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THE The JOHNS HOPKINS CLUB JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Club Herald Inside 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 410-235-3435 www.jhuclub.jhu.edu November / December 2016 November / December 2016 Wine Tasting Page 6 Lecture Night Featuring Dr. Peter Agre Page 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT It is holiday time and that means parties! Whether your party LOBSTER NIGHT is large or small, it is time to plan a great event at the Club to celebrate. The Club has a variety of rooms that accommodate from Thursday, November 3, 2016 6:00 pm 6 – 125 people. We have some great new items on our banquet Sink your teeth into a succulent 1½ lb. Maine Lobster served with menu which will enhance your unique way of entertaining. The all the trimmings at our annual Lobster Night! Call one week in catering staff will take care of all the details for you. Be a guest at advance for price. your own party! Reservations required. For members not participating in this event, Buffet Please make sure that you check out the special buffet and drink dinner will be offered in the Eisenhower Room. prices at Happy Hour on Thursday nights in the Tap Room. We encourage parent members to remind their students to visit the Tap WINE TASTING “Great Wine Values” Room and see what it’s all about. We currently have approximately Friday, November 11, 2016 6:00 – 8:00 pm 170 parent members whose students visit us often for dinner in the Reservations required. Cost: $20 plus surcharge and sales tax. Tap Room and Main Dining Room and for Sunday Brunch. We would like to recognize these parent members and hope LECTURE NIGHT Featuring Dr. Peter Agre to see more of them! Additionally, we have 8 Club staff members Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6:00 pm who are Hopkins students. Be sure to say hello next time you Dr. Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate and Johns Hopkins professor of bio- are in the Club! logical chemistry will discuss “Johns Hopkins in Cuba” – Friends for With the new year we will be pleased to see the completion of the over a Century”. He will be accompanied by Professor Luis Alberto San Martin Drive renovation. This will certainly make for easier Montero-Cabrera of the University of Havana, who is Visiting access to the Club. Your patience and continued support during Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins. the renovation has been greatly appreciated. After the talk, Dr. Agre and Dr. Montero-Cabrera will answer questions. I would like to wish you all happy holidays and hope that you We will begin promptly at 6:00 pm with a delicious Dinner followed by the will include the Club in your plans for the new year! 2017 lecture. Reservations required. Cost: $31 plus surcharge and sales tax. Parties will mark the 80th anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Club of 4 or fewer may be seated with similar sized parties. in its current location! R. Mark Winter President, Board of Governors, Johns Hopkins Club JOHNS HOPKINS CLUB 1 BIRTHDAY NIGHTS Welcome New Members Wednesday, November 9, December 7, 2016, & January 11, 2017 6:00 pm Whether you are young or not so young, don’t miss our grand birth- Harry Abrams Regan Orillac day celebrations! We have reserved one special evening each month Danny Bowman Annette Perschke to host a Birthday Bash for members and their spouses. Bring your friends and family for fun! Thomas Hendry Matthew Sekerke Your dining table will be festively decorated with balloons and party Bobby R. Johnson, II Thomas Weatherall hats and each celebrant will receive a special Birthday gift and card. Thomas Kidd Diana Antonia Zabalovici We’ll have one special cake for all our guests of honor to enjoy with their parties. In addition to our regular menu, three scrumptious Birthday specials will be offered for just $21. EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH — July / August The celebrant will receive 50% off the price of their entrée or may select one of the Birthday specials with our compliments. TONY GARRIS All members of the celebrant’s party will enjoy complimentary cake, Tony is an employee well party hats and favors. Reservations are required for Birthday groups deserving of this award for and must be made by the Friday prior to the event. All members Employee of the Month and their guests are welcomed to join the fun however Birthday for July and August. Our discounts are limited to members and their spouses. The celebrant’s congratulations to Tony, birthday must fall within that month. a great asset to the team, wherever he is working. Always