Annual Harvard Dinner at Emmanuel College - SOLD OUT

             

                   

 

Dear Harvard Graduate,

 

As the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College, I have the pleasure of inviting you with the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom and Emmanuel College to the annual Harvard Dinner, which will be held on Saturday the 20th of June, 2015 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Gary Gerstle, the new Mellon Professor of American History, will be the guest speaker. Professor Gerstle is a social and political historian of the twentieth century, and his new book, Unsteady Colossus: The Rise and Troubled Decline of Government in America from the Founding to the Present, will be published in September 2015. Professor Gerstle received his MA and PhD from Harvard.

This event is a wonderful opportunity for Harvard graduates living or studying in the United Kingdom and current Harvard students to meet, share memories of Harvard, and enjoy a formal evening in the College where John Harvard was himself a student. You are warmly welcomed by this year’s Harvard-Cambridge Scholars: Miriam Farkas, Shelby Lin, Mariel Pettee and me.

The Harvard Dinner is very popular and is at times oversubscribed. The dinner is limited to one hundred and twenty guests due to the size of the Hall, and replies will be handled strictly in the order of receipt on line. Therefore, please apply for your places as early as possible by the Friday the 12th of June deadline. Applications received after the Hall is filled will be returned.

Please apply for your ticket (s) using the link below. We ask that you restrict yourself to one guest if possible. The price of the dinner is £60 per person for fully paid up HCUK members (limited to one guest at this rate), £70 for non-members and their guest(s) and any additional guests for HCUK members, and £40 per person for recent Harvard College graduates (AB ¢11 - ¢15) and current Harvard students. Please note that all non-Harvard current students will be at the full rates. You will receive an automatic email receipt to confirm your place(s) at the dinner in June, when you have paid for your tickets. You will need to advise us of any dietary requirements and seating preferences (see note below).

The Harvard-Cambridge Fellowship and the Harvard Club of the United Kingdom subsidises the cost for recent Harvard graduates and current Harvard students.  We wish to thank them both for their generous support.

Drinks will be served from seven o’clock to seven forty-five in the Master’s garden or in the Old Library in case of rain. The dinner will commence at seven forty-five in the Emmanuel Hall. Dress is black tie.

If you are planning to spend the night or the weekend in Cambridge, we recommend that you arrange accommodation now [http://www.visitcambridge.org/accommodation]. Cambridge is crowded in June and college rooms and hotels fill up quickly.

We hope many of you are able to make time for the Harvard Dinner. The Harvard Club of the United Kingdom, my fellow scholars and I all look forward to seeing you in June. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me or Joan Porter MacIver, HCUK Past President and HCUK Harvard Dinner Coordinator. Please note that the deadline of 12th of June for this event is a strict one, and as a courtesy to the Master’s Office of Emmanuel College, which helps us so devotedly with this event, we ask that you adhere to this request.

 

Eric Cervini, Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar, 2014-15

cervini@post.harvard.edu

 

            Please email Verity at vll@me.com if you wish to be added to the waitlist

 

You must advise us by email if you have special dietary requirements or wish to sit with your guest and/or other friends.  Please email Joan to arrange these requests to jpmaciver@post.harvard.edu. If you do not contact us by the 12th of June deadline, we may not be able to help out with your requirements.  For any other ticket queries, contact Joan at jpmaciver@post.harvard.edu (preferred) or on Tel. 07917194032.