Visiting Professor of Religion William Cook ’66 directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers in Siena and Assisi, Italy for six weeks last summer. He spoke on the history of Christianity to a group of CEOs in Calgary, Alberta in September, and in October he chaired and presented in a panel on religion and democracy at Forum 2000 in Prague hosted by former president Vaclav Havel; keynoted a conference on Franciscan art in Liguria in Genoa, Italy; spent four days as a visiting scholar at Southern Oregon University, speaking on Alexis de Tocqueville and democracy; gave a lecture about St. Francis of Assisi at Madonna University near Detroit; and gave a presentation about St. Francis of Assisi on his feast day at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Zionsville. In November, Professor Cook presented a series of talks on Florence and the Renaissance in Tuscany and Umbria. In December, he gave a lecture on St. Francis of Assisi at the University of St Francis in Joliet, IL. In December he was one of three presenters at a conference on Michelangelo at the Aspen Institute. Professor Cook presented a series of talks about the Renaissance to The Friends of Florence in Florence, Italy, in February, and in March he is giving a series of talks on St. Francis and the Franciscans in Nairobi, Kenya. The Teaching Company recently released a 36-lecture course of Professor Cook’s entitled The Catholic Church: A History; the course is the professor’s eighth course made available on CD by the company. He also published the introductory essay in Finding Francis, published by Palgrave Macmillan, a collection of essays that is the work of several participants in Professor Cook’s National Endowment for the Humanities seminars for College Teachers.