The 2016 Harvard Club Annual Dinner and Awards

Black or white/ right or wrong/ left or right/ evil or good/ weak or strong/ day or night/ blue state or red state. The theme of this year's Annual Dinner is Black or White. But we Harvard alumni know that not all is black or white...

...So come to Harvard's Annual Dinner and wear your black or white; or wear both black and white; or show that there are really 50 shades of grey. The Best Dressed will be handsomely rewarded

When: Sunday, May 22nd, 5:30 - 8:30 PM [Cash bar:  5:30 – 6:30 pm; Dinner and Program: 6:30 – 8:30]
Location: UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Directions: http://facultycenter.ucla.edu/About-Us/Directions.aspx

Pre-registration is now closed.

We look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of three incredible members of our local community:

Rabbi Marvin Hier
Anthony Yom
Dan Medina AB’79, MBA ’83

Musical entertainment will be provided in addition to good food and great company!

The 2016 John Harvard Award for Distinguished Service to the Community will be presented to Rabbi Marvin Hier. In 1977, Rabbi Marvin Hier founded the Simon Wiesenthal Center, named in honor of famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Under his leadership, the Center and its museum have become one of the foremost Jewish human rights agencies in the world. In 2007 and 2008, Newsweek magazine named him the “Most Influential Rabbi in America.”

The Center’s educational arm, the Museum of Tolerance, opened in February 1993 to worldwide acclaim. Founded to challenge visitors to confront bigotry and racism and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts, the Museum hosts 350,000 visitors a year, including 130,000 school students.

Rabbi Hier is the only rabbi who is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and he is the recipient of two Academy Awards®, for “Genocide” and “The Long Way Home.” The Center’s film division, Moriah Films, has produced fifteen documentaries, which have been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world.

The 2016 Educator of the Year Award will be presented to Anthony Yom, math teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School, a public school in Lincoln Heights since 2005. The majority of families of students at Lincoln High are low-income and 20 percent are English-language learners. For the past three years, all of his students in his AP Calculus class have passed the exam. Last May, 17 of his 21 students received the highest score, including one who scored a perfect exam. Of the 302,531 students who took the exam, only 12 scored a perfect exam. Mr. Yom was recently featured in the Los Angeles Times and on NPR; Mr. Yom received his B.A. from UC Irvine and M.Ed (TEP 06’ / PLI 09’) from UCLA.

The Fred Smith Award for Outstanding Service to the Harvard Club of Southern California will be presented to Daniel A. Medina AB ’79, MBA ’83, who has served as Vice President for the Schools and Scholarship Committee since 2011. Under his leadership, the club’s Schools and Scholarship Committee coordinates over 600 alumni interviewers, who each year meet with over 2,400 applicants to the college. Dan also served as President of the Club from 2010 through 2012, and Vice President for Membership and Communications. He and his wife, Laura Martin, MBA ’83 have three children, Andy, Laura, and Ali. Dan works at Needham & Company, LLC, where he publishes research on the largest internet and entertainment companies.

Click here to register! (if you prefer to register by phone, please call 310-546-5252)

 

Cost: $70 Members and Guests; $80  Non-Members; $60 Recent Grads (Class of ’11 and later); $90 for all after May 15th and at the door
Contact: Eva Plaza, Eplaza@gerardfoxlaw.com

Refund Policy: We do not provide refunds for any of our events.  

Parking: Parking is available in Structure #2, across the street from the Faculty Club. The weekend rate is $8.00.