BUILD.org Needs 5-6 Mentors Kid Business Incubator

An awesome non-profit program is 5-6 mentors shy (for
kids) of what they need for a biz incubator program.
The kids try to create businesses and enter a
competition that ends up being judged at Stanford
Business School. Way worthy if you can spare the
time.

Check out:
http://build.org/get_involved/mentors.htm

Contact Chantal Laurie <chantal@build.org> . I know
her. She needs folks pronto; we are talking about
people who have put good "heart" energy into helping
children in challenged neighborhoods.

Regards.

Perry

Hawaiian Airlines Discount harvardsf.com List

I set up a discount with Hawaiian Airlines for Harvard
grads going to Hawaii. Please don't blast this link
everywhere. I committed that it would be Harvard
grads, all ages, any program or grad school, their
friends and family in the Bay Area or passing through
that would be using the discount. Give the following
URL to any grads you know in the area. For
harvardsf.com list members, and any other grads who
would like to get a discount on Hawaiian Airlines
flights, use this:

http://harvardsfhi.[TO GET URL JOIN harvardsf.com].com

(1) Under "Harvard SF", Select the "Check Flight
Availability" button.
(2) Pick discount at top of page before you choose
"Passenger" day and you'll see on the ensuing page the
revamped price.

Regards.

Perry

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Perry Gregg
bengt@post.harvard.edu
http://harvardsf.com

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LinkedIn Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/1242825

Matt Gonzalez and Gary Ruskin [Harvard Alum] "Commercial Alert Fundraiser" 10/20

Commercial Alert Fundraiser this Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Please join Matt Gonzalez and Gary Ruskin, executive director of
Commercial Alert, for happy hour. Gary Ruskin is a Harvard (Kennedy
School of Government) alumni who has been at the forefront of
progressive politics working to limit the influence of commercialism.
Gary has been repeatedly interviewed and quoted in the Wall Street
Journal, New York Times, National Public Radio and 60 Minutes. Please
come and learn more about Commercial Alert's past successes, current
campaigns and the challenges of running a nationally respected
non-profit with very little funding.

Date: Thursday, October 20

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Place: Cafe Royale, 800 Post Street at Leavenworth

Suggested contribution: $30, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford

Commercial Alert is not your typical nonprofit. Commercial Alert's
mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,
and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher
values of family, community, environmental integrity and democracy.

*** Read more about Commercial Alert at http://www.commercialalert.org.

*** RSVP at http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/commercialalert//
campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1185

*** Donate at https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/
commercialalert/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=887

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet's Nov 6 (Sunday)

Come join [local Harvard SF grads] in seeing Alonzo King's LINES Ballet's world premier of the Moroccan Project at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Nov 6 (Sunday) evening! [We] will meet at 5p at the Sanraku Restaurant in Metreon to sample a a wonderful "omakase" sushi dinner specially prepared by the chef Shinji Nakamura, who also practices tea ceremony. Drinks will be charged separately.

Ticket prices are $45, $55 and $65 including sushi and the different discounted and preferred seating for the ballet. Please reserve this special event by Oct 28 (Friday)! Contact Esther Tsoi, conceptualisez@gmail.com for more information.

"The luminous choreography of Alonzo King's LINES Ballet finds an irresistible source of musical inspiration in the traditions of Morocco. The Company's extraordinary dancers etch the stage with clean, brilliant lines. Moroccan musicians, playing live for these performances, fuse the drumming of Gnawa ceremonies with the plaintive tones of oud (lute) and violin, while the haunting voices of women singing devotional and love songs echo their rich timbres. These intricate musical layers give the dancers of LINES Ballet a rhythmic landscape in which they explore the nuances of community, harmony and unexpected moments of beauty."

LINES Ballet will also be performing at the de Young Museum's opening on Oct 15 (Sat) at 5p.

http://www.linesballet.org/

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/

2004/04/12/DDG08635T01.DTL&type=performance [on one browser line]
http://www.ybca.org/b_ybca.html

http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/index.asp

Airline Discount harvardsf.com List Members

I've included hotel and car rental discounts and trip
packages where the airline can give them (they asked
me if we wanted those too). It is looking good. Have
final meetings with the airline Thurs. and Fri.; I
should be able to announce after that. Regards.

Perry

--- harvard-sf <harvard-sf@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Have worked a deal with an airline so we'll have
ticket discounts for Harvard grads that are
harvardsf.com list members on trips we take in the US,
Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Australia. I'll be able to
announce the particulars Tuesday 10/11/2005.

Regards.

