Join us for Harvard Hours at Wally's American Pub 'n Grille, located at 44th Street and Camelback. 

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Members and friends of the Harvard Club are invited to mix, mingle and enjoy the Spring weather on the patio at Wally's (Arcadia location). 

Come mingle and network with the other Ivy League alumni.

Let the rivalry continue throughout the year -- join us for a Harvard-Yale potluck lunch at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale.  If you were happy/unhappy with the results from the past Game, come gloat/sulk with alumni from the dark side.  All are welcome -- individuals, couples and families!

http://www.therailroadpark.com/

Donald Johanson is the Founding Director of ASU's Institute of Human Origins. Many consider him to be among the most important and accomplished paleoanthropologists of our time. Over the course of his illustrious career he has produced some of the field’s groundbreaking discoveries, including the most widely known and thoroughly studied fossil find of the 20th century -- the Lucy skeleton.

Dr. Johanson's presentation will be a fascinating tour of the last three decades of study -- the most exciting period of paleoanthropologic investigation thus far. In that time, Johanson and his colleagues have uncovered a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy’s species, a transitional creature between apes and humans), spanning 400,000 years. As a result, we now have a unique fossil record of one branch of humanity's family tree -- a tree that is believed to date back a staggering 7 million years. Focusing on dramatic new fossil finds and breakthrough advances in DNA research, Johanson will provide the latest answers that post-Lucy paleoanthropologists are finding to questions such as: How did Homo sapiens evolve? When and where did our species originate? What separates hominids from the apes? What was the nature of Neanderthal and modern human encounters? What mysteries about human evolution remain to be solved?

   Professor Laura Auricchio spoke to Harvard Club of Phoenix at an excellent event two years ago, and she will be back in the Valley on January 27, 2010.  Auricchio is a Harvard graduate and Assistant Professor of Art History at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City.  She will trace the story of the fascinating woman portraitist that painted the Phoenix Museum of Art’s Madame Adélaïde.  Dr. Auricchio will shed new light on one of the few women ever admitted to France’s Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.  Her recently published book fills major gaps in the scholarship of art and woman artists in the age of the French Revolution.     Laura Auricchio received her A.B., summa cum laude, in 1990 from Harvard College, where she lived in Cabot House and served as President of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players. She completed her PhD in art history at Columbia University in 2000. Her dissertation, funded in part by grants from the Fulbright and Whiting foundations, was the first extended study in English on the eighteenth-century French woman artist Adelaide Labille-Guiard. The life and art of Labille-Guiard, an active participant in the political and aesthetic debates of the French Revolution, form the subject of her first book and her upcoming talk.

5:30pm for a reception at Arcadia Farms in Phoenix Art Museum     7pm for a lecture in Whiteman Hall

Come be a part of Global Networking Night at Tommy V's Osteria and Pizzeria.  The Harvard Alumni Association, regional Harvard Clubs, and Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) ACROSS THE GLOBE have coordinated numerous happy hours and club get-togethers, all to be held on the same night - Wednesday, December 30, 2009!

Bring a friend, family member or out of town guest for a fun night of spirits and conversation.

Please register through the official Harvard Alumni Association website by Dec. 23rd at (note, you do not have to register to attend the event:

http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/globalnetworkingnight#quito

'Tis the season!  Please join the Harvard Club of Phoenix for a festive holiday celebration at the beautiful home of Alexis Glascock, a member of the Club's Board of Directors. 

Alexis is generously supplying the beverages, and each of us is invited to bring an appetizer, salad, main course, side dish, or dessert of our choice to share.  The more unique and personal the dish, the better!

Harvard, Stanford, and Ivy-Plus Alumni will work together to help those in need. We will pack food boxes that will be distributed to Phoenix-area homeless shelters, senior centers, and rehabilitation centers. Please bring non-perishable food items to donate.  

The annual Harvard Yale football game provides the year's best opportunity to socialize with Harvard alumni and to also mingle with friends from Yale. THE GAME event at Fox Sports Grille as been the most successful event of the year according to the number of participants. Many former players from Yale and Harvard are on hand with a couple who who actually played in the 1969 Tie.

Please, do yourself a favor and bring family and friends to a very enjoyable Saturday morning. Last year a few applicants to Harvard and Yale were guests of alumni and were acquainted at this defining event that demonstrates the meaning of tradition and camaraderie. Your participation is counted on as a show of support and as the personification of the alumni spirit that makes Harvard and Yale so very special. There is even a football game being broadcast as background.

