September 2025
Dear Harvard Club of Cincinnati members, local alumni, and other members of our community,
I am writing to introduce myself as your Harvard Club of Cincinnati President for the 2025-2026 programming year. My name is Edward Horgan, and I am a graduate of the College, class of 2014. Serving as the President of the longest continuously active Harvard Club in the world is a distinct honor, and I am looking forward to an exceptional year ahead.
Our theme this year is “CincinnatUS: Cultivating Relationships through Intellectual Discovery” (shout-out to Club 1st Vice President Dr. Marcus Lehman AB ‘01 for suggesting the clever wordplay around our city’s namesake). We have a wonderful slate of events planned for the next twelve months intended to bring together existing members, draw in local alumni who may have been reluctant to join our events in the past, and facilitate interaction with other local Ivy clubs.
Aside from the old standby gatherings like Harvard-Yale, the Holiday Reception, the Annual Dinner, Global Networking Night, and the Shore Dinner (among others), we also plan to diversify our series of events with several informal “pop-ups,” like a “Not-a-Book Club” focused on articles and short stories. This event is reminiscent of the storied and long-running book club that we formerly held at Brontë Bistro in Rookwood Commons: the writings under discussion here may be more brief, but we anticipate the resulting discussions will be no less lively! Thank you to 2nd Vice President Erik Jensen AB ‘89 for coordinating this and other informal events with help from other members of our Board.
What made my own time at Harvard extraordinary was the experience of pursuing intellectual discovery alongside a cohort of brilliant, passionate, and principled peers. This year, we are hoping to re-create the Harvard magic in Cincinnati by promoting a similarly community-driven approach to stimulating topics in the arts, sciences, business, and any other fields of interest to our members.
We will not lose sight of our goal to give back to our community as well, with multiple volunteer events and initiatives planned for later this year (more news to come). We welcome everyone to get involved with our Club in what promises to be a rewarding year of connection and discovery.
I encourage each of you to reach out to me directly to share what we can do to make your Harvard Club of Cincinnati experience as transformative as your time at Harvard itself is likely to have been. My personal email address is ehorgan@post.harvard.edu; I hope to hear from you and look forward to seeing many new and familiar faces at our events this year.
In particular, I hope to see you at our annual President’s Reception, this year hosted at the Remington Room in Montgomery on October 23 from 5:30-8:30pm! Thank you for entrusting me with this great responsibility to lead our Club as President for the upcoming year, and please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Warmly and sincerely,
Edward Daniel Horgan V, AB ‘14
513-703-8137