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Harvard Club of Boston Bulletin March 2020 HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON BULLETIN MARCH 2020 Our 2020 Boston’s Most Influential Women Gala celebrated some of Boston’s most accomplished female leaders Pictured, our honorees and members of the event Nominating Committee. Not pictured, honoree, Laurie H. Glimcher AB ’72, MD ’76. PRESIDENT’S LETTER GENERAL MANAGER’S LETTER Dear Members, Dear Members, On March 21, 1958 and almost fifty At the time of this writing we are on years to the day, the Harvard Club track to meet our FY2020 financial of Boston was founded, future US goals. We had a strong start in the President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (AB ’40) gave the keynote address first quarter, which should assist us at the HCB’s Annual Meeting. At over the next several months which the time, JFK was Massachusetts’ are traditionally slower. junior senator and recently elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers. In sage prophecy of his controversial We are in the process of fully renovating five of our electability a few years later, JFK famously observed, “If an overnight guest rooms. An additional four rooms are Irish Catholic can get elected as Overseer at Harvard, he being renovated (with the exception of the bathrooms), can get elected to anything!” which will be completed early in our next fiscal year. The Club continues to rotate and introduce new artwork and As we enter 2020 and eight decades since JFK graced us with his youth, humor, and vision, our world has become make enhancements to the club spaces to make them much smaller, and our community much more diverse. The more comfortable. 1958 Annual Meeting had no women in attendance. Over the past dozen years however, both Harvard University As you read in the recent correspondence regarding the and the Harvard Club of Boston welcomed their first Downtown Clubhouse, the Task Force is near completion woman presidents. Gloriously, Drew Gilpin Faust and of its work and will soon be making a recommendation to Karen Van Winkle have been our communities’ instruments the Board of Governors on how to proceed. A lot of time for change. It is up to their successors to continue their and effort has gone into this project and I would like to positive and unrelenting forward progress. thank Mat Sibble, Club Secretary, and all the members of Hence with delight on April 1, we will welcome Harvard’s the Task Force for their commitment to the Club. 29th President, Lawrence Bacow, to deliver the keynote at our beloved Club’s 112th Annual Meeting and Dinner. Chef and his team are busy preparing new spring menus President Bacow will share observations from his inaugural including breakfast, lunch, brunch, dinner and dessert year, and his ongoing vision for Harvard and its extended offerings. We are fortunate to have a talented and global community. dedicated culinary team and we appreciate their creativity. As always, we welcome special requests and thoughts on On that memorable keynote some sixty-two years ago, menu ideas. JFK concluded with a reference to Charles Dickens, who had visited Harvard in 1842. In a short burst of brilliance shared with his hosts, the great Victorian novelist captured Please feel free to contact me directly at quite eloquently Harvard’s strength. “Whatever the defects [email protected] or 617-450-8400 if I can be of American universities may be, they disseminate no of service to you! prejudices; hear no bigots; […] never interpose between the people and their improvement; exclude no man Sincerely, because of his religious opinion; above all, in their whole course of study and instruction, recognize a world, and a broad one too, lying beyond the college walls.” Steven P. Cummings, CCM, CCE What was benediction in centuries past is credo for today i.e. we find meaning and purpose in the absence of bias, General Manager the courage of our convictions, the pursuit of education, life-long learning and truth, couched in unapologetic opportunity for all. Harvard the University and community leader elevate these shining guideposts for the generations, as we forge into the centuries ahead. Donec iterum, Veritas. Matt Hegarty ‘82 [email protected] 1 HOURS OF OPERATION TABLE OF CONTENTS BACK BAY CLUBHOUSE DINING HOURS President’s Letter 1 Veritas General Manager’s Letter 1 Breakfast Hours of Operation 2 À La Carte breakfast M–F, 7:00 am–10:30 am Member Events 3–20 Continental breakfast Sa–Su, 7:00 am–10:00 am Members & Milestones 21 Sunday Brunch 10:00 am–2:00 pm Staff Directory 22 Lunch