In October 2001, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the Francis Eppes Professor in FSU's School of Music, spoke in Bryan Hall's Fall 2001 Colloquium. Although her Fall 2002 calendar was so full that we couldn't schedule a return engagement, she did offer to meet informally with Bryan residents during the following semester. We scheduled an
informal reception in the Bryan lobby, and that event has evolved into a new series of informal "Conversations With . . . ." This first series featured a range of fascinating guests, including FSU's new President, two members of the W. E. B. DuBois Honor Society, a PhD student discussing an important film about our country's Japanese-American internment camps, and the Director of FSU's study center in Florence.