Michael Bidwill, President of the Arizona Cardinals, will speak at the Arizona Business Forum luncheon hosted by the Harvard Business School Club of Arizona on Thursday, November 19 from 11:45a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Phoenix-Biltmore, 2630 East Camelback Road.  Guests are invited to attend, but seating is limited.

Bidwill will provide insights on the economics of managing an NFL franchise and comment on Cardinals football in general. Also, as Chairman of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, he will discuss programs to bring jobs to Arizona and to provide renewable energy tax incentives to move to the state.

After practicing law for six years as a federal prosecutor, Bidwill joined the Cardinals in 1996 as Vice President/General Counsel and today serves as President. He has led the Cardinals to the NFC Championship and spearheaded the development of the University of Phoenix stadium from its inception.
 
Bidwill earned his B.S. degree in finance from St. Louis University and his law degree from Catholic University. Among his community activities he has fostered Pop Warner youth football and flies for “Flying Samaritans”, a group of doctors and staff offering free medical clinics in Mexico.

Join the Harvard Club of Phoenix for a morning walk through the beautiful Desert Botanical Garden and the Phoenix Zoo  as we support a great cause together - MS.  Family and friends are welcome .

Join us for Harvard Hours at Cheuvront Restaurant and Wine Bar, located in Downtown, Phoenix. 

Thursday, November 5, 2009

The members of the Harvard Club and Harvard Business School Club are invited to gather in a warm atmosphere to sip cold drinks.  The professionals from Downtown are sure to attend so those of you who work in Scottsdale, Chandler, and elsewhere are specially invited to mix things up!  Bring a spouse, a friend, a work colleague... all are welcome. 

Let the Game begin!

As a warm-up to the Game, join us for a joint Yale-Harvard Club event featuring the film, "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29".  Mingle with fellow alumni, alumni from the dark side and family members.

Join us for a Potluck Dinner, featuring Joel Revzen, Artistic Director of the Arizona Opera, and his wife Cindy, at the home of Shoshana and Bob Tancer.

Both are knowledgeable, outgoing people, who are enthusiastic about opera and the other performing arts. They will share their extensive experience of opera in the United States and abroad, and will be particularly open about survival of the arts in this time of financial crisis. Joel will share how Arizona Opera and other regional companies have faced this difficult environment, and provide some insight about what we can expect in the coming years.

The Phoenix Ivy Council Invites
Ivy Council Alumni and their guests to. . .

Southwest Shakespeare Company’s Performance of

“THE COMEDY OF ERRORS”

Join us for Harvard Hours at Sportsman's Fine Wine and Spirits, located in the Biltmore area. 

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The members of the Harvard Club and Harvard Business School Club are invited to gather in a warm atmosphere to sip cold drinks.  The professionals from the Camelback Corridor are sure to attend so those of you who work in Scottsdale, Chandler, and elsewhere are specially invited to mix things up!  Bring a spouse, a friend, a work colleague... all are welcome. 

Join us for a presentation and discussion with Susan Heintz (HLS 1999), who has spent the last seven years living in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Liberia while working with international aid organizations to promote human rights and conflict resolution. Susan will begin by explaining the activities in which she has been involved while displaying some of her photos in PowerPoint. From there, the presentation will be guided by audience interest and could range from the nature of international aid work, to the realities of life on mission, to amusing and sometimes enlightening anecdotes about her interaction with the people in the various countries in which she’s been privileged to work.

The Phoenix Ivy Council Invites Ivy League Alumni and Their Guests

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The Ivy League Quarterly Happy Hour

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

District American Kitchen at Sheraton Phoenix Downtown

340 N. Third Street, Phoenix 85004 602-262-2500; www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/property/dining/

**Avoid Diamondbacks traffic—take the Light Rail to Central & Van Buren station; Validated and valet parking also available.

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$5 cover at the door will help support Ivy Council operations Greet and network with other area alums No-host cash bar Appetizers will be provided

For additional information or to RSVP, contact Victoria Levin (Wellesley, ’88) at 520-256-1793, valevin@azbar.org or Holly Ladd (Smith ’87) at 480-951-1010, Holly.Ladd@azmoves.com

Please note that this Event has been Cancelled

Summer Splash Park Picnic

Bring your family for some fun in the sun! 

The Harvard Club will be providing sandwiches, drinks and party favors. 

