Cambridge in America

For more information about Cantab Northern California visit www.cantabnca.org.

Many thanks,

Niki Santo President, 
Cambridge Alumni of Northern California 
www.cantabnca.org

"The Curious Pleasures of the Writing Life"

After graduation from Oxford in 1966 he joined a Canadian mining company, Falconbridge of Africa, and worked as field geologist in Uganda, looking for copper deposits in the foothills of the Ruwenzori Mountains, close to the border with Congo.

He made a sudden and unexpected switch to journalism in 1967, a short while after reading, while in a jungle camp in Uganda, a copy of Coronation Everest by James (now Jan) Morris. This account by the then correspondent of the London Times  triggered in Winchester what he later described as a ‘Pauline conversion’ – and though he was to refer to geology in many of his subsequent writings, he turned to a new career in newspaper reporting, and has remained a full-time writer ever since.

The cost of this event is $100 per person ($85 for student members) and includes a reception with a full bar and a formal meal with wine. Dress code will be black tie/college blazer/business. A full timetable of events is shown below.

To purchase tickets please use book online or print out the booking form and mail it with your check.

For more information contact Dr. Belinda Wilkes at: president@oxcamne.org

If you would like to row in our Oxford vs Cambridge race, please contact Nick Copley at: ncopley@gmail.com

Reception:                        6:15pm                                                      Sincerely,                   

Our own Boat Race:        6:30pm                                                      Belinda J. Wilkes

THE Boat Race video:     7:00pm                                                      Belinda J. Wilkes, Jesus (Cantab)

Dinner:                              7:15pm                                                      President of the Society     

Talk:                                  9:00pm                                                        

(Books available for purchase)

MOZART & HAYDN

PERFORMERS
Nicholas McGegan (Corpus Christi), conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello

PROGRAM
MOZART Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K. 367
HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb:2
HAYDN Symphony No. 99 in E-flat Major, Hob. 1:99
MOZART Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201/186a

For more information about Cantab Northern California visit www.cantabnca.org.

Many thanks,

Niki Santo President, 
Cambridge Alumni of Northern California 
www.cantabnca.org

After Thermopylae: How Wars are Concluded and Commemorated

Paul Cartledge (Clare) will join fellow historians Bruce Cole, Eugenia Kiesling, and James Romm for a stimulating discussion about how wars end and how they are remembered, drawing examples from the Graeco-Persian Wars, the Great War, and the War on Terror. This event will mark the publication of Cartledge’s new book, After Thermopylae (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History, A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, and Fellow of
Clare College, Cambridge University

Bruce Cole, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center; former Chairman of the National
Endowment for the Humanities

Jennie Kiesling, Professor of History, United States Military Academy, West Point .

James Romm, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classical Studies, Bard College

Tuesday, June 4, 2013
7 pm

The event being organized by the Onassis Foundation (USA).

The Morgan Library and Museum
Gilder Lehrman Hall
Please use the main entrance at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street .
Free Admission

Reservations begin on May 21.  Please email reservations@onassisusa.org on weekdays only from 9 am - 5 pm.

 Cost:Cash bar

Join Cantab DC for this month's "First Thursday Drinks" at the historic Willard Hotel.

The Drinks is an elegant but low-key event where you can enjoy a great mix of alumni of all ages, degree programs and life experiences, with lots to discuss in a friendly and easygoing environment. Come imbibe in one of America's most historic hotels, the Willard. Catch up with old friends and make new ones!

If you are new in DC or this is your first time at a Cambridge event, make sure to email webmaster@cantabdc.org ahead of time and we'll see that you are greeted and introduced to folks on your arrival. Bring your friends and family - everyone with an alumni connection is welcome! 

The Willard Hotel is the regular venue for our First Thursday happy hour held monthly. 

View pictures of the previous Happy Hours online and see who is coming to the next one on Facebook!

For further information click here.

Cambridge in America invites you to join author Claire Messud (Jesus College) while she is on tour!

Claire Messud was educated at Cambridge and Yale.  Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and a subsequent book, The Hunters, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor's Choice at The Village Voice. Three of her books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Fellowship, and in 2003 received the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Upcoming tour dates and locations:

For more information about Cantab Northern California visit www.cantabnca.org.

Many thanks,

Niki Santo President, 
Cambridge Alumni of Northern California 
www.cantabnca.org