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This page highlights some resources that might prove of interest to Hunt
Scholars. It includes SMU links, Dallas links, and links to general Leadership
events or organizations. It also describes the books available in the Hunt
Scholars “lending library.” You can borrow any of these books at the offices of
Jo Geisler and Ellen S. Pryor. If you have books you would like to add, let us
know, and we will include them.
SMU Links
Dallas Links
Leadership Links
Lending Library
The Cox Business Scholars program is the program by which students are
admitted to the Cox Business School directly for a four year experience. Many of
the events on their calendar of events—luncheons, speeches, workshops—are open
to SMU students generally, or possibly can be open (for instance, we could
obtain a table for the Hunt Scholars at luncheons of special interest).
Here is the calendar of events. If you are interested in an event and are not
sure about the criteria for attending, contact Jo Geisler (jgeisler@smu.edu)
or Professor Pryor (epryor@smu.edu).
This office, under the leadership of Dr. Carol Clyde, coordinates myriad service-related and leadership-related activities within and external to SMU.
“What are the most essential personal traits needed for effective leadership? Honesty and integrity—no others come close.”
--- The late Annette Strauss, former Mayor of the City of Dallas,
speaking at a
forum
organized by the Hunt Leadership Scholars.
This a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization was established in Dallas
in the 1950s to education citizens about foreign policy and public affairs. It
brings fabulous speakers and authors through town. This year’s programs include:
the US Ambassador to Afganistan; former Senator John Danforth; who has a new
book on the relationship of politics and religion; journalist Lawrence Wright,
whose new book, The Looming Tower, is already receiving reviews that describe
the book as the best account of the history of Al-Quaeda and the events leading
up to the attacks on 9/11.
As a student, you can buy a student membership for $25. With a membership, most
programs cost between $25 and $35. (Bono came last year, and tickets were a bit
higher.)
Upcoming
Programs
Information on Student Membership (only $25)
“This is the portal to international North Texas, a region in which 40% of
the residents are New Americans of first or second generation. We are a network
of over 1,600 internationally-focused civic, community and educational
organizations in the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex that embodies the cultural
and economic vibrancy of the global community. Our Mission is to promote and
link North Texas ethnic and New American groups, empowering them as respected
members of the community and providing forums through which to share their
cultural heritages.”
This organization has an active
calendar of events.
“In public life, responsible political leadership holds forth realistic, attainable goals rather than wishful thinking.”
--- The late Annette Strauss, former Mayor of the City of Dallas,
speaking at a forum organized by the Hunt Leadership Scholars.
“The International Leadership Association (ILA) is the global network for all those who practice, study and teach leadership. The ILA promotes a deeper understanding of leadership knowledge and practices for the greater good of individuals and communities worldwide.”
“The Greenleaf Center is an international, not-for-profit institution headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our goal is to help people understand the principles and practices of servant-leadership; to nurture colleagues and institutions by providing a focal point and opportunities to share thoughts and ideas on servant-leadership; to produce and publish new resources by others on servant-leadership; and to connect servant-leaders in a network of learning.”
“The Community Leadership Association is a non-profit organization, founded in 1979, dedicated to nurturing leadership in communities throughout the United States and internationally. Learn more about us here.”
“The Academy of Leadership's mission is to foster leadership, scholarship and education, with special attention to those historically underrepresented in public life.”
This is a school associated with the University of Richmond; its website has a number of interesting resources.
“Recognize now that you are going to be learning every day for the rest of your life. Your ability to continue to learn and your open-minded attitude toward learning will serve you better than anything else.”
--- Les Alberthal, CEO of EDS, speaking speaking at a
forum
organized by the Hunt Leadership Scholars.
The offices of Jo Geisler and Professor Pryor will contain a lending library
for the Hunt Leadership Scholars. Any of you are welcome to borrow these; just
sign the book out on an index card.
Below is a list of some “featured titles.” In addition to these, the lending
library has a number of books on current affairs, historical and current
leaders, careers and work life, the role of religion in the public square,
ethics, business ethics, ethics from a comparative religious standpoint,
bioethics, history and current issues in Islam, history of and current affairs
in Russia and China.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
(2005). By the Pulizer-prize winning author (and 2006-2007 Tate Lecture Series
speaker), this book chronicles Abraham Lincoln’s leadership by focusing on his
unusual inclusion, in his Cabinet, of 3 of his political rivals.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, The
Home Front in World War II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. “The
author paints an image of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt so vivid and real that
as you read the story you feel you are reliving the exciting history of that
time with them.”
Malcolm Gladwell,
The Tipping
Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
(2002)
“It’s a book about change. In particular, it's a book that presents a new way of
understanding why change so often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it
does. For example, why did crime drop so dramatically in New York City in the
mid-1990's? How does a novel written by an unknown author end up as national
bestseller? Why do teens smoke in greater and greater numbers, when every single
person in the country knows that cigarettes kill? Why is word-of-mouth so
powerful? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to
read? I think the answer to all those questions is the same. It's that ideas and
behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of
infectious disease. They are social epidemics. The Tipping Point is an
examination of the social epidemics that surround us.”
Peter J.Gomes, The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need (2002)
“After more than thirty years as minister at Harvard University, Peter J. Gomes
has given his share of advice to the best and brightest as they set sail into
the world. This book is the distillation of years of observation and insight…”
Bob Woodward, Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom (2002). A
book that “takes you inside the Federal Reserve and Alan Greenspan’s thinking.”
Stephen E. Ambrose, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson,
and the Opening of the American West (1996). A great account of the Lewis
and Clark Expedition.
Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America (1999) “It is riveting, revealing, and relevant as it reminds
today’s reader that men of power and position have always possessed human flaws
no matter the time or place.”
Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1982)
Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century (2005) “Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened
at the dawn of the 21st century; what it means to countries, companies,
communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must,
adapt . . . A timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and
discontents.”
Daivd McCullough, Truman (1992) Pulizer-prize biography of the “seemingly
simple, ordinary man who in fact was always much more than met the eye and who
would achieve a greatness of his own after coming to office in FDR’s giant
shadow.”
Daivd McCullough, John Adams (2001) “The adventurous life-journey of John
Adams, who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to
become the second President of the United States and saved the country from
blundering into an unnecessary war.”
Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (2001) Award-winning biography of Theodore
Roosevelt, starting with his taking the oath of office after McKinley’s
assassination and through the next seven years).
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza (2004). “The fullest, richest, most
panoramic history” of the great influenza of 1918, which killed over 100 million
people worldwide and which “provides us with a precise and sobering model as we
confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.”
PBS DVD Video: The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
PBS Home Video: The Question of God (presentation of the similarities and
differences between two great thinkers, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis)
PBS DVD: Islam: Empire of Faith
PBS DVD Gold: Ken Burns, The Civil War (prize-winning multi-DVD set)
PBS DVD Gold: Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
PBS DVD Video: Martin Luther
BBC Video: A History of Britain (5 DVDs), written and narrated by Simon Schama,
author of the book by the same name.
Casablanca (not a PBS or BBC production; rather, the best movie of all time)
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