhythm & Blues" will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, October 9 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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Acclaimed evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould will present a lecture at Agnes Scott College at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8.

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Jane Goodall, the world's leading authority on chimpanzees, will speak at Bucknell Oct. 15, about her nearly 40 years of research on chimpanzees and her wildlife conservation efforts. The title of her lecture is "Reason for Hope."

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Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson, who discovered the molecular structure of DNA along with Francis Crick in 1953, will speak Thursday, Oct. 14, at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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India's "National Living Treasure," Ali Akbar Khan, will perform a special concert at the University of California, Santa Cruz on Friday, October 15, 1999. The concert celebrates Khan's new appointment to UCSC as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Music.

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Domestic Violence is an issue of pressing concern across the country. In recognition of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University and the Kings County District Attorney's Office will present a free two-day conference.

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Saxophonist Paul Winter and his Earth Band will present the world premiere of "The World Tree: A Musical Celebration" at Bucknell University Saturday, Oct. 23.

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"What's Next? American Pluralism and the Civic Culture: Challenges and Proposals," a national conference on issues of racial and ethic diversity that will take place at Smith College November 4-6.

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"Jorge Luis Borges at the Millennium" is the theme of a conference to be held at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus on Friday, December 3, to commemorate the centennial of the birth of one of Latin America's most influential and admired writers.

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As this year's Nobel Conference(r) at Gustavus Adolphus College, Oct. 5-6, examines the emerging areas of genetics and predicts its effects into the next millennium live via the Internet.

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The traditional turf war between athletics and academics will call a truce Oct. 15-17 when The University of Tulsa presents a conference on sports and literature in its new $28 million sports arena.

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Hamilton College will host a conference, "From Welfare to meaningful Work Through Education," on Oct. 15-16, featuring a panel of former welfare recipients who have gone on to earn advanced degrees and obtain professional jobs.

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BLS speakers discuss current issues affecting business. All lectures begin at 2 p.m. in Room 1312 of the Worrell Professional Center at Wake Forest University. The lectures are free and open to the public.

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At Ohio University's graduate commencement on June 11 in Athens, the speaker was Martin Schwartz, Ph.D., chair of OU's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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On what I know is a foreboding, but challenging note, your generation will have to find an energy replacement for oil, or by 2050; you will be facing an economic, political and social barrier unknown since the dark ages. -- Rand Araskog

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San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown Jr. and Birmingham business leader H. Corbin Day, chairman of Jemison Investment Co., will be honored during graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 6, at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

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Comedian Bill Cosby delivered the final lecture to Colgate University's Class of 1999, and when he had finished his address to the college's 178th annual commencement he hugged and greeted each of the 677 members of the class individually.

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University at Albany Dean of Undergraduate Studies John Pipkin will be the featured speaker at the University at Albany's 155th undergraduate commencement ceremony Sunday, May 23. He replaces poet Maya Angelou.

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Bishop John R. Kinney will deliver the 1999 spring commencement address to the College of Saint Benedict graduating seniors on Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m., in the Clemens Field House in CSB's Haehn Campus Center.

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Rand V. Araskog, retired chair and chief executive of ITT Corporation, will deliver the commencement address at Gustavus Adolphus College at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 30 on the college's Hollingsworth Field.

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Former U.S. Vice President and ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale will be guest speaker at St. Olaf College's 110th annual commencement Sunday, May 23.

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Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt urged the Classes of 1999 to commit themselves to "enlightenment" in the form of knowledge, new ideas and service to others. In his farewell remarks during Commencement ceremonies on May 14, Wyatt described the shared sense of community, purpose and vision that characterizes a Vanderbilt education.

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Diane M. Capstaff, executive vice president at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., will be the speaker at the Monday, May 24, Commencement exercises of Boston College's Graduate School of Management.

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Graduation speakers at The University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada (May 19-20, 1999) include soprano Wendy Nielsen; Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada His Excellency the Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc; Justice Louise Arbour, prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals at the International Court in The Hague; and Edward F. (Ted) Boswell, retired chairperson of E.B. Eddy Forest Products Ltd.

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Former Sen. George Mitchell, Chairman of the Irish Peace Negotiations, Offers Address at Fordham's 154th Commencement. Magician David Copperfield to Receive Honorary Degree.

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Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs and White House Correspondent for NBC News who covered Jesse Jackson's recent visit to Belgrade, will deliver the Samford University Commencement address. Mitchell will speak during 10 a.m. exercises Saturday, May 22, at Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center Complex Arena.

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Fox News Anchor Paula Zahn will be the keynote speaker at the undergraduate commencement ceremony at Quinnipiac College at 11 a.m. on Sunday, May 16.

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On May 29, 571 students in University of Colorado Health Sciences Center schools and programs will graduate during commencement exercises, which begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Bookstore Quadrangle on campus.

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John F. Kennedy Jr., magazine editor and advocate for the disabled, will speak at Washington College's commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23 in Chestertown, MD.

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Best-selling author Iris Rainer Dart and six honorary degree recipients, including three Nobel Prize winners, will be the headliners at Carnegie Mellon University's 102d commencement, 11 a.m., Sunday, May 16 in Gesling Stadium, where more than 2,100 degrees will be conferred.

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will deliver the address at Boston University's 126th commencement exercises Sunday, May 23. Rev. Also receiving honorary degrees will be Dr. Ray Hammond, a physician, clergyman, and chairman of the Ten Point Coalition, James Carlin, businessman and chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; actress and alumna Geena Davis; and Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of The George Washington University.

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Dr. Lee S. Shulman will will deliver Drury College's commencement address Sunday, May 16, aat the college's 125th anniversary celebration.

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Former Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds, who began the peace process that led to the historic Good Friday peace accord reached in Northern Ireland last year, will be the speaker for the 1999 undergraduate commencement at the University of San Diego on May 30.

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Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois will return to his alma mater to speak at Augustana College's 139th Commencement.

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Jesuit father and President of Catholic Charities USA, Fred Kammer, S.J., will be the keynote speaker at the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 15, at 10 a.m. in the Morris Jeff Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park.

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U.S. Sen John Breaux of Louisiana will speak at LSU's 240th commencement exercises May 14. After the main ceremony, students will go to separate diploma ceremonies for their individual colleges. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, will be speaking at the School of Social Work diploma ceremony.

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Mortimer B. Zuckerman will be the commencement speaker for the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, on Sunday, May 23.

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Peace Corps Director Mark D. Gearan will visit Humboldt State University next weekend to deliver a commencement address and to honor the university's unparalleled legacy of service to the agency.

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Judson C. Green, a 1974 DePauw University graduate and chairman of Walt Disney Attractions, Inc., will give the address when DePauw awards 478 bachelor's degrees in its 160th Commencement on Saturday, May 22.

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Lorraine Monroe, Ed.D., a highly respected and inspirational educator and author and executive director and founder of the School Leadership Academy at the Center for Educational Innovation in New York City, speaks at Trinity College's 173rd Commencement on Sunday, May 23.

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Rudolph Crew, chancellor of the Board of Education of the City of New York and a UMass alumnus, will deliver the main address at the 129th Commencement of the University of Massachusetts, to be held at 10:30 a.m. on Sun. May 23, in Warren P. McGuirk Alumni Stadium.

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Centre College commencement exercises are set for Sunday, May 30, with former Centre President Michael F. Adams to give the keynote address. Adams now is president of the University of Georgia. His son, David, is a member of Centre's graduating class.