By Alice Waugh
Brian McGrory, a Sudbury resident and editor of the Boston Globe will be one of four speakers at the Faye Goldberg-Scheff Memorial Lecture at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School on Thursday, Jan. 30.
The event is sponsored by the Foundation for Educators at L-S (FELS), which funds enrichment grants for teachers and staff at L-S. Traditionally, one of the grantees or another L-S faculty member gives a lecture on behalf of FELS in January, and the group designated the lecture in honor of Goldberg-Scheff of Lincoln, a FELS board member and teacher at the Lynch School in Winchester who died in a car accident in 2011.
Also scheduled to speak are Ana Sortun, chef/partner of Oleana, Sofra and Sarma restaurants; Chris Kurth, farmer/owner of Siena Farms in Sudbury; and author David McCullough Jr., son of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough who gave the famous “you’re not special” Commencement speech at Wellesley High School in 2012.
This year’s format was inspired by TED talks, where speakers keep an audience engaged with short presentations on different topics. “There’s no unifying theme to our FELS talk—it’s just inspiring and captivating speakers,” said Diane Metzger, president of the FELS board. “Our speakers were chosen simply because they are interesting individuals who live in Sudbury or Lincoln.”
The Faye Goldberg-Scheff Memorial Lecture on January 30 will be in the L-S Kirschner Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10, or $5 for students and seniors.