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Club Profile
In
the land of Willie Penn & Uncle
Ben (about midway between Wall St. & Pennsylvania Ave.), there is an energetic alumni chapter
dedicated to attracting & engaging Stanford's accumulated intellect, talent
& diversity that resides within the Delaware Valley region.
Events are planned to
serve a variety of interests - match your own or try something new. Advanced
scheduling and notice is a goal, but we are flexible enough to capture last
minute opportunities. Each event includes time to socialize, make new friends,
exchange ideas - and, maybe, we can create a new (ad)venture.
Communication
is by mail, email,
and this website. Feedback & suggestions are encouraged. Event assistance
is welcome and appreciated.
Cardinal-Young Alumni (C-YA) in
Calling young alumni!
C-YA is organizing events, especially for alumni who left the Farm during the
past ten years. If you have ideas or are interested in organizing activities,
contact Alexandra
Pocek, ’05, phone 650-814-1675, and join the Stanford Cardinal
Young Alumni of Philadelphia group on Facebook.
For info
about Young Alumni Inter-School Happy Hours in
Membership Renewal
Renew your
membership in the Stanford Club of Philadelphia. Click here
to renew online via the Stanford Alumni Association’s site. Or else click
here a version the membership renewal form.
You can print it and mail it in with your check.
Events
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Noon
to 4:00 pm
Freshman Sendoff Picnic at
Location:
Remember
the weeks before you (or your child) headed off to Stanford for the first time?
The excitement, the nerves, and all the questions you had? Please
join us to share your expertise about the Farm with incoming students and their
parents from our area.
Current Students: Reconnect with local Stanford classmates while giving
incoming students the inside scoop.
Alumni: Meet other alums in the area while providing a perspective on
life at and after Stanford.
Parents: Meet other Stanford parents in the area and share your wisdom
with those sending their children off to Stanford for the first time.
Food and refreshments will be served. No
cost.
All young
alumni and their spouses, current students and admitted freshmen and their
parents are invited. In addition, members of the Stanford Club of Philadelphia
and their spouses are invited. Sorry, due to space limitations, other guests
cannot be accommodated.
RSVP to Alexandra
Pocek 650-814-1675
Sunday, October 12, 2008
11:30
am to 3:30 pm
Stanford Club
of
Election 2008: Transformation or Continuity?
At the National
Constitution Center
The Stanford Club
of Philadelphia and the Stanford Alumni Association cordially invite you to
attend a special panel discussion.
Presidential candidates John
McCain and Barack Obama both seek to convince voters that their positions and
presidencies might represent a departure from eight years of the Bush
administration. It is reasonable to
consider two questions:
1) How much would
the presidency of either candidate represent a sea-change shift from previous
policies? and
2) How much
transformation is desirable, and how much may be too much?
These questions will be discussed by Stanford communication and political
science professor Dr. Shanto Iyengar, Swarthmore
political science professor Dr. Rick Valelly, and professor Dr. Richard Johnston, Stanford Ph.D. and professor of political
science at the
● 11:30 am Lunch
● 12:30 pm Panel
Cost:
a) Non-members of the Stanford Club of
Philadelphia – lunch and panel: $25 each
b) Members of the Stanford Club of
Philadelphia (+ 1 guest) – lunch and panel: $20 each
c) Stanford Young Alumni (graduates of
2004 through 2008, + 1 guest) – lunch and panel: $15 each
d) Panel-only registration: $10
Stanford
alumni can log in and register on-line by clicking here. Or else click here
for a registration form to print out and mail with payment.
Space is
limited, so register early. Deadline for
registration is September 30.
Venue: The
Parking: Convenient parking for cars is
available at the underground lots below the
Questions? Please contact Amy
Liu, ’95, 610-651-2987.
About the
speakers:
Harry & Norman
Chandler Professor of Communication , Professor of Political Science, and
Director of the Political Communication Lab,
Shanto Iyengar
teaches courses on political campaigns and mass media effects. His
research has been published in several journals including American Political Science Review, Communication
Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Public Opinion Quarterly. Iyengar also contributes regularly to Washingtonpost.com.
Prof. Iyengar's books include Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide, Going
Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, Do
the Media Govern? (W. W. Norton, 2007),
Explorations in Political Psychology, The Media Game, Is Anyone Responsible:
How Television Frames Political Issues, and News That Matters: Television and American
Opinion.
