Hold this date for the annual Triangle Holiday Dinner: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 6:30 – 9:00 at the North Carolina State University Club. Details and reservation information to follow closer to the date.

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.

15 Young Alums from the Piedmont, from ‘99 to ‘08, gathered on Friday, September 12th for a backyard picnic. Most are currently attending grad school at either Duke or UNC in the areas of law, business, public health, religion, genetics, and more. Festivities included Southern pulled pork barbeque, catching up, and a casual game of pong. Young alum events happen about every six months at this point, but greater club events are more often. Hope to see out at an event soon!

Mark your calendars for December 19, 2008, for the annual Triad Dartmouth Holiday Dinner at the Zevely. More details to come.

THE MAGIC OF 19

A bracing, yet civilized, gathering of the Big Green Clan from The Greensboro and Winston-Salem areas will take place on November 19, 2008. Please attend for the delightful pleasure of each other’s company.

[Also, mark your calendars for December 19, 2008, for our annual Dartmouth Holiday Dinner at the Zevely! Details will follow.]

The cost for finger food will be $10.00 to be paid at the Zevely House on November 19th. Cash Bar also available. RSVP to David Hough at dhough@triad.rr.com.

The fine Zevely House is located at 901 West Fourth Street in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (336-725-6666)

Directions:

From the East:
Head West on I-40 towards Winston-Salem. At Kernersville take Business I-40 (fork to your right). Take the Broad Street exit in Winston-Salem.

From the West:
Head West on I-40 towards Winston-Salem and take Business I-40 and then take the Broad Street exit in Winston-Salem.

From Both East and West:
At the top of the ramp, take a right onto Broad Street. At the intersection of Broad and Fourth Street (at the traffic light), take a left onto Fourth Street. At the end of the first long block, drive to the intersection of Fourth and Summit, where the Zevely House is perched on your right on a slight rise.