Thursday, May 30
6:45pm
Cost: $48 (Orchestra LC); $54 (Orchestra I)

All reservations are final sale. The concert will take place at Avery Fisher Hall; tickets will be held at the Box Office under the member’s name.
Date: 2013-05-30

Join us on the terrace for a night of whisky and fine cigars. Our host for the evening, Scotsman Nicholas Pollacchi, is the founder and CEO of The Whisky Dog. Nicholas has sourced an unbelievable array of rare and collectible whiskies for this special evening. Between tasting these gems, you’ll be able to enjoy some old favorites from our bar in addition to red and white wine. Cigars for the night will be provided by Davidoff. Their cigar aficionados will be cutting and lighting the Davidoff Winston Churchill #10. This fantastic, medium-bodied smoke is handmade in the Dominican Republic using an Ecuador Special Sun Grown wrapper (Cuban seed), Dominican Criollo Sun Grown binder (Cuban seed), and a Cuban seed Dominican filler.

Schedule Whiskies:
BenRiach25 yr old – rare and no longer available
Glenrothes 1988 Vintage – rare and collectable
The Dalmore King Alexander III – highest core range whisky from The Dalmore

The Tasting Table:
Highland Park 18 yr old
Royal Salute 21 yr old
Macallan 15 yr old Fine Oak
Dalmore Cigar malt
Date: 2013-05-28

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (pages 1-250)
Jon Meacham

Please note that authors will not be in attendance.

Email: Jill Hurwitz, jillpaula@aol.com
Date: 2013-05-23

Dr. Max Gomez, Ph.D. will join us to adult stem cell research and the treatments that repair damaged hearts, restore sight, kill cancer, cure diabetes, heal burns, and stop the march of such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and Lou Gehrig’s disease. Dr. Gomez is a co-author of The Healing Cell: How the Greatest Revolution in Medical History is Changing Your Life, a result of a unique collaboration between the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture and the Stem for Life Foundation. It includes a special address by His Holiness Benedict XVI, urging increased support and awareness for advancements in adult stem cell research. Dr. Gomez is one of television’s most respected medical journalists. He has produced award-winning health and science segments for network stations in New York and Philadelphia. Dr. Max has reported for Dateline, Today Show, and 48 Hours. Dr. Gomez graduated with honors from Princeton University and received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller University.
Date: 2013-05-21

Join Catherine Lawrence for a guided tour of some of the best art on view in NYC.
All reservations are final sale. Meeting spots will be shared closer to the event dates.
Date: 2013-05-18

Enjoy a docent-led tour of the critically-acclaimed “Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe” at The Princeton Art Museum. During the 15th and 16th centuries, strong ties were formed between Europe and Africa, apparent in the works of many artists including Durer, Rubens, and Veronese. The day starts with a salad, sandwich, and dessert lunch buffet at The Prospect House. Our bus will leave for Manhattan at approximately 3:30PM.

All reservations are final sale. Please meet promptly in the lobby of the Club.
Date: 2013-05-16

Although widely known during his lifetime, Frederick Bruce Thomas is now virtually forgotten. Vladimir Alexandrov researched Frederick Thomas’s life and times exhaustively in archives and libraries throughout the United States, as well as in Russia, France, England, and Turkey. Frederick Bruce Thomas was born in 1872 to former slaves and spent his youth in Mississippi. The family was soon forced to flee, and when Frederick’s father was brutally murdered by another black man, the family disintegrated. After leaving the South and working as a waiter and valet in Chicago and Brooklyn, Frederick went to London in 1894, and then decided to go to Russia in 1899, which was highly unusual for a black American at the time. Frederick found no color line in Russia and made Moscow his home. During the next nineteen years he renamed himself “Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas,” married twice, acquired a mistress, took Russian citizenship, and by dint of his talents, hard work, charm, and guile became one of the city’s richest and most famous owners of variety theaters and restaurants. The Bolshevik Revolution ruined him and he barely escaped with his life and family to Turkey in 1919. Starting with just a handful of dollars out of the millions he had lost, Frederick made a second fortune in Constantinople by opening a series of celebrated nightclubs that introduced jazz to Turkey. However, because of the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and his own extravagance, he fell on hard times, was thrown into debtor’s prison, and died in Constantinople in 1928. Dr. Alexandrov received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton and teaches course on Russian literature and culture at Yale University.
Date: 2013-05-14

In Raising Gentle Men, Jay Sullivan tells the real-life story of the three nuns who raised more than 250 boys along with a small group of American college grads at the Alpha Boys School in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1980s. In between receiving an English degree from Boston College and a law degree from Fordham, Mr. Sullivan was one of those graduates. Now the Managing Partner of Exec/Comm, LLC, Mr. Sullivan oversees a team of fifty experts who help business professionals improve their communication skills. Mr. Sullivan plans to donate the proceeds from his memoir to support the continued work of the nuns at Alpha.
Date: 2013-05-13

