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The BearFacts Thursday, Advance reservations required by Recruiter Elyse Barbell from carouse the night away at the February 19th Monday, February 16th, at which Stephen Bradford Search will greatest party that isn’t actually time they are considered final discuss how to optimize your happening. (At least that’s what LESSONS FOR sale. Members and guests are LinkedIn profile and resume, we’re telling the coppers.) The LOVING WITH DR. invited to dine at The Club table how to get an interview at the Yale Club will have casino tables following the lecture. The cost of company you most want to ready for you to play your luck KARL PILLEMER dinner is $40 per person, inclusive of work for, winning the interview, at Blackjack and Poker (Yale Club Karl Pillemer’s 30 Lessons for tax, gratuity, and one glass of wine and negotiating your salary and dollars, not real Benjamins), as Living first became a hit and with dinner. benefits package. Bring your you down gin fizzes and jig to then became a classic. Readers questions and most challenging a live swing band (later, a DJ). loved the sage advice and great professional problems and Please beware of pickpockets stories from extraordinary older expert coaches will help you to and loose women. Snitches will Sunday, Americans who shared what brainstorm solutions. be booted. Interested? Reserve February 22nd they wish they had known when Elyse Barbell was the Executive in advance and sip drinks from they were starting out. Now, FAMILY DAY Director of the Literacy an open bar of beer, wine, and Pillemer returns with lessons Gumdrops, lollipops, and Assistance Center for ten years bubbly, plus bathtub gin—for the on love, relationships, and candy galore, come to The where she provided training to first hour—and snag lots of hors marriage. Based on the most Cornell Club to see what’s in staff members at more than d’oeuvres. detailed survey of long-married store! This year, our annual 500 agencies. She holds the 9:00pm-1:00am. $55 per person. people ever conducted, his new Family Day is Candyland B.A. from Hofstra University Advance reservations required by book, 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice themed with sweet treats and a Certificate in the Non- Friday, February 20th, at which time from the Wisest Americans on Love for the little ones and adults Profit Executive Leadership they are considered final sale. Relationships, and Marriage shows alike! It is time to get out of Development Program of the the way to lifelong, fulfilling the house and enjoy a Family Columbia University School of Monday, March 2nd relationships. Fun Day; join parents and Not For Profit Management. Dr. Pillemer, an internationally children from the Inter-Club 12:00noon-1:30pm. $20 for RADIO-COTEAU renowned gerontologist at Community for a festive Members, $30 for guests; includes , offers advice afternoon! There will be lunch buffet. Advance reservations WINEMAKER’S from the oldest and wisest candy themed crafts and required by Friday, February 20th, DINNER WITH ERIC Americans on everything from games for the little ones and at which time they are considered finding a partner, to deciding a special Magic Show for all final sale. SUSSMAN ’90 to commit, to growing old ages! Children will be treated Join Members for an elegant, together. Along the way, the to a kid friendly buffet, while four course dinner designed Friday, February 27th book answers questions like: the adults will enjoy a buffet by Chef Rizzo to enhance How do you know if the person featuring a Mimosa and Young Alumni the wines of Radio-Coteau; you love is the right one? What Bloody Mary bar. winemaker Eric Sussman ’90 are the secrets for improving 12:00noon-2:00pm. $25 for PROHIBITION AT will explain his wine journey and communication and reducing adults and $15 for kids, plus tax THE YALE CLUB explore each of the wines paired conflict? What gets you through with dinner. Born and raised in and service. Advance registration A Little Party Never Killed the major stresses of marriage, required by Thursday, February New York State, Eric developed such as child-rearing, work, 19th, at which reservations are Nobody his passion for winegrowing money issues, and in-laws? considered final sale. Keep calm and speak-easy. while studying agriculture at 30 Lessons for Loving offers We’ve received an order that Cornell University. Inspired by unique wisdom that will enrich no liquor will be allowed on wine’s unique connection with anyone’s relationship life, from premises. (Good thing we’re its place of origin, he set out th people searching for the right Tuesday, February 24 prepared to break the law...) to work with and learn from partner to those working to Snag an arm, grab world-class producers near and keep the spark alive. Dr. Pillemer ASK THE EXECUTIVE an ear, and whisper abroad. will share key insights from the RECRUITER to everyone you Venturing to Washington’s research, illustrated with moving If you are looking to re-invent know that we’re Yakima Valley, Eric spent several videos of elders sharing their yourself, re-enter the workforce, blowing the years among the vines and marriage advice. or take your career to the next roof off. Young in the cellar of a small artisan $25 per person, includes a signed level, this conversation will guide Gentlemen, suit- producer. By managing the copy of the book. 6:00pm reception you through the necessary steps up; Ladies, dress to estate vineyard through the with open bar and passed hors to move your career where kill, because Inter- organic certification process d’oeuvres; 6:30pm lecture. YOU want it to go. Executive Club Members will (Continue to the back page)

