last updated Sept 15th, 2001

PCNC Newsletter, November 2001

Event	Date	Time	Location	RSVP
Tee It Up!	11/3	10:30-12	Berkeley	Tuyen Ho '95
Private Group Golf Lessons Calling all hackers and duffers! Join us for a 1 1/2 hour private group lesson at the beautiful Tilden Park Golf Course. A professional golf instructor will help us develop a healthy swing. All equipment provided. After the lesson, we can enjoy lunch at the club house (lunch not included in price). Date: Saturday 11/3 Time: 10:30-12 Location: Nike Golf Learning Center at Tilden Park Golf Course, Berkeley Address: Grizzly Peak and Shasta Road RSVP: Please RSVP by October 26 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $25 Non-Member Price: $25 Please send your payment in by October 26 to the contact listed below. Contact: Tuyen Ho '95 415-601-1160
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Princeton Project 55 Seminar: Challenges in K-12 Education	11/6	5:30-6:30	SF	Doug Roberts '97
The Standards-based High Stakes Assessment Movement, and Teacher Recruitment/Retention Come and join the Princeton Project 55 seminar program in a discussion with panelists working to provide schools, students, families, and educators with answers to these challenging questions. Panelists will be from both for-profit and not-for profit organizations and will bring a diverse wealth of experiences in the educational space to the conversation. Many of the panelists will be Princeton alums