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75th Annual Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Dinner
Harvard Club of New York City, April 3, 2008
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2008 Sponsors: BSUF, Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Associations; Christ Church Oxford Alumni, Queens' Cambridge Alumni, HSBC Bank, Nautica, Bradford Renaissance Portraits, Steve Mace, George & Huguette Prince.
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/\ Above: Oxford-Cambridge Alumni Boat Race at the start on the Saugatuck River, Westport, CT.
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75TH ANNUAL OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE NYC BOAT RACE DINNER, APRIL 3, 2008
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The Oxford-Cambridge NYC Boat Race Dinner will be held on April 3, 2008 at the Harvard Club of NYC. The annual NYC dinner is the oldest annual uninterrupted Oxford-Cambridge alumni event in the world. For an invitation to attend the 75th Annual Boat Race Dinner at the Harvard Club of New York City on April 3, 2008 click here.
The website also supports the Oxford-Cambridge Alumni Boat Race. The third annual race was in September 2007 on the Saugatuck River at Westport, CT.
The 154th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race will be rowed on March 29, 2008. New York area alumni will be watching the game on television - information here.
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Speakers
Saman Majd
Kate Weber
Peter Darrow
Dan Topolski
Miranda Morrison
David Clary
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Saman Majd, Ch.Ch., Ph.D. (MIT), Race Director, Alumni Boat Race
Kate Weber, Selwyn, Cambridge, Blondie (1980)
Peter Darrow, Trinity, Oxford
Dan Topolski, New College, for 15 years coach of the Oxford Crew (12 wins)
Miranda Morrison, Magdalen, Oxford
David Clary, Ph.D. and D.Sc. (Corpus Christi, Cambridge), President of Magdalen College, Oxford
| Dr. Saman Majd, Race Director, Alumni Boat Race, 2006-2007
Dr. Majd will pick out the highlights of the 2007 NYC Oxford-Cambridge Alumni Boat Race. Majd was Race Director for the Oxford-Cambridge Alumni Boat Races, 2006-2007. He retired as Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank Asset Management at the end of 2001. Previously he was global head of derivatives for DB and North American head of derivatives for Salomon. He has a degree in Physics from Oxford and a PhD in Finance from MIT. He taught finance at the Wharton School and the Yale School of Management. He rowed for St. Paul’s School, London, and for Christ Church (Captain, 1977). He stroked the Isis crew that set a new course record in the race against Goldie. Since 2004, he has competed for the Saugatuck Rowing Club in the US and World Masters Championships and served as the Club’s Commodore in 2006-7.
Dan Topolski, Coach, Oxford Crew, 1973-1987
Mr. Topolski will report on the 2008 Boat Race. He was Finishing Coach of the Oxford University Boat Race Crew for 15 years, during which Oxford won 12 races, including an unbroken run of ten victories, 1976-1985. He is an author, former rower and regular voice on BBC Radio. The son of painter Feliks Topolski, he attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, before going to Westminster School and New College, Oxford. At Oxford, he rowed in both the 1967 and 1968 Boat Races. He won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 1989 as the co-author (with Patrick Robinson) of True Blue: Oxford Boat Race Mutiny — the story of the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. By 1992 Oxford had won 16 of the previous 17 races and were within one victory of equaling Cambridge's overall total of wins.
Professor David Clary, Ph.D. and Sc.D. (Cambridge), President of Magdalen College
Professor Clary has divided loyalties in the boat race since his doctorates in theoretical chemistry are from Cambridge but he is a professor at Oxford. Within Oxford, however, his allegiance is clear since he has been President of Magdalen College, Oxford since 2005. His proudest moment at Magdalen so far was presiding in February over his college's becoming Head of the River in Torpids for the first time since 1934. He attended Colchester Royal Grammar School 1964-71. He has a B. Sc. (1974) from the University of Sussex and a Ph.D. (1977) and Sc.D. (1997) from the University of Cambridge, where he was at Corpus Christi College. He did post-doctoral research at IBM, San Jose, California and the University of Manchester. In 1980 he was appointed Lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). In 1983 he was appointed Lecturer and then Reader in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge where he was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Magdalene College. In 1996, he was Director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry and Professor at University College London. In 2002 he moved to the University of Oxford where he was Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Professorial Fellow of St. John's College. Professor Clary was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his development of the quantum theory for chemical reactions. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Institute of Physics; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He has received several medals of the RSC, and the medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. He is Editor of Chemical Physics Letters and a reviewing editor of Science.
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\/ Below: Rowers and volunteer organizers before the Saugatuck Boat Club. More photos and a writeup here. The man with folded arms at the intersection of the dark blues and light blues is Saman Majd, who organized the Oxford-Cambridge Alumni Boat Race in 2006 and 2007 and was the elected Commodore of the Saugatuck Rowing Club for those two years.
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