Please join us for this year's Harvard Club of Phoenix Annual Dinner at the Wrigley Mansion Club as we welcome one of our own, Terry Goddard (A.B. '69), attorney general of Arizona, to discuss his vision for the future of Arizona. 

Mr. Goddard and his family have been instrumental in Arizona's growth and development during much of this state's history.  Mr. Goddard, whose father was Governor of Arizona in the mid-60's,  first entered Arizona politics in 1982 and served as Mayor of Phoenix from 1984 to 1990.  Afterward, he received the Arizona Democratic Party's nomination for Governor in 1990 and served as Arizona Director for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1995 - 2002.  In 2002, he succeeded Janet Napolitano as Attorney General and has lead successful and ongoing efforts to fight drugs, prosecute polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, improve border security and most recently stem the flow of guns feeding Mexico's violent drug wars. To borrow from a well-known Arizonan, it is safe to say that Mr. Goddard's body of work, although significant, is not yet finished, so his perspective should be both enlightening and entertaining.

Join us in hearing Mr. Goddard speak about where Arizona has been and where it might be going in the future.  Members, non-member alumni and their guests are welcome to join us for an evening of cocktails, dinner and each other's company. 

Cocktails and Hors D'Oeuvres will be served between 5:00 and 6:00 followed by a dinner of salad, Pan Roasted Chicken Breast with Honey Champagne Sauce and, for dessert, cheesecake with chocolate sauce.  A full cash bar will be available throughout the evening.

Michael Krajewski returns to Phoenix with the music of our favorite secret agent, Bond… James Bond. From scores from the 007 movies, including Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me, to music inspired by the world of crime-fighters and superheroes, this is the ultimate tribute to those who have come to save the day.

Following the performance, there will be a reception in the Green Room at Symphony Hall where food and drink will be served.

The Phoenix Stanford Chapter would like to invite you to come see one of our local members, Prof. Donald Sharpes, speak. The "Islam and the West" talk will cover research on teacher attitudes toward Muslim student integration into civil society in Europe, the dynamics of war and religion, the education of Islamic militants, the psychology of suicide bombers, and the passages in the Koran against infidels. It will also explore the role of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the future of the challenge of Islamic militancy to the West. This discussion will be based on Professor Sharpes' soon-to-be-released book, The Education of Allah's Warriors. Donald K. Sharpes is a professor in the Emeritus College at Arizona State University, a former research associate at Stanford University and director in the U.S. Department of Education. He has lived and worked in the Middle East and has authored 18 books and over 240 articles in the social and behavioral sciences, humanities and teacher education.

Dinner with Dr. Linell Cady, the Franca G. Oreffice Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

Dr. Cady graduated with a Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School.  Trained in modern western religious thought, her work focuses on the relationship of religion and the public/private boundary, with primary attention to the American context.

Maryellen Gleason and Michael Christie will give a presentation entitled “Re-Imagining the American Symphony from an Artistic and Business Perspective.”  They will discuss the vision and institutional plan of the Phoenix Symphony with emphasis on the challenges of managing the business during the current economic downturn.  The Symphony’s programming and its five-year artistic plan will also be discussed.  Attendees are welcome to stay and observe the rehearsal of “Carmina Burana” at 7:00 pm for no extra charge.

Maryellen Gleason is the CEO of The Phoenix Symphony. Prior to joining the Symphony, Ms. Gleason worked for Qwest for 10 years. Ms. Gleason graduated cum laude with a B.A. in liberal arts from Harvard University, while working for Harvard Student Agencies and playing the viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. She graduated from the Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management Executive Masters Degree Program in 2001.

Timothy Day

Chairman of BAR-S Foods 

Timothy T. Day, Chairman, CEO and principal founder of BAR-S Foods Co. will talk about entrepreneurship and the founding of BAR-S Foods Co.  He will discuss his preparation for this undertaking; the events leading up to the founding of BAR-S; the stages of evolution as a company; the company today with some key performance indicators; how it is performing in this recessionary environment; and, lessons learned about entrepreneurship along the way.

With sales of approximately $500 million, BAR-S Foods Co. is a significant factor in the processed meat industry with substantial market share throughout the United States.  It is one of Arizona’s largest privately held businesses. The Corporate Office is in Phoenix; manufacturing and distribution facilities are in Oklahoma; and regional sales offices are located across the country. 

Prior to founding BAR-S, Tim served 13 years with General Host in various executive positions including Group Vice President of Operations, Vice President and Treasurer, Vice President of Acquisitions and Corporate Planning, Corporate Executive Vice President and President of its largest subsidiary, Cudahy Company.

