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hapPENNingsDec 2011| Jan 2012 THE PENN CLUB OF NEW YORK Members’ Holiday Party | Wednesday, December 7th, Get in the spirit of the Holidays at your “home away from 5:00–9:00 p.m. home” in New York City! After a day at the office or shopping for someone special, plan to join your friends at the Penn We’ll pop champagne Club and attend the Annual Members’ Holiday Party. Enjoy and toast for any reason. a fabulous complimentary selection of drinks and hors Friends, Family, Food and d’oeuvres while mingling with fellow Fun members in the Main Dining Room. are a must during this season! In This And don’t be a scrooge. Pick up a new From Five to Nine unwrapped toy for the Toys for Tots campaign of the on Wednesday, the seventh United States Marine Corps and bring it to the party. 2 General Manager’s Corner of December 3 Upcoming Events Come to our Members’ This event is club-sponsored (free). Reservations are required. Holiday Party Members are welcome to bring one lucky guest. Please include 4 Out-of-Club EntertainmentIssue for a night to remember. your guest’s name when making a reservation. 5 Interclub Events a Scottish-inspired menu that would have caused 6 Member Spotlight robert Burns Burns himself to wax poetic. Rest assured that the Penn Club will have enough fine Scotch whiskey on 7 Dining Specials supper | hand for you to invoke your own poetic impulses. Friday, January 27th. Appetizer HapPENNings Calendar Reception: 6:00 p.m. ❖ Scottish Smoked Salmon Dinner: 7:00 p.m. ❖ Celeriac and Apple Salad and The Penn Club will honor Micro Greens the spirit of Scottish Soup poet Robert Burns at a ❖ Cock a Leekie Soup Article See at a glance what each traditional celebration of icons article means for you! Burns’ birthday. Not for the entrée fainthearted – but certainly ❖ Roast Tenderloin of Beef ❖ Braised Local Kale with Networking Drinks not to be missed — the evening will include the Smoked Bacon parade of the Haggis, accompanied by reading of DeSSert Learning Dining Burns’ poem “Address to a Haggis”—a mainstay of ❖ Scottish Strawberry Trifle many Burns dinners. For the uninitiated, Haggis Healthy Snacks $80.00 plus tax and service charge (includes meal, is a Scottish pudding comprised of organ meat, scotch tasting, and bagpipe music). For reservations, oatmeal and onions, traditionally cooked in a sheep’s call Tony Kontos at 212.403.6628 or e-mail tkontos@ Entertainment stomach, which is ceremonially sliced open with a pennclubny.org or RSVP online. Please note there is a sword at Burns dinners. It is said to be an acquired 48-hour cancellation policy in effect for this event. Don’t Miss! taste. Fortunately, the rest of the evening will include ™ on the table and purchasing a coat. Help the 18.7% of Winter Wonder[land] P E N N D U L U M S New York City families living in poverty stay warm by donating your gently worn coats. The Palestra Fitness trivia Inspiring Service Center will be collecting coats for the entire month of “The great aim and end of all learning is December. Please bring coats up to the 12th Floor — Wednesday, January service to society.” —Benjamin Franklin 25th, 6:45 p.m. do not leave them at the coat check. All coats will be the Penn Club Annual Coat Drive donated to NY Cares. Contact [email protected] see page 2 December 1-31st. Too many New Yorkers for more information. have to choose between putting food Thank you for your generosity — Cherie, Paul, and Ira All programs require written reservations. Please mail, fax (212.403.6621), e-mail ([email protected]), or register on the Web site (www.pennclub.org) to reserve. E-mail [email protected] only for questions about events. 1 Welcome to the holiday season at the Penn Club. Our alternate arrangements for your formal dining needs. In Clubhouse is decked out in all of its finery, cheer and good order to avoid disappointment please check ahead with will be plentiful, and our facilities are all being used to our Dining Room staff to make sure the Main Dining Room their full potential. This is truly a time to be grateful for will be available for your reservation. what we have, and to look ahead to all we can resolve to I am pleased to note that donations to our Penn Club Em- do. Your Club provides a wide array of opportunities to ployees Fund have been coming in at a steady rate. Since enrich your lives. the Penn Club House Rules prohibit tipping, this is your On December 7th we will open our doors for our annual annual opportunity to express your appreciation to the Members’ Holiday Party. This is one of two complimentary outstanding staff that make your Penn Club experience events we offer to express our appreciation for all that so special. If you have not already