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EVENTS
Penn
Club Membership
2008
The Penn Club of Portland membership year is on a calendar-year schedule, and dues for 2008 are due as of 1/1/2008. Print the MEMBERSHIP
FORM, fill it out and join (or renew) today!
Summer Lawn Party
Monday, August 11, 2008
1515 S.W. Myrtle St.
Portland, OR 97201
It's summer and, once again, it's time for our Summer Lawn Party for Penn Club of Portland members, Penn students and Penn families and friends. Ernie and Annie Munch, Par'06, are once again graciously hosting the event on their beautiful lawn overlooking downtown Portland.
This will be a great opportunity to meet the 20 new members of Penn's Class of 2012 from Oregon and S.W. Washington. Let's welcome this largest class ever from our area - and - their families into the Penn community.
Penn alums are urged to bring an easy-to-serve appetizer, salad or dessert.
Please RSVP and let us know what you would like to contribute:
john.vosmek@vosmek.com
First September/Fall Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lucky Labrador Beer Hall
1945 N.W. Quimby
Portland, OR 97209
Recently graduated members of the Class of 2008 are invited to join other alumni and friends of Penn for food, beverage, and conversation at the Lucky Labrador Beer Hall in an old Freightliner Trucking warehouse "in the final frontier of inner Northwest Portland." Gather on the outdoor deck in the September Oregon sunshine or, in the unlikely event of a drip or two, inside under the "resident five ton crane hovering above the tables." Look for friendly faces and our small and tasteful tabletop Penn flag and be a part of the celebration of fall and our new Penn community members.
Fall Dinner with Professor Peter Stallybrass
Friday, November 7, 2008
Join us for dinner and a chance to meet and listen to thoughts from Penn Professor Peter Stallybrass. Professor Stallybrass, Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, is making this trip to meet with alumni in the Pacific Northwest.
Penn Reading Project 2008
Once again members of the Penn Club of Portland are invited to show solidarity with the incoming Class of 2012 by reading the book that all incoming freshmen have been assigned to read and discuss. Read this year's book, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin, and discuss the book with other readers at an event later in the fall.
Class of 2012 Assignment
Inner Fish on Amazon.com
2008
Penn Club Book Awards
Congratulations to the 2008 Penn Club of Portland Book Award winners. The Penn Club of Portland has once again presented book awards to outstanding students at five Oregon high schools, selected by their schools for recognition of their academic achievement. This year's book was Andrea Mitchell's (CW '67) Talking Back, with each book graciously inscribed by the author.
2008 Penn Club of Portland Book Award winners
Samira Nedungadi
Oregon Episcopal School
Portland, Oregon
(presented by Jenny Garcia C'93)
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Na'ama Schweitzer
Wilson High School
Portland, Oregon
(presented by Judy Huchison W'94)
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Taylor Baldwin
West Salem High School
Salem, Oregon
(presented by Dana Lee WG'71)
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Leah Reis-Dennis
South Eugene High School
Eugene, Oregon
(presented by Carolyn Sinclair CW'62)
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Ali Grewe
Lincoln High School
Portland, Oregon
PAST EVENTS
Spring Luncheon with
Juliana Montgomery: Shocked by She
At our April 11th luncheon, Juliana Montgomery, daughter of Michael Montgomery (Fels'92), discussed and showed a preview of her new documentary film, Shocked by She: A Czechsploration of Images of Women. The film, exploring feminism and the images of women in Czech visual culture beginning with the Czech New Wave film era in the 1960s, is currently in post-production and projected to be completed by late-2008. Click Here (MS Word file, 40kb) for a list of Juliana's recommended Czech New Wave films along with her comments.
Winter Luncheon with
Shawn Levy, C'82 and film critic of The Oregonian
A few days before the Academy Awards and smack in the middle of the Portland International Film Festival, Shawn Levy (C'82), film critic of The Oregonian, led a lively luncheon discussion of the world of film.
2007 Summer Lawn Partyawn Party
Members of the Class of 2011 with current undergraduates. The proud gentlemen in the background are Russ Abrams, SSC Co-chair and Bruce Chamberlin, Associate Dean of Admissions (Click for full-size image.)
The Penn family on the banks of the Columbia River - Class of 2011, current students, families and alums. (Click for full-size image.)
2007's Summer Lawn Party for all Penn Club of Portland members, Penn friends, Penn students and Penn families was held on a beautiful Thursday evening, August 9th.
Special thanks to Jim and Linda Patterson(C'64 and CW'64) for hosting the event this year on their lovely lawn on the north shore of the Columbia River. Even the trepidation of traveling out of state didn't discourage alums and current students from showing up to welcome many of the 18 new members of Penn's Class of 2011 from Oregon and S.W. Washington and their families into the Penn community.
Penn Glee
Club Visits Portland
Everyone
who heard the Penn
Glee Club at the
University Club on
May 19 was charmed
both by their elegant
harmonies and by
their engaging personalities.
Glee Club alums Ron
Hjelm and George
Cicotte joined the
performance, which
was concluded, of
course, by a rousing
chorus of "The Red and the Blue."
We are very grateful to event patrons Clifford
and Jean Mansley, Taizoon
Doctor, Jonathan Kowolik, and George
Cicotte.
Glee Club and friends
Socializing with
the Penn Glee Club
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