M–F, 11:30 am–2:30 pm EVENT RESERVATIONS Bar Menu available 2:30 pm–5:00 pm Dinner Sign up for Club activities at harvardclub.com M–Sa, 5:00 pm–9:00 pm via our app, or the Calendar of Events on your Member Bar Menu Th–Sa until 10:00 pm dashboard, or contact Kristy Burns at 617-450-8493. Bar Service M–W until 10:00 pm, Th–Sa until 11:00 pm *CLUB CHARGE ClubPub Food Service Any fee or charge imposed by the Harvard Club for meal or beverage service, private functions or use of the Club’s Tu–F, 5:00 pm–10:00 pm, Sa, 11:30 am–4:30 pm facilities, including the Club Charge, pays for regular Bar Service maintenance and restoration of the Club and other costs M–F, 4:00 pm–10:00 pm, Sa, 11:30 am–4:30 pm incurred by the Club. No fee or charge added to your statement for meal or beverage service, private function or DOWNTOWN CLUBHOUSE DINING HOURS use of the Club facilities is a tip, gratuity or service for wait The Crimson staff, bartenders or service employees. Breakfast M–F, 7:00 am–10:00 am Lunch CANCELLATION POLICY M–F, 11:30 am–4:00 pm Dinner To cancel an event reservation, log on to M–F, 4:00 pm–9:00 pm harvardclub.com and select the event you want to cancel from your dashboard. Click the button at the bottom that says “CANCEL RESERVATION.” If you need Regatta Room assistance, call 617-450-8493. Unless a cancellation date Lunch is specified, cancellations made five days prior to the M–F, 11:30 am–2:00 pm event will not be charged. Any cancellations after that deadline will be charged in full. ATHLETIC HOURS OF OPERATION M–Th, 5:00 am–10:00 pm. Locker rooms close at 10:30 pm. Steam and Jacuzzi close at 10:00 pm. ATHLETIC WAIVER F, 5:00 am–8:00 pm. Locker rooms close at 8:30 pm. All athletics members must submit a signed liability waiver Steam and Jacuzzi close at 8:00 pm. in order to use the Club’s athletic facilities. Waivers are Sa, 7:00 am–6:00 pm. Locker rooms close at 6:30 pm. available in the Fitness Center or by contacting our Athletic Steam and Jacuzzi close at 6:00 pm. Department Manager, Valerie Phillips, at 617-450-8485. Su, 8:00 am–4:00 pm. Locker rooms close at 4:30 pm. Steam and Jacuzzi close at 4:00pm. CLUBHOUSE PHONE NUMBERS Back Bay Clubhouse Downtown Clubhouse 617-536-1260 617-542-2070 2 Saturday, March 7, 2020 9:00 am—11:00 am Back Bay Clubhouse I meant what I said and I said what I meant. It's Dr. Seuss' birthday, one hundred percent. You could not, would not, want to miss.... a celebration as fun as this. March is the month, the seventh is the day, 9 to 11 am is the time.... would you, could you, come and play? Join us for a breakfast event filled with games and lots of fun. Price per person: $30 (plus *Club charge & tax) includes breakfast buet, games and take home gift bag. Click here to register. FACULTY LECTURE WITH PROFESSOR HIGGINBOTHAM Monday, March 2, 2020 6:30 pm Reception & Mingling 6:45 pm Lecture followed by Q&A Back Bay Clubhouse Join us as we begin Women’s History Month with our special guest Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and the chair of the Department of History at Harvard University. Professor Higginbotham is the National President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and has received numerous awards and honors for her historical research and writings. Most notably, she received the 2014 National Humanities Metal from President Barack Obama at the White House in 2015 for awarded annually to the most outstanding book published “illuminating the African American journey.” in American studies. In March 2019 in Philadelphia, she received the prestigious Registration is required for this complimentary event. John Hope Franklin Prize sponsored by Diverse magazine and the TIAA Institute. The John Hope Franklin Prize is Click here to register. 3 Cocktail 374 Where Friends Gather Monday, March 9, 2020 6:00 pm —8:00 pm Back Bay Clubhouse Please join us for our monthly cocktail party, for members and their guests. Enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, while you mingle with fellow members. Click here to register and to view the menu. PUBLIC POLICY BOOK DISCUSSION BOOK CLUB Friday, March 13, 2020 Tuesday, March 17, 2020 8:00 am—9:00 am 6:30 pm Dinner & Book Downtown Clubhouse Discussion Back Bay Clubhouse Our March selection is Thick, and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom. In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan This month we are reading The Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author— Splendid and the Vile by Erik is unapologetically “thick:” deemed “thick where I should Larson.
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