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EVENTS
Penn
Club Membership
2009
The Penn Club of Portland membership year is on a calendar-year schedule, and dues for 2009 are due as of 1/1/2009. Print the MEMBERSHIP
FORM, fill it out and join (or renew) today!
Luncheon with Kathleen Thomas
Wednesday, May 27, 2009, Noon
University Club
1225 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
503.223.6237
Kathleen Thomas CEAS '78 will discuss her book,
Don't Call Me Rosie: The Women Who Welded the LSTs and the Men Who Sailed on Them,
and offer insights on writing and self-publishing in general.
$15 for members and their guests - $25 others
RSVP by email or phone by Monday, May 25
Mail checks to the address below:
PENN CLUB OF PORTLAND
P.O. Box 1551
Portland,Oregon 97207
503.222.3232
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
March 2009 Luncheon with Joel Millman
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
At the March Luncheon at the University Club, Joel Millman, FAS '76, presented an interesting account of his journalistic career, of his various assignments at the Wall Street Journal and of the state of the print media today.
An Evening With Penn Professor Peter Stallybrass
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Penn Professor Peter Stallybrass joined a full house in the Cascade Room at Jake's Famous Crawfish for our Winter dinner and entertained the gathering with information about the fascinating innovations at the Penn Library, the amazing collection of rare documents at Penn and at the other libraries in Philadelphia, and the hands-on teaching that is going on at our alma mater.
Professor Stallybrass and the Penn Family
Ben's Birthday Bash Happy Hour
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Penn alums and friends celebrated Ben Franklins 303rd birthday at long-time Portland institution, Poor Richards. Among those who showed up was Ben himself, looking amazingly fit for his years. 
Summer Lawn Party
August 11, 2008
Ernie and Annie Munch, Par'06, once again graciously hosted the event on their beautiful lawn overlooking downtown Portland.
Penn alums and friends had an opportunity to meet many of the 20 new members of Penn's Class of 2012 from Oregon and S.W. Washington, the largest class ever from our area. (Click on the images to see the full-size version.) 
Members of the Class of 2012 and current undergraduates
Penn students, families and friends on the lawn
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.
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