We will always be grateful to June Callwood for beginning this lecture series with a grace, style, and enthusiasm that set the standard for all that followed. She came to campus after a long and storied career in journalism and social activism in Canada, a writer of magazine stories and books, a television host, and the founder of a home for people dying of AIDS. We put up posters and waited to see what would happen. That evening our 140-seat lecture hall filled, and there was still a lineup out into the courtyard. She invited students to come and sit on the stage at her feet. She told them her knees might look cute but they weren't worth a damn. June Callwood died on April 14, 2007.