The Cornell Club-New York, 6 East 44th Street, New York, NY 10017, 212.986.0300, www.cornellclubnyc.com Event Reservations (Continued from the front page) Seafood: award-winning academic and eventually assuming 2013 Radio-Coteau Wingtine research on eating behavior, responsibility for winemaking, Sonoma Coast Chardonnay behavioral economics, and he experienced firsthand the behavior change has been Contact the Program Poached Lobster Department at relationship between vineyard Bresaola, Truffled White published in the world’s top practices and wine quality. 212.692.1381 or r.walker Bean Puree, and Warm Meyer marketing, medical, and @cornellclubnyc.com. Moving on from wine’s relatively Lemon Emulsion nutrition journals. It contributed new frontier in Washington Main Course: to the introduction of smaller State, Eric immersed himself “100 calorie” packages (to 2012 Radio-Coteau Cherry in the old-world culture and prevent overeating), the use of and led a transformation of Camp Sonoma Coast Syrah traditions of France. He spent taller glasses in bars (to prevent the Labor Department into 1995 working in Bordeaux at Osso Buco overpouring of alcohol), and an effective, evidence-based, the Châteaux Baron Philippe San Marzano Tomatoes, the use of elaborate names and data-driven government leader de Rothschild of Pauillac, and Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Baby Carrots, and Herb Risotto mouth-watering descriptions in in performance management 1996 working in Burgundy at many chain restaurant menus and measurement and Domaine Comte Armand of Dessert: (to improve enjoyment of food). program evaluation. Despite Pommard and Domaine Jacques 2012 Robert’s Block Sonoma Brian Wansink is the John well-publicized failures in Prieur of Meursault. Coast Zinfandel “Estate” Dyson Professor of Consumer various parts of the federal Eric then headed for northern Chocolate Budino Behavior where he directs the government over the past six California, where a one-year Cornell Food and Brand Lab. years, Harris makes the case post collaborating on the wines that government can be a high- 6:00pm, cocktail reception; 6:30pm The mission of the Lab is to at Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz performance organization and seated dinner. $95 per person, “To discover and disseminate exposed him to a complex tells the story of how the U.S. inclusive of wine pairings, tax, and transforming solutions that help array of grape varietals and Department of Labor produced gratuity. Advance reservations all people eat better.” blends. Migrating further north dramatically better outcomes required by Friday, February 27th, 6:00-6:30pm cocktail reception, along the coast, he settled in for the people and organizations at which time they are considered 6:30pm lecture. $10 per person western Sonoma County, and it serves. final sale. includes healthy hors d’oeuvres spent the next four vintages and open bar during the cocktail Seth Harris is a Distinguished gaining valuable experience reception. Members and guests are Scholar at Cornell’s School of as the associate winemaker at Monday, March 9th invited to dine at The Club for a Industrial & Labor Relations Dehlinger. SLIM BY DESIGN: healthy meal following the lecture. and Counsel at Dentons, In 2002, Eric established Radio- The cost is $40 per person, inclusive a global law firm. He is a Coteau, focusing on the north MINDLESS EATING of tax, gratuity, and one glass of nationally recognized teacher, coast vineyards of western wine with dinner. scholar, and practitioner of Sonoma County and Anderson SOLUTIONS FOR labor and employment law Valley. With their benchland and policy. He served four EVERYDAY LIFE th locations, well-drained soils, Wednesday, March 18 and one-half years as the U.S. exposure by capricious marine with Brian GOVERNMENT Deputy Secretary of Labor, air and fog, these sites host Wansink and six months as the Acting grapes naturally suited to their U.S. Secretary of Labor and a Enjoy an exclusive presentation CAN PERFORM surrounding elements. This member of President Obama’s with Cornell University natural selection afforded Eric WITH SETH Cabinet. Prior to joining the Professor Brian Wansink, author an opportunity to refine his HARRIS ILR ‘83 Obama Administration, he was of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating a professor and director of labor Old World experiences while In May 2009, Seth Harris ILR Solutions for Everyday Life and and employment law programs working with New World ‘83 became the Deputy U.S. the best seller Mindless Eating: at . He grapes. For more than a decade, Secretary of Labor and the Why We Eat More than We Think. also served in a variety of he has strived to balance Chief Operating Office of the Wansink has also authored the policymaking roles in the nature’s expression with a U.S. Department of Labor --- an books Marketing Nutrition, Asking Labor Department for almost delicate, but disciplined touch in $85 billion, 17,000-employee Questions, and Consumer Panels. seven years during the Clinton these handcrafted wines. federal Cabinet agency. He Hidden persuaders in Administration advising both found a complex organization restaurants, movie theaters, secretaries of labor without a direction, a plan, or Starter: airplanes, and even our own and . Professor effective accountability and 2012 Radio-Coteau La homes can trick us into eating Harris is a graduate of New York management systems in the Neblina Sonoma Coast more than we want—but it’s University School of Law. midst of the worst economic Pinot Noir possible to fat-proof these downturn since the Great 6:00pm, cash bar reception; 6:30pm 2012 Radio-Coteau places with a few tricks from Depression. Using aggressive lecture, gratis. Members and guests Anderson Valley Pinot Noir the Cornell Food and Brand strategic planning, performance are invited to dine at The Club Lab! Wansink is an expert in Duck Confit Salad management, and performance following the lecture. The cost is $40 Consumer Psychology and a Cranberries, Julienne Pears, measurement, Harris per person, inclusive of tax, gratuity Butternut Squash, Assorted Professor of Marketing and brought the department’s and one glass of wine with dinner. Tender Greens, and Sherry Consumer Behavior. Wansink’s Vinaigrette 23 operating units together

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