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  Our alums are an exciting group with fascinating interests going far beyond their studies — join us for our MIT Alum Authors’ Coffee House presentations. Their books range from dire medical warnings, to commercializing technological innovation, to the art of neon and architectural environment, to the relationship of the middle class to real estate ownership, to programming and nondestructive testing. Some of these books are startlingly close to major issues of the day! For anyone even remotely contemplating publishing, we are fortunate to have Vilma Barr who is a Text Developer, in addition to being an author. She will open the evening with a tutorial on what publishers are looking for in books today, what topics would interest them, how to develop and prepare a manuscript, and what resources are available to a prospective author. An author in her own right, she has published in several areas relating to the human interface with architecture. So, come meet Vilma, Mike Chonoles, Len Davidson, Jeff Hornstein, Joel Kauffman, Emmanuel Papadakis, Joe Touhill and Wink Weinberg over dessert and coffee. Each will speak to the assembled group about his/her books, and we will have time during a break and after the presentations to meet each author individually. |
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Date: Friday, March 13, 2009
Time: 6:45 PM - Dessert, Coffee & tea
7:00 - Authors Program
Location: The Cynwyd Club
332 Trevor Lane, Bala-Cynwyd, PA 19004
Phone: 610-667-4524
Directions described below
MapQuest Directions & Map
Cost: $15 for Dues-paying Club Members & their Guests
$15 for Author's Guests
$25 for Non-members
Reservations: via MIT Infinite Connection (by Wednesday, March 11):
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=30481&groupID=158
Club Membership -- Join or Renew on-line:
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/dues-login.vm?groupID=158
For Questions: John Wilkens 610-444-3242
e-mail: j.a.wilkens@alum.mit.edu
Directions:
The Cynwyd Club is near the intersection of Rt. 23 and Rt. 1 in Bala Cynwyd, PA. At this intersection head north on Rt. 23, Conshohocken State Road. Go three long blocks, about 0.4 mile. Continue straight/slight right onto Llandrillo Road (do NOT go left following Rt. 23). Go one block on Llandrillo Road and at the “Y” make a partial left onto Trevor Lane. The Clubhouse and parking are immediately on the left side of the road.
Join fellow alums for a special visit and tour of Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research in Newark, Delaware. Well-known throughout the country, this is a state-of-the-art wildlife facility that includes animal care wards, surgery and research labs, outdoor aviaries and pools, and an oil-spill study facility. They care for ill, injured, and orphaned wild birds.
Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009
We are extremely pleased to have MIT Prof. Kerry Emanuel, an internationally recognized expert on hurricanes, to address our annual meeting.
Join your MIT friends at one of the area’s premier summer events, The Brandywiners’ annual production at Longwood Gardens. This year they are performing another crowd-pleaser, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot. The Club has its own permanent block of seats (we chose the best in the house).
Visit the Eastern State Penitentiary with your fellow MIT Alums.
Autism has become a front-and-center news topic, not least because of controversy surrounding a possible relationship to infant vaccination. We are pleased to have Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, to address this issue.
“Brilliant, Exciting, Innovative, Quirky, Acclaimed .” Those words describe my impression of this museum. I'm Bob Radcliffe, membership VP for the MIT Club of the Delaware Valley. November 14, join with MIT Club of the Delaware Valley in a visit to a museum that was the home and studio of Wharton Esherick, internationally known sculptor. Mr. Esherick became renowned for his work with wood sculpture in the last century, and received international acclaim for his work exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. The Wharton Esherick museum is located on a wooded hillside near Valley Forge Park.
As an added benefit for MIT Alumni and their guests, the Pyramid Club's Board of Governors is proud to extend an exclusive invitation for Pyramid Club membership to Toast to IAP attendees. The Pyramid Club is reducing the Young Executives (those 35 years of age or younger) membership initiation fee by almost 50% for Young Alumni. The initiation fee will be $250 on January 15 only (monthly dues are $102). Furthermore, $50 of the initiation fee will be donated to the MIT Club of the Delaware Valley to support scholarships for the 
The Wilhelm Gustloff was a German ship sunk with the greatest loss of life in maritime history. We are extremely pleased to join with the Explorers’ Club to hear about the diving exploration of this ship directly from the expedition’s leader, Mike Boring who, despite his name, is known as a captivating speaker.
Senator Ted Kaufman will address a joint meeting of the MIT Club of the Delaware Valley and the Delaware Section of the American Chemical Society to discuss STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and related topics. Science and technology are critical components of several topics of current national interest. In particular, public policy addressing American competitiveness, energy independence / security, and environmental concerns requires the knowledge of the scientists and engineers who study the technical underpinnings of these challenges. MIT President Susan Hockfield and American Chemical Society Past-President Katie Hunt have both emphasized the importance of advocacy by members of the scientific community to influence the construction of sound public policy.
We are extremely pleased to have MIT Professor Daniel Nocera to speak to us on a unique view of the energy future – personalized solar energy. The capture and storage of solar energy at the individual level – personalized solar energy – drives inextricably towards the heart of this energy challenge by addressing the triumvirate of secure, carbon neutral and plentiful energy. Because energy use scales with wealth, point-of-use solar energy will put individuals, in the smallest village in the non-legacy world and in the largest city of the legacy world, on a more level playing field. Moreover, personalized energy (PE) is secure because it is highly distributed and the individual controls the energy on which she/he lives. Finally, the doubling of global energy need by mid-century and tripling by 2100 is driven by 3 billion low-energy users in the non-legacy world and by 3 billion people yet to inhabit the planet over the next half century.