Tim is past Chairman of the Goldwater Institute, Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Arizona Chapter of the Young President’s Organization. He was named an “Entrepreneurial Fellow” by the University of Arizona in 1991 and selected as “Master Entrepreneur Of The Year” for the southwest region by the Entrepreneur of the Year Institute in 1992.

He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1959 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1964.

The Ivy League Quarterly Happy Hour

Marshall I. Goldman is the Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Soviet Economics Emeritus at Wellesley College and, until he retired, the Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.  He earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.  An internationally recognized authority on Russian history, politics, and economics, Dr. Goldman has met with Mikhail Gorbachev and interviewed Vladimir Putin, and has advised former President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush.  He has written for publications like Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly; and he has appeared on numerous television programs, including The News Hour, Crossfire, Face the Nation, The Today Show, and Nightline.  Dr. Goldman’s numerous books include “The Piratization of the Russian Economy”, “Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked”, “What Went Wrong with Perestroika: The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev.”  His latest book is “Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia” (Oxford University Press, 2008).

 Dr. Goldman’s presentation will explore the following questions.  What explains how Russia recovered so quickly from its near bankruptcy in August 1998 so that it now it has the world's third largest holdings of gold and currency reserves?  What role if any did Putin play in this recovery?  How important are gas and oil to the Russian economy?  Can Russia become a normal economy?  What are the implications of all this for the European Union and the U.S.?

We've just watched the first African-American sworn in as President of the United States. Now let the Arizona Theatre Company give you a glimpse of life for an African-American family in the mid-20th century through 'A Raisin in the Sun', the first play by an African-American woman  and director to hit Broadway.

Enjoy appetizers and mingle with fellow alums at a pre-performance reception before taking your orchestra seats at 8 pm. Please RSVP to Geri at ATC, 602-256-6899 by February 11 and reference the Ivy Council group. Tickets are $65/person and include the reception and performance.

Michael J. Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, will provide the Harvard Club of Phoenix with a unique evening discussion. Professor Sandel will give us a sample of his popular and highly interactive "Justice" course, lead us in a lively discussion, and show video clips of the class in Sanders Theater.  He will also tell us about exciting plans to use new technology to open access to the Harvard classroom and make the Justice course available worldwide.

Professor Sandel's popular undergraduate course, "Justice," explores classical and contemporary theories of justice and their practical applications in the present day.  The course has enrolled over 14,000 students, and, in 2007, Harvard made the course available to alumni around the world through webstreaming and podcasting. Numerous Harvard alumni in Arizona participated in this breakthrough online course.

Professor Sandel has taught political philosophy at Harvard since 1980. He is the author of Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering. His writings have appeared in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The New York Times. Sandel's courses include "Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature," "Markets, Morals, and Law," and "Globalization and Its Critics."

A recipient of the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, Sandel was named a Harvard College Professor in 1999, and in 2008 was recognized by the American Political Science Association for a career of excellence in teaching. From 2002 to 2005, Sandel served on the President's Council on Bioethics, a national body appointed by the President to examine the ethical implications of new biomedical technologies. Sandel is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University (1975), Sandel received his doctorate from Oxford University (D.Phil.,1981), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Dr. Bruce Rittmann is the Director of ASU's Center for Environmental Biotechnology. He is an international leader in the use of microbial communities to provide services to society. Those services include pollution clean up, treatment of water and wastewater, capture of renewable energy, and directly improving human health.

Dr. Rittmann was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, a recipient of the Clarke Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Water Science and Technology, a winner of the Huber Research Prize from ASCE, and one of the world's most highly cited researchers, according to ISI.

 Dr. Rittmann’s presentation outlines the challenges of renewable bioenergy and describes several promising options by which microorganisms can produced truly renewable bioenergy in large amounts and without damaging the environment or disrupting the human food supply. More Information about Dr. Rittman and his work can be found here.

