City of Rancho Mirage
Historic Preservation Commission
Presents Frederick Fisher, Architect
Tuesday, February 17, 2 – 3 p.m.
Frederick Fisher,
AIA, FAAR, and
principal of Frederick Fisher and Partners
Architects (FFP) presents a lecture
entitled
Living Modernism: A.Q. Jones’
Legacy in aContemporaryArchitectural
Practice.
Discriminating clients in art, education,
business, and culture turn to Frederick
Fisher and Partners Architects for
architecture that brings clarity, purpose,
and delight to modern life. FFP
designed the Visitor’s Center at
Sunnylands, the Annenberg Center
at Caltech, the Erburu Galley at The
Huntington, the Firestone Gallery at
Princeton, and many other significant
projects across the nation.
An Afternoon with Gloria Greer
Tuesday, March 10, 2 – 3 p.m.
Veteran journalist
Gloria Greer
has
covered the Coachella Valley for over
forty years. In this illustrated lecture,
Ms. Greer examines the role of
perception and deception in hard and
soft news. She shares anecdotes from
her years of interviewing politicians,
philanthropists, and celebrities who
have lived and visited here.
Gloria Greer came to the desert in
the early 1960s, and has worked
as a columnist and feature writer
for the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Press-
Enterprise, Daily Variety, Variety
(weekly), and as a correspondent for
Newsweek
,
Newsweek News Service,
Associated Press, and
Town and
Country.
She currently edits
Palm
Springs Life’s
Social Life section and
hosts and produces television shows
for PBS in Southern California.
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Presented by the Rancho Mirage Public Library Foundation