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Events Calendar
- May 12 - Baltimore Book Club Discussion
- May 15 - Joint Alumni in Climate/Climate Tech Happy Hour
- May 20 - Bureau of Engraving and Printing Tour
- Jun 8 - Washington DC Book Club Discussion
WDCSA Softball Sign-up
Join the Stanford Capitol Alumni Network (CAN) softball team this summer! The coed softball season typically stretches from April to July, with a tournament in August. We typically play at the West Potomac Park softball fields on Saturday mornings, although there are occasional weekday evening games. Register through this event to join the team email list and receive updates about upcoming games. No softball experience required and all are welcome!
WDCSA is subsidizing the season, so registration is free to paid-WDCSA members!
https://groups.stanford.edu/topics/9217/events/117244
Upcoming Events
Joint Alumni in Climate/Climate Tech Happy Hour
Thursday, May 15th 5:30 - 7:30 PM
The Admiral
1 Dupont Cir NW, Washington, DC
Come join alumni from Stanford, MIT, and Harvard interested in/passionate about climate and climate tech. This happy hour will be a fun way to meet others working in this space and spark insightful conversations. Food and beverages will be available for purchase, and we have the Back Bar reserved for our group. This is the first in an upcoming series of joint university climate/climate tech collaborations.
This event is hosted by Stanford Alumni in Climate Tech (ACTs).
RSVP here: https://lu.ma/yp8ac1m3
https://groups.stanford.edu/topics/9217/events/126527
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Tour
Tuesday, May 20th 11AM - 1 PM
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
301 14th Street SW Washington, DC
Boomers to Busters: Grads of the 70, 80s and 90s is going to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing!
Remember when pretty much every place took cash? Well, see how it is printed up. Reminisce with other people who were undergrads during the 70s, 80s and 90s and remember writing checks to "Cash."
One of Washington, DC's less well-known tourist attractions is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Part of this is because it is only open weekdays during the day. Thus, for those who can make it, we are holding our first weekday daytime event. We will visit the Visitor Center, see a movie and then take a tour to see how currency is printed.
There is no charge for the tour, but space is limited so please sign up only if you are very interested. To sign up click here.
The BEP is two blocks from the Smithsonian Metro.
For more information, contact us at boomerstobusters@gmail.com.
To join our email list click here.
Boomers to Busters is delighted to announce that, after a 3-year hiatus, we will again be having our ever-popular ROOFTOP SOIREE with an unparalleled view of Washington on FRIDAY, JUNE 20th, 2025. SAVE THE DATE. Details to follow.
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This event is sponsored by Boomers to Busters: Grads of the 70s, 80s and 90s, 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. All are welcome to attend.
Schools advertising BtoB 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, Pomona, Princeton, Rutgers, Smith, Stanford, Wellesley, Williams and Yale. Graduates of other institutions are equally welcome.
WDCSA Book Club Corner
Washington DC Book Club Discussion
Sunday, June 8th 5pm
Meeting at a private home in Arlington, Va.
The June book is Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft); Riverhead Books, 2019. Available in hardbound, paperback, audiobook, and Kindle editions.
Chopin’s heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. This book is a series of short stories, philosophical statements, and aphorisms focusing on travel.
Flights explores how to be a traveler, a wanderer, and a body in motion, not only through space but through time, by the winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for literature.
For further information, contact Don Bieniewicz, MS '75, at donbien@erols.com.
Baltimore Book Club Discussion
Monday, May 12th, 7:30 pm
Google Meet: Registrants will be emailed a link to join the meeting a few minutes before.
We are reading Blood on the Forge by William Attaway, published in 1941, a story of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow South. The story “follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North. Delivered by day into the searing inferno of the steel mills, by night they encounter a world of surreal devastation, crowded with dogfighters, whores, cripples, strikers, and scabs. Keenly sensitive to character, prophetic in its depiction of environmental degradation and globalized labor, Attaway’s novel is an unprecedented confrontation with the realities of American life, offering an apocalyptic vision of the melting pot not as an icon of hope but as an instrument of destruction.” (From book cover)
Our July 14th book is The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey.