Harvard Club of Cincinnati

Annual Picnic Save-the-Date! Sunday, August 14

Free to all Harvard alumni and affiliates and their families, and to our students and their families. Alumni, please bring a dessert to share. Once again in Dogwood Park on Pleasant St in Mariemont. Mains, sides and lemonade provided. RSVP requested.

Harvard Alumni Day in Cambridge

Invitation from HAA to register for Harvard Alumni Day with 2-term U.S. Poet Laureate Professor Tracy K. Smith. Live and livestream available. March through campus with your fellow alumni. HAA looking for Cincy pictures to share online. See article.

John Adams '69, AM'72 conducts El Nino

Harvard Around Town: Famed American composer John Adams at the May Festival Chorus for one performance only. Get a 25% discount on tickets. NOTE: Drinks after plan is cancelled. Sorry!

Farewell to Jay D. Richter

Jay D. Richter, Undergraduate Class of 1976, passed away on February 4, 2022. Mr. Richter was a member of the Harvard Varsity Club, having lettered as a member of the Harvard Football Team. Jay also played rugby at Harvard.

8 Admitted to the Class of 2026 from Cincinnati area!

Harvard College accepted 3.19 percent of applicants to its Class of 2026

Women's Quarterly Event organized by the Yale Club

All-Ivy. Virtual. Featuring: Sarah Beyreis,Yale BA ’85, MA ‘94, MA Middlebury ’96, Director of College Counseling at Cincinnati Country Day School. Register to get the Zoom link.

Looking for insight into the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Check out Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/insights/russias-war-against-ukraine

Farewell to Dr. Charles Ralph Buncher

Harvard Online

Check out the new course offerings: https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/courses-page?_kx=KHLncpOFAYOKZejJ-qvOnVEc8_J6N_51RSE-mRDoXI9VjX4zjAfCWYtaS5fDj5g2.APWNu4&utm_medium=new-site-announcement&utm_source=new-site-announcement&utm_campaign=new-site-an

POSTPONED: Yale Quarterly Women's Event with entrepreneur Jen Morales '99

This event has been postponed until spring 2022. Registrants will be contacted and fees refunded.

Crimson Goes Blue Kick-off Event 9/21/21

Explore Harvard from Home

The Admissions Office is excited by the positive responses to some of their virtual outreach. They plan to continue some form of a BOTH/AND as in-person events begin to return. They suggested sharing this Harvard virtual tour with our alumni. Enjoy!

Gabby Thomas '19 wins bronze medal at the Olympics!

https://gocrimson.com/news/2021/8/3/track-field-gabby-thomas-19-wins-bronze-in-200-meters-at-2020-tokyo-olympics.aspx

Harvard Business School Club News

The HBS Club has a new Board and reimagined format for gatherings. Join on the HCC website: $85 for joint Harvard Club/HBS Club membership.

Athletics is back! Football schedule announced 7/6/21.

https://gocrimson.com/news/2021/7/6/football-announces-2021-schedule.aspx The Harvard football team has announced its 2021 season schedule, which features five games at Harvard Stadium and two games on the ESPN linear family of networks, including the 13

Our Condolences to Sarah Raup Johnson, MBA '79

Sarah's husband of 30 years, Mark Johnson passed away on June 1 in Florida. A memorial service will be held June 19 at 11 am at Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. Click through for more information.

Harvard FAS to expand campus housing, return to full in-person instruction in fall

2nd Virtual/ 152nd Annual Meeting on May 25 @ 4pm

The Harvard Club of Cincinnati will be holding its Annual Business Meeting virtually to elect the 2021-22 officers and directors and discuss post-pandemic expectations. Register for Zoom link. Renew or join today!

Recording: Both Parties Bidding: Ohio's 1884 Civil Rights Act and the Evolving Concept of Equal Citi

If you missed this discussion of Ohio's role in the quest for equal civil rights for all citizens, the link is now available.

Greater Cincy Admits Info!

We had a great year for admissions: 4 Early Admits and 7 Regular Admits. Congratulations! Thank you to Schools Committee and all our alumni interviewers!