Perry

Top Web Developer Consultant Needed SF Bay Area, Harvard Grad Preferred

Small company needs the flippin' best web developer
that can do it all and has a CS degree for project after
project that is coming our way.  We need someone
local though we do work, where appropriate, off-shore. 
You would need to be able to work effectively with
remote teams and take a leadership role where
appropriate.  Recent grad is fine.  Small projects to
start and as you prove yourself you can take on
more.  Our preference is to pick up a Harvard grad
for this role.  Our angel is a Harvard VC and one of
our Directors is a grad.  Send resume and cover
e-mail please if interested.

Ankare
ankare@gmail.com

Harvard Outreach Alameda County Class Of 2010, Call For Challenged Gifted Students Please

[Please post this message to your respective group
lists. Perry]

I am a local Chairperson this year for the Harvard
interview process and again co-Chair for the Harvard
Outreach Scholarship Committee in Alameda County.

As part of the Outreach program we (1) have a team of
local Harvard grads who will come to your school and
talk to the kids or designated educators about the
process and about the College and how you get there.
We are particularly interested in gifted kids from
disadvantaged backgrounds. We want to help them get
access to the best schools; be it Harvard or somewhere
else. Last month we visited H. J. Kaiser Elementary
School in Oakland and talked to 10-11 year children in
the GATE program there. (2) As I asked last year, I
need to know about all gifted but challenged financial
situation applicants that are in the area. Have their
parents contact me directly if they are applying to
Harvard for early admission or otherwise.
http://harvard.edu is the source you have to follow to
apply to Harvard; adhere to the rules you'll find on
the web site. My Committee works directly with the
Admissions Office and is designed to help kids and
families in the aforementioned category as an addition
to that process.

The Outreach Committee has a discussion list for
Alameda County parents, students and educators; please
subscribe if you are interested:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/harvard-outreach-alameda/

Regards.

Perry Gregg
bengt@post.harvard.edu
http://harvardsf.com

P.S. Thank you for the students Albany parents made me
aware of last year. Several got in.

[David L. Evans Inducted] Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Recognition

-----Original Message-----
From: David L. Evans [mailto:dlevans@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:56 AM
To: Gregg, Perry
Subject: Arkansas Black Hall of Fame Recognition

Perry,

For some blessed reason (possibly a flight of compassion), a committee of Arkansans recently voted to include me in the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. This generous group of men and women somehow saw fit to place me in the company of the following previous inductees:

Scipio Africanus Jones, renowned Civil Rights lawyer in the early 20^th Century whose most famous effort freed 12 black men who had been railroaded and sentenced to death in a 1919 race riot in Phillips County. Their freedom came via a 1923 U. S. Supreme Court decision (Moore v. Dempsey) presided over by Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Eliza R. Miller, Eponymous benefactor of my high school whose 1925 gift of land and money made possible the first high school for African Americans in Phillips County, Arkansas

William Grant Still, Classical composer and first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra (1936)

Daisy Gaston Bates, President of NAACP in Little Rock during 1957 School Integration Crisis

John H. Johnson, Founder of Johnson Publications and Publisher of Ebony and Jet Magazines.

Maya Angelou, Poet, Author, Educator

Samuel Lee Kountz, MD, Pioneering kidney transplant surgeon who participated in one of the first transplants in 1959 and went on to win several awards for distinction at Stanford and University of California, Berkeley Medical Schools.

M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, U. S. Surgeon General in Clinton Administration

Ernest Green, First of “Little Rock Nine” to graduate from Central High School, Assistant Secretary of Labor in Carter Administration

William Jefferson Clinton, (Honorary Member), 42^nd President of the United States

Edward Moore, Jr., Vice Admiral, U. S. Navy and Commander of Naval Surface Force, U. S. Pacific Fleet

Dr. Grover Evans, Paralympic (Parallel Olympics for athletes with disabilities) Gold Medalist and first African American to swim in the Paralympics in Barcelona in 1992. Holder of several world records.

Rodney E. Slater, U. S. Secretary of Transportation in Clinton Administration

Debbye Turner, Miss America in 1990

I will rush down to Little Rock for the induction ceremony on Saturday, October 15, 2005, before something akin to identity theft is suspected (smile).

HALLELUJAH!!


Best regards


David

Airline Discount harvardsf.com List Members

Have worked a deal with an airline so we'll have
ticket discounts for Harvard grads that are
harvardsf.com list members on trips we take in the US,
Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico and Australia. I'll be able to
announce the particulars Tuesday 10/11/2005.

Regards.

Perry