Alumni Events Calendar

When: 7:30 PM May 26, 2013
Where: Bellevue Presbyterian Church, 1717 Bellevue Way NE Bellevue WA 98004
Cost: Free

No registration required.

This year's tour takes the Glee Club to the Pacific Northwest. We are looking forward to performing for our alumni, friends and prospective/current students in this region. This year's program includes selections from the 16th century to the present. The 25-member ensemble is directed by Donna M. Di Grazia. 

The Glee Club is the College's elite auditioned chamber choir; the late Robert Shaw '38 – the most influential American choral conductor of the 20th century – is its most distinguished alumnus. These gifted singers, with majors drawn from neuroscience and English literature to economics and music, come together during the spring semester in preparation for a series of on- and off-campus concerts and an annual tour.

Repertoire:
Bennet, All creatures now are merry-minded
Tallis, Salvator mundi 
Pärt, Magnificat 
Telemann, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Homilius, Herr, wenn Trübsal da ist 
Hensel, Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend 
Hensel, Unter des Laubdachs Hut 
Verdi, Ave Maria 
Brahms, Geistliches Lied, op. 30 
Brahms, Four Quartets, op. 92 
Lauridsen, Sure on this Shining Night 

When: 7:30 PM May 27, 2013
Where: Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 911 Stewart St. Seattle WA 98101
Cost: Free

No registration required.

This year's tour takes the Glee Club to the Pacific Northwest. We are looking forward to performing for our alumni, friends and prospective/current students in this region. This year's program includes selections from the 16th century to the present. The 25-member ensemble is directed by Donna M. Di Grazia. 

The Glee Club is the College's elite auditioned chamber choir; the late Robert Shaw '38 – the most influential American choral conductor of the 20th century – is its most distinguished alumnus. These gifted singers, with majors drawn from neuroscience and English literature to economics and music, come together during the spring semester in preparation for a series of on- and off-campus concerts and an annual tour.

Please join us for a reception following the concert hosted by the Pomona College Office of Alumni Relations. To register for the reception, click here.

Repertoire:
Bennet, All creatures now are merry-minded
Tallis, Salvator mundi 
Pärt, Magnificat 
Telemann, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott
Homilius, Herr, wenn Trübsal da ist 
Hensel, Dämmernd liegt der Sommerabend 
Hensel, Unter des Laubdachs Hut 
Verdi, Ave Maria 
Brahms, Geistliches Lied, op. 30 
Brahms, Four Quartets, op. 92 
Lauridsen, Sure on this Shining Night 

When: 8:30 PM May 27, 2013
Where: Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 911 Stewart Street Seattle WA 98101
Cost: Free

Please join members of the Pomona College Glee Club for a reception following their 7:30 p.m. concert at Gethsemane Lutheran Church on Monday, May 27.

When: 6:30 PM May 28, 2013
Region: Washington DC
Where: Heurich House, 1307 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington DC 20036
Speaker: April Mayes '94, professor of history
Costs: registration and heavy appetizers: $15
Additional Information: Information about Heurich House Museum

Deportation Nation: What You Don't Hear in Debates about Immigration Reform and Why it Matters.

On June 15, the Obama Administration announced a new policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which permitted the undocumented children of undocumented adult immigrants to pursue regularization of their status in order to work or to study. People seeking deferred action need to meet a number of requirements, including, that they "have not been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, three or more misdemeanors, and do not otherwise pose a threat to national security or public safety." While Obama and the Justice Department garnered praise for Deferred Action, it also remains the case that more people have been deported during Obama's presidency than ever before---400,000 people per year since 2009. Many of those deported have committed felonies and misdemeanors, but unlike Deferred Action candidates, many of them are documented, legal U.S. residents . This talk will introduce you to deportees and their experiences. Building on recent scholarship, I will explain various reasons why this deportation epidemic continues to grow and why it has remained virtually silenced in debates about immigration reform.