History of The Christmas Smoker, our holiday gathering from at least 1902

With our annual holiday gathering at the University Club on hold in 2020, Dan Hoffheimer, our Archivist and Past President '86-7, has gifted us with memories of past HCC holiday celebrations. Read the article here. [not an event]

Harvard Around Town: Zoom into "Climate Policy in the New Normal"

Heather Souvaine Horn, '08, TNR deputy editor, moderates this panel discussion on climate policy with Bill McKibben, Mustafa Santiago Ali and Kate Aronoff. Heather is the niece of HCC members Gary Heaton and Marcy Taylor.

Goodbye to Bill Meyers

We lost our friend and long-time Club member Dr. Bill Meyers on August 22. Bill believed whole-heartedly that a Harvard education was a great gift. He avidly supported our Harvard Club by interviewing potential students and attending Book Club. Our tho

Harvard Announces Plans for Fall

Freshmen will be heading to Cambridge with a few upperclassmen by exemption. See the Crimson July 6 for full information.

HCC Past President Kate Molinsky to serve as HAA Director

Along with mothering five kids, coaching lacrosse, and practicing law, Kate is making time to represent Ohio and West Virginia on the Harvard Alumni Association Board of Directors. Congratulations and thank you, Kate!

Sherri Ann Charleston named chief diversity and inclusion officer.

Diversity and higher ed expert joins Harvard from UW-Madison. Click through for the link to full story in the Gazette.

Local graduate Nathan Grant '20 featured in Harvard Gazette for advocating for people with disabilit

"Nathan Grant is geared up to help families of people with genetic and cognitive disorders — like his twin". Click through for the link to the Gazette article. Next year, Grant plans to travel to the University of Cambridge’s Emmanuel College ...

Adam and Uri Sella appear in the Harvard Gazette: "Home for Dinner (and Breakfast and Lunch)

Students Dish on What They've Been Cooking Back Home https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/students_dish_on_what_theyve_been_cooking_back_home/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020200610%20(1)

Tales from Inside the Hot Zone with Colonel (Ret.) Dr. Mark Kortepeter

Mark G. Kortepeter, leading biodefense expert, will give an insider’s account of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and share perspective on the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard Club Donates to Freestore Foodbank

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Harvard Club of Cincinnati, $1500 was sent to support the important work of the Freestore Foodbank in our community. We unfortunately had to cancel our May service project but wanted to find another way to offer su

Virtual Commencement May 28, 2020

https://www.harvard.edu/honoring-harvard-class-2020

Efforts across the University aim to reassure, entertain, connect

Check out this article in the Harvard Gazette.

T.H. Chan School of Public Health free forums

Pandemic news stressing you out? Check out the free forums every Wednesday on coping with mental health issues related to the COVID-19 outbreak. Wednesdays at 11 am.

WEBINAR: HOPE, POSITIVITY, AND ACTION IN THE AGE OF COVID-19

Tuesday, March 31st, from 6:00pm EDT – 7:00pm EDT. Harvard students and affiliates of all identities are welcome. With Former U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy ('97), and Former Executive Director of Doctors for America, Alice Chen. Registration requi

•Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow has tested positive for COVID-19.

The President of Harvard and his wife are quarantining for 14 days after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and then getting positive test results. He sent a letter to students today (2/24).

Harvard Students Headed Home

To try to hinder the spread of COVID-19 before it overwhelms our healthcare system, Harvard is sending undergraduates home and all classes are moving online.

Early Action Acceptance Rate Increases to 13.9 Percent

The College invited 895 of 6,424 early applicants to join its Class of 2024. The 13.9 acceptance rate represents a 0.5 percent increase from last year. The early admission acceptance rate has not increased year-over-year since 2013. The number of ea

President's Report 2019-20

Recounting all the great events and good times we had in our 150th year as the Harvard Club of Cincinnati. Be there on March 12 to kick off the next 100 years at our 151st Annual Meeting and Dinner. Metropolitan Club, Covington.

In memory of Judge Nathaniel Jones, one of our greatest civil rights leaders.

Jones' record of community and academic service included teaching at Harvard Law School. His efforts in civil and human rights took him to countries around the world. He served on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Five Admitted Early Action!

Five local students have been admitted Early Action. They are from Highlands High School, St. Xavier, William Mason, Walnut Hills and Indian Hill.

