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vendredi, septembre 30, 2005

Volunteer SF Bay Area Taproot Foundation 2006

SF Bay Area Harvard Grads:

Taproot Foundation is growing. We are opening an
office in Chicago. For the Bay Area in 2006 we have a
record 80 service grants to do next year. We are shy
the requisite volunteers needed to do all of these
projects. If you are interested in doing pro bono
work in San Francisco on worthy causes, Taproot is
glue worth considering to make that happen.

http://taprootfoundation.org/volunteering/process.shtml

The organization is interested in having local SF
Harvard grads help and be part of the process.
Sign-up through the web site today. Regards.

Perry Gregg
SF Bay Area Board of Advisers
Taproot Foundation

jeudi, septembre 22, 2005

Sun. 10/3 "Inventioneering Architecture" 131 Feet of Swiss Alps + 5 Weeks of Swiss Architects

In celebration of Switzerland's rich architectural
heritage and the unveiling of the new de Young Museum
by the Swiss architecture firm Studio Basel of Herzog
& de Meuron, the four Swiss architecture schools, in
collaboration with swissnex, California College of the
Arts (CCA), and the University of California at
Berkeley's Department of Architecture, will present a
month-long interactive exhibition at CCA in San
Francisco entitled "Inventioneering Architecture" and
an accompanying lecture series on Swiss architectural
teaching. Participants include members of the
architecture faculties of the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ); Academy of
Architecture, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
in Mendrisio; Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL); and the Institute of Architecture at the
University of Geneva.

Exhibit: Inventioneering Architecture will be on
display in the nave at California College of the Arts
(CCA) in San Francisco and will feature a
40-meter-long (131-foot-long) platform of an
imaginative cross-section of the Swiss Alps, imported
from Switzerland and created specifically for this event.
This exhibition will give visitors a physical and
intellectual opportunity to experience the differences
between Swiss architecture pedagogy and American
architecture teaching methods. Visitors can walk on
the platform, view monitors with web-based
architecture content and add their own thoughts at
various terminals. An overhead screen will display
Swiss architecture projects in CAAD software.

Opening reception: October 3, 2005, 6pm. The exhibit
will be on display until October 27, everyday from
8:00 am to 8:00 pm (no cover).

Lectures: (All are free and open to the public)
· October 3, 2005, 7pm: Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich
· October 10, 2005, 7pm: Andrea Deplazes, ETH
Zurich
· October 17, 2005, 7pm: Inès Lalumière, EPFL
· October 24, 2005, 7pm: Valerio Olgiati, Academy
of Architecture (USI)
· October 31, 2005, 7pm: Dirk Hebel & Jörg
Stollmann, ETH Zurich

Video retransmission of each lecture:
www.architecture-radio.org/inventioneering

Sponsors: Presence Switzerland, Holcim, Arts Council
of Switzerland Pro Helvetia, swissnex

For more information, please visit www.swissnex.org,
or contact us directly!

We hope to see you there!

For the swissnex team:
Charlotte Jourdain, Programming & Development
swissnex : connecting the dots
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 (USA)
T (415) 912-5901 x101, F (415) 912-5905
charlotte.jourdain@swissnex.org
www.swissnex.org

mercredi, septembre 21, 2005

1 Year Anniversary Push For 500 [From 444]

I started this harvard-sf e-mail list Oct. 18th, 2004.
We have 444 SF alumni/ae signed up as of today, Sept.
21st, 2005. I verified the Harvard e-mail addresses
for each. Please tell Harvard grads in the San
Francisco vicinity, all ages, any programs; to join
the list. I have a dream of 500 by the end of Oct.
That would be a good sized list to have built in 1
year.

Regards.

Perry

lundi, septembre 19, 2005

EARN Event At Notte Thurs. 9/22 6 PM 1851 Union St. [Kennedy School Grad's Org.]

