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Tufts Alumni Arizona

OUR BIG EVENT OF THE YEAR!

A CONVERSATION WITH SOL GITTLEMAN

Join us at the new Camelback Ranch baseball complex as we welcome Sol and Robin Gittleman to Phoenix. Sol will discuss "Teaching the National Pastime: American History and Baseball in the Classroom". Then watch from the Legends Deck as the Chicago White Sox take on the San Diego Padres in a Cactus League game (1:05 PM).

ENJOY A CACTUS LEAGUE GAME

Sol will examine "The National Pastime" both inside and outside the lines, how it was played, and the place of the game in the American psyche. He has been a lifelong fan and sees the game as a metaphor for life in the modern world. "As you watch the evolution of American values in the twentieth century, baseball is a metaphor for almost all of the social and political change that went on in the last 100 years," he says. "Integration, American business practices, anti-trust laws, crime, corruption - baseball has every aspects of American life."

Date/Time: Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 11:30 AM (gates open at that time. please note that Sol will begin speaking promptly at 11:45 AM so that we minimize crowd noise during his discussion.

Location: Camelback Ranch, 10710 West Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ 85037

Cost: $25 per person, $20 for Tufts alumni from the classes of 1999-2009. Tickets are limited!

RSVP: Please register online by March 15, 2010

Contact Info: For more information about this event, please contact Elliott Lerman / 480-502-5010.

MEET YOUR FELLOW TUFTS ALUMNI IN ARIZONA

 

The Phoenix Ivy Council

Tufts Alumni Arizona recently joined the Phoenix Ivy Council in order to provide you with additional opportunities to meet and network with alumni from other East Coast schools living in Arizona. Please join your fellow Tufts alumni at the Phoenix Ivy Council's coming events.

The Phoenix Ivy Council aims to foster local social, cultural, educational, and civic activities benefiting the development of greater Phoenix. It represents nearly 11,000 alumni residing in Arizona and includes such colleges and universities as Amherst, Barnard, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Columbia, Connecticut College, Cornell, Darmouth, Hamilton, Harvard, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law, Middlebury, MIT, MOunt Holyoke, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Wharton, Williams, and Yale.

FUTURE PHOENIX IVY COUNCIL EVENTS:

The Phoenix Ivy Council Invites
Ivy League Alumni and Their Guests

The Ivy League
Quarterly Happy Hour

Thursday, March 25, 2010
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
District Lounge at Sheraton Phoenix Downtown
320 N. 3rd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
(602) 817-5400
Validated Parking Available

$5 cover at the door will help support Ivy Council operations
Greet and network with other area alums
No-host cash bar
Appetizers will be provided
For additional information or to RSVP,
contact Victoria Levin (Wellesley, '88) at 520-256-1793, valevin@azbar.org or
Holly Ladd (Smith '87) at 480-951-1010, Holly.Ladd@azmoves.com

Special thanks to the following for their financial support of the Phoenix Ivy Council in 2010: Mike O'Neil, O'Neil Associates, a national opinion and marketing research firm based in Arizona www.oneilresearch.com and Holly Ladd, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, www.HollyHomesAZ.com.

March 2010: Phoenix Theatre production of "The Light in the PIazza"

June 2010: Phoenix Art Museum "Cezanne & American Modernism"

Details to follow:

RECENT TUFTS AZ EVENTS:

Student Films for Social Change

Monday, January 25
7:00 – 8:30 pm

 

Film can entertain us, but it can also tell a story in a powerful way to make a point, to advocate for a cause and to move us to act. Students in the Producing Films for Social Change class at Tufts have been learning to use film in precisely this way -- to make a difference.

We welcomed Communications and Media Studies Director Julie Dobrow to discuss her programs at Tufts and to view three short student films

Melanie's Legacy: a Grandfather's Fight against Drunk Driving
In 2003, 13-year-old Melanie Powell was killed by a repeat-offender drunk driver in Marshfield, Mass. Melanie's grandfather, Ron Bersani, has worked to use his family tragedy to create positive social change, lobbying for stricter drunk driving laws. Ron's passionate fight against the Mass legislature illustrates how one person's voice can make a difference.

Veteran's Day
U.S. armed forces veterans face many issues upon returning to civilian life, including employment and mental health problems. This film explores those problems and how vets and the government are coping with them.

Honkumentary: No Noise is Illegal
The Honkfest, held every year in Somerville-Cambridge, is an explosion of music, dance, pageantry and politics. This documentary explores the relationship between music and political expression.

Julie Dobrow is director of both the Communications and Media Studies Program and the Media and Public Service Program at Tufts. She holds an A.B. from Smith College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been at Tufts since 1994, where she teaches classes through the Experimental College and in the Department of Child Development.

Our thanks to Karen Larsen and her family for sharing their home for this event. Attendance was light but those who did attend saw once again how Tufts is able to inspire great work and creativity in its undergraduate students.