Prof. Iyengar received his Ph.D. in Political Science
from the
Richard Valelly, Ph.D.
Professor, Political Science Dept., Swarthmore College
Professor Rick Valelly
(BA, Swarthmore, Ph.D., Harvard) has taught at Swarthmore College Harvard University and at the University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Valelly has
published scholarly articles in both edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals,
and essays in the The American Prospect,
the Nation, the New
Republic University of Chicago Press
In 1994, Prof. Valelly was
co-recipient of the Mary Parker Follett Award of the APSA Politics and History
Section for his article, "Party, Coercion, and Inclusion: The Two
Reconstructions of the South's Electoral Politics," Politics &
Society (March 1993), and he wrote a widely cited essay, "Couch Potato
Democracy," which first appeared in The American Prospect.
Prof. Valelly has held
visiting research fellowships at Princeton, the Massachusetts Historical
Society, the Woodrow Wilson Center of the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, DC, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at
Harvard University He also received a
research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His project
was selected by the NEH Chairman to form part of a special NEH initiative, the
National Conversation on American Pluralism and Identity Prof. Valelly's record of professional service is extensive. From
1992 to 1994 he and James Morone co-edited Clio,
the newsletter of the APSA Politics and History Section. He has served on
several APSA committees and on the Executive Committee of the Social Science
History Association. He co-chaired the Program Committee for the annual meeting
in 1998 of the Social Science History Assocation. In
2005 and 2006 he co-chaired the Program Committee for the 2006 Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association. Currently Rick Valelly is a member of the Faculty Editorial Board of the University of Pennsylvania Press
Richard
Johnston, Ph,D.
Professor
of Political Science and Research Director of the National Annenberg Election
Study at the University
of Pennsylvania
Prof. Johnston received his Ph.D. from Stanford University
Until 2006, he taught at the University of British
Columbia , and he has also taught at the University
of Toronto , the California Institute
of Technology, Harvard University , and Nuffield
College , University of Oxford
About the moderator:
John C. Pollock,
Ph.D., M. (I)P.A.
Professor, Communication Studies
Dept., Advisor and Founder, Health Communication Concentration, The College of New Jersey
John
Pollock earned degrees from
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Book
Discussions
Sponsored
by the Princeton Club of Philadelphia (PCOP) Young Alumni, the Alumni Book
Club of Philadelphia brings together graduates from a number of different
universities to discuss books of current interest. Guests of alumni and new
members are always welcome to attend. For further info, click here.
The meetings take place
at
A related group being
formed will meet in
If you plan to attend,
or have questions or suggestions, contact Lauren
Bierbaum.
Stanford
Online
The
2007/08 Book Salon provides a year of faculty-hosted book discussions
for our reading pleasure. Each book is introduced through a lively streaming
audio conversation with the faculty host, and will be available online, along
with supplemental web resources chosen to enhance your deeper consideration of
the books and authors.
Stanford’s Discovering Dickens program turns to
mystery: "The Original
Sherlock Holmes Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle”
From January through April 2006,
Stanford republished a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of Sherlock
Holmes, just as they were originally printed and illustrated in The Strand Magazine. Join us at as we continue to discover the riches
of Stanford Library’s Special Collections! This year’s project is the fourth in
a series of reissued works, which began with three Dickens novels, Great Expectations in 2003, A Tale of Two Cities in 2004, and Hard Times in 2005.
Click here for
Arthur Conan Doyle's two early Holmes stories, "A Scandal in
Join Us
Membership in the
Call Mike
Borish JD '77 (H: 215-672-2827) for information. Click
here to join online via the Stanford Alumni Association’s site. You will need to log in with your user ID and
password. Alternatively click
here to print out a flyer with the membership form. To join, send name, Stanford graduation
year and major (or name of student if parents), address, phone numbers and
email, company name, title and business address, spouse/partner name, along
with $15 ($10 if Young Alumni, Class of 2004-208) to:
Stanford Club of
Special rates: A
three-year membership for Young Alumni at $25 or an individual or household
membership at $40.
Details for all events
will be forthcoming in Club communications and on this website. Contact the
Club webmasters, Lois and Gerry Elman MS '64, by email.
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
From time to time, we participate in community service projects. On October 7, 2006, some of our members got
together in
If you wish to suggest or participate in such future projects, contact
us.
Last updated August 24,
2008
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