Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Rich Read Speaking at Harvard Club Annual Dinner

Do not miss the biggest event of the year!

Harvard Club Dinner & Annual Meeting
Evening of Tuesday, May 20th from 6-9pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon Street
Portland OR 97205

This year we are honored to have as our keynote speaker, Richard Read, a Harvard alumnus of the Harvard Nieman Fellowship program and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. All Harvard alums from the undergraduate and graduate programs are invited.  Alums may be bring guests as well.  This is the Harvard Club's biggest event of the year.  Please see Mr. Read's  biography at the end of this page.

Menu selection (3 options)
    1) Filet mignon, or
    2) Mahi mahi, or
    3) Zucchini timbale (vegetarian)
All meals include salad, bread, tiramisu for dessert, and coffee.

Ticket prices:

$48 for members and parents of Harvard Class of 2018

$48 or $53 for each guest of a member, depending on level of membership

$53 for non-members

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAYMENT AND ENTREE SELECTION

This event is open to Harvard alumni (as defined by Harvard Alumni Association) and their guests.   Harvard College Class of 2014 will receive an invitation via email to attend (for free).  Their parents are invited to attend at the $48 member price.  Their parents should use the link below to purchase tickets via credit card.

*****After you pay with the credit card, please make sure you select your entree choice and fill in your Harvard affiliation before you leave the website.  You will also need to fill in the name of your guest and select their entree.*****  If you do not select an entree, you will get filet mignon as the default entree.  In general, you will receive an email confirmation within a few minutes after your purchase.  If you do not receive an email confirmation, you may not have finished the purchase.  If you do not receive an email confirmation, please log into your account and verify that you are registered for the dinner.  Please email James Carter using the email address hucoregon at post dot harvard dot edu if you are unable to retrieve your Harvard alumni login information.  

Members who paid for individual or recent grad memberships can bring 1 guest for the $48 price.  Additional guests are $53.  Higher membership levels enable you to bring all your guests at the $48 price.  

You buy tickets for alumni and non-alumni guests on the same screen.  For example, to buy a ticket for 1 guest, change the total number of tickets to 2.   

If you have trouble getting a membership discount on the website due to log-in/password/verification issues, just buy non-member tickets and we'll give you a refund of at the annual dinner where you can pay for your membership by check. (You may need to create a new non-alumni account using a different email address.)  Please add a note in the note section when you buy the dinners that you'll pay for membership by check at the dinner and that you'll be asking for a refund of $5 per ticket that would have been discounted.

PLEASE NOTE:  You must click the SUBMIT button after (1) selecting your entree/s, (2) filling in your guest name/s, and (3) entering your Harvard affiliation.  If you do not click the SUBMIT button, that information is NOT saved.

Registration has closed.  

The MAC provides free parking.  Please call the MAC if you don't know where to go for free parking.  503-223-6251.

 

 

Speaker biography
          In 1989, Richard Read became the first foreign correspondent for a Northwest newspaper when he opened The Oregonian's Asia Bureau in Tokyo. A graduate of Amherst College, Read had joined The Oregonian in 1981 as a general-assignment reporter, covering crime, investigative stories and then Portland city government. He moved to Thailand in 1986 for a year as a Henry Luce Foundation scholar, working in Bangkok for The Nation, an English-language paper.
          Born in Scotland, Read was raised in Cambridge, Mass., where he returned in 1997 for a year at Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship for journalists. Read has reported from more than 50 countries, including North Korea. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 1999 for a series that explained Asia's economic crisis by following a container of french fries from a Washington farm to a McDonald's in Singapore and on to the revolution in Indonesia. In 2001, he was one of four reporters on a team that won The Oregonian the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for stories on the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Most recently, he reported in Jordan and Lebanon on Syrian refugees.