Here's the Evite to Kennedy School grad Ben Mangan's
EARN event on Thurs. 9/22 at 6 PM:

http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=
POVAYOYTGUIDNUWFECEC&li=iq&src=email

Regards.

Perry

samedi, septembre 17, 2005

9/24 Exhibition Reminder: "New Yorkers: Portraits by Harvey Dinnerstein" at Frey Norris Gallery

[The Frey Norris Gallery hosted Ben Mangan's
sfearn.org event last week. Nice people. Great work.
Attend their show on Sat. 9/24. Their invite
follows. Regards. Perry]

* * *

"Dear Friends,

"New Yorkers: Portraits by Harvey Dinnerstein" opens
Saturday evening, September 24, from 6-9 p.m. at Frey
Norris Gallery. We welcome you to attend this
unprecedented unveiling of over 30 new pieces by the
artist, and to meet Dinnerstein himself, who will be
in attendance.

You may read more about the show on our website, at
http://www.freynorris.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=49
.

Please RSVP to 415-346-7812, or email
rsvp@freynorris.com and include your name, and how
many in your party.

We look forward to seeing you.

Cheers,

Wendi Norris and Raman Frey"

lundi, septembre 12, 2005

The Divide Laid Bare by Katrina

The New York Times

September 10, 2005

The Divide Laid Bare by Katrina

To the Editor:

As it does for Nicholas D. Kristof, New Orleans
reminds me of South Asia, too.

Many years ago I saw a black and white film about
India where bodies floated in the Ganges River,
beggars seemed ubiquitous and untethered animals
wandered the streets. Yet, in spite of these
unbelievable spectacles, pedestrians simply went about
their business.

When I asked a student from India his views on what we
had seen, he replied that the film was a grossly
distorted view of his country. He did admit, however,
that it would probably take decades to overcome the
chilling images depicted in the film.

He was correct, but fortunate to a degree. Unlike New
Orleans, the Indian misery wasn't in the richest
country on earth and instantly transmitted around the
world via the Internet and satellites - for days and
perhaps months.

David L. Evans
Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 6, 2005

[Tues. 9/13 6:30 PM] Come Support Fellow Harvard Grad Phil Ting, Mayor's Appt., At His Reception In SF

Event: Harvard alumni invite you to
meet Phil Ting, SF Assessor-Recorder, TOMORROW

What would you do if your mayor asked you
to take charge of a troubled city department
responsible for $1 billion in tax revenues?

Harvard alumni invite you to meet PHIL TING

Appointed San Francisco's Assessor-Recorder
by Mayor Gavin Newsom in July, Phil Ting is
a graduate of Harvard's Kennedy School of
Government.

Please join Harvard alumni at an event
supporting Phil's campaign to continue
as Assessor-Recorder in this November's
elections.

When: Tuesday, September 13, 2005,
6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Where: Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass
1 Ferry Building, Suite 200
San Francisco

Campaign contributions will be accepted
at the event.

Please RSVP to ramiedare@yahoo.com

dimanche, septembre 11, 2005

9/15 Free Cocktail "Friendraiser" for EARN (co-founded, now led by Ben Mangan Harvard KSG MPP '98)

Free Cocktail "Friendraiser" for EARN
(co-founded, now led by Ben Mangan Harvard KSG MPP '98)

Celebrating Innovation: Reinventing the American Dream

Please join us for cocktails at the Frey Norris Gallery to celebrate
the work of local nonprofit organization EARN, a finalist for the
national Nonprofit Innovation Award from Amazon.com, that
creates new ways for working-poor families in the Bay Area
invest in their dreams. To learn more about EARN,
visit www.sfearn.org.

Where:
Frey Norris Gallery
465 Geary Street, between Taylor and Mason
San Francisco, CA 94102
Directions available at www.freynorris.com.

