Join us for this year’s Annual Dinner fête, featuring Bethany McLean ’92, Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair. As usual, we will host a cocktail reception in our Whittlesey Room before dinner is served at 7:00pm. McLean ’92 will provide guests with an exclusive sneak-peak at her new book, All the Devils are Here, over dinner. Our House Jazz Band will provide live music through the course of night, turning it up for post-dinner drinks and dancing.

McLean ’92 was instrumental in breaking the Enron scandal while serving as Editor-at-Large for Fortune Magazine. McLean ’92 is widely acknowledged as the first journalist to question Enron’s inflated stock price with her March 5, 2001 article in Fortune, “Is Enron Overpriced?” In 2003 she co-wrote a book about the scandal, The Smartest Guys in the Room. It was developed into an Academy award nominated documentary in 2005.

While providing a sneak peak into her new book, All the Devils are Here, McLean ’92 will acknowledge the current financial crisis by explaining its affect on business environments, particularly the world of journalism. McLean will also talk about why the Enron scandal was the canary of the coalmine for what came later. Finally, McLean ’92 will acknowledge the enduring value of a liberal arts education.

Using often-humorous stories from his and his coauthor's international careers, Dr. Bill Ayres '91 lays out key myths and important truths about working and succeeding overseas. Based on their book Carry a Chicken In Your Lap (St. Martin's Press, 2009), Ayres will discuss some of the key dimensions in working across cultures: time, language, identity, and respect. He'll also discuss some of the biggest pitfalls of going overseas, and how to determine whether it's right for you.

R. William (Bill) Ayres graduated from Williams in 1991 with a BA in political science. He went on to Ohio State, where he earned a Master's (1994) and PhD (1997), also in political science. He has had a career over a dozen years at both public and private universities, most recently as Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. In addition to Carry a Chicken, he is coauthor with Steve Saideman of McGill University of For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism and War (Columbia University Press, 2008). He has written dozens of scholarly papers and book chapters, magazine articles, and newspaper op-eds.

Let one of the expert fromagers from the legendary New York City cheesemonger Murray's Cheese guide you through a Cheese 101 class and tasting. This delightful dairy event will feature scrumptious samplings of fresh and bloomy cheeses, washed rind and aged, including a variety of cow, sheep, and goat cheese, all while learning about cheese-making and cheese-pairing fundamentals. Leave with new-found "curds and whey" wisdom and order with know-how the next time you're at a store cheese counter or contemplating a restaurant's cheese plate options. Wine will be available for purchase.

This event is sponsored by The Penn Club of New York. The Penn Club is located at 30 West 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

If you have a difficult relationship with food, this program will help you notice the way you respond to the challenges you encounter on a daily basis. We will explore how you feel and how you handle how you feel- and then how that affects how you eat.

It may seem that food is your problem but unhealthy eating is a symptom of underlying concerns. If you have tried everything else then this is a unique opportunity to help you discover what you are really hungry for.

Together we will address the physical and emotional aspects of eating. Take the opportunity to learn about and to change what is not working for you. We will explore how to connect and understand our emotions as to how we eat and also learn about a meal plan that can assist you in a change towards balance and well-being.

Join Dalia Frumkin, M.D., and Lisa Brateman, LCSW, Psychotherapist, in an evening of self-discovery.

Join us for a special afternoon at one of New York City’s most treasured landmarks: Gracie Mansion. Built in 1799 by shipping merchant Archibald Gracie as a country retreat overlooking a bend in the East River, the house is the last of the country homes that once lined Manhattan’s East River shore. Since 1942, the House has served as the Official Residence of the Mayor of the City of New York. In 2002, the House was restored to its original grandeur and transformed into “The People’s House” under the guidance of the Gracie Mansion Conservancy, a private not-for-profit corporation established in 1981 to preserve, maintain, and enhance Gracie Mansion.

So spend an afternoon with fellow Club members exploring one New York’s most treasured landmarks. Enjoy tea service in Gracie Mansion’s Ballroom -- featuring a generous selection of home-made finger sandwiches and home-baked scones and tea cakes -- followed by a tour of the historic house. Guests are welcome to relax in Carl Schurz Park after the tour or take in the breathtaking views along the East River promenade.

Gracie Mansion is located on East End Avenue at 88th Street.

Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar and will be celebrated by over 5 million Muslims in the U.S. from August 12th through September 9th. Another 1 billion Muslims will celebrate Ramadan worldwide. In anticipation, The Cornell Club of New York will host a unique Pre-Ramadan event for Interclub members.