done so, I encourage our members do to make this one of the world’s leading you to consider making a donation to the Fund. Our staff GENERAL clubs. I do hope you will make plans to join us for this deeply appreciates your thoughtful generosity. great celebratory tradition. Good food, good drink and For the twelfth year in a row, we will celebrate the great good company will abound. Over the years, this party has MANAGER’S Scots poet Robert Burns at the Penn Club. This year’s Burns grown in popularity, and we are looking forward to seeing Supper is scheduled for Friday, January 27th. It will be a you on this special evening. Details are to be found in this night of celebration, fine Scotch whiskey, outstanding fare issue of HapPENNings. (including the famous Haggis), poetic readings and reflec- Have you planned your holiday event at the Penn Club tions, and many of the attendees (including yours truly) yet? During this busy time of year, many of our members decked out in Highland finery. Over the years, this Supper take advantage of our private dining areas to host that has become one of the highlights of our Penn Club calendar. special holiday event. Whether it is a company party, If you have not yet attended one of our Burns Suppers, you celebration with friends, or family gathering, the Penn don't know what you are missing. We always draw a full Club makes an ideal venue for your entertaining needs. crowd, and I do hope you will plan to be with us this year. Our spaces do tend to fill up quickly, but there is some Further details can be found within these pages. Corner availability at this time. Our catering staff will assist you As we look forward to the arrival of 2012, my staff and in planning that special function, and will make it easy for I would like to take this opportunity to wish your a very you to relax and enjoy your evening. happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. We are truly Speaking of special events, please be advised that some excited to be a part of your Penn Club life at your home- of our larger private functions do take place in our Main away-from-home in New York. Dining Room. On those nights when the Main Dining —Peter M. Homberg, CCM Room becomes unavailable, we make every effort to make Penn engaging Minds | Winter Wonder[land] Saturday, December 3rd. 9:00 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast; trivia | 10:00 a.m. Program; 1:00 p.m. Networking Reception. Wednesday, January 25th. Registration: 6:45 “It’s more than a lecture series” p.m., Game: 7:00 p.m. Shake off those Post- Speakers: Holiday Blues with a night of trivia! Gather Anita Allen, Henry R. Silverman in the Grill Room during the depths of Professor of Law and Professor of winter to test your smarts. We had Philosophy a great time playing last spring — Zeke emanuel, Diane S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor and return for a rematch or come as a rookie! Either Vice Provost for Global Initiatives way, we will be crowning a wintry weather champion. Barbara Mellers, I. George Heyman University Professor $25 plus tax and service charge per player. In- Phil tetlock, Leonore Annenberg University Professor cludes two beverages (house cocktails, house $40 for the initial reservation. Each additional guest is $25. Lecture will be wine, or beer) and a prize for the winning held at Cipriani 42nd Street on 110 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10017. To team. Groups of 3-5 players. Reservations make a reservation or learn more, please go to http://www.alumni.upenn.edu/ are limited. Reservations due by Monday, engagingminds/index.html January 23rd at noon. Welcome New October Members Carol Roberts Gerson Maryellen Reilly Lamb Maria T. Palomar-Nebot Gail Underwood Rogers Stuart Alexander Tishman Benjamin Golden Patrick Lemoine Sanjay Phanse H. Elliott Rogers, Jr. Richard Tretler Karen Albright Hugh Michael Brownstone William A. Ellsworth, III Maxine Gowen Marc Magliacano Mary-Belle Pulvermacher John Joseph Rolecki Carisa Weinberg Gregory Joseph Barron Bruce Joseph Buff, Jr. Aristides George Embiricos Elizabeth Granville-Smith Scott Stanley Meuser Alexander Raksin Michael K. Rosenman Richard A. Berg Maria Canale Richard P. Fitzgerald Glen Greenberg Raj Mukherji Nicholas Rhodes Randy Rothstein Kyra Blatt David Louis Cohen Ira Frazer N1A Jessica Ireland Andrew Naidu Morgan Crane Roach August O'Brien Schopfer Richard P. Brown, Jr. Lynn Connolly Walt Frazier,III Barbara H. Kardon Maneesh Nisargand Daniel J. Rocha Donna D. Stein 2 Networking Learning Healthy Entertainment Drinks Dining Snacks Upcoming EV ENTS Guests can purchase Women’s Health and the in “Investment Decisions and Behavioral sex and the city: World’s Cities at the event.