Harvard Club OF Southern Connecticut

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Harvard Club Events Claim Your Where we’ve been. . . HarvardKey Annual Dinner

Close to 100 alumni, current and new students and parents gathered at Choate in June for the Annual Make sure to visit Dinner. We were introduced to the Class of 2021 and the Summer Fellowship recipients the Club’s website and claim your HarvardKey, before closing the evening with an interesting your Harvard login and entertaining presentation on Nobel credentials for life. laureate, Bob Dylan, by Richard Thomas, the You’ll find instructions George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics for establishing your new credentials on the website Connecticut River Swallow Cruise

and the process should Harvard Club members and guests enjoyed dinner and drinks on a beautiful sunset take just five minutes. cruise on the Connecticut River on September 16th where they were treated to If you need help, it’s the phenomenon of the tree swallows. Hundreds of thousands of swallows just a phone call away. danced and soared in the sunset before diving into the reeds for the night.

Why Membership Matters

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What’s keeping you? Together we support Harvard Upcoming Events Save the Date in southern Connecticut. Saturday, November 18 Thursday, December 7 Your dues and donations The Game keep our Club strong and Friday, December 1st Winter Social allow us to find and support Men’s Hockey @ Quinnipiac our area’s finest young Thursday, December 7th people and then continue to Annual Winter Social

support them with valuable Friday, January 26 th internships during their Women’s Hockey @ Yale Celebrate the season with Harvard college years. Please Friday, January 26th friends at the annual Winter Social, complete and return the Men’s Basketball @ Yale a casual and festive cocktail enclosed dues request. Saturday, February 17th reception on Thursday, December Women’s Basketball @ Yale 7th at the Graduate Club in New Saturday, February 24th To join, complete the Haven. This event is free and open Men’s Hockey @ Yale* enclosed form or join online to all alumni, but advance

at: reservations are required. *Special Harvard Club Dinner/Game HarvardClubSouthernCT.org ticket packages available. To register, visit: HarvardClubSouthernCT.org

Harvard Club Summer Fellowship Program

The Club has concluded its 12th Summer Fellowship season, providing $4,000 stipends to Harvard students from our area to work for the summer in community service internships. As the following excerpts will show, the program is educational for the students and highly valued by the local non-profit organization.

My internship exceeded my expectations, I could not have asked for a better experience. My experience was so positive that I am almost certain I will work in a non-profit at some point in my life. My internship showed me both the benefits and downsides of a not-for-profit atmosphere; I think it has left me better prepared and made me more aware of opportunities as I prepare job searches in the future.

- Connor Sakmar (’20) interned at the Florence Griswold Museum

Rachel Tropp (’20) was a tremendous help and did very significant, meaningful work this summer for LEAP. She worked on a variety of media projects from interviewing alumni to creating a video. She took a great deal of initiative and was very dedicated to doing an excellent job. Rachel had a very positive impact on LEAP. - Rachel Kline Brown, Director of Development, LEAP (Leadership, Education & Athletics in Partnership)

Jake (Tilton, ’19) was absolutely fabulous! He is an incredible student with many unique experiences and interests. He brought a lot to his work here. He worked tirelessly for us and was very, very creative with his in- puts for our outreach and social media. His talents were versatile and when something was new to him, he quickly researched what needed to be done and made it happen.

- Leslie MacLise-Kane, Director, Audubon Center, Bent of the River

Want to support future Harvard students in non-profit internships? Please consider making a donation to the Summer Fellowship Program.

Harvard Book Prize Harvard Trivia

Thanks to your continued support, the Match the H-Y contest Harvard Club will again be able to award with it’s first year: 102 Book Prizes at high schools across our region. The prize is awarded each spring Baseball 1859 to an outstanding Junior in recognition of Football 1882 their academic achievement. Please help

us continue this honored tradition by

sponsoring a book prize for a local high 1882 Football: 1868; -

school. Baseball 1859; Rowing Answer: Members of the Katrina Gonzalez – Choate Rosemary Hall Anselm Kizza-Besigye – Choate Rosemary Hall Serhey Sokhan – Seymour High School Truelian Lee – Choate Rosemary Hall Roula Kouvatas – Stratford High School Sam Markowitz – Choate Rosemary Hall Joseph Pellegrino – Bunnell High School Larisa Owusu – Choate Rosemary Hall Philip Geanakoplos – Hopkins School Mckynzie Romer – Choate Rosemary Hall Will Hartog – Hopkins School Cecilia Zhou – Choate Rosemary Hall Kayla Johnson – Hamden High School Sonny Hwan – Taft School Rachelle Ambroise – Lauralton Hall Lauren Fadiman – Taft School Griffin Burke – Cheshire Academy Kyle Salvatore – Taft School Josh Stern – Guilford High School Peter Morrisey – Naugatuck High School Caleb Rak – Norwich Free Academy

Leadership The Harvard Club is blessed with a hard working, passionate board of directors composed of alumni from across the university. If you share that passion and would like to get more involved in Club activities, please contact Bob Mazzone at [email protected].

Thank you to the 2017-18 Directors.

2017/18 Harvard Club of Southern Connecticut Officers & Directors President Robert J. Mazzone, AB ’85; Darien Vice President Emilie de Brigard, AB ’64; Higganum Treasurer Honorary Directors Jennifer Tate, AB ’81; Ivoryton Donald Beebe, AB ‘72; Norwich Secretary Maximino Medina, Jr., AB ‘80; Bridgeport Peter Erodici, Jr., AB ’93; Milford Grayson M.P. Murphy, III, AB ‘57; New Haven John Ambrozaitis, AB ’73; Bethlehem Nancy Steenburg, AB ‘72; Mystic Daniel Beebe, AB ’04; Milford

Liljana Kaci, AB ’04; Newington Christine Ferrucci, Operations Manager Christine Dokko,AB ’92; Guilford James F. Early, AB ’68; New Haven Mark Goumas, AB ’82; PMD ‘72; Oxford Nehal Khokhar, AB ’02; Branford Cindy Raynor Schoenfeld, AB ’78 MBA’81; Woodbridge Theodore Skowronski, AB ’69; Southbury

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