When: 5:45 PM Jun 8, 2013
Where: Home of Stephen J.M. “Mike Morris” ’56 and Anne Morris, 712 Country Club Drive Ojai CA 93023
Costs: Includes concert ticket and free reception: $65
Additional Information: Visit the Ojai Music Festival website for more information, including lodging

Enjoy the hospitality of Mike ‘56 and Anne Morris at their beautiful home in Ojai before heading to the Libbey Bowl for a concert under the stars. Celebrating its 67th year, the Ojai Music Festival is the perfect way to kick off your summer. We hope you can join David and Claire Oxtoby and other Pomona alumni, parents, and friends for this wonderful event. This year’s concert will feature the Mark Morris Dance Group and the American String Quartet, conducted by Joshua Gersen. Lou Harrison’s Suite for Symphonic Strings is an absorbing study in contrasts and a compelling example of his many-sided musical persona. John Luther Adams’ For Lou Harrison evokes the kind of cosmic gamelan that Harrison would have loved.

Selections Include:
Lou Harrison: Suite for Symphonic Strings 
John Luther Adams: For Lou Harrison  

When: 6:30 PM Jun 11, 2013
Region: London, England
Where: The Wren Room, K&L Gates, LLP, One New Change Place London England EC4M 9AF
Speaker: Bertil Linblad '78 Senior Adviser for International Initiative and Studio Art Professor Mark Allen
Cost: Free

President David Oxtoby and Carl Leiderman '86 request the pleasure of your company at a reception for alumni, parents, students and friends of Pomona College.  The evening will include remarks from President David Oxtoby as well as Bertil Linblad '78, recently hired as the Senior Advisor for International Initiatives, and Mark Allen, Chair of the Studio Art department. 

Bertil Lindblad '78 works with the College leadership to coordinate and expand Pomona's global connections and international activities through collaborative relationships.  He partners with faculty to establish relationships with international organizations, including non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies and think tanks, expanding international options for students interested in research, internships and post-baccalaureate opportunities; and facilitating campus visits by international professionals, scholars and artists for meaningful interactions with Pomona students and faculty.

Prior to joining Pomona this year, Bertil served as Director of the UNAIDS New York Office for five years, following four years UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia based in Moscow.  His previous posts with UNAIDS include Deputy Director and Senior Liaison Officer in New York.  He also coordinated the first ever General Assembly Special Session on AIDS in 2001.  Prior to joining UNAIDS, Bertil served as Senior Advisor/Child Protection at UNICEF headquarters in New York.  From 1984 to 1994, he held senior positions with Swedish Sve the Children, including Asia Coordinator and Country Representative in Vietnam.  Bertil's international career began in Moscow, where he served in the Commercial Section of the Swedish Embassy from 1980 to 1982.

Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator based in Los Angeles. He is the founder and executive director of Machine Project, a non-profit performance and installation space investigating art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food in an informal storefront in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Machine Project also operates as a informal collective of artists producing shows at locations ranging from beaches to museums to parking lots. Under his direction, Machine has produced shows with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis. He has produced over 1000 events in Los Angeles at the Machine Project storefront space, and recently concluded a year long artist residency addressing topics of public engagement at the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

He is an Associate Professor of Art at Pomona College and serves on the Board of Directors of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Mark received his MFA in Visual Art from the California Institute of the Arts.

When: 5:00 PM Jul 13, 2013
Where: Home of Michelle and Bruce Moore ’73, 26185 Dolores Street Carmel CA 93923
Costs: The reception is complimentary and concert tickets are $65:
Additional Information: Visit the Carmel Bach Festival website for more information, including lodging

Enjoy the hospitality of Michelle and Bruce Moore in their beautiful home in Carmel before the concert at the Sunset Center Theater.  We hope you will join Pomona College President David Oxtoby and Claire Oxtoby, along with Carmel Bach Festival Board President Betsey Hampson Pearson ’66, board members Steve Pearson ’66 and Susie Saunders Brusa ’84, and other alumni, parents, and friends, for a beautiful evening in the seaside town of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

In addition to the free reception, we have a limited number of tickets available for the festival's opening night concert. Tickets for the concert are $65.

Selections include:
J.S. Bach:  Cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20
Thea Musgrace:  Commissioned Work (world premiere)
George Frederic Handel:  Concerto No. 2 a Due Cori in F Major, HWV 333
Gabriel Fauré:  Requiem (full orchestra version)