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� Dec 2013 | Jan 2014 hap�elebratingPENN our �wentieth �ear ings1994-2014 THE PENN CLUB OF NEW YORK Members’ Holiday Party | Tuesday, December 3rd, 5:00–9:00 p.m. Get in the spirit of the Holidays at your home-away-from-home in New York City! After a day at the o ce or shopping for someone special, plan to join your friends at the Penn Club and attend the Annual Members’ Holiday Party. Enjoy a fabulous complimentary selection of drinks and hors d’oeuvres while mingling with fellow members in the Main Dining Room. As our last major event of the year, we’ll be gearing up and kicking o celebrations for our 20th year at this ever-popular Club event. In the spirit of this celebration, and in consideration to our active “Each One, Reach One” In is campaign, we ask that you bring a potential new member as your guest. What better time to share the value of our Club than at this fun and festive event! 2 General Manager’sIssue Corner And, as always, we encourage you to pick up a new unwrapped toy for the Toys for 3 Upcoming Events Tots campaign of the United States Marine Corps and bring it to the party. This event is club-sponsored (free). Reservations are required. Members are welcome to 4 Out-of-Club Events bring one lucky guest (preferably one who could potentially join as a new member!). Please include your guest’s name when making a reservation. 5 Interclub Events 6 Membership Corner 13th Annual has evolved into a mainstay of our Penn Club social calendar, and it is always exciting to welcome both 7 Dining Specials Robert Burns Dinner | familiar and new faces to our truly unique event. Friday, January 24th. Reception: 6:00 p.m.; Here’s a glimpse our fare for the night: HapPENNings Calendar Dinner: 7:00 p.m. e Penn Club will honor the P T spirit of Scottish poet Robert Burns H at a traditional celebration of Burns’ A birthday. Not for the fainthearted ❖ Scottish Smoked Salmon ❖ Celeriac and Apple Salad and ARTICLE See at a glance what each — but certainly not to be missed — Micro Greens ICONS article means for you! the evening will include the parade of the Haggis, accompanied by S ❖ reading of Burns’ poem “Address to a Cock a Leekie Soup Networking Drinks Haggis”—a mainstay of many Burns dinners. For the E ❖ uninitiated, Haggis is a Scottish pudding comprised Roast Tenderloin of Beef ❖ Braised Local Kale with Learning Dining of organ meat, oatmeal and onions, traditionally Smoked Bacon cooked in a sheep’s stomach, which is ceremonially D Healthy Snacks sliced open with a sword at Burns dinners. It is said ❖ Mixed Berry Trifl e to be an acquired taste. Fortunately, the rest of the $84.00 per person plus tax and service charge Entertainment evening will include a Scottish-inspired menu that would have caused Burns himself to wax poetic. Rest (includes meal, scotch tasting, and bagpipe music). assured that the Penn Club will have enough ne For reservations, call Tony Kontos at 212.403.6628 or Scotch whiskey on hand for you to invoke your own e-mail [email protected] or RSVP online. Please DON'T MISS! poetic impulses. Over the years our Burns Supper note there is a 48-hour cancellation policy. The Penn Club Annual Coat Drive 15th Annual ™ P E N N D U L U M S December 1-31st. Too many New Yorkers have to choose between Hedge Fund Panel putting food on the table and purchasing a coat. Help the Inspiring Service 18.7% of New York City families living in poverty stay warm by Tuesday, January 14th “ e great aim and end of all donating your gently worn coats. e Palestra Fitness Center will learning is service to society.” be collecting coats for the entire month of December. Kindly SEE PAGE 3 —Benjamin Franklin bring the coats up to the 12th oor—please do not leave them at the coat check. All coats will be donated to NY Cares. 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! It’s that wonderful time for your participation in this year’s fund. of year when New York dresses up in its finest to help us As you know, the Penn Club is currently in the midst of all get into the spirit of the season. Your Club has become a membership drive to commemorate our twentieth an integral part of the festivities. Our Clubhouse has once anniversary. We are asking each member to bring one again been transformed into a winter wonderland, and new member into the Club this year. Our Each One, Reach that special feeling is definitely in the air. One campaign began in July, and has already brought Over the years, we have developed some traditions at many new members to the Penn Club. In the spirit of the the Penn Club that help us all to enjoy the holidays even holidays, why not give your Club the gift of introducing more. First among those is the Members’ Holiday Party. a new member? Your support will help to sustain the This year it will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd. This continuing good health of your Club. is a great opportunity for you to enjoy the warmth and This will be my final submission to HapPENNings. How GENERAL good fellowship that the Penn Club represents for all of strange it feels to be saying that! My seventeen years us. Plan to join us to enjoy the finest that your Club has to with the Penn Club has been the high point of my club offer at this very special time. Don’t forget to bring your MANAGER’S management career, and I am extremely grateful for the donation of an unwrapped toy to the USMC Toys for Tots opportunity to serve as your General Manager/COO. We campaign. Your generosity will bring extra joy to someone have accomplished a great deal together, and the Penn less fortunate than us. Club has a very bright future due to our combined efforts. Another tradition that has developed over the years is our I know I will be leaving my successor with a great team Penn Club Employees Holiday Fund. This annual collection of employees, as well as a supportive and dedicated for the benefit of our hard working employees is your membership. Thank you for always making me feel so annual opportunity to express your gratitude for all that welcome in your Club. they do to make your Penn Club experience all that it is. As always, your Club and its team stands ready to As you know, our employees are not permitted to accept welcome you often to your home-away-from-home in cash gratuities, and your thoughtful contribution to the New York. We wish you the very best for the holidays as Corner Fund is deeply appreciated by all of the members of our well as a very happy and healthy New Year. fine team of professionals. Donation cards have already been mailed out, and I would like to thank you in advance —Peter M. Homberg, CCM Each One, Reach One Progress Report Penn Club Membership e “Each One, Reach One” membership campaign calls upon each and every member to do A rmation Ceremony their part in bringing in at least one new member to join the Club. One of the fastest ways to help the Club with the membership drive is to add a spousal/life partner membership. For December 2nd, 10th, only $325/year plus tax (currently only $206.41 tax-inclusive 18th, and 26th. due to proration) and no initiation fee, this is a great way to January 6th, 14th, 22nd, have your spouse come to the holiday party and invite 2 other and 30th. potential members to join you in the festivities! 12:00 p.m.. To obtain membership materials, please contact the membership Penn Club members o ce at 212.403.6627 (email: [email protected]). in good standing are specially invited to participate in our membership “Each One, Reach One” Recognition a rmation ceremony. Since the tradition of a new The Board of Directors would like to thank and recognize the following member initiation ceremony was started in 2011, Penn Club members who took the call to reach one (or more!) of their this member a rmation ceremony was created for contacts to become a club member. All members are encouraged to strive to have your name noted on this list as we continue our 20th anniversary current Penn Club members who have not gone membership campaign through June 30, 2014. through a new member initiation ceremony and Douglas Lobel, Aliya Sahai Harvinder Anand Alexia Gottschalch new members who were unable to attend their new Robert Sandler Kevin Eng Lauren Randall Susan Marx* Anna Huzar Seth Weinberg member initiation ceremony. ere will be a book Sid Luthra Sandra M. Parrado Saif Tariq signing and pinning ceremony. Please wear a jacket * Referred more than one new member. | Listing above current as of press time. with a lapel to facilitate the pinning ceremony. Welcome New October Members Vineet Jen Budhraja Helen Formanes Steven J. Jo Robert P. Paul Erica Stone Penn Club members are encouraged to review this posting of new Donald P. Canavaggio Morgan Douglas Fox Jack N.