"Sundays at Two" Series Continues with Smith Professor Don Robinson

Donald Robinson, Charles N. Clark Professor of Government at Smith College, will be the speaker at the final event in this year's "Sundays at Two" series on March 25. The event, which is sponsored by the Friends of Forbes Library and Smith College, is free, open to the public and will begin at 2 p.m. in the Coolidge Room at Forbes Library.

Robinson, who has been a member of the Smith faculty since 1966, will speak on the topic "Must a President be Good? Thoughts on the Relationship of Personal Morality and Presidential Power." Robinson, who has taught courses on the presidency, political parties and constitutional history at Smith and published several books, is currently writing a book on Japan's constitution, which was drafted by Americans in 1946.

He has served as consultant to the Ford Foundation on programs relating to constitutional democracy in the developing nations of the Third World and in Eastern Europe, and, since 1983, has been director of research for the Committee on Constitutional System, a group that encourages consideration of basic structural reforms of the American political system.

Among the many other projects he has been associated with over the years were Project '87, an interdisciplinary study of the Constitution sponsored by the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association, which he directed, and several programs of the Fred Friendly Media and Society Seminar, which resulted in PBS programs for which he served as a consultant.

A resident of Ashfield, he chairs the Ashfield Select Board.

Contact: Ann Shanahan, ashanahan@smith.edu

March 12, 2001