This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Bill Eastman - Life Skills

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This Week's Speaker - Carol Shepley - Clayton Ladue Rotary

Carol Shepley-Movers and Shakers, Scalawags

and Suffragettes:

Tales from Bellefontaine Cemetery. This history of

Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis is told through the stories

of some of the 87,000 people who are buried there. Shepley’s

guidebook to St. Louis’s notable residents is organized into

sections, such as artists, fur traders, and Civil War generals,

and features biographies of William Clark, James Buchanan

Eads, Susan Blow, and Adolphus Busch, not to mention some

of even more notorious backgrounds. For example, the book

delves into the stories of lesser-known scalawags, such as

Alfred H. Plant,who scandalized his family on December 20,

1889, when he married Mollie Murphy, a local prostitute. The

next day his relatives had him committed to St. Vincent’s Insane

Asylum, where he lived until his death at 72. He is buried in the family

plot at Bellefontaine, and his bride rests eternally a short distance

away. Cemetery records and interviews with such insiders as

the cemetery’s superintendent and gatekeeper inform the

research. The contributions and controversies that make up

St. Louis history are revealed, and the architecture and

landscape of the cemetery are celebrated as significant to the

region.

CAROL FERRING SHEPLEY lives in St. Louis and has written for

Money Magazine, Time, and Harper’s Bazaar. She is a former

art critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is an adjunct

professor of art history at Maryville University.

This Week's Speaker at Clayton Ladue Rotary - Judy Cochran - Crisis in the Middle East

The Middle East is where the U.S. now wages two wars in
order to acquire oil and stability. The U.S. is also concerned
that the seventeen countries making up the region will be
taken over by Muslim fundamentalists and become a training
ground for terrorists who will target the U.S. and have
another 9/11. These are the perspectives presented by media
pundits and politicians. Dr. Cochran will provide a different
perspective on why the Middle East is exploding in revolts,
revolutions and anti-U.S.protests.
Dr. Cochran holds the E. Desmond Lee Endowed
Professorship of Education at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis. Her experience in the Middle East has resulted in her
selection as Woman Scholar on the Middle East by the Middle
East Studies Association and awards as a Visiting Scholar to

Middle East Studies Centers at the University of Arizona and
the University of Texas. She received two Fulbright
scholarships to Egypt and Turkey and served on the National
Fulbright Board as President and board member. Fifteen of
her 35 publications are concerned with the Middle East
including Educational Roots of Political Crisis in Egypt (2008)
and the forthcoming Democracy in the Middle East; The
Impact of Religion and Education. As a Professor at the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dr. Cochran teaches
'Contemporary History of the Middle East" for the Honors
College, "Women in the Middle East" for the History
Department and education courses.
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