A speech outlining the significance of Ramadan will be provided by Haroon Moghul. Mr. Moghul holds an M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. He is also Executive Director of The Maydan Institute, a communications and consulting company devoted to improving relationships and increasing understanding between Muslims and the West. Following Mr. Moghul’s remarks, The Club’s culinary team will offer a reception style tasting menu showcasing the fine cuisine from across the Middle East and South Asia.

Advance reservations are required by Thursday, July 29th at noon.
The Cornell Club is located at 6 East 44th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues.

Join us for our first ever NESCAC Happy Hour! Reconnect with fellow young alumni from Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, and Tufts over after-work drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Live music and fellow NESCAC alumni will provide familiar company on the garden terrace of The Princeton Club. Over 90 alumni made it to our last Little III Happy Hour- this is an event you won’t want to miss!

The event will be held at The Princeton Club, located at 15 West 43rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Reservations can be made by calling 212-596-1203 or by emailing programs@williamsclub.org.

A stimulating visit to the United Nations is scheduled for our Club members. We have arranged for a private tour of the facility. The tour will clue you in to the history, structure, composition, and architecture of the UN. Guests will also have the opportunity to view the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, followed by an exhibition on disarmament, which includes artifacts such as remnants of the nuclear explosion in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The tour concludes in The General Assembly Hall.

Guests will then dine in the Delegates Dining Room at the International Buffet. While dining on a smorgasbord of varying international cuisine, guests will be able to take in a view of the East River due to the Dining Room’s floor to ceiling windows.

The event will conclude with a counter-terrorism briefing conducted by an assigned UN speaker.

Please meet the group promptly at 10:00am inside the UN lobby. The UN headquarters is located on First Avenue between 42nd and 48th Streets. The Visitors’ Entrance is at 46th Street.

Join members of our fellow Ivy-Clubs at this year's Annual All-Ivy Beer Tasting at The Harvard Club of New York.

Porters and stouts developed in Britain and Ireland. Stout was beer in Ireland for more than a century. Similarly, lagers, particularly pale lagers (of which Pilsner is one), were closely linked to Germany and the countries just east of it. But in the 18th century Britain developed stouts and porters for the Baltic market, and some breweries there adopted the new style. In the following century, pale lagers were sent westward, and by the end of the 20th century, lagers were the most popular beer in Ireland. Over time, therefore, darker beers moved east as paler beers moved west. Come join us for a European frolic through the lens of beer at our annual All-Ivy beer tasting.

The Harvard Club is located at 35 West 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Cancellations must be received by Wednesday, August 4.

Join members of The Cornell Club of New York at the Hong Kong Art Gallery for an evening of education and fun. The Hong Kong Art Gallery, located at 425 Madison Avenue is known as one of New York’s top Asian art meccas. Director Kwong Lum will present a fast-moving tour through the past 350 years of Chinese Art. Following Mr. Lum’s lecture there will plenty of time for Q&A and gallery tours. 
Mix and mingle with alumni and friends prior to the presentation at a cocktail reception in the gallery foyer.

This event is sponsored by The Cornell Club of New York. Advance reservations are required by Monday, August 16 at noon (pending availability).

Join your fellow Williams Club members and Williams College Alumni as we warmly welcome our new Head Football Coach, Aaron Kelton, into the Eph Community.

Kelton comes to Williams from Columbia University, where he has served as the Lions defensive coordinator for the last two seasons after having served the two previous seasons as secondary coach. Kelton inherits a Williams team that is coming off a 6-2 season and will return 18 of 22 starters, including 6 or 11 that earned All-NESCAC honors in 2009.

Kelton, who becomes the seventh African-American head football coach in Division III, succeeds Mike Whalen, who left Williams to return to coach his alma mater, Wesleyan.

So come one, come all, and feel the energy and excitement that Coach Kelton is bringing to our community. The Ephs will open the 2010 season at home on September 25th vs. Bowdoin.

This event is sponsored by The Society of Alumni and The Alumni Relations Office.

Join the All-Ivy Club Blood Drive, organized by the Penn Club PENNdulums Community Service Intra Club. A New York Blood Center Bus will parked on 44th Street, between 5th & 6th Avenues, that day to facilitate this. Please RSVP with your name, email address and phone number to sign-up for a time slot (spaced at 15-minute intervals) to donate blood. You may be contacted for alternate time slots if there is a scheduling conflict with your preferred time slot.