The Columbia Forum is a dinner lecture series co-sponsored by: The Daily Astorian Clatsop Community College The OSU Seafood Laboratory Coast Community Radio Shoretrust Enterprise Cascadia
All dinner lectures take place at the Duncan Law Seafood Consumer Center, 2021 Marine Drive, Astoria, and are broadcast on KMUN and KTCB at 7:00pm on the fourth Sunday of each month.
The Columbia Forum is an annual membership organization. Membership renewal for one person is $60.00. For a couple, the price is $95.00. Membership checks can be made to Clatsop Community College and mailed to:
The Columbia Forum PO Box 210 Astoria OR 97103
Dinner is $22.00 per person for members. Non-members are charged an additional $10. Wine and beverages are additional. RESERVATIONS ARE A MUST and should be made several days in advance. To reserve:
6:00pm: Social half-hour, including appetizers 6:30pm: Dinner 7:15ish: Lecture begins
A small number of seats is set aside around the edges of the room for lecture attendees only. Attendance at the lecture is $10.00. The lecture generally begins around 7:15pm.
The schedule for the 18th season, 2007-2008:
Wednesday, September 26 broadcast date: Sunday, October 27 and December 30, 2007 Editor, Portland Magazine at University of Portland Brian Doyle "Cool things we all know but don't shout hilariously about quite enough" Monday, October 8 broadcast date: Sunday, November 25, 2007, 7:00pm author and visiting professor at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Don Snow "How urbanization ruins rural places" Monday, November 12 retired Eastern Oregon University professor George Venn "Charles Erskine Scott Wood: The soldier who recorded Chief Joseph's surrender speech"
Thursday, January 24 broadcast date: Sunday, January 27, 2007, 7:00pm Marine Fisheries Geneticist and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University Michael Banks "Do you know what your salmon is doing tonight? Real-time management and marketing of West Coast salmon by genetics."
Wednesday, February 6 broadcast date: Sunday, February 24, 7:00pm reporter for National Journal Jerry Hagstrom "California's primary and the Farm Bill's influence on the presidential race"
Tuesday, March 25 broadcast date: Sunday, April 27, 2008, 7:00pm director, Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, Pendleton, Oregon Roberta Conner "There goes the neighborhood: what contact with whites meant to the Indian tribes of the Umatilla Plateau."
Tuesday, April 16 not broadcast executive director, Janus Youth Programs Dennis Morrow "Three factors that will mitigate divorce's damage to children"
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 broadcast date: Sunday,May 25 Associate Professor, Oregon State University Dept. of Forest Engineering Arne Skaugset "Slip Sliding Away: Forestry and Landslides in the Oregon Coast Range" Dinner reservations required by May 15
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 broadcast date: Sunday, May 25 Associate Professor, Oregon State University Dept. of Forest Engineering Arne Skaugset "Slip Sliding Away: Forestry and Landslides in the Oregon Coast Range" Dinner reservations required by May 15