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 Cannery Pier Hotel
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.
Membership in the Forum for one person is $60.00. For a couple, the price is $95.00. Membership checks can be made to The Columbia Forum 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 19th season, 2008-2009:
Thursday, September 4 broadcast date: NOT FOR BROADCAST Oregonian editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman "Politics as comedy" Tuesday, October 7 broadcast date: Sunday, October 26 President, Oregon Health Sciences University Dr. Joseph Robertson "Partnering for a Healthier Oregon" Tuesday, November 11 Pollster and political analyst broadcast date: Sunday, November 30 Tim Hibbits "What Just Happened? Analysis of the 2008 Elections"
Wednesday, January 21 broadcast date: Sunday, January 25 Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Paula Brownhill "Family Drug Court: An Innovative Approach to Child Welfare Cases"
Thursday, February 12 broadcast date: Sunday, February 22 Chief archaeologist, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Doug Wilson "Archaeology of a Chinook Village at Lewis & Clark's Station Camp"
March date TBD broadcast date: Sunday, March 29 director, Food Alliance, Scot Exo; director, Dept. of Horticulture, OSU, Anita Azarenko; chef & director, Oregon Dept. of Agriculture Farm-to School Program, Corey Schreiber "You Are What You Eat: New Persepectives on Food and Food Systems"
Wednesday, April 9 broadcast date: Sunday, April 26 Assoc. Prof. of History, Washington State U. Tri-Cities Brigit Farley "Queen of the Quagmire: Gertrude Bell and the Creation of Iraq"
Wednesday, May 6 broadcast date: Sunday, May 31 Author George Byron Wright "Murder, Fire and a Blast from Oregon's Past"
Wednesday, May 27 broadcast date: Sunday, June 28 Author and national enterprise reporter for the New York Times Timothy Egan "The Worst Hard Time: The Story of the Dust Bowl"
Tuesday, October 7 broadcast date: Sunday, October 26 President, Oregon Health Sciences University Dr. Joseph Robertson "Partnering for a Healthier Oregon"