willing to lend a TAP ROOM NEWS helping hand with a good Casual attire and kids always welcome! attitude, we appreciate all you do! Way to go Tony! The Tap Room is open Tuesday through Saturday nights, offering our regular Tap Room menu even on special Buffet nights. Drop by on Wednesday for our Fried Chicken Country Buffet for just $18. PLANNING A HOLIDAY PARTY? Thursday nights we offer Happy Hour with a special Book yours today at the Johns Hopkins Club! With a variety of Buffet in November and December for $12, with rooms to choose from that can accommodate anywhere from discounted Beer and Cocktails. Student members 6 – 125 people and a great variety of food options, the Hopkins are welcome! It’s Oyster Night in November and Club is the perfect place to hold your holiday get together. Call December for $29, all you can enjoy. Live music too! or email our dedicated catering team at 410-235-0188 or January and February brings Crab Night to the Tap [email protected]. Book your holiday party by November 15 Room on Friday nights. and receive 20% off your room charge! Meet the Member — Connor Welsh One of our student members, behind to pursue Hopkins’ outstanding neuroscience program as well Connor Welsh, is beginning his as the great research opportunities that lie ahead of him. Connor has final chapter at Johns Hopkins been a member of the Club since the very beginning of his Hopkins University as he enters his last journey. His parents signed him up for the Parent Membership at semester. A neuroscience major, Freshmen Orientation and the Club has become his “home away Connor never struggles to keep from home.” He loves the staff who always make him feel comfort- a busy schedule. His resume is able, which is one of the many reasons why he comes so frequently. jam-packed with research and This summer, Connor traveled all over including a two and a half many other extracurricular ac- week trip to Switzerland with his family. Even with such a busy sum- tivities. He donates a lot of his mer, Connor still finds time to visit the Club at least once a week. He time to Thread, a non-profit frequents the Tap Room for Happy Hour and our Super Fantastic tied to the University that Sunday Brunch. His favorite dish at the Club is the Flounder Française. helps underperforming high Currently, Connor is doing research in the Neurology lab for the school students of Baltimore ALS Foundation. After he graduates he hopes to apply to medical City. He is also the presiding school and pursue a career in the neurology field however he plans official of the Ethics Board of the University and works as to stay on the East Coast. If you see Connor around the Club, be an admissions rep for Hopkins and interviews possible new sure to wish him luck on his future successful endeavors. students. A Michigan resident, Connor left his hometown 2 JOHNS HOPKINS CLUB Chef A Moment with Chef Patrick Corner Autumn nights cool and breezy ies, cakes, candies, chocolates, cookies, gingerbread, marshmallows, nuts and fruits, a ’ Buttered toffee and warm pudding s Pforever array of infectious confections. My Labradors wrestling in falling leaves This is autumn and it ushers in some of our most festive and Wild geese squawking across a fiery orange sky celebrated times of the year. All of us have fond memories of spooky creatures and stuffing our gobs with sweets. We all share Sweet corn popping in a copper kettle in the abundance of sweet treats in all their delights. So this year, think back to a holiday sweet you haven’t had in a while and in- Crisp apple strudel and cinnamon ice cream dulge the memory in you! Snowflakes freezing my moustache and beard Here is an amazing and simple spiced candied nut recipe. You’ll Sleighbells, schnitzel and oodles of noodles want to make a double batch! And you won’t be able to stop eating them, I’m talking epic! They’re great for a hostess gift too. Leather gloves, burning sage and Montecristos Remember to take a look at those changing leaves, the amber Rye whisky, scarves and caps! skies, the cool breezes. Bundle up in a scarf and cap, put on those woolen mittens. Take a sleigh ride, go sledding, make a snowman, make a pie, bake a cake, have your favorite cookie! Please, do stuff your gob with a favorite memory and enjoy this time of year. Peace be with you, SPICED WALNUTS 1 cup sugar Boil first four items until they reach the soft ball ½ cup brown sugar stage. Remove from heat. Add cinnamon, mix. Stir ½ cup water CONSTRUCTION in vanilla. Add walnuts. The final phase of the San Martin Drive construction has ½ tsp. salt Spread on parchment begun. You may now access the Club via San Martin Drive paper, break apart when 1 heaping tbsp.