4 talks, 1 panel set
at Clinton School
The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service has five events planned this week.
Thomas Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie will discuss their book, The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign, at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Sturgis Hall.
The book tells the behind-the-scenes story of John F. Kennedy’s campaign, beginning with his failed attempt to win the vice-presidential nomination in 1956.
On Wednesday, John Monahan, a psychologist and former campaign worker, will speak at 6 p.m. at Sturgis Hall.
Monahan, who works at the University of Virginia Law School, served on the Obama-Biden and Clinton-Gore transition teams and has worked on several election campaigns. He teaches and writes about how courts use behavioral science evidence, violence-risk assessment, criminology and mental-health law.
He worked at the U.S. State Department on global health issues from 2010 through 2014.
Michael Novak, a deputy director on the naval operations staff, will talk at noon Thursday at Sturgis Hall.
Novak is responsible for rapid prototyping and development of unmanned systems across all domains.
On Friday, a panel will discuss the cost of health care in Arkansas. It will begin at 8:15 a.m. at the W.H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Speakers will be local and national health care professionals and policymakers, including Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Children’s Hospital’s chief executive officer, Marcy Doderer.
The keynote speaker is Michael Chernew, a health policy expert and professor at Harvard University’s medical school.
Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are available by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or by calling (501) 683-5239. Most of the events are at Sturgis Hall, which is the old Choctaw Railway Station building on the Clinton Presidential Center. The UALR law school is at MacArthur Park.
Music to fill the air in 2 library concerts
Two free concerts will take place this week at two Central Arkansas Library System branches.
The first is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Nixon Library in Jacksonville, 703 W. Main St. The Navy Band Southeast Woodwind Trio will play.
On Thursday, Brenda and Ellis, a husband-and-wife pop piano and vocal duo, will play at the Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive, Little Rock.
The performances are part of Sounds in the Stacks, a program of Arkansas Sounds.
Event to offer tips on masonry repair
The Quapaw Quarter Association is hosting a “preservation conversation” Thursday with a demonstration on repairing historic masonry.
The event will start with a reception at 5:30 p.m. at the William E. Woodruff House at 1017 E. Eighth St. with a demonstration to follow at 6 p.m.
Western Specialty Contractors is to demonstrate the masonry repair techniques. The Quapaw Quarter Association obtained the Woodruff House in December 2014 and has been working to stabilize the National Register-listed house, former home of the founder of the Arkansas Gazette.