Gergen, a visiting professor of public policy at Duke, is a former advisor to Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Ford and Nixon. The workshop is being sponsored by the Sanford Institute and the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism at Duke. Several communities throughout the country have successfully implemented Shore's model and used their generated profits to attack social problems. Shore's experience and success enlisting corporations to help SOS led him to be selected as chair of the task force that evaluates private sector commitments for the President's Summit for America's Future. A summit follow-through group, America's Promise, will implement the commitments.
Shore serves on the board of America's Promise.
Plant sale Chrysanthemums, perennials, pansies, bulbs and herbs will be available for sale at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens off Anderson Street on the next two Saturdays, Sept. 26 and Oct. 3. The sale is held to benefit the gardens during the fall and spring. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to noon each day. Depression screening Psychiatric staff from the Duke department of psychiatry will mark National Depression Screening Day with a series of depression screenings throughout Durham on Oct. 8. For more information, call 681-8472.