Inside the Creative Process: Telling the Kurt and Gerda Weissmann Klein Story on Stage

In the spring of 1945, an American soldier named Kurt Klein liberated 21-year-old Gerda Weissmann from Nazi rule – and then fell deeply in love with her. This remarkable true story of love, loss and survival, set in post-war Europe and America, has been told in books (All But My Life; The Hours After; A Boring Evening at Home) and in an Oscar-winning documentary (HBO’s One Survivor Remembers), but never before on stage. See and discuss highlights from the collaborative “Moment Work” development process with acclaimed director Leigh Fondakowski (head writer/director, The Laramie Project), writers/producers Bennett Singer ‘86 and Ellen Gordon Reeves ’83 HGSE ‘86 and an ensemble cast including Lynn Cohen (Golda Meir in Steven Spielberg’s film Munich; Magda, Miranda’s Ukrainian housekeeper, in Sex and the City). Watch innovative theater in the making as Gerda’s Lieutenant takes shape, juxtaposing poignant love letters written by Kurt and Gerda after the war with moving reminiscences of their life together and recent interviews with Gerda, 84, who now resides in Scottsdale.

Join writers/producers Ellen Reeves ’83, HGSE ’86, Bennett Singer ‘86 and other Arizona alumni and friends before the show at the Upstairs Lounge, Bravo Bistro next door for a buffet supper from 5:30-7:30 (Valet Parking and Cash Bar available; please note that the venue is not wheelchair accessible).

The Tradition Continues...
The Phoenix Ivy Council invites Ivy League Alumni and their guests to a Winter Gathering.

Happy Holidays!!!!  Please join the Club as we celebrate the holidays with fellow alumni/ae and current students.  Drawing upon recent successes, we are encouraging attendees to show off their culinary skill by making this year's party an hors d'oeuvres and dessert potluck.  Beverages will be provided. 

Please RSVP to Laura Lawless Robertson at LMLawless@hotmail.com.  Please include the dish you would like to bring so we can ensure there is food for everyone!

Harvard University Phoenix-area alumni and their families are invited to join members of the Stanford University Phoenix Alumni Chapter for our third annual community service event. Please consider spending a morning with other Ivy-Plus Alumni packing food boxes at St. Mary's Food Bank. The boxes we pack will be distributed to Phoenix area homeless shelters, senior centers, community centers, and rehabilitation centers.

Please bring non-perishable foods with you to donate to the Food Bank.

The panel will discuss the upcoming 49th First Legislative Session including a discussion of budget issues, working together to solve the state's economic problems and other key topics to be faced by legislative leadership. Each panel member will give a short presentation followed by questions from audience. (This event is co-sponsored with the Valley Citizens League). 

Speakers include Senate President-elect Bob Burns, House Speaker-elect Kirk Adams, Senate Minority Leader-elect Jorge Garcia, and House Minority Leader-elect David Lujan.

Hot lunch will be served.

Price: $15.00 for Harvard Club Members and $25.00 for nonmembers. To save time during check-in and allow more time for programs, please pay on the Valley Citizens League's secure site: http://www.valleycitizensleague.org

The Phoenix Ivy Council is hosting Governor Janet Napolitano for a Q & A session at the Heard Museum.  Appetizers will be provided and there will be a cash bar.

Come to experience the exciting Harvard vs. Yale rivalry at the venue awarded "Best Sports Bar: Scottsdale" in the New Times Best of Phoenix. Join alumni, family and friends from both clubs in the sophisticated ambience of the private cigar and chef rooms of the Fox Sports Grill, featuring leather sofas, plasma TV's, a delicious "stadium" lunch and a cash bar.

Jim Rounds, Senior Vice President and Senior Economist with Elliott D. Pollack and Company, is the featured speaker at the Arizona Business Forum luncheon sponsored by the Harvard Business School Club of Arizona. He will provide the latest data on economic trends nationally an din Greater Phoenix, together with forecasts for 2009 and beyond. In addition, Mr. Rounds will discuss up-to-date information and forecasts regarding the local real estate market, covering both the residential and commercial sectors.

Elliott D. Pollack and Company provides consultation on all aspects of the Arizona economy with specialization in the real estate market, backed by the most comprehensive economic data base found in Arizona.
The firm conducts economic forecasting and develops economic impact studies and analyses including econometric modeling.

Mr. Rounds specializes in preparing economic analyses and overviews for both public and private organizations related to the national and state economies and is a leading expert on economic development in Greater Phoenix and Pinal County. He has written and co-authored articles for the Arizona and Greater Phoenix Blue Chip periodicals. Prior to joining Elliott D. Pollack and Company, Mr. Rounds served as Senior Economist and Senior Budget Analyst with the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee of the Arizona Legislature.

This Luncheon, co-sponsored with the Valley Citizens League, will feature discussions the impact that our recent election will have on Arizona and the Valley of the Sun. 

Lunch will be served.