2026 Harvard Club Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner
Spend an evening with the Harvard Club at our Annual Awards Dinner. All club members and their guests are invited to attend the club’s Annual Dinner on Sunday, May 31, at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Sunday, May 31, 2026 @ 5:30 P.M.
Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
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Deadline to register is Friday, May 29, 2026.
Our Annual Dinner is always one of our most popular events, where we bestow the John Harvard Award and our Club’s Educator of the Year Award, install our new board members, and recognize alumni who have contributed to our vibrant community. Event attendees are welcome to tour the Huntington on their own in the hours prior to our event’s start at 5:30 pm (note: you will need to purchase a separate ticket through the Huntington website if you wish to do this).
Date and time: Sunday, May 31 at 5:30 pm
Location: Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Event Pricing: $150.00 for Club Members and their guests; $175.00 for Non-Members and their guests; $190 to join the Club AND attend the Annual Dinner (eligible Non-Members only); $80.00 for recent Harvard College graduates (Classes of 2022 – 2026) and current Harvard students.
Contacts: Gary Barkin, garybarkin@gmail.com; Sonia Molina, soniamolin@aol.com
The event price includes a three-course meal with dessert and coffee. There will be a cash bar. Admission to the Huntington Library and Gardens during its operating hours is not included. Parking is available at no charge.
The 2026 John Harvard Award for Distinguished Community Service will be presented to Professor Laurie Levenson.
Professor Laurie Levenson is the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California, where she teaches evidence, criminal law, criminal procedure, ethics, white collar crime, and trial advocacy. While at Loyola Law School, Laurie founded Loyola’s Project for the Innocent, which has exonerated 22 wrongly convicted individuals. She has taught regularly for the Federal Judicial Center, served on numerous legal reform commissions, and authored more than 250 articles and 13 books. For the last 30 years, she has been a commentator on high-profile legal matters, including for CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, NPR News, the LA Times, and many other national and international media outlets. As a community volunteer, she co-founded Girl Scout Troop 1085 for unhoused children, actively volunteers with the St. Francis Food Pantry, and has served on the Board of Directors for Hillel at UCLA and the University of Michigan.
Laurie attended Stanford University and UCLA School of Law, where she was the Chief Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review. She clerked for the Honorable James Hunter, III, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Laurie also served as an Assistant United States Attorney, holding the positions of Chief of Appeals, Chief of Training, and Assistant Division Chief.
The 2026 Excellence in Education Award will be presented to Nick Melvoin '08, member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education.
A Los Angeles native, Nick Melvoin has dedicated his career to expanding opportunities for students and strengthening public education as a teacher, civil rights attorney, nonprofit leader, and elected member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. He began his career with Teach For America teaching middle school English in Watts, where his firsthand experience with systemic inequities led him to pursue civil rights litigation and public interest law, including work with the ACLU, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, and the Obama White House.
Since first being elected to the LAUSD Board in 2017, Nick has helped lead the district through some of its most challenging periods while driving historic progress, including rising student achievement, record graduation rates, the largest expansion of preschool, passage of the largest school bond in history, and the nation’s most comprehensive school cell phone ban, among other major initiatives. He also serves as the director of Camp Harmony, a nonprofit supporting homeless and underserved youth, and remains deeply engaged in civic and educational leadership. A proud Harvard alumnus, Nick serves as an Elected Director of the Harvard Alumni Association and on the board of the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance.
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