| Oct. 17, Weds. | – Meyer Adopt-A-School Program Benefit Gala |
| Oct. 18, Thurs. | – McClellan Breakfast Briefing |
| Oct. 20, Sat. | – Stanford v Oregon football (TV) |
| Oct. 22, Mon. | – Welcome Reception for Stanford President John Hennessey |
| Oct. 23, Tues. | – Pac-10 Happy Hour |
| Oct. 27, Sat. | – Stanford v UCLA football (TV) |
| Nov. 5, Mon. | – Madama Butterfly (opera) |
| Nov. 17, Sat. | – 104th BIG GAME!!! |
| Jan. 22, Tues. | – Wizards v. 76ers |
| Feb. 7, Tues. | – Wizards v. Sacramento Kings |
| Mar. 16, Sat. | – "Think Again DC" special event (invite to be mailed in Jan.) |
| May 20, Mon. | – Queen of Spades (opera) |
| June 6, Thurs. | – Carmen (opera) |
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Stanford Alumni in DC
I hope that life for each of you is approaching some semblance of normalcy after
the attacks of September 11. On behalf of the Board of Directors, please
know that our thoughts and prayers have been with those of you touched
personally by the tragedies at the Pentagon and in New York. We are still
learning the full list of names of those Stanford alumni and friends who
perished, and, as our nation begins to engage in what is likely to be a
prolonged war against terrorism, it with some awkwardness that I invite each of
you to add our upcoming alumni events to your schedule. Yet I also believe that
now is a time when the WDCSA should renew its commitment to serving the Stanford
family in DC.
This mailing is the first full newsletter of the Washington DC Stanford
Association’s 2001-02 year. We have a new, outstanding and energetic board with
many great ideas for events, and I have little doubt you’ll be eager to
participate in many WDCSA events over the coming year. As you know, the WDCSA is
an entirely volunteer-run organization, and your membership dues allow us to
provide this newsletter and the annual membership directory, and to continue to
host a wide range of activities and programs.
On behalf of the Board, I also want to invite you to get involved in the WDCSA.
There are a number of options for involvement: Join the Board of Directors.
Volunteer at an event. Offer to be a career mentor. Try out a new event or
program. Or, simply drop me a line at charles_hokanson@stanfordalumni.org, or
3000 Spout Run Parkway, #B605, Arlington, VA 22201, and let me know your great
ideas for events and programs. Thanks again for your interest and support. We
hope that this year’s calendar of events excites you as much as it does us.
Charles Hokanson AB ’93, AM ’93
WDCSA President, 2001-2002
Meyer Adopt-A-School Program Benefit Gala
Wednesday, October 17
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Where: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office
1520 18th Street NW
Metro: Dupont Circle (Red Line)
Parking: Street parking is available after 6:30. Also, several parking lots are
located near Dupont Circle; some close at 9 pm.
Info/Tickets: $40 per person (includes appetizers, beer, and wine). Send
checks made out to "Adopt-A-School" to Hanson Li, 2001 N. Glebe Road,
Arlington, VA 20001. Checks should be received in advance to assure attendance.
Questions?: Contact Hanson Li at chunkychi@hotmail.com or 703-598-1386.
The Meyer Adopt-A-School Program was started fifteen years ago by alumni from
Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton. On Saturday mornings, alumni from the various
schools go to D.C.’s Meyer Elementary to tutor and mentor in a variety of
subjects.
The gala is our way to kick off another fun and rewarding year of volunteering
and raise the funds needed to operate the program. Last year’s event at
the Embassy of Finland was a smashing success-for the dollars raised and the
good time with those attending.
This year’s gala is at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, a beautiful
building near Dupont Circle. The Director-General will speak for a short
duration. Appetizers (Chinese, of course) and drinks will be available.
Additional donations are also welcome and will be acknowledged in the event
program. Donations and $20 of the ticket cost are tax-deductible. We also
encourage everyone to bring a new school supply (pencils, markers, children’s
scissors, construction paper, etc.) to donate to the program.
A View from the White House
Thursday, Oct. 18:
Breakfast Briefing with
Dr. Mark McClellan
Member, Council of Economic Advisors
Executive Office of the President
Dr. Mark McClellan, Stanford Associate Professor in the University’s Department
of Economics and in its Department of Medicine, was confirmed in July by the
U.S. Senate as one of the three members of the President’s Council of Economic
Advisors.
