[meteorite-list] Mohler lecture celebrates 40 years

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Mohler lecture celebrates 40 years

For 40 years, the generosity of Dr. Robert and Mrs. Fern Shoemaker
Mohler has brought prominent speakers and cultural programs to McPherson
College, spanning academic disciplines and representing a wide range of
human experience and thinking.The first lecture in 1975 highlighted MC
professor Dr. H.H. Nininger, famous for his work on meteorites and
paleontology. In addition to providing information about Dr.
Nininger’s lifetime of knowledge in meteorites, it also functioned as
a 90th birthday party for both Dr. Nininger, the first speaker of the
lecture series, and Dr. Mohler, one of the lecture’s two
benefactors.Since then, speakers have included Dr. Elmer Staats,
comptroller of the currency of the United States in 1982; “Roots”
author Alex Haley in 1987; and Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein
in 2003.Susan Taylor, a granddaughter of Dr. Mohler who helps select the
speakers every year, said Haley’s lecture always stood out in her
mind.“The audience was just spellbound,” she said. “It was more
than an hour, but felt like a few minutes.” - See more at: 

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