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Programs from the 2013-2020 Seasons

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017

2015-2016

2014-2015

2013-2014

2019-2020 Programs

October 21, 2019 - Sheraton Commander

Robert Simha

A Reasoned Discussion about Housing 

Facts and perspectives about affordable housing in Cambridge and the metro area


November 19, 2019 - Sheraton Commander

Rick Dimino, President & CEO of A Better City

A 21st Century Transportation System


February 3, 2020 – Harvard Faculty Club

Branville Bard Jr., Cambridge Police Commisioner

The Meaning of ‘Community Policing' in Cambridge, Mass


March 23, 2020 - Sheraton Commander - POSTPONED

Eric Lander, Professor of Biology at MIT; Professor of Systems 

Biology at Harvard Medical School


April 20, 2020,  - Harvard Faculty Club- POSTPONED

Gerry Sussman, Professor of Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at MIT


May 15, 2020 - Annual Meeting

Virtual meeting via ZOOM

2018-2019 Programs


October 22, 2018 - Harvard Faculty Club

Jessica Taubner, Executive Director, Financial Independence Initiative: 

A Revolutionary Approach for Families in Lifting Themselves out of Poverty


November 27, 2018 - Harvard Faculty Club

David Bornstein, journalist and author who writes about social innovation and has written some of the most prominent “go to” books on social entrepreneurship. He writes for the Fixes blog on the New York Times website and is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network.


February 4, 2019 - Sheraton Commander

W. Easley Hamner, FAIA and Cambridge Club member, Dr. Philip Sharp, Nobel Prize-wining Geneticist: 

The Why of Kendall Square, architecture and the Square’s role in recombinant DNA


March 18, 2019 - Sheraton Commander

Renata Von Tscharner, Founder of The Charles River Conservancy (est. year 2000) and Cambridge Club member: 

The Charles River - A History and the Future of our beloved “ Muddy Water”


April 16, 2019 - Harvard Faculty Club

Derrick Jackson, Union of Concerned Scientists Fellow, co-author and photographer for the 2015 book, Project Puffin: the Improbable Quest to Bring Back a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock which chronicles the 33 year effort to re-establish an extinct bird to the shores of Maine, former Boston Globe reporter: 

The Puffin, the New Canary in the Mine of Climate Change


May 10, 2019 - Annual Meeting - Cambridge Public Library

Reverend John L. Walton, Plummer professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University: 

The Role of Religion for Young Adults

2017-2018 Programs

October 17, 2017 – Harvard Faculty Club

Tim Love, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Northeastern University and a member of the architecture & planning firm leading Envision for the City of  Cambridge; the firm is also working with the cities of Houston and   Detroit.

Founding Principles of Utile


Monday, November 20, 2017 - Harvard Faculty Club

Ana Sortun, restaurant owner (Oleanna, Sofra, Sarma), author of cookbooks including Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean
Louisa Kasdon, founder and CEO of Let’s Talk About Food.  A former owner of three restaurants, she is the author over 500  published  pieces in regional and national publications, and the winner  of the M.F.K. Fisher Prize for Excellence in Culinary Writing.

Behind the Menu: what goes into creating a great restaurant. The particular challenges of   turning around a restaurant - making something old new  (as in the Casablanca), some details of the fashion in fresh farm to table ingredients, as well as how to work with new spices and herbs.

Monday, February 5, 2018 – Sheraton Commander

William Powers, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab; Former Washington Post  staff writer; two-time winner of Rowse Award for best American media commentary; author of NYT bestseller, Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age.
Humanistic Technologies: The Next Digital Frontier

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 - Sheraton Commander

Gish Jen, Author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim, Typical American, and Mona in the Promised Land

Explaining the East-West Culture Gap


Monday, April 9, 2019 - Sheraton Commander

Jim Roosevelt, Jr, Consultant, Tufts Health Plan; Of Counsel, Verrill,  Dana; Principal outside Counsel, Massachusetts Association of Health  Plans

Where Have We Come To On Health Care? And Where Are We Going?


