"From: Ken Green,
Director of Mentorship
Harvard Club of Silicon Valley (HCSV)
Invitation to Harvard's Joint Mentorship Forum
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You are invited to attend the Harvard Club of Silicon
Valley's Joint Mentorship Forum scheduled for Thursday
June 30, 2005 from 7:00-9:45PM at Arthur's Restaurant
(2875 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara, CA. 95054. (408)
980-1666. [Directions are at the bottom]
As you may know, the Joint Mentorship Program itself
is a volunteer program which matches people within
and between alumni clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area
on all subjects of mentorship. For example,
someone in the Princeton Club of Northern California
who wants to be a mentor in engineering might be
matched with someone in the Harvard Club of Silicon
Valley who wants to be a mentee in engineering. We
make such matches for all fields and subject matters.
We make local, remote, and internet matches.
There are 16 different alumni clubs in the Bay Area
that are involved in the matching program, including
those for Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton,
Brown, Cambridge, Oxford, Mount Holyoke, Smith,
Vassar, CAL State University at Hayward, Texas A&M,
and Wellesley. Anyone who wants to be matched can
fill-out the attached sign-up form, email the sign-up
form to Ken Green (kgreen@post.harvard.edu) and he
will email the contact information for your match.
It's a free matching program!
But even if you are not signing-up for the the
mentorship match program, you are still invited to
attend the Joint Mentorship Forum/Conference on
Thursday June 30th, and bring others as well.
To make the venue convenient for networking, the venue
will be divided by industry areas. As examples, there
will be areas for engineers, lawyers, doctors,
writers, miscellaneous, etc.
The guest speaker will be Peter Han, a graduate of
Harvard University, and author of a book published by
Penguin Putnam called Nobodies to Somebodies: How 100
Great Careers Got Their Start. The book centers on
interviews that he did with 100 leaders in different
fields: Fortune 500 CEO's on business; Nobel Prize
winners in science; Senators, Governors, and Cabinet
members in politics; Emmy, Oscar, Tony, Pulitzer, and
Grammy winners in the arts; and others. In his book,
he specifically addresses the topic of mentorship and
how many leaders develop situational mentors
different people who help them at specific junctures
in their lives, in different ways rather than a
single, lifelong mentor. He also discusses the
different ways in which the 100 leaders benefited from
their mentors: domain expertise, professional
contacts, and particular job opportunities.
Peter Han will have a book-signing after his speech at
the forum.
There will be an information table at the entrance of
the forum. Each person will be charged $10 at the
entrance. [For those people who signed-up for the
match program in advance, the most current match list
will be on the information table].
There will be a no host bar where you can order drinks
and appetizers (seafood and Italian) upstairs in the
Mesentery of the restaurant.
Bring plenty of business cards to pass out to
contacts. There will be a bowl for business cards
on the table at the entrance. At 8:30 PM, a random
card will be selected from the bowl and the winner
will receive a Starbucks gift card.
The program for the evening will be as follows:
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7:00 - 7:45 PM People arrive and begin networking.
7:45 - 8:00 PM Introduction of Program.
8:00 - 8:30 PM Peter Han Speaks.
8:30 - 8:35 PM Card Drawing for Star Bucks gift
card.
8:35 - 9:45 PM More Networking.
Directions to Venue:
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Venue: Arthur's Restaurant, 2875 Lakeside Drive,
Santa Clara, CA. Tel: (408) 980-1666.
Directions from NORTH:
1) US-101 South toward SAN JOSE
2) Take the BOWERS AVENUE exit toward
GREAT AMERICA PKWY (0.3 miles)
3) Merge onto BOWERS AVE. (0.1 miles)
4) Turn RIGHT onto AUGUSTINE DR. (0.1 miles)
5) Turn RIGHT onto LAKESIDE DR. (0.1 miles)
6) End at 2875 LAKESIDE DR.
Directions from SOUTH:
1) US-101 N toward SAN FRANCISCO.
2) Take the GREAT AMERICA PKWY exit
toward BOWERS AVENUE. (0.2 miles)
3) Turn SLIGHT LEFT to take the ramp
toward BOWERS AVE. (0.1 miles)
4) Turn LEFT onto GREAT AMERICA PKWY (0.1 miles)
5) GREAT AMERICA PKWY becomes BOWERS AVE.
6) Turn RIGHT onto AUGUSTINE DR. (0.1 miles)
7) Turn RIGHT onto LAKESIDE DR. (0.1 miles)
8) End at 2875 LAKESIDE DR."