Magellan Dinner 2005

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) held its 2nd annual Magellan Circle Lecture and Dinner on March 22, 2005 at the Arizona Inn. More than 170 people attended the event, and $40,000 was raised in renewals and new Magellan Circle memberships.

Congressman Jim Kolbe spoke about the importance of fundraising circles in helping to provide an exceptional education to students. Rod Cleveland, the Past Chair of the UA Alumni Association, presented the SBS advisory board with an award of excellence. History Professor Helen Nader discussed the real life voyage of Ferdinand Magellan.

The evening's two keynote speakers are "explorers" of the Southwest, which was the theme of the evening. James "Big Jim" Griffith, Ph.D., a Southwest folklorist with the UA Southwest Center and a regular on KUAT's Arizona Illustrated, spoke about religious art and popular Catholicism in Sonora.

Thomas Sheridan, Ph.D., a research anthropologist from the UA Southwest Center and the Department of Anthropology, spoke about his ethnographic and ethnohistorical fieldwork in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

To see photos of the event, click here.