Cold Selections
Selection of Brunch Pastries, Muffins, Mini Bagels & Croissants

Chilled Green & White Asparagus with Wild Mushrooms, Shaved Parmesan, Truffled Balsamic Dressing

Chilled Poached Wild Salmon & Smoked Norwegian Salmon Lemongrass Citrus Dressing

Mixed Local Farm House Greens with Endive, Goat Cheese, Pomegranate Seeds, Hearts of Palm & Pomegranate Vinaigrette

Hot Selections
Pasta Station
Penne Pasta or Tortellini prepared to order
Broccoli, Roasted Peppers, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Italian Sausage, Mushrooms, Peas Marinara, Alfredo, or Pesto

Omelet Station Prepared to Order
Mushrooms, Ham, Peppers, Onions, Spinach, Tomatoes, Cheddar Cheese

From Silver Chafing Dishes

Herb Marinated Grilled Chicken Breast, Baby Potatoes, Leeks & Pearl Onions, Tarragon Chicken Jus

Roasted Wild Striped Bass, Fennel, Patty Pan Squash & Roasted Grape Tomatoes, Vermouth Sauce

Cinnamon Sugared Croissant French Toast, Warm Vermont Maple Syrup

Casserole of Spring Vegetables

Pastry Extravaganza
A Fabulous Selection of Cakes, Tarts & Pastries
Fresh Fruit Display
Date: 2013-05-12

We all know the traditional recipe for a successful first impression: a firm handshake, sharp-looking professional attire, and a sound credential. Yet today, the predominance of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin offers a whole new channel to establish one’s professional identity. Meanwhile, social media puts us under a new pressure to constantly differentiate ourselves in both personal and virtual contact. Personal branding thus becomes imperative, especially for women looking to overcome disadvantages in the workforce. This networking event will reveal secrets to personal branding that are sure to open doors for you, whether you are an established career professional or a budding entrepreneur. Beverly Daniels, a well-known career coach, will offer insights on networking strategy and professional growth, while Social Media Executive Maisha Walker shares secrets on developing your Internet career brand. The presentation will be followed by a networking cocktail hour, giving guests a chance to meet like-minded professionals.

Beverly Daniel, MS, MBA, founder of the CareerGrowth Group, is a well-known business executive and management consultant in the human capital development and management field. She has spoken and lectured throughout the USA on the topics she knows best from over 25 years experience: career management and development, executive coaching, executive search, and leadership development and training. In more recent years, she has been coaching executives and management-level professionals, as well as helping entrepreneurs develop strategic business and marketing plans. She has served as an executive search consultant to numerous clients from major FORTUNE 500 companies including Avon, Colgate-Palmolive, Exxon-Mobil, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Deloitte. In 1998, Consulting Magazine named Beverly to their “Ten Best” list of search professionals for outstanding service in the management consulting field.

Beverly is a well-known speaker whose appearances include the Stern Women in Business Leadership Conference at New York University, the Public Relations Society of America, Women in Corporate Communications, Financial Executives Institute, New York Society of Security Analysts, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Currently she leads a Women’s Career & Networking Club at The Princeton Club of New York. Beverly holds an MBA in Management from Stern School of Business at NYU.

Maisha Walker is Founder and President of Message Medium, a digital marketing agency that helps new and re-invested brands to harness the power of the Internet and create a dynamic, interactive and profitable online presence. She has been creating Web sites and online marketing campaigns for more than 16 years, and has worked on digital marketing campaigns with Mars Chocolate, Columbia University, Unilever, NBA player Kyle Lowry, Save the Children and more.
A featured online columnist with Inc. Magazine, Walker created “The Internet Strategist” which grew to the highest trafficked blog on Inc.com in less than 1 year. Her articles have been featured across the Web by such diverse sources as Business Week, Rieva Lesonsky, the American Marketing Association, Guy Kawasaki and Perez Hilton. She has also been featured on NBC news, Fox News, Entrepreneur magazine, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Bnet, Inc., Our Town, Harlem News, and The New York Enterprise Report.

Prior to founding Message Medium, Maisha worked in an internal consulting team at Morgan Stanley, reporting to the Board of Directors and Senior Management. She has also worked as a direct marketer for New York Magazine, and worked alongside the founder of Cybergrrl to develop the first Web sites for companies like Avon, and one of the first editorial Web sites catering to the still growing sector of women online. Walker attended Princeton University and received her B.A. in French and Italian.

While this event will focus on career networking for women, men are cordially invited to attend as well.

Date: 2013-05-08