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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
An Insider View of Stanford Admissions: A Discussion
with Dean of Undergraduate
Admission Richard H. Shaw
Capitol One, Framingham
Capitol One offices
200 Staples Drive
Framingham, MA
Price:
$25 general admission
$20 SCNE members and guests
$10 guests under 18 years old
About the Program
Have you ever wondered how the Stanford admission process works? The
Stanford Club of New England invites the Stanford community to a special event
with Richard Shaw, Dean of Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid. Dean Shaw
will reveal the criteria for selecting the Class of 2011 from over 24,000 applicants
this year. He will also share his strategies for recruiting international students
and outline how alumni have a key role in his plans.
June 13, 2007
Fourth Annual Boston Pops Event
“Carousel” with Keith Lockhart
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA
$60 per ticket for members & guests; second price
class; orchestra level
About the Program
The Stanford Club of New England invites all alumni
and friends to a night of drama and romance in Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Scenes include
the evocative "Carousel
Waltz," the timeless ballad "If I Loved You," and the powerful "Soliloquy." With
the inspirational anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone," it all adds up
to one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most extraordinary scores!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Stanford Club Political Awareness Forum
“2008 Presidential Campaign: Are You Aware of the Issues and Candidates’ Platforms?”
$20/person for SCNE or Stanford GSB members
$25/person for non-members
We are grateful to host this session at the offices
of
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
One International Place
(in the Financial District at the corner of High
and Oliver Streets)
Boston, MA 02110
About the Program
Join us for an interactive teleconference with
Penny Pritzker (Stanford JD/MBA ’84)
to discuss the issues and strategies of 2008 presidential campaign, her role
as National Finance Chair for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign,
and new developments in the 2008 primary season.
Live host/moderator/attorney Bob Sherman of Greenberg Traurig will discuss how
voters evaluate the presidential candidates, voter education resources, the impact
of new media/blogs on campaign strategy, and important dates for the upcoming
presidential election.
About the Speakers
In 2005, Forbes Magazine named Penny Pritzker one of the 100
Most Powerful Women in the World. Pritzker is president and CEO of Pritzker Realty
Group and board chairman for TransUnion. She is also Vice Chairman of the Chicago
Public Education
Fund, a founding member of the Board of Young Women’s Leadership Charter
School. Pritzker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Real Estate
Roundtable, the Urban Land Institute, the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Young
Presidents' Organization, and the Chicago Network. She is a life trustee and
former Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. Pritzker
earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and J.D. and
M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University.
Bob Sherman is a member of the Obama for America National Finance
Committee. He is co-managing shareholder of the Boston office of the international
law firm of Greenberg Traurig. He has played an active strategic role in both
state and national political campaigns including the 2004 presidential campaign.
Sherman has had substantial experience in trial and appellate litigation, with
particular emphasis on matters involving governmental regulatory agencies. He
also devotes a significant portion of his practice to representing victims of
sexual abuse by priests. Sherman has handled hundreds of such cases and has been
interviewed extensively on this subject. He has also handled a wide range of
business and public interest litigation, including a number of precedent-setting
cases involving health care and constitutional issues. He has written and spoken
frequently on topics such as consumer protection law and the legal rights of
the disabled.
April 12, 2007
“Politics
of K-12 School
Reform:
The Shift From Equality to Adequacy in American Education,
1954 – 2007”
Rob
Reich - Stanford
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethics in Society
$20 for SCNE or SBS members
$25 for non-members
$35 optional post-event dinner (cash bar)
Merrill Lynch
High Street Tower
125 High Street (between Oliver & Pearl)
Boston, MA 02210
About the Program
Education
is one of the most important factors in shaping a person’s skills, opportunities,
and general life prospects. Professor Reich will discuss the contentious
politics behind the provision of K-12 schooling in the United States. The orienting
ideal guiding the provision of K-12 education has largely shifted from equality
to adequacy, from attempting to equalize educational opportunity for poor and
privileged children to attempting to provide an adequate education for everyone. Professor
Reich will explain why this is so and assess whether the shift should be welcomed
or criticized.
February 22, 2007
“How
to Make Ideas Stick:
Six
Hints
from Urban Legends”
Chip Heath, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford GSB
$15.00 for SCNE & Stanford GSB alumni members
$20.00 for non-members & guests
Per person, includes the lecture, light appetizers and drinks.
North Hill Ventures offices
10 Post Office Square
Boston
About the Program
Whether you’re a manager, a teacher, or a parent, you need to make your
ideas stick with others. This presentation argues that we can learn a lot by
looking
at naturally sticky ideas: Urban legends don’t have advertising budgets
or PR assistance; they survive and spread on their own. Professor Heath will
discuss six principles that can help us make our own messages resonate with people.
The presentation is based on his book (co-authored with his brother Dan), Made
to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, which was published by Random
House
in January 2007.
