Mamundi Subhas, a senior vice president at Neuberger Berman, became a volunteer guide at Grant’s tomb on the West Side of Manhattan, where he has now spent more than 500 hours interacting with visitors. In his talk, Subhas will discuss 11 lessons he learned from studying the life of General Grant. Additionally, his research cast doubt on biographies that claimed Grant had problems with alcohol. This seemed incongruous with the character of the man and led Subhas to research Grant’s symptoms and then to write an article in the August 2020 issue of Civil War News. What seemed to observers at the time to be Grant’s “drunken behavior” was probably instead symptoms characteristic of those who suffer from migraine headaches. Subhas will also provide a guide to the architecture of Grant’s tomb, which is a gem.
Please check out the video in which I point out some of these features. https://fb.watch/6s27BPeW5R/
Basil Hero is an award-winning former investigative reporter with NBC News television stations. For his book, “The Mission of aLifetime: The Men Who Went to the Moon,” he interviewed the twelve remaining lunar explorers. They talk at length about the real right stuff, the true source of courage, leadership, and the quiet patriotism that it took to risk their lives going to the moon. Their voyages led them to the most incredible discovery of all: our home planet and its precious place in the universe. They fear for earth’s future and offer sensible solutions to its mounting crises and the path to future space exploration.
Marty Yellin received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from CCNY. In 1965 he joined Perkin-Elmer in Wilton, Ct. and they helped support his doctorate in Bio Medical Engineering at NYU applying engineering solutions to medical issues. At Perkin Elmer he became involved with a Top Secret program to design and build the largest spy satellite ever to be flown in space. In his last 10 years at Perkin Elmer he helped design and manage the Hubble Space Telescope which has been the most productive space instrument ever built. After retirement in 1998 he resumed taking courses at NYU in the fields of genetics and cell biology.
Ambassador Thomas “Tom” M.T. Niles was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1939. Upon graduating from Harvard College in 1960 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service. After assignments in Belgrade, Moscow (twice), and the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, as well as assignments to the Department of State in Washington, he was named by President Reagan to be Ambassador to Canada in 1985. In 1989, he was named by President George H.W. Bush to be Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels. In 1991 he was reassigned to the Department of State as Assistant Secretary for Europe and Canada. In 1993 he was named Ambassador to Greece by President Clinton. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1998 and became President and CEO of the United States Council for International Business in 1999, a position he held until 2005.
Dr. Antonio “Tony” Dajer will speak about “Covid-19 and Darwin: Why Does it Keep Surprising Us?” Dr. Dajer, who has been a New York City emergency room physician for 30 years, will relate the strain on emergency department staff as Covid outbreaks peaked, what physicians have learned to reduce death among those hospitalized and, as Darwin would have predicted, how we still face uncertainties about controlling Covid mutations and other viruses that may yet appear.
Stan Twardy will speak about initiatives undertaken by Republicans for the Rule of Law, a group of life-long Republicans dedicated to defending the institutions of our republic and upholding the rule of law. The group is committed to the principle that laws apply equally to everyone from the average citizen to the highest office holders in government. The group promotes standards of fidelity to the Constitution, transparency, and truth.