When:
6-8 PM , Thursday, September 15

RSVP to Sabrina at 415-217-3665 or sabrina@sfearn.org.

dimanche, septembre 04, 2005

Tracy Reiman Not Nice PETA Ad Campaign VP's E-mail & Number

"Tracy Reiman, the VP of Campaign Strategy, Marketing,
& Technology. She works in the International
Grassroots Campaigns department and oversees all of
their work. Her email address is tracyr@peta.org,
and if you call the main office number in Norfolk,
757-622-7382, they can connect you to her extension."

Add "Drowning" Rollover: Not Nice Action By Your Animal Rights Org. PETA

Tracy,

I understand that you are the VP at PETA in charge of
this campaign:
http://www.peta.org/AnimalLiberation/display.asp

You are missing out on an opportunity to update your
web site above to include brown people drowning side
by side with brown cows in New Orleans -- a "Drowning"
rollover.

Could be powerful considering what people are feeling
about the images they are seeing out of Southern
Louisiana after the hurricane. That is what you are
about isn't it; anything to draw attention to your
cause? Why stop at what I see at the above URL? If
you add New Orleans to the mix floating bodies,
floating animals at a bad lab; you get more publicity.
That is what you want is it not?

[See my web log http://harvard-sf.blogspot.com for my
original comment on your animals rights campaign above
and that I thought it was not nice.]

Regards.

Perry

samedi, septembre 03, 2005

Class of 1986 Notes, Your Class Too Has A Site, Keep It Up To Date

"Class web-site: http://classes.harvard.edu/collegeh986.

Holly Brewer, associate professor of history at North
Carolina State University, has written By Birth or
Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American
Revolution in Authority (UNC), which examines how the
changing legal status of children from the sixteenth
to the eighteenth century influenced the development
of democratic political theory and emphasized the
importance of consent over birthright and status.

Simulations, an exhibition of paintings by New York-based
painter Jonathan Feldschuh, was on display at the
Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York City in June and
July. The paintings are based on scientific imagery,
simulations that are typically created by researchers
to study complex, chaotic phenomena. The exhibition
also featured his Trajectories series, inspired by
records of trajectories recorded in particle accelerators.
A previous series, Macrocosm, was inspired by NASA
satellite imagery.

Due to the merger between PNC Bank and Riggs Bank, Wayne
Hunley has moved from his hometown of Pittsburgh to
Washington, D.C., where he will be managing PNC's
corporate banking business in the metropolitan D.C. area.
He and his family (wife. Sue, and sons Patrick, Greg, and
Mark) live in Bethesda. "[I] would love to hear about
opportunities to get involved in alumni activities in
the area." Contact him at wayne.hunley@pnc.com.

Russell Riopelle and Olivia Secrest Riopelle have two
daughters, Kelly (7) and Camille (5), and live in West
Los Angeles. Russell is CFO for Cherokee Inc., a publicly
traded glc brae. inagement and licensing company Olivia
is a le time mom, "which Russell readily admits is much
harder than his job. Russell has gotten into serous body
surfing and has been traveling (Baja_ Costa Rica) with
David Twite '84 to seek out great waves to surf.

Olivia has been super-busy as a mom, but also manages
to find time for her passions as well. We look forward
to seeing everyone (and their kids) at the 20-year
reunion next year."

Mark A. Jankowski and Ronald M. Shapiro, J.D. '67,
have coauthored Bullies, Tyrants and Impossible People
(Crown Business), a guide to dealing with difficult
people and situations. Jankowski has worked with
Gillette, MBNA America, Black and Decker, and GenRe,
and has lectured on conflict resolution."

jeudi, septembre 01, 2005

Harvard Grad John Adams' "Doctor Atomic: Science, Morals & Music" Sept. 13th, 2005

Doctor Atomic: Science, Morals & Music
Tuesday, September 13th, 7 p.m.
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center
Seating is limited. For tickets call: 415-561-0308

Go behind the scenes with composer John Adams,
libbretist and director Peter Sellars, and Richard
Rhodes, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, The
Making of the Atomic Bomb, for a lively dialogue
interpreting this historic time. Moderated by San
Francisco Opera Musical Administrator, Kip Cranna.

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