Virtual Presentations
President’s Club Presents
The President's Club began offering virtual presentations with the debut of the Speaker Series in June 2020. These events remain popular, and the program continues to evolve, offering you a variety of subjects presented by leaders in their fields at Ohio State. If you have topic or speaker ideas for future events, please send them to presidentsclub@osu.edu.
July 2025
Guess in Two Clues: Ohio State Archives Over 60 Years
Our presentation featured Professor Tamar Chute, University Archivist and Head of Archives at The Ohio State University. As University Archivist and Head of Archives, Tamar manages the University Archives, Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, and the Ohio Public Policy Archives. Since coming to the university in 1998 as the Assistant University Archivist, she has concentrated on outreach and engagement in the broadest sense – strongly believing in the university’s land-grant mission of serving the public.
Tamar has given presentations on all aspects of university history, including the University’s founding, student traditions and activities, buildings on campus, and OSU then-and-now. She has curated multiple exhibitions and is author of the book Time & Change: 150 Years of The Ohio State University. During spring semester Tamar teaches the course “The Ohio State University: Its History and Its World.”
Learn more about Tamar Chute and The Ohio State Archives:
- Meet the Curator
- University Archives website
- Digital content website
- Online historical publications including The Lantern, The Makio and Ohio State Alumni Magazine
- Make a gift to support:
- Watch Tamar Chute's October 2022 presentation A Walk in Our ’Shoe: 100 Years of Ohio Stadium
Past Speakers
We are proud of our speakers and offer past presentations for viewing.
Dr. John Horack and Ms. Cassidy Brozovich
Dr. John Horack
Neil Armstrong Chair in Aerospace Policy
Ms. Cassidy Brozovich
Starlab Graduate Research Associate, PhD Student in Agricultural Engineering
Dr. Craig Bryan and AnnaBelle O. Bryan
Dr. Craig Bryan
Director, Suicide Prevention Program
AnnaBelle O. Bryan
Director, Suicide and Trauma Reduction Initiative for Veterans (STRIVE)
Dr. Wayne Schlingman
Director, Arne Slettebak Ohio State Planetarium
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Asst. Professor
Molly Ranz Calhoun, Bill Shkurti and Andrew B. Pierce, II
Molly Ranz Calhoun (BS ’86)
President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ohio State University Alumni Association, Inc.
Bill Shkurti (BS ’68, MA ’74)
Adjunct Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs
Andrew B. Pierce, II
Co-founder of The WORTH Foundation
Tamar Chute
University Archivist and Head of Archives (Professor)
Dr. Mary Kay Pohlschneider
Senior Lecturer in the of Department of Food Science and Technology at the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences
Lucy I. Zimmerman
Associate Curator in the Wexner Center for the Arts' Exhibitions Department
Darrell M. Gray, II, MD, MPH, FACG
Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition in the College of Medicine
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie G. Thompson
Distinguished University Professors and Senior Research Scientists in the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Dr. Jessica Winter
Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Kenneth R. Yeager
Professor in the College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Stephen Gavazzi
Professor of Human Development and Family Science in the College of Education and Human Ecology