Are you planning to join us in New York to celebrate our eighty-fifth anniversary?Date: 10.19.09.Time: 6:30 p.m.Place: Pier 60, Chelsea Piers.Honoree: Tim Shriver, Chairman of the Special Olympics.Presenter: Mark Shields, PBS commentator and columnist.Dinner chair: Rev. Edward (Monk) Malloy, CSC, president emeritus, the University of Notre Dame.Also on hand: lots of Commonweal contributors (Cathy Kaveny, Alice McDermott, Jack Miles, Peter Quinn, Thomas Reese, SJ, Peter and Peggy Steinfels, and others), and basically the whole staff.There's still time to reserve your spot. But hurry: the Commonweal Conversations rate at local hotels is expiring next week!