Harvard Club of the Research Triangle, working with the NC Triangle alumni clubs of University of Chicago, Dartmouth, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Wharton, is pleased to present a lunch program:

Why Smart People Can Make Not-So-Smart Decisions
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Time: 12:00 PM (talk begins at 12:30 PM)
Speaker: Dave Hofmann, UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor of Organizational Behavior
Location: Living Hope Center, Brassfield Business Center, 5475 Lumley Rd, Suite 102, Durham
Cost: $20 (includes box lunch)

We all pride ourselves on making good decisions – we’re smart, capable, and owe much of our success to the good decisions that we’ve made over the years. But, how much do we really think about how we make decisions and how others around us are making decisions? And how much do we think about how many decisions we actually make through the course of day? Through a fast-paced and interactive session, Dave will help you better understand how we make many of our decisions very quickly and efficiently. But efficiency can come at a cost, and Dave will help us understand how the same things that make us good at making decisions can lead us astray.

Please provide your email address so we can send you a 5-min survey, which you need to complete before the program.
We hope to see you there!

Register here:
http://www.harvardtriangle.org/article.html?aid=158

The Triangle Yale Club is sponsoring Mr. John Davis for a dinner/talk on
Friday, February 6 at the RTP Radisson (6pm open bar, 6:30 dinner followed
by talk–$28/person). Sign up on their website: https://triangleyaleclub.org/
davis.html.

“Come spend an informative, entertaining and interesting evening with John
Davis, a political consultant formerly with NC Free, as he explores the concept
of North Carolina now being a “purple” state – not still red, but not quite blue
either. What does that mean for our politics, locally and in connection with
what’s going on at the national level?

Mr. Davis is both entertaining and informative, and always provides lots of
great insight and analysis at his presentations. This is not dry political
analysis; this is fun information to hear. If you’ve never heard Mr. Davis
before, come treat yourself to a fascinating look at the state of politics in
North Carolina now, during a period of incredible transition in both the
country and our state.”

The Mistletoe and the Ivies+
Ivy+ Clubs Holiday Reception and Dinner
The glamorous place to be after New Year’s.
Alums, current students and guests invited!

Please refer to club email for more details.

Yale Club
Prof. Marvin Chun
December 4, 6 PM
RTP Hilton

You and your members, families, guests, are cordially invited to join us Thursday evening, December 4th for dinner and a talk by Prof. Marvin Chun, 6 p.m. at the RTP Hilton. Reservations should be made at http://triangleyaleclub.org/chun3.html. The speaker: Yale Prof.Marvin Chun, apparently the most popular lecturer and speaker on campus. A quote from our program chairperson:

“Last summer at my Yale 25th reunion, I heard the lecture that Professor Chun will give here on December 4th. There were 200 plus inattendance, and we were all totally “blown away” by his presentation! The material on brain imaging is absolutely fascinating and he is a very engaging speaker with a colorful personality; we hung on his every word. I would encourage people to come and bring your high school and college age kids too–they will love it! I can see why Professor Chun’s psychology 101 class consistently has to turn students away because it always fills to capacity (500 students).”
-Stacy Pardue’82

Lunch with Harry Lewis, HARVARD PROFESSOR AND FORMER DEAN
Thursday, November 13, 12-2 PM
Radisson Hotel, 150 Park Drive, RTP

If you are both thrilled and disturbed by the increasingly pervasive presence of the Internet, cell phones, and GPS tracking, come to hear former Dean of Harvard College Harry Lewis discuss his new book, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion (Addison-Wesley, 2008).

If you have a cell phone, you also have a location-tracking device so your whereabouts can be tracked constantly and a microphone that can be turned on remotely and a radio that can beam your conversation away. If you use the Internet, you can be connected to people you would never have met, people who share your deepest interests and most unusual problems; you and your children can with equal ease be connected to scam artists and predators. You have at your fingertips the most powerful instrument of human enlightenment since the printing press, and the most flexible instrument of thought control ever in vented. Will our children live in a world of greater understanding and enhanced freedom, or of manipulated information and pervasive monitoring? In Blown to Bits, Lewis and co-authors Hal Abelson and Ken Ledeen explore the peril and promise of our digital future.

Harry Lewis has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 1974 and is currently Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. From 1995 through 2003 he was Dean of Harvard College, responsible for oversight of undergraduate affairs, and in 2003 was named Harvard College Professor in recognition of his outstanding teaching. He holds the AB, AM, and PhD degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard. His other books include Excellence without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? (Public Affairs, 2006), and Elements of the Theory of Computation (Prentice-Hall, 1981, 1997). He is teaching Computer Science E-2a, Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion, in the 2008-2009 Fall Term at Harvard?s Extension School (also available through distance learning).

Registration: The cost for the lunch and speaker program is: $25 for each Harvard Club member, $25 for a member’s first guest and $35 for each additional guest or nonmember. To sign up, please send your check (payable to the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle) to Bill Joyner, 309 North Boundary Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Please provide the name of each attendee, your phone number and email address, and any dietary restrictions with your check. Reservations must be received by November 1.

Questions? Contact Bill at william.joyner@src.org, 919-929-7246.

