Dear Colleagues:

In gratefully accepting the invitation to receive the Tannenbaum-Warner Award, I would like to acknowledge and thank each member of the seminar for whatever role you have played in making our seminar an "ideal" one, either as presenter, attender, or simply an interested reader of our minutes. We have received much from the University over the past 35 years: A regular space in which to meet, tracking of our minutes and roster of attendance, a place to have a communal meal which facilitated many a collaboration, and the development of joint projects among our members from a variety of disciplines and institutions. The recognition we are receiving provides us with a unique opportunity to thank the University for all it has done for us. I hope as many of you as possible will attend the celebration and all of you who can, will make a generous contribution so that the Seminars may continue to subsidize, as it has in the past, the use of space for both meetings and meals. Once again, thank you for all your help over the years.

Harry R. Kissileff , Ph.D. (Mobile disk) St. Luke's/ Roosevelt Hospital
1111 Amsterdam Ave.
New York , NY 10025
Phone: 212-523-4200
Fax: 212-523-4830
E-mail: hrk2@columbia.edu
Currently at: Teaneck, NJ (201-837-8017)

I am pasting below an excerpt from our UNIVERSITY SEMINARS NEWSLETTER describing the occasion.

Annual Dinner, April 11, 2007

Ester Fuchs will give the Tannenbaum Lecture at our Annual Dinner on Wednesday, April 11. She returned to academia this year after four years of practical work in Mayor BloombergĄ¯s administration. She will describe what it is like when a professional political scientist suddenly has to work with professional politicians, the place and nature of rationality in both worlds, and the entire question of governability. It should be an exciting occasion.

At the Dinner, Harry Kissileff will receive the Tannenbaum-Warner Award for Service to the University Seminars. A long-time member and now Chair of the University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior, he brought his understanding of physiology into contact with the sociological, psychological, and other approaches needed for dealing with obesity, long before the medical and political communities recognized it as a national problem.

All Seminar members and their guests are welcome. With a small subsidy we are able to keep the price at forty dollars per person for good food, good talk, and a real intellectual feast.

Please feel free to make your reservations now by sending a check for $40 per person to:

University Seminars at Columbia University
305 Faculty House, MC 2302
400 West 117th Street, New York, NY 10027

Make checks payable to Columbia University

Tickets will be distributed at the reception. Parking reservations accepted until April 04, 2007.

Please let us know of any special dietary needs.

We hope you can join us.

Robert Belknap, Director, University Seminars

Sixty-Third Annual Dinner

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Reception at 6:00 PM, Dinner at 7:00 PM
The Faculty House
400 West 117 Street, New York , NY