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Upcoming Events
Event Calendar
- Sat, Nov 5, 3:30 pm – Stanford Football Game Watch
- Sun, Nov 6, 1:30 – 3 pm – Stanford Parent and Family Connection Care Package Party
- Sat, Nov 12, 10 pm – Stanford Football Game Watch
- Sat, Nov 19, 5:30 pm – Stanford Football Game Watch
- Sat, Nov 26, 11 pm – Stanford Football Game Watch
- Tue, Nov 29, 5:30 – 8:30 pm – Volunteering at the Capital Food Bank
- Fri, Dec 2, 8 pm – Stanford Football Game Watch
WDCSA Stanford Football Game Watches
Crystal City Sports Pub
529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA
Come join the Washington DC Stanford Association and fellow alumni to cheer on the Cardinal this season.
- Sat, Nov 5, 3:30 pm vs Washington State
- Sat, Nov 12, 10 pm vs Utah
- Sat, Nov 19, 5:30 pm at Cal (Big Game)
- Sat, Nov 26, 11 pm vs BYU
- Fri, Dec 2, 8 pm Pac-12 Championship Game
Stanford Parent and Family Connection Care Package Party
Sun, Nov 6, 1:30 – 3 pm
Potomac, MD
All who wish to send a care package to their children are invited to this indoor event in Potomac.
Questions/RSVP: Helene Myers, Ph.D., P’14, atcedarhouse@comcast.net.
Volunteering at the Capital Food Bank
Tue, Nov 29, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Capitol Food Bank
4900 Puerto Rico Ave NE, Washington, DC
This holiday season, join Stanford Alumni sort and pack food donations at the Capital Food Bank.
We currently have 10 openings available. However, with increased interest, we can expand the number of volunteer spots open!
Please note, Capital Food Bank requires all volunteers be vaccinated.
For more information, contact Beth Presser at beth.presser@gmail.com.
WDCSA Book Club Corner
Washington DC Book Club Discussion
Sun, Dec 11, 2 pm
Private home; exact location will be sent one week prior to the event.
The December book is I Will Die in a Foreign Land: A Novel, by Kalani Pickhart.
This novel follows four people over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter in 2014, as their lives are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests. Katya is a Ukrainian-American doctor stationed at a makeshift medical clinic; Misha is an engineer; Slava is a fiery young activist; and Aleksandr Ivanovich, a former KGB agent, climbs atop a burned-out police bus at Independence Square to play the piano. The author was selected as an inaugural 2022 New Voices Literary Fellow for the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies.
For further information, contact Don Bieniewicz, MS ’75, at donbien@erols.com.
Baltimore Book Club Discussion
Mon, Nov 14, 7:30 pm
Google Meet: Registrants will be emailed a link to join the meeting a few minutes before.
We are reading Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s Strongmen:From Mussolini to the Present, which “examines how illiberal leaders use corruption, violence, propaganda, and machismo to stay in power, and how resistance to them has unfolded over a century.” Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, “is a historian and commentator on fascism, authoritarian leaders, and propaganda — and the threats these present to democracies. An MSNBC Opinion Columnist and author or editor of six books, with over 100 op-eds and essays in CNN, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, she brings historical perspective to her analyses of current events. Her insight into the authoritarian playbook has made her an expert source for television, radio, podcasts, and online events around the globe.” (From author’s website https://ruthbenghiat.com.)
Our January 9th book is The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy.