Sunday, April 14 from 3-5 PM: Reception for Students Accepted to Dartmouth. Please join other Dartmouth Club of the Piedmont alumni in welcoming members of the class of 2017 and their families. Bring along your favorite College stories and advice to welcome the admitted students. The reception will be held at the home of Betsy Booth Scalco ‘87, 306 Alumni Ave. Durham, NC 27713. RSVP to Elizabeth.Booth.Scalco.87@alum.dartmouth.org. More on this later, but come if you can. For students choosing among schools, the reception can make a difference in their decision.

Piedmont Club Newsletter_WinterSpring 2013 (PDF)

2013 Piedmont Annual Dinner

March 16 - NC Botanical Garden 100 Old Mason Farm Road Chapel Hill, NC 27517

Keynote Speaker: Captain Jon Kuniholm ‘93

StumpworX: A Social Enterprise Targeting an Orphan Medical Device Problem?

Special Event:

Private Garden Tour with Dr. Peter White ‘76, Director of the NC Botanical Garden

Agenda:

6:00 p.m. Garden tour

6:30 p.m. Reception (non-alcoholic)

7:00 p.m. Dinner (catered by Chef Amy Tournquist of Sage & Swift)

7:30 p.m. Keynote Address

Celebrate spring in the gardens! Dr. White will give the scoop on what’s new and bloomin’. Tour is followed by a social and dinner with our keynote speaker, Captain Jon Kuniholm ‘93. Capt. Kuniholm will be speaking about his journey toward entrepreneurship in seeking a solution to the problem of replacing arms, which began with his injury in Iraq in 2005.

Captain Jon Kuniholm ‘93 is a mechanical and biomedical engineer. He is the President of the Shared Design Alliance, which works to encourage innovation in underserved markets. A member of the National Council on Disability, he co-founded the Open Prosthetics Project, and was a researcher on DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program, seeking to improve the lives of amputees. Capt Kuniholm is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke, and has degrees in mechanical engineering and industrial design from NC State.

Cost: Members & guests, parents of current students: $36.00/children under 12: $20.00/

non-members & guests: $46.00/sponsor a guest: $36.00/membership + dinner: $60.00

Pay online here.

RSVP by March 9: dartmouth.piedmont@gmail.com

Calling all entrepreneurs! The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN) is holding a competition for a total of $50,000 in prizes at the 2013 Dartmouth Ventures Entrepreneurship Conference at Tuck. Each club gets to submit ONE entry for the competition. DEN-NC welcomes submissions from NC, SC and GA. If you would like to be considered, please see details of the competition and the instructions here:

http://www.dartmouthventures.org/contests.html

Please submit your entry no later than 5 p.m. February 28th to dartmouth.piedmont@gmail.com. Only ONE will be entered as the DEN-NC business plan for the competition.

‘If you’re an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.’

Dinner, panel discussion and networking on Thursday, March 7th at 6:30 p.m. at Research Triangle Park Headquarters.

John Glushik (Intersouth Partners) leads a personal and in-depth panel with experienced entrepreneurs in North Carolina fromt he life sciences and IT industries. James G Whayne is co-founder of nContact, Converge Medical and Cayenne Medical. Michael Doernberg is CEO of ReverbNation whose past ventures include SmartPath and The Marathon Group.

This event will provide insight into the speakers’ remarkable experiences:

Key lessons learned from starting multiple companies
Choosing to start a company here in RTP versus other areas of the country
Seeking capital from angel investors or venture investors
Enjoy an evening of mingling and dinner with fellow RTP alums in the heart of Research Triangle Park.

Date: Thursday, March 7th
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: RTP Headquarters, 12 Davis Drive, Durham 27703
Cost: $30 for buffet dinner and panel discussion
Register: by March 1st here

From top to bottom:

(1) Welcome newest members of the Class of 2017!

(2) Congratulations Dartmouth Book Award Winners!

(3) John Kavanagh ‘58, accepting an award for loyal and outstanding leadership to the Club

Join us for the Dartmouth Club of the Piedmont’s annual Triangle holiday event honoring area Dartmouth students, high school book award winners and early admits. Again this year we will be doing a dinner, at the North Carolina University Club (directions below), in the State Room on Wednesday, December 12th. Social hour with cash bar begins at 6:30; buffet dinner (grilled chicken and vegetarian lasagna entrees) will be served when all are ready.

There will be an opportunity for our current students to share, very informally, their experiences and impressions of life at Dartmouth. Also a special presentation to a very special member of our club. Students, book award winners and early admits are our guests; for alums and parents the cost is $35.00. Please join us for this always enjoyable time of Dartmouth family fellowship.

RSVP by December 7th to Tom Andrews, tandrews@nc.rr.com, (919) 833-3757, make a reservation and pay in advance through PayPal below or pay by check.

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Annual Dinner

Members, Spouses, Parents $35.00 USD Parents of students $35.00 USD Non-members and spouses $45.00 USD Current students $0.01 USD

Fall 2012 Newsletter

Location: Quintiles, 4820 Emperor Blvd, Durham, NC, 27703

Join HBS and other Ivy alumni for diner and discussion hosted at Quintiles beautiful world headquarters. Grace Ueng (HBS ‘91) will lead a panel discussion with the NC Secretary of Commerce, Thomas Wollman, SVP Quintiles, and Michael Chen, Founder and CEO of New Mind Education. If you were at the past Cisco or CREE events, you will know that Grace’s panels provide incredible networking, supper, and this year important information about working with China!

Sign up: http://www.harvardtriangle.org/article.html?aid=167

It’s that time of year again! We will soon begin interviewing for the Class of 2017! Alumni interviews have become even more important since on-campus interviews are no longer offered, so we need your help. Last year we interviewed 95% of the 136 applicants in the Triangle/East region. With applications rising each year (23% last year in our region!) and with a goal of interviewing 100% of these candidates we need more alumni to volunteer to interview. Whether you are a new or returning interviewer, please sign up to interview! It is a wonderful way to meet bright, young students and share with them your love of Dartmouth.

Please sign up to interview. Please send the following to Elizabeth.Booth.Scalco.87@alum.dartmouth.org to sign up as a new or returning active interviewer for 2012-2013:

- I can interview early decision (Oct-Nov)

- I can interview regular decision (Jan-Feb)

- I can interview both early and regular

- I can interview ____ number of applicants

- I prefer the following cities (i.e. Chapel Hill, Durham)

- I will attend the Interview Workshop (see below)

Please remember to activate your alum account. ***The VON accounts have had a change in the log-in and everyone should now have and use a NetID. It’s easy to change once you first try to log into your account.