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9/23/16 UPCOMING INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS Monday 9/26 12: 00PM Lunch Book Group Neighbors News 3: 00 PM English Conversation Tuesday 9/28 10: 00AM English Conversation 12: 00PM Knitting for Everyone Wednesday 9/28 What’s New in Neighbors News 10: 00AM Infant and Toddler Harvard Neighbors has a new Welcome party. Everyone had a We are happy to announce the new- Playgroup Coordinator! After two years behind wonderful time and enjoyed great est addition to our collection of 7:30 PM MIT Women’s Chorale the steering wheel our colleague Faith conversations, tasty food, hot interest groups, Living Green. The Rehearsal Buckley accepted a position at the cider and desserts! group will discuss ideas and prepare Harvard Faculty Club Events Office. We Our President , Elizabeth Gray, samples of Green household Monday 10/03 are very grateful for Faith’s dedication, welcomed all to the new year and cleaners, and natural beauty prod- 12:00 PM Living Green Group enthusiasm and invaluable contribution our Group Leader of Community ucts such as laundry detergent, furni- to the success of our organization! She 3: 00 PM English Conversation Service and Outreach, Margaret ture polish, Marseille Soap, still will be a big part of Neighbors life, Igne, shared her ideas on deodorant, toothpaste, lip balm, Tuesday 10/04 helping us with ideas and sharing her providing volunteers and support bath-fizzies, and more! 10:00Am English Conversation experience with our new coordinator for local Cambridge based non- Group members will share ideas, Silva Panchev. Silva comes from profit programs . The group will recipes and go home with samples 12:00PM Knitting for Everyone Harvard Medical School where she also create its own projects based to try for themselves. The first group 5:30 PM French Book Club worked as an Accountant Assistant at on community needs. meeting is on October 3 at 12:00 PM Wednesday 10/05 Microbiology Department for the past Congratulations and the group twelve years. She also has international also to our raffle leader is 10: 00 AM Infant and Toddler events experience, working as an Event winner, Marko Irina Brandina. Read Playgroup planner in Europe and is exited to Zdravkovic, who more about this become a part of Harvard 7: 00PM MIT Women’s Chorale won a free group on page 2! Neighbors life and culture! brunch for two at Rehearsal the Harvard Thursday 10/06 This past Monday we’ve welcomed our Faculty Club! members and new friends at the 9:30 AM Art Exploration Neighbors Open House and 1: 00PM English Conversation Our English Conversation Leaders at the Welcome Party Friday 10 /07 12:30 PM French Conversation Monday 10/10 Coming Up Columbus Day — No events scheduled Next month we will hold our tradi- committees hope to bring Neighbors remained a working orchard and tional Tea and Talk! This year our members together for an afternoon farm. Speaker will be the Assistant Dean “apple social.” We will offer apples Today, Pietree Orchard grows and Chief Human resources officer grown on apples, strawberries, blueber- IMPORTANT UPCOMING of Harvard Law School Kevin Stephen King’s Orchard in Sweden, ries, peaches, plums, nectarines, Moody. Before embarking on his Maine! Pietree Orchard grows great peas, green beans, tomatoes, September 22 Fall Equinox career in Human Resources, Moody local food and aims to create a flowers, and pumpkins. The Or- served in the U.S. Marine Corps as stronger local chard’s farms a Captain and Air Traffic Control communi- stand is open October 10 Columbus Day Operations Officer. He holds an ty. The daily in season, MBA from the Goizueta Business McSherry with fresh fruits HARVARD NEIGHBORS School at Emory University and a family and vegetables, 17 QUINCY STREET Master of Science in Organizational established cider donuts, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 Leadership from Brenau University. the orchard pies, pastries, He also earned his BA in Psychology roughly savories, and, at Emory. seventy-five during apple T : 6 1 7 - 495- 4313 years ago. season, E: [email protected] Another exiting event is in the The King fresh-pressed works is a possible free apple givea- family then purchased the orchard in cider and even maple syrup! Follow us on Facebook! way. Our Membership and Events 2007, in order to make sure the land Our mission is to enrich the lives of members of the Harvard community through cultural and educational programs and events. P A G E 2 140th Anniversary of Harvard Lampoon Upcoming Neighbors Group Meeting Have you ever wondered how the Harvard Lampoon started? The The first meeting of the new Group first volume of the Lampoon appeared in February, 1876. Written Green Living will be held on October 3 at by seven undergraduates and modeled on Punch, the British hu- 12 PM. Members will learn how to mor magazine, the make natural beauty products and debut issue took the Harvard campus by storm. “Our success was household cleaners as well as take home immediate,” wrote founder John Tyler Wheelwright. “Our first samples! edition of twelve hundred was sold at once.” United States Presi- dent Ulysses S. Grant was advised not to read the magazine, as he Why prepare the products yourself? would be too much “in stitches” to run the government. While no If you suffer from allergies it is important to minimize the human was safe from jests within the magazine, the internal pollution of the house. This is easy to do if you know Lampoon soon branched out, supplementing its regular issues with which ingredients you will use and how they affect you. parodies of other publications. Read more about the Lampoon’s Compared to commercial "green" products, Living Green’s creative exhibit here The Lampoon’s “Golden Period” began in the first quarter of the products are much more affordable, you can save as much as 20th century, and was led by such figures as humorist Robert 90% of the commercial price! Handmade products are as Benchley ‘12, novelist John Marquand ‘15, poet David McCord ‘21, efficient as commercial ones, with the added benefit of sav- Sample Harvard Lampoon ing you money and time. Living Green products are also Cover Pictured Above and communist agitator John Reed ‘10. Under Reed’s term as president, the Lampoon evolved from salacious puns and localized recyclable! Living Green Products are also ideal for children “Harvard humor” to highly literate, scathing social commentary. as all ingredients are non toxic! A Field Guide To Coffee Spots We Need You! Two of our groups are looking for your All of us who enjoy our morning coffee help! would probably We are searching for a Group Leader to join agree that when it our comes to a coffee English Conversation Group, one of the house we all have a most popular groups at Harvard Neighbors favorite. Did your The group leaders are looking for a java place make the volunteer to help them with their busy Harvard Gazette’s schedule! list? Check here for Our Spanish and Latin American Culture the most popular and Cinema Group is looking for coffee spots around volunteers to lead the group! the Square! Please email us at [email protected] Happening Around Harvard The Harvard Art Museums are offering free admission for The Peabody Museum is celebrating it’s two as part of Museum Day Live! on Saturday, September 150th Anniversary on Saturday, October 8! 24, 2016 .The event is hosted by Smithsonian magazine, in From noon to 4:00 pm, enjoy complimentary which participating museums across the country open their birthday cake, live music, and hands-on activities. doors to anyone presenting a Museum Day Live! ticket. See treasures rarely on exhibit--including the Fee- Reserve your free ticket on Jee Mermaid and the Lewis & Clark bear claw the Smithsonian magazine website and present it at the necklace--meet museum staff responsible for admissions desk. Remember that admission to the Harvard stewarding one of the finest collections of human Art Museums is always free for youth under 18 and Cam- cultural history, and visit the Zooarchaeology Lab bridge residents, as well as for Massachusetts residents to touch and identify animal bones. before noon every Saturday. To reserve a ticket please visit Smithsonian Magazine Free and open to the public. Free event parking all An Inside Shot of the Harvard Art Museum website day available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. Follow us on Facebook! NEIGHBORS NEWS .