Professor Emily Balskus (Ursuline Academy '98, Harvard PhD '08) wins Blavatnik Award

One of our Cincinnatians at Harvard, Professor Emily Balskus (Ursuline Academy '98, Harvard PhD '08) received a very prestigious award! Congratulations! https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/microbe-hunter-emily-balskus-wins-blavatnik-award/

Second Quarterly Women's Event

Organized by the women of Yale with the primary goal of socializing with an educational element. The women of Harvard and Radcliffe are invited to join in! Second program with Gillian Benet Sella, Harvard '87, Principal Harpist of the Cincy Symphony.

Harvard Around Town--Constanze Stelzenmuller

She was Kennedy School (MPA 1988), a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (1988–1989) and then a JFK Memorial Policy Fellow at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. Dr. Stelzenmuller will talk about NATO.

All SEVEN admitted students have accepted Harvard!!!

The seven come from six schools: Indian Hill High School William Mason High School (2) Sycamore High School Wyoming High School Loveland High School Seven Hills School

Yale invites you to their Annual Dinner

April 25 with Patricia Russo of the Women's Campaign School at Yale.

Harvard Around Town--Soledad O'Brien, '00

Cintas Center, 1624 Herald Ave., 45207 Hosted by The Women's Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and Cincinnati Magazine (HCC publishes events including alumni as "Harvard Around Town". We have no connection to the event.)

Harvard Around Town--Harvard Professor Emma Dench

"Leadership Lessons from Ancient Rome for the 21st Century" hosted by the UC Classics Department in memory of Professor Getzel Cohen.

Member's Home Recognized as First Modern House in Cincinnati

Jay Chatterjee, GSD, Dean Emeritus of DAAP, lives in a 1935 International-Style home in Clifton. On February 21, its architectural significance won it a place on the National Register of Historic Places. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/201

NEW: Quarterly Women's Events

Organized by the women of Yale with the primary goal of socializing with an educational element. The women of Harvard and Radcliffe are invited to join in! First program with Barbara Wagner, Yale '72 who was in the first 4-year co-ed class at Yale. What

Dave Rogers '93 Named to Indian Hill Athletic Hall of Fame

Before Dave Rogers played football for the Crimson, he was an outstanding athlete in football and track at Indian Hill High School. On January 25, 2019, Dave will be inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame during the boys varsity basketball game. Congratul

Angela Merkel named Harvard Commencement speaker

The German chancellor, one of the world’s most influential leaders, will be the principal speaker at the Afternoon Program of Harvard’s 368th Commencement.

Mitchell B. Polonsky '19 was selected as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.

Cincinnati native and Harvard senior Mitchell B. Polonsky ’19 has been named one of this year’s twelve George J. Mitchell Scholarship recipients, after being chosen from a record pool of 370 applicants. Click through for entire article.

HBS GNN October 2018

Thanks Sid and Nelson for a convivial evening at The Bar at Palm Court. Highlights included a glimpse into the rapidly changing landscape of the HBS campus by a 2017 grad and the addition of 2 new joint members--welcome Seth Barnhard and Bill Fotsch!

The Inauguration of Harvard’s 29th President

The installation ceremony for President Lawrence S. Bacow JD ’76, MPP ’76, PhD ’78 will take place on Friday, October 5. Can't make it to Cambridge? You can watch it live on October 5 at 2 p.m. ET. See the link provided by clicking the heading.

Harvardwood Seeks Authors, unpublished or published

Harvardwood Publishing is now accepting submissions to our second anthology of short fiction, prose, and poetry: Once Upon a Fairytale.

Results of the HCC Board Election for 2018-19

The election was held at the Annual Meeting and Dinner March 19. Thank you to our members and alumni--it was a lovely evening!

Gender-Neutral Housing Option Being Extended to Freshman

The College is working to debut a gender-neutral housing option for first-year students starting next year with the Class of 2022, according to Harvard administrators. Harvard spokesperson Aaron M. Goldman wrote that “Gender inclusive housing acknowledg

Harvard Names 29th President: Lawrence S. Bacow

Our new President is the holder of 3 Harvard degrees, is a past president of Tufts and previously chancellor at MIT, member of the Harvard Corporation since 2011 and currently at the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership.

Greg Landsman Elected to Cincy City Council

One of only 3 non-incumbents to win a seat this year, Greg Landsman, Divinity School '04, earned 26 endorsements from local labor unions and political organizations and got 24,356 votes.

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