WDCSA Newsletter - October 2024 - Washington DC Stanford Association

Table of Contents

Events Calendar

Fall 2024 - WDCSA Stanford Football Game Watches
Oct 5 & 12 - Stanford Sailing at the 2024 Atlantic Coast Championships
Oct 15 - Welcome 2 DC
Oct 19 - Fall Foliage Hike
Oct 25 - Ghosts of Georgetown Tour
Nov 3 - Little Known Election Facts’ Impact on Results, Realities, and Perceptions

Upcoming Events

WDCSA Stanford Football Game Watches

Fall 2024
Tom's Watch Bar
1250 Half St SE, Washington, DC

Join fellow alumni at Tom's Watch Bar in Navy Yard to watch Stanford football games! Stanford is playing in its inaugural season in the ACC, after being a member of the Pac-12 since 1919.

The next game is against Virginia Tech on 10/5 at 3:30pm. Stanford is 1-0 vs Virginia Tech all-time, defeating them 40-12 in the Orange Bowl after the 2010 season, which was Jim Harbaugh's last game as coach of the Cardinal.

The remainder of the schedule:

10/12 at #17/18 Notre Dame 3:30pm
10/19 vs SMU
10/28 vs Wake Forest
11/2 at NC State
11/16 vs #15/17 Louisville
11/23 at Cal Big Game
11/29 at San Jose State 4pm
12/7 ACC Championship Game

Stanford Sailing at the 2024 Atlantic Coast Championships

United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD

Come watch Stanford sailing at the Atlantic Coast Championships in Annapolis!

Open ACC Round 1 October 5th 10 AM - October 6th 5 PM
Women's ACC Finals October 12th 10 AM - October 13th 5 PM

Welcome 2 DC

Tuesday, October 15th 6 - 8 PM
The Admiral
1 Dupont Cir NW, Washington, DC

Join fellow alumni as we gather and welcome new grads and recent arrivals to DC area! If you’re new(-ish) to the area, come meet other alumni who can help you get acquainted with navigating DC. If you’ve been here a minute, come help the new arrivals by sharing your favorite spots and more. Regardless of your class year or how long you've been here, this is a great opportunity to see who else from your Stanford fam calls DC home. Enjoy beer, other drinks and appetizers and catch up with old friends and make new ones!

This event is for Stanford alumni and their guests.

Please check back soon for the location and registration.

You must be registered to attend.

Accessibility Accommodation

If you require an accessibility-related accommodation, please contact astridt@stanford.edu as soon as possible or at least 10 business days in advance of the event.

Contact Astrid Thompson astridt@stanford.edu for more information.

Fall Foliage Hike

Saturday, October 19th 10:30 AM - 12 PM
Peirce Mill
2401 Tilden St NW, Washington, DC

Come join WDCSA on a fall foliage hike in Rock Creek Park! We will meet at Peirce Mill then hike on the Valley Trail Loop. The hike should take about 1 hour and 45 minutes. It's a 4.4-mile loop considered fairly easy. Attendees should bring water and any snacks they may want.

Please let us know if you're planning to join by filling out this quick Google Form!

Ghosts of Georgetown Tour

Friday, October 25th
Tours at 6:00 and 8:00 PM
C&O Canal Lock 3 in Georgetown

Come hear about haunted parts of Georgetown you have never seen, much less heard about. Get spooked out with other people who were undergrads in the 70s, 80s and 90s and remember making their own Halloween costumes because you could not buy them in stores!

Tickets are $30. Tours will meet at C&O Canal Lock 3. Ending place is at a mystery location. Minimum age for this "adults only" tour is 15. Tour is one and a half hours and completely outside so dress for the weather.

You must be fully vaccinated to attend BtoB events: by signing up you are attesting that you are.

If you have questions, contact boomerstobusters@gmail.com.

To join the email list click here.

This event is sponsored by Boomers to Busters, which is sponsored by the University of Chicago Club of DC. It is targeted for alumni of all schools who were undergraduates from the 1970s to 1990s, and their spouses, partners, and guests. All are welcome to attend.

Schools advertising Boomers to Busters events include Amherst, Barnard, Berkeley, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Georgia Tech, Haverford, Kenyon, Michigan, MIT, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Penn State, Pomona, Princeton, Rutgers, Smith, Stanford, Tulane, Wellesley, Williams and Yale. Graduates of other institutions are equally welcome.

Little Known Election Facts’ Impact on Results, Realities, and Perceptions

Sunday,November 3rd 3 – 4 pm
Stanford in Washington - Sant Building
Distance Learning Center, Lower Level
2655 Connecticut Ave, Washington, D.C. 20008

Public trust in the fairness and accuracy of US elections is central to the health of our democracy. Most of the responsibility for providing secure and fair elections resides with local election officials. But in recent years, trust is being eroded by the spread of disinformation about both local election workers and procedures. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most Americans know almost nothing about how elections actually operate and the security measures that are in place.

Join us to hear why some of the basic facts about local election administration, including systemic issues, the election workforce, and variation in state election laws, will be important in understanding what happens on Election Day. And, as Election Week 2024 unfolds, news will be driven by both the tallied results and the response to the outcome.

Panelists:

Nancy Tate ’70 served as the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of the United States for 15 years. She is currently the Chair of the Elections Working Group at the National Academy of Public Administration.

Doyle McManus ’74 is a freelance writer who after five years as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, moved to the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1983, where he covered the U.S. State Department and White House until stepping into the role of Washington Bureau Chief from 1996-2008. Doyle has written for Foreign Policy, Time, Sports Illustrated, and The London Daily Express, and his work has won awards from the National Press Club and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He has served on Stanford’s Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute.

Moderator: Barbara Baumann Tyran ‘76

Soft drinks, light refreshments

Price: $14.00 for members, $18.00 for non-members

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Please contact the organizer, Risa Shimoda, with questions at risa@theshimodgroup.com, (301) 502 6548

WDCSA Book Club Corner

Washington DC Book Club Discussion

Sunday, October 13th 5pm
Meeting at a private home in Tysons Corner, Va.
Exact location information will be sent one week prior to the event.

The October book is O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre; Simon & Schuster, 1988, 640 pages. Available as an audiobook or Kindle electronic book, as well as in paper and hardback editions.

This book describes the historic struggle as Arabs, Jews, and British collide in their fight for control of Jerusalem. The story begins with the UN vote to partition Palestine, which caused joy among the Jews and grief among the Arabs. It continues with the battles along the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, fall of the Old City of Jerusalem, the two grueling battles of Latrun, the building of the Burma Road, and the massacres at Deir Yassin and Hadassah Hospital. All are recounted in rich, full detail, with their victims, Arab and Jew alike, accorded full sympathy by the authors.

For further information, contact Don Bieniewicz, MS '75, at donbien@erols.com.

Baltimore Book Club Discussion

Monday, November 4th, 7:30 pm
Google Meet: Registrants will be emailed a link to join the meeting a few minutes before.

We are reading Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell. This book “is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event, all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. With a surgeon’s skill Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath.” (From book cover)

Our January 13th book is Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science by Pamela Ryckman.

Questions/RSVP: text Helene Myers, Ph.D., P'14, 301-655-5871