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jeudi, mars 29, 2007

Tuskegee Airmen Finally Honored

From: David L. Evans [mailto:... fas.harvard.edu]

Sent: Thu 3/29/2007 4:07 PM

To: Gregg, Perry

Subject: Tuskegee Airmen Finally Honored


Perry,

Few Americans gave human form to the words pain and ambivalence like the Black GIs during World War II. They caught hell at home and abroad.

Of the many indignities heaped upon them few could match the widespread practice of permitting Nazi prisoners of war to eat in diners, ride in train cars and enjoy other amenities that Black soldiers in uniform, were denied--in the United States.

Many of the heroic Tuskegee Airmen had these experiences. It is therefore gratifying to see that President George W. Bush and the U. S. Congress have finally honored these mostly octogenarians with our nation's highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal (see link below):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17832248/


Best regards,


David

mardi, mars 27, 2007

Maryland Apologizes for Slavery

From: David L. Evans [mailto:d ... .harvard.edu]

Sent: Tue 3/27/2007 8:09 AM

To: Gregg, Perry

Subject: Maryland Apologizes for Slavery


Perry,

The following link is to an article about Maryland's formal apology for slavery and its propagative effects on the descendants of slaves.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/26/slavery.maryland.ap/index.html


Points for reflection: If we consider the 1965 Selma, Alabama crisis as the symbolic end of the slavery/Jim Crow era, then 346 of the 388 years (1619 to 2007) African Americans have lived in the United States there was slavery or de jure racial segregation.

In my judgment, an apology is less important than a thorough teaching and understanding of the history of that period of enslavement and racial segregation which covered essentially 90% of the time African Americans have been in this land.

Best regards,

David

mercredi, mars 21, 2007

LA Ivy Event Purple Lounge 3/29/2007

!REMINDER!

Ivy Plus Society Alum Party

Thursday, March 29th

More than half the tickets are already gone,
so make sure you don't wait to get yours!

++++++++++++++++++++++

Purple Lounge Standard

March Alum Party

Thursday, March 29

7 – 10 PM

PURPLE LOUNGE @ THE STANDARD

8300 Sunset Blvd.

Hollywood, 90069

www.standardhotel.com

Advance RSVP Required

Deadline: when we hit capacity

Click here for tickets

$13/ person

For March, the Ivy Plus Party is heading to the Sunset Strip. Purple Lounge is an intimate club tucked away in a little-known part of the Standard Hotel on Sunset. The whole place is reserved just for TIPS. The DJ will start spinning at 7 (and by 10, after a few cocktails, chances are we will be too…!).

London Times calls Purple “the place to be seen,” while In Style dubs it “playground to the beautiful people.” Sounds like you will fit right in.

We’re filling the night with all the usual suspects thanks to the dazzling LA young alumni coordinators from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, U Chicago, U Penn, & Yale. Rest up to ensure you can keep up with this crew.

RSVP Required:
Click here for tickets

This event will sell-out as always. So, don’t wait to RSVP. We will shut-down the RSVPs once we reach capacity. No tickets will be sold at the door and you MUST be on the list to attend. No walk-ins & no exceptions.

HO-HUM DETAILS:
*You must be 21 to attend & plan to drink responsibly. Designate a driver because we think you’re pretty just the way you are & would hate to see asphalt ruin that lovely complexion of yours.
*No refunds or cancellations permitted.

vendredi, mars 16, 2007

Harvard Independent Film Group

This week Harvard Independent Film Group members
are invited to two events.

Monday, March 19th, 9:00PM, CRIMSON SCREEN
PARTNERS invites you to its SX MOBILE MEDIA
SCREENING SERIES. Films include Ratana by
Todd Holmes, Beautiful Obsessions by Gregory
Lucas, Left by Alexandre Philippe, My Nose by
Gayle Kirschenbaum and June Weddings by Barbara
Hammond. At the Soho House, 9-35 Ninth Ave @ 14th
St. Free Event but you must reply to this email
or call 212-410-9404.

Wednesday, March 21st, 8:00PM, THE HARVARD
INDEPENDENT FILM GROUP invites you to its monthly
screening. We have THE LAST PARTY by Mark
Benjamin and with Robert Downey, Jr. In this
humorous documentary, Robert Downey, Jr. shares
his views of politics, attitudes and himself while
travelling across the country. Also Showing is
Ithaca by Michael Van Devere with an all HARVARD
CAST. At The Tank, 279 Church Street between
Franklin and White, 3 Blocks Below Canal St and
Across From The Tribeca Grand. Admission Is $7.
Space is very limited so please reply to this
email / call 212-410-9404.