Chip Heath is a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford
Graduate School of Business. For the last eight years he has been studying why
ideas survive
in the social marketplace of ideas.
January 29, 2007
An
Evening
of Poetry & Discussion
with Robert Pinsky
$15.00 for SCNE members
$20.00 for non-members
includes the lecture and reception immediately following.
Boston University New Media Center
One Sherborn Street, 7th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
About the Program
Come join Stanford Alumni and Boston
University
Alumni for
an evening of poetry and discussion with Robert Pinsky, a
Stanford alum and former
US Poet Laureate.
Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, and in
1997 was named the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to
the Library
of Congress.
His honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award,
Poetry Magazine’s Oscar Blumenthal prize, the William Carlos Williams
Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate, and is
the author of six books of poetry: Jersey
Rain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000); The Figured Wheel: New and
Collected
Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which won the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
and was
a Pulitzer Prize nominee; The Want Bone (1990); History of My Heart (1984); An
Explanation of America (1980); and Sadness and Happiness (1975).
January 19, 2007
Ivy Plus Multi-School Ski Trip
About the Program
Join alums from Brown, Darthmouth, Duke, Cornell,
Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton,
Stanford, and Yale for an exicitng
Ski
Weekend!
The Duke
club has organized a large ski trip and is inviting the Ivy Plus schools. Don’t
miss out on this fun way to meet new people and enjoy to some great skiing/snowboarding!!! December 2, 2007
SCNE 2006 Big Game
Telecast
Party
3:00 p.m. kickoff EST
Hurricane O’Reilly’s
150 Canal Street (next to the Fleet Center)
Boston
About the Event
Come watch the Stanford Cardinal take on the Cal Bears for the
axe! The Stanford Club of New England (SCNE) is co-sponsoring this event with
Cal’s
alumni club for the fifth year in a row. Wear your Stanford red and come cheer
for the Cardinal. Appetizers will be provided during the game.
October 21 & 22, 2006
Stanford at the Head of the Charles
On the Shores of the Charles River
Boston, Mass.
Cost: Free
About the Event
Join the SCNE at the Head of the Charles Regatta in welcoming
the Stanford Men’s and Women’s Crew teams.
With a strong showing from both crews at PAC-10s and a recent showing from
some of our oarsmen and oarswomen at the World Under 23 Championships, it
should be
a spectacular weekend on the water.
The men’s four will race on Saturday and the women’s eight on Sunday. We
will have a table set up with a Stanford banner along the river near Harvard
Square. Come cheer on the crews and enjoy some refreshments.
August 26, 2007
SCNE WaterFire Providence
Hemenway’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar
121 South Main Street
1 Providence Washington Plaza
Providence, RI
Cost: Free
About WaterFire Providence (www.waterfire.com)
WaterFire Providence centers on a series of 100 bonfires that blaze just
above the surface of the three rivers that pass through the middle of downtown
Providence.
The string of fires illuminates nearly two-thirds of a mile of urban public
spaces and parks, and residents and visitors gather to stroll along the river
while
listening to a memorable and eclectic selection of classical and world music
that serves as a melodic accompaniment to the normal sounds of urban life.
The fires are tended from sunset to past midnight by black-clad performers
in boats
who pass quietly before the flames.
WaterFire is an experience that surrounds viewers on all sides and impacts
all five senses. The crackling flames, the fragrant scent of blazing cedar
and pine,
the flickering firelight on the arched bridges, the silhouettes of the firetenders
floating by in their torch-lit vessels, and the extraordinary music from around
the world engage all of the senses and evoke unique emotions from the many
thousands who come to stroll along the river walks. WaterFire has captured
the imagination
of hundreds of thousands of people, transforming downtown Providence and enlivening
the nights of the state's capital city.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Fifth Annual 2006 Business School Admissions Panel
John Hancock Hall
180 Berkeley Street
Boston
Cost: Free
About the Program
Thinking about going to business school in the next few
years? Come meet representatives from five top Business Schools at an event
that
drew
over
700 people last year!
The University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club of Boston, in
conjunction with Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions, have
extended an invitation to SCNE members to attend the 5th Annual 2006 Business
School Admissions Panel.
Hear a panel discussion of business school admissions officers from five
of the top Business Schools in the world: Harvard, Wharton, Stanford,
Sloan and Kellogg.
These panelists will discuss various aspects of the business school application
process including academics, professional experience, essays, interviews
and recommendations.
Participate in an open Q&A session at which panelists will answer
questions about their specific business schools as well as the general
application process.
Attend a reception where you will have the opportunity to meet and ask
additional questions of the panelists and selected alumni in an informal
setting.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Pawtucket Red Sox vs. Buffalo Bisons
McCoy Stadium
Pawtucket, RI
Cost: $9.00
About the Event
Take the whole family or a bunch of your friends
to a professional ballgame at the magnificent McCoy
Stadium, Pawtucket, RI; off I-95 just
over the
MA-RI state
line about 45 miles south of Boston.
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