last updated Apr 08, 2000

PCNC Newsletter, June 2000

Event	Date	Time	Location	RSVP
Tech Museum Lecture: Toys and the Furby	6/7	6:45pm	San Jose	Yea-Lan Chian '98
Playing with Technology Meet the creator of the hottest selling toy in recent years. Caleb Chung, creator of Furby, will talk about how he came up with his innovation and explain how technology is changing the face of toys in the future. Caleb will unveil the innovations we can expect to tickle and delight us. These lectures are a part of The Tech’s “In the Know Zone 2000: Visions of the New Millennium” interactive lecture series. The lecture is held at The Tech’s IMAX Theater located at 201 South Market Street in downtown San Jose. The program starts promptly at 7 pm with seating beginning at 6:45 pm. The Princeton Club has negotiated a special lecture price of $10 per person. For more information about speakers along with map information, please visit The Tech’s website at: http://www.thetech.org/know_zone Date: Wednesday 6/7 Time: 6:45pm Location: The Tech Museum IMAX Theater, San Jose Address: 201 South Market Street in Downtown San Jose RSVP: Please RSVP by May 3 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $10 Non-Member Price: $10 Contact: Yea-Lan Chian '98 415-674-8477
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PCNC Book Club	6/18	5-7	SF	Rachel DuPre '93
The Bone People by Keri Hulme Winner of the Booker Prize and the Pegasus Prize for Literature In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estranged from her srt, a woman in excile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a vistor - a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brtality. Out of this unorthodoz trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystry, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where Maori and European meet, clash and sometimes merge. Date: Sunday 6/18 Time: 5-7 Location: the home of Rachel DuPre '93, San Francisco Address: 120 Mallorca Way @ Chestnut Street RSVP: Please RSVP by May 18 to the contact listed below. Member Price: Free Non-Member Price: Free Contact: Rachel DuPre '93 415-775-9739
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London Wine Bar Tasting	6/20	6:30pm	SF	Melissa Doff '84
Ravenswood Zinfandel Few wineries in the world approach cult status among their devotees … the same can be said of wine bars. For the first in a series of PCNC tastings, the London Wine Bar in San Francisco, the oldest wine bar in the United States, is opening its doors and its cellar of Ravenswood Zinfandel. Melissa Doff will guide us through a unique horizontal, vertical and reclining tasting of great zins from this great Sonoma Winery. Appetizers will be provided with the wines. Date: Tuesday 6/20 Time: 6:30pm Location: London Wine Bar, San Francisco Address: 415 Sansome St @ Sacramento RSVP: Please RSVP by June 15 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $30 Non-Member Price: $30 Please send your payment in by June 15 to the contact listed below. Contact: Melissa Doff '84 3145 Geary Blvd #278 San Francisco, CA 94118 415-221-4456
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Murals in the Multi-Ethnic Mission	6/24	10:45am12:45pm	SF	Tannwen Mount '98
Tour of Mission Murals Start off your weekend by enjoying a guided tour of one of San Francisco’s hidden treasures: the Mission murals. See the colorful people’s art of the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s largest ethnic communities, including a 4-story mural at the Women’s Building and an 8-story example at Bethany Center. We will meet our tour guide at Precita and Harrison Streets, behind Flynn Elementary School and next to Precita Park. Great for all ages! Date: Saturday 6/24 Time: 10:45am-12:45pm Location: The Mission, San Francisco Address: Precita and Harrison Streets, behind Flynn Elementary School, and next to Precita Park RSVP: Please RSVP by June 20 to the contact listed below. Member Price: Free Non-Member Price: Free Contact: Tannwen Mount '98 415-775-0139