Friday, May 11, 2018 - Cambridge Public Library

Mayor Marc McGovern, 4th generation Cantabrigian

Kate Auspitz, Immigration Specialist for Representative Michael Capuano 

Dalia Larios Chavez, Harvard Medical School student; DACA immigrant

Immigration - Beyond the News: Local, National and Personal Insights

2016-2017 Programs

May 2017

Congressman Michel Capuano 

Recent events in Washington.


April 2017

José Mateo 

The long history and universal attraction of dances, and a demonstration in a  concluding video about how dance can bring Cambridge residents together across social,  ethnic, economic, and geographic boundaries. Internet links to that video, and  to information about Cambridge's José Mateo Ballet Theater: Strengthening Communities Through Dance.docx 


March 2017

Lisa Peterson, Cambridge Deputy City Manager 

The goals and accomplishments of the Community  Preservation Act in Cambridge. She has made her entire PowerPoint  presentation available to interested club members Lisa Peterson CPA presentation 2017-03-07.ppt


February 2017

Arch Horst 

Specialized measures that help Alzheimer's Disease victims  and their families. 


November 2016

Bob Neer 

The Birth and Growth of New Drugs.

He suggests two Nobel prize lectures and one recent scientific review article on building bones, rebuilding bones naturally.pdf Nobel prize lecture-beta-blockers.pdf

Nobel prize lecture-penicilllin.pdf


October 2016

Thomas Kelly 

The Origins of Western Musical Notation. His recent book is 'Capturing Music, The Story of Notation' (Norton, Inc.), which is available at the Cambridge Public Library, local book stores, and on-line.  http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/11/music-noted  

2015-2016 Programs

May 3, 2016

Brett Flehinger, PhD, Harvard College historian and Associate Dean of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct

Trumpmania or #FeelingtheBern? Populism, Protest & Paranoia in American Politics


April 4, 2016

Owen O'Riordan, Commissioner of Public Works, City of Cambridge

Climate Change: How Vulnerable is Cambridge?


March 8, 2016

Charles Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission

Cambridge: Three Villages in Search of a City


February 1, 2016

David Fanning, founder and award-winning executive producer of WGBH Frontline

Digital Journalism


November 10, 2015

David Altshuler, MD, Vertex Pharmaceuticals director of drug discovery and development; Broad Institute co-founder; former Harvard Medical School/MIT professor and MGH endocrinologist 

What Genes Can Tell Us About History


October 5, 2015

James O'Connell, MD, founder and president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless

Reflections from the Streets: 30 Years of Caring for Rough Sleepers

2014-2015 Programs

Monday, October 6, 2014

Jill Lepore,  David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard College  and staff writer for The New Yorker  where she writes about American history, politics and culture.  

“Book for the Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin.” 


Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Rich Rossi, Cambridge City Manager

Lisa Peterson, Deputy City Manager,  

Louis DePasquale, Assistant City Manager of Fiscal Affairs, 

The details of the City, including finances, taxes, infrastructure, development.  


Monday February 9, 2015

Owen O’Riordan, Cambridge Commissioner of Public Works

Climate Change—the City’s vulnerability and response as well as what is being done to reduce our impact on climate change.


Monday March 16, 2015

Members of the Board of The Cambridge Community Foundation will lead a discussion of issues that should be addressed in the City and ask our opinion regarding funding priorities.  The CCF will have completed its strategic plan and this discussion will be shaped by the results. 


Tuesday April 21, 2015

Dr. Phillip Sharp, 1993 Nobel laureate, co-founder of Biogen , and professor of molecular biology at MIT

Kendall Square and the innovation culture


Tuesday May 19, 2015

Marty Blatt, President of the Board of the Central Square Theater, 

A discussion with the artistic director and private performance of a selected scene from the current production. This innovative theater is home to two companies: the Nora Theater Company and the Underground Railway Theater. http://www.centralsquaretheater.org

2013-2014 Programs

October 21, 2013

Tim Rowe and Stuart Dash

Focus on Kendall Square;


November 18, 2013

Cambridge's response to the Boston Marathon Bombing and Emergency planning and first response in Cambridge


February 10, 2014

Rob Velella

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (note to you liberal arts majors, dig out your poetry books!)


March 11, 2014

Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts

Focus on privacy and electronic communications


April 22, 2014

Lori Lander


May 9, 2015

John Palfrey

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