B.J. Averell ’02-’03 said he came because he “heard Richard Dreyfus was speaking.” In fact, Dreyfus attended the talk to give his friend moral support, he said.
When asked how he and Dreyfus became friends, Black joked, “We were arrested together.”
Black was the third speaker to appear in a series of media- and politics-focused talks hosted by the Kirkland Senior Common Room (SCR), following appearances by Gary Hart in late September and Jack Valenti yesterday afternoon.
Kirkland House Resident Scholar Peter V. Emerson, whom Co-Master Verena A. Conley said was “instrumental” in inviting speakers to the House, emphasized the conversational nature of the series.
“In these talks both students and speakers learn from each other,” he said. “That’s the purpose of these conversations.”
Emerson, a former senior advisor on media relations for inflation in the Carter White House, met many of the invited speakers though mutual friends while working in politics and marketing.
In early December, Glenn Close and Chris and Kathleen Matthews are scheduled to appear.