Thanks to all supporters of the dinner. Any net proceeds are donated to charities with 501-c-3 status - the Oxford and Cambridge development campaigns.
3/9/09They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street, New York Times.Emanuel Derman expected to feel a
letdown when he left particle physics for a job on Wall Street in 1985. After
all, for almost 20 years, as a graduate student at Columbia and a postdoctoral
fellow at institutions like Oxford and the University of Colorado, he had been a
spear carrier in the quest to unify the forces of nature and establish the
elusive and Einsteinian “theory of everything,” hobnobbing with Nobel laureates
and other distinguished thinkers. How could managing money compare? But the
letdown never happened. Instead he fell in love with a corner of finance that
dealt with options.
1/15/09 Dinner Committee Met
The Dinner Committee met at the Harvard Club of NY for breakfast. Mary Lee Costa (Greyfriars, Oxford) was elected to replace Simon Cunningham (Brasenose, Oxford) as Master of the Rolls. Simon has moved back to his native Scotland. Claude Prince (Kellogg, Oxford) is again serving as wine and food steward. Peter Sealy (Pembroke, Cambridge) will take photographs of the event again. Masaya Ueda (Cambridge) has joined the Committee. The Oxford University North American Offices will handle registration and Jo Ann Barbieri will serve as Treasurer.
1/23/09
What's In a Name? NY Times. CRAPSTONE,
England — When ordering things by telephone, Stewart Pearce tends to take a proactive
approach to the inevitable question “What is your address?” He lays it out straight, so there is no room for
unpleasant confusion. “I say, ‘It’s spelled “crap,” as in crap,’ ” said
Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a one-shop country village in
Devon, for decades.
Oxford-Cambridge News, 2008
12/8/08 - Queens' College Cambridge Chapel Choir performed at Trinity Church (Wall Street), NYC at 1 pm, after tbhe 12:05 service. It sings again at 7 pm at St. Joseph's Church, 371 Avenue of the Americas at Waverly Place. 12/10/08 6 pm at Vassar College. 12/11/08 1:15 pm at Harvard's Memorial Church.
Queens' College Cambridge Chapel Choir
Oxford Students Invent a New Word
12/6/08Ecotarianism,WorldWide Words Tony Turnbull in The Times on September 25 says ecotarianism is about sourcing locally, organically, sustainably, in season and leaving earth's resources untouched. The word reportedly was coined in 2006 by Oxford undergraduates with an interest in food politics and was used in the title of a paper by Jessica Lee at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery in September 2007. It’s a catch-all term for anybody against "industrial food". The Evening Standard, Nov. 25, 2008 says ecotarians base their model diet on Tara Garnett's study Cooking Up a Storm. The Observer, Nov. 23, 2008, says ecotarianism has a winningly common-sense approach - eat the foods with the lowest environmental burden, those with the lowest global-warming potential (GWP) and the least chance of messing up the planet via their acidification and pollution potential. Contact: Michael Quinion wordseditor@WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG. Comment: New and challenging ideas require new words. Once we have new words, often the ideas become accepted and we forget how difficult it was to adjust to a new way of thinking.
John Jay Iselin, RIP
5/7/08 John Jay Iselin, Public TV Innovator, Dies at 74, New York Times. Jay Iselin studied law at Cambridge. He led WNET, also known as Channel 13, the nation’s largest public television station, through a period of innovative programming. He was great-great-great-great-grandson of John Jay. He was president of the Columbia University’s Marconi Fellowship Foundation. Wikipedia entry.He served as President of Cooper Union and was awarded the CBE in 2006.
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