File 24 - "No - Societies etc. T & U"

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Comprises letters asking Bronowski to contribute to publications, speak at and participate in events, and to support causes, with replies declining.

Correspondents are: Giorgio Tagliacozzo, editor of Giambattista Vico Tricentennial International Symposium volume, inviting Bronowski to contribute an essay to the volume with a foreword and contents page for the volume; Temple Isaiah (Los Angeles) inviting Bronowski to participate in a series of Forum lectures (1964); John Thorne of Doubleday & Company, Inc. inviting Bronowski to speak at the annual conference of the Californian Association of School Librarians (1967); Dr Beatrice Willard of the Thorne Ecological Institute (Boulder, Colorado) asking Bronowski to address a seminar on Environmental Arts and Sciences (1970) which the Institute held annually at Aspen; Robert J Throckmorton (Sierra Consultants, Las Vegas) asking for Bronowski's help to secure federal legislative support for spinal cord regeneration studies and to aid paraplegic (quadriplegic) people in general (1971) with an article on spinal cord regeneration, a template letter with actions suggested by Throckmorton, factsheets on paraplegia and the research being conducted at Barrow Neurological Institute (1970) and the Congressional Record showing when the need for paraplegic research was being discussed in the House of Representatives; Oscar G Ravin inviting Bronowski to a brunch event for the Healing Arts Division (physicians and dentists) of the United Jewish Federation (1965); The Union Society, Cambridge University, inviting Bronowski to lecture at the Cambridge Union (1972 & 1973); Mrs Robert Caplan asking Bronowksi to give a talk to a dinner meeting of the United Jewish Federation Young Leadership Group (San Diego); Universal Knowledge Foundation asking for Bronowski's support (1961, no reply); The Universities Committee for Soviet Jewry (Inter-University Jewish Federation of Great Britain and Ireland) asking Bronowski to sign a letter that was to be sent to The Times newspaper about the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union (1966); Henry H. Urrows inviting Bronowski to attend a 'Decision-makers' conference for ways to buy more and better learning' in Brussels (Belgium) sponsored by the Learning Technology Foundation (1972); and Utah Museum of Fine Arts inviting Bronowski to speak at a joint conference of the Western Association of Art Museums and the Western Regional Conference of the American Association of Museums (Salt Lake City, 1974).

'Spinal cord regeneration' by Barbara J Culliton was published in Science News, vol. 98 (24 Oct 1970).

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