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The Harvard Film Group regularly invites leading
Writers, Directors, Actors, and Industry Leaders
to discuss their personal experience with us. We
have frequent live readings and screenings of new
work. We also have Harvard Film Online where
members can post information about upcoming events
and shares their views.

See www.HarvardFilmGroup.com for more information.

samedi, mars 10, 2007

Santa Cruz St. Patrick's Walk for Obama Fundraiser Saturday, March 17, 2007

"Walk for Obama Fundraiser Saturday, March 17, 2007 - St. Patrick's Day Walk for Obama Santa Cruz Meet at Town Clock - 3 PM March from Town Clock to

Lighthouse Reception and Fundraiser after Walk St. George 833 Front Street 2nd Floor Lobby Downtown Santa Cruz, California

ObamaVictory2008@aol.com
831-458-3724"

vendredi, mars 09, 2007

August Public Speaking World Championships

Has anybody in our circle got close with a Toastmasters' speech in
getting to the Public Speaking World Championships? Working on the 5-7
minute "international", we might as well plan for the end at the
beginning; shouldn't we? For speaker copy, what notation system
do you use to slow down, speed up, raise your voice, or otherwise note
inflection changes in parts?

Perry
pg@harvardsf.org

mercredi, mars 07, 2007

FW: Sharpton's Ancestry, etc.

From: David L. Evans [mailto:dlevans@...harvard.edu]
Sent:
Sun 3/4/2007 4:05 AM
To:
Gregg, Perry
Subject:
Sharpton's Ancestry, etc.
Perry,

Last week Rev. Al Sharpton discovered that his great-grandfather was a slave owned by family members of the late ultra-conservative Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Certainly this is ironic because of the extreme political differences between the two men. It is also historically instructive as an example of the temporal proximity of slavery. Rev. Sharpton remembers conversations with his grandfather about his great-grandfather.

Much of the research done for Rev. Al was in the U. S. Census records and it reminded me of similar work done on my mother's family in 2006 by a Utah genealogist. After we shared our mother's and grandmother's maiden names and birthplaces, the researcher quickly traced our ancestry back to the 1870 Census where she found a 65 year-old great-great-grandfather in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. He was a blacksmith and was born in Tennessee in 1805. His granddaughter (my maternal grandmother) lived 94 years. Her last fifteen years were my first fifteen and she lived with us 'til the end.

These similarities "connected" me with Bob Herbert's piece "Slavery Is Not Dead. It's Not Even Past" in the March 1, 2007 New York Times and I wrote a letter (see below) that is published in today's paper.

Best regards,

David



March 4, 2007

Slavery's Legacy, Neverending

To the Editor:

Re "Slavery Is Not Dead. It's Not Even Past," by Bob Herbert (column, March 1):

The closeness through direct ancestry of the Rev. Al Sharpton (and me) to slavery blesses and curses us simultaneously. His being a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2004 as the great-grandson of a slave is an example of that contrast.

It seems counterintuitive that a country less than a half-century removed from widespread Jim Crow could have chosen black Supreme Court justices, secretaries of state, presidential cabinet members, governors, members of Congress and so on. The "curse" of this is that many young people can't accept that such a great nation was ever so cruel or that the tentacles of slavery and Jim Crow extend into our own time.

David L. Evans
Cambridge, Mass., March 1, 2007

mardi, mars 06, 2007

"... we have made this world a neighborhood; ..." (MLK)

"Through our scientific genius, we have made this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools." (MLK)

dimanche, mars 04, 2007

Monday 6:30 Obama Campaign Organizing Event Oakland, CA

Oakland/East Bay 4 Obama (Organizing Event)

Monday, March 5 at 6:30 PM

Oakland's Diamond Branch Public Library, 3565 Fruitvale Avenue (Oakland, CA)

Organizing meeting for Oakland and East Bay 4 Obama.

Come meet others and help plan ways to jump-start Senator Obama's campaign in the area.

samedi, mars 03, 2007

How to use the Harvard grad Hawaiian Airlines discount?

The discount set up for Hawaiian Airlines is still in force.

http://harvard-sf.blogspot.com/search?q=hawaiian

Perry

vendredi, mars 02, 2007

Failing the Smoot Quiz

Don’t let it happen to you. If you took the subway and only traversed the bridge from Cambridge to Boston in a car or bus you might not know your Smoot metric history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

Perry

(510) 684-4152

http://perrygregg.com

jeudi, mars 01, 2007

Selling my 10% stake of Think Computer Corporation

If you would like to own a part of an exciting private technology company consider http://www.thinkcomputer.com . When I joined Think there were 2 shareholders and I was one of them. Let me know if you are interested. Regards.

Perry

pg@harvardsf.org

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