Directions: Heading East on I-40, take exit 280 (Davis Drive) and at top of exit ramp, go s traight across Davis Drive onto Park Drive. Follow Park Drive a short distance until you come to a stop sign and then veer to the right up a hill. The hotel will be on your right. Heading West on I-40, take Exit 280, but take a left at the top of the ramp onto Davis Drive, then take first right onto Park Drive.

The Wharton Club of the Triangle invites you to an evening of information and socializing. Wharton and UPenn alum Sen. Janet Cowell, previous member of the Raleigh city council, a current NC State Senator, and the Democratic candidate in the November general election for N. C. State Treasurer, will be our featured guest. At the event Cowell wil give a “state of the state” update, discuss her candidacy and, of course, there would be plenty of opportunity for Q&A. This is not a fund-raiser although contributions to Cowell’s campaign for state treasurer are welcome. Sen. Cowell’s websites:

http://janetcowell.com/main.htm;

http://www.cowellfortreasurer.com/

Date: Tuesday, August 19
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. (Networking and Socializing at 6:00; Welcome/Program at 6:30)
Place: Rudino’s Pizza & Grinders www.Rudinos.com — private room
in the back
4911 Central Park Lane, Durham (RTP)
Miami Blvd. exit off of I-40
919-474-8833
Cost: None. Light snacks and drinks provided.
Dinner available for purchase.

To RSVP to this event or for more information, please call Kevin Brimhall at (919) 758-8502 or e-mail
kevin2jfd@earthlink.net.

The members of the Harvard Club of the Research Triangle are extending to our friends and friendly competitors a special invitation. In honor of the Harvard Glee Club’s 150th Anniversary, the sixty members are embarking on a nationwide tour and will be in Chapel Hill! The concert is at 8 p.m. Tues., March 25 at University Methodist Church, 150 E. Franklin Street,Chapel Hill.

You may purchase tickets online at www.harvardgleeclub.org (click on the Tour website link, then Itinerary and then Chapel Hill, NC) or over the phone by calling 1 (800) 838-3006.

The All-Ivy Plus Second Annual Bowlarama is now All Ivy and Big Ten!

February 23 at the Mardi Gras Lanes, where we had our wild and sold out amateur night last year.

This event may sell out early, so register today! Last year Dartmouth dominated in the numbers (if not in the quality of bowlers:). They have booked the same number of lanes as last year and Penn State asked in on the party and booked the entire remainder of the establishment for their alumni. We now have an All-Ivy Plus, Plus Big 10 Night with the extensive Mardi Gras Lanes all ours.

More information and sign up at http://triangleyaleclub.org/bowl.asp.

Sign up today! Go Big Green!!

A Musical Revue by Bob Whyte (and Friends)
Thursday, November 9th.

Southern Songs By Yankees will be performed by Bob Whyte, Laura Jones, and Dan Wielunski for the Harvard Club at a dinner and show program at the Radisson Hotel Research Triangle Park. Southern Songs By Yankees is a musical comedy show developed by Bob Whyte early in 2004 and first performed for the Southern Culture department at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in April of that year. Bob has performed the show on several occasions since then and on November 9th, for the Harvard club, will present the show featuring two exciting young talents that add a new dimension of fun and music to the show. Joining Bob are vocalist Laura Jones, a professionally trained singer involved in many local classical and jazz projects, and Dan Wielunski (Yale, ‘04) who works as a jazz pianist in and around the Triangle.

The show celebrates songs with Southern themes written by Tin Pan Alley tunesmiths and lyricists between 1900 and 1940, combining storytelling, comedy, and music with audience participation. Bob tells the stories of the songwriters, the Tin Pan Alley music business, and explains where the writers got their concepts of the South. He sings and plays a dozen old favorites including “Is It True What They Say About Dixie,” “Hard-Hearted Hannah,” “Georgia,” “Stars Fell on Alabama,” and “Mississippi Mud.”

Bob Whyte has entertained audiences for over 45 years with banjo playing, singing and humor. He played in banjo band night clubs and Dixieland bands on the East and West coasts, and founded The Whyte Laundry Company – a banjo, gutbucket, and washboard band that performed for 25 years in various venues in Connecticut and New York.

Location: Radisson Hotel, 150 Park Drive, RTP

Directions: Heading East on I-40, take exit 280 (Davis Drive) and at top of exit ramp, go straight across Davis Drive onto Park Drive. Follow Park Drive a short distance until you come to a stop sign and then veer to the right up a hill. The hotel will be on your right. Heading West on I-40, take Exit 280, but take a left at the top of the ramp onto Davis Drive, then take first right onto Park Drive.

Schedule:
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM (Registration, Networking, and Cash Bar)
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Dinner and Show)

Register now: Advance registrations are required by November 1. The cost for the dinner and program is $30 per person for Harvard Club members and $30 for a member’s first guest; and $35 for each nonmember and each additional guest. To sign up, please send your check, payable to Harvard Club of the Research Triangle to Bob Whyte, 103 Cameron Glen Dr., Chapel Hill, NC 27516. Please include the name of each attendee, your phone number, and any dietary restrictions along with your check.

The Harvard Club is hosting an event in early November entitled “Southern Songs by Yankees”. See here for more details.