Special Collections & University Archives
During the mid- to late-1960s, WFCR radio and the Eastern Educational Radio Network sponsored Four College Lecture Hall, a weekly broadcast that featured “outstanding talks by faculty members and guests” of the four college consortium: Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges plus the University of Massachusetts Amherst. With the addition of Hampshire College to the consortium in 1970, the show was renamed Five College Lecture Hall.
Francis, Robert (1967)
The local poet read during the Summer Arts program, UMass Amherst.
MacDiarmid, Hugh (1967)
The Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve) was an significant figure in Scottish literary modernism, but also an activist, Communist, and Scottish Nationalist. He spoke at UMass Amherst in 1967.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1969)
A Polish-born American Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, spoke at Smith College in October 1968.
Skinner, B. F. (ca.1969)
A behavioral psychologist at Harvard and author of Walden Two, the utopian novel and trenchant critique of contemporary American society, B.F. Skinner was featured on Four College Lecture Hall.
Travers, P. L. (1966)
The author of the wildly popular Mary Poppins series of books, P.L. Travers delivered a lecture on “Myth, fairy tale, and Mary Poppins” in 1966, during the year in which she served as writer in residence at Smith College.
Wilbur, Richard (1967)
The poet Richard Wilbur read at UMass Amherst during the Summer Arts program.
