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- Feb 2 - WDCSA Lunar New Year Dim Sum 2025
Upcoming Events
WDCSA Lunar New Year Dim Sum 2025
Sunday, February 2nd 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Tiger Dumplings
3225 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA
Come join other WDCSA folks to celebrate the Lunar New Year with dim sum! Attendees are responsible for the costs of their food. Individual tables generally split the checks among themselves. Expect to spend ~$30-45.
Please RSVP by 1/31/25 and please update your status if your plans change.
https://groups.stanford.edu/topics/9217/events/111256
WDCSA Book Club Corner
Washington DC Book Club Discussion
Sunday, February 9th 4pm
Meeting at a private home in Silver Spring, Md.
The book for our February meeting is Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, by Elyse Graham; Ecco, 2024, 400 pages. Available in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and Kindle editions.
At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in need of an intelligence agency, and in response the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—a precursor to today’s CIA—was formed. In an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Using personal histories, letters, and declassified OSS files, the author tells the story of a group of academics who became OSS spies and set the stage for today’s CIA.
For further information, contact Don Bieniewicz, MS '75, at donbien@erols.com.
Baltimore Book Club Discussion
Monday, January 13th, 7:30 pm
Google Meet: Registrants will be emailed a link to join the meeting a few minutes before.
We are reading Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science by Pamela Ryckman. “Pert (1) discovered the opiate receptor (the mechanism by which opioids function in the brain), launching the opioid crisis, (2) proved the mind-body link, launching the field of integrative or functional medicine, and (3) created Peptide T, the underground AIDS drug featured in the film Dallas Buyers Club, and then went rogue, becoming a linchpin the the black market for her drug. Pert was sabotaged by mentors and colleagues keen to profit from her brilliance. But she too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths - singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity - would prove to be her undoing.” (From book cover)
Our March 17th book is The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd.
Questions/RSVP: Text Helene Myers at 301-655-5871