Mark, not a newcomer to federal public service, previously served at the U.S.
Treasury Department from 1998-99 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic
Policy.
The Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), established by statute in 1946, provides
the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and
implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy
issues.
Among its specific duties and functions, the CEA develops and recommends to the
President "national economic policies to foster and promote free
competitive enterprise, to avoid economic fluctuations or to diminish the
effects thereof, and to maintain employment, production and purchasing
power." The CEA’s role in such matters as this year has unfolded for
the United States is particularly challenging.
In addition to being a part of the President’s economics team, Mark brings a
special interest and expertise to federal public service through his
concentration on the economics of health care, which continues to be a major
domestic policy concern.
At Stanford, Mark was Director of the Program on Health Outcomes Research at
Stanford Medical School as well as an attending physician at the University’s
Health Services. Originally from Austin, Texas, he graduated from the
University of Texas at Austin, received his Master’s of Public Administration
from Harvard University, received his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of
Health Science, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
Please plan on attending this timely, relevant-and off-the-record-briefing.
Place: Old Ebbitt Grill
675 15th Street, N.W.
Metro: Metro Center
(13th and G Streets, N.W.)
Date: Thurs., October 18th
Time: 7:45 to 9:00 am
Menu: Continental breakfast
Cost: $14.00 per person
Make checks payable to Washington DC Stanford Association and send them by Oct.
16 to:
Terry Adlhock
c/o Allegheny Energy, Suite 1030
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington DC 20004
tel. (202) 824-0408
e-mail: tadlhock@aol.com
Welcome Reception for Stanford’s President
Join the entire Stanford community in the Washington DC area in welcoming
Stanford University’s 10th President, John Hennessy!
Monday, October 22, 6:30-8:30 pm
(Reception at 6:30, Remarks by President Hennessy at 7:30)
Where: The Omni Shoreham Hotel
2500 Calvert Street, NW (at Connecticut Avenue)
Metro: one block south of the Woodley Park Metro-Red Line
Parking: Self parking at the Omni Shoreham for $15, valet parking for $19. Some
street parking in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Cost: none
Invitations and reply cards were mailed in mid-September from the University.
If you have already replied or cannot attend, do nothing. If you
wish to come but have not replied, please return your reply card at your
earliest convenience, but no later than Monday, October 15.
If you have not mailed your reply card and instead wish to indicate by email
that you will attend, please contact Sarah Booth at sbooth@stanford.edu AND
indicate the following:
1. your name, class year(s) and degree(s);
2. address, plus home and office phone;
3. e-mail address; and
4. name(s) of guest(s), plus any Stanford degree(s) and class year(s).
or you can send the above information by mail to:
John Hennessy Welcome Reception
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305-6105
Questions? Contact Sarah at (650) 736-2484.
PAC-10 Happy Hour
Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 6 pm on, at Gordon Biersch
Looking for a way to unwind after a long day at the office? Well, why not come
out and have a drink or two with alumni from Stanford, Arizona State University,
UCLA, USC, Oregon State, Washington, Pepperdine, and other Pac-10/West Coast
schools on Tuesday, October 23rd at 6:00 pm at the Gordon Biersch Brewery
Restaurant, 900 F Street, NW. (This event is scheduled in lieu of this
month’s Third Thursday.)
WDCSA opera lovers mark your calendars!!!
Three outstanding productions have been reserved for this 2001-2002 club year.
This year we have ordered a split pricing selection to accommodate more
members.
Madama Butterfly-Monday, November 5th at 7 pm*
Queen of Spades with Placido Domingo-Mon., May 20 at 7pm
Carmen-Thursday, June 6th at
8 pm (closing night)*
* on these evenings an Opera Insights lecture precedes the perfomance. Members
may wish to make their own arrangements to attend the lecture usually held in
the Atrium.
November 5-MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Giacomo Puccini
Monday, at 7 pm
10 tickets Orchestra Prime $130 each
10 tickets Second Tier $63 each
Madama Butterfly returns to Washington in a stunning and innovative production
of one of the world’s most beloved operas. Stationed in Japan, a feckless
young Naval officer buys himself a temporary "bride"-the beautiful and
innocent Butterfly. What to him is a fleeting diversion is to her a
lifetime commitment, and Butterfly forsakes all-religion, family, and
culture-for her American "husband." When he returns with an
American wife to seek custody of the young geisha’s child, Butterfly makes the
ultimate sacrifice.
Of all his many heroines, Puccini most loved Butterfly-the girl "for whom I
wrote music in the night." For her, he created one of the greatest
roles in opera. On this evening as Stanford goes to the opera, acclaimed soprano
Veronica Villarroel will be the lovely Cio Cio San and tenor Marcus Haddock, the
caddish Pinkerton.
May 20-QUEEN OF SPADES by Piotr Illich Tchaikovsky
Monday, at 7 pm
20 tickets Orchestra only – $115 each
Placido Domingo headlines an all-star cast in the role of the obsessed gambler
who’s consumed by his passion. In this elegant production from Vienna
Staatsoper, Soprano Galina Gorchakova, last seen here in Tosca, is our Lisa, and
Elena Obraztsova makes her company debut in the tour de force role of the
Countess.
June 6th-CARMEN by Georges Bizet
Thursday, at 8 pm (closing night)
10 tickets Orchestra Prime $130 each
10 tickets Second Tier $63 each
Artistic Director Placido Domingo conducts a score blazing with brilliance in
this revival of Washington’s 1995 production. The world-reknown sumptuous
mezzo soprano Jennifer Larmore makes her company debut as the gypsy who plays by
her own rules and the widely hailed tenor Fabio Armiliato (our Manrico in Il
Trovatore) returns as her obsessed lover.
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All ticket orders received by October 17th will receive equal consideration.
Tickets are available for all three operas. If you are willing to take the
alternate price to your preferred seating, leave the check amount blank, in the
memo line write "not to exceed $xxx" and I will contact you before
completing the amount on the check. If you only want the seating price
requested, make the check for that amount. If the seats are "sold
out", I will return the check to you.
Send your checks (a separate check for each opera, if ordering more than one),
seating preference, telephone number and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
Claire Taplett
6620 North 32nd Street
Arlington, VA 22213-1608.
104th Big Game
Sat., Nov. 17, 3:30 EST (time subject to change).
Details of the joint Stanford-Cal Big Game Party will be included in next
month’s newsletter. As in years past, Stanford and Cal will be paying for
satellite time so you will be able to see the game at our local viewing location
in the DC area.
Stanford’s football team is off to a 3-0 start, its first since 1986, earning
them a No. 22 ranking. The remaining games are (all times Eastern):
Oct. 13 – Washington State at Stanford, 5PM
Oct. 20 – Stanford at #5 Oregon, 3:30PM (ABC)
Oct. 27 – #7 UCLA at Stanford, 3:30PM (ABC) (changed from 7PM)
Nov. 3 – Stanford at Washington, 3:30PM
Nov. 10 – Stanford at Arizona, 9PM
Nov. 17 – California at Stanford, 3:30PM
Nov. 24 – Notre Dame at Stanford, 8PM (ABC)
Dec. 1 – Stanford at San Jose State, 5PM
Game times and television coverage are subject to change. We will be
publicizing via email viewing locations for the October 20 Oregon, October 27
UCLA, and November 24 Notre Dame televised games along with information as to
their availability on network television. For further information, contact
Bill Pegram at dcstanalum@aol.com or 703-486-0952.
Washington Wizards with Michael Jordan
The WDCSA has 12 tickets each for each of the following games:
Washington Wizards vs. Philadelphia 76ers
Tuesday, January 22, 7 pm
Section 407, Row O, Seats 1-12. $40 per ticket.
Washington Wizards vs. Sacramento Kings
Thursday, February 7, 7 pm
Section 432, Row M, Seats 1-12. $51 per ticket.
To order, please send a check, payable to WDCSA, to: Bill Pegram, 815 South 18th
Street, #400, Arlington, VA 22202. If ordering for more than 1 game,
include separate checks. Due to the possibly large demand for these
tickets, all ticket orders received by October 20 will receive equal
consideration.
Modern Drama Discussion Group Plays and Discussions
First events are October 14 and 15. For information, go to www.footlightsdc.org
Ivy Social Club 30-Plus Receptions
First events are October 26 and November 30. For information, go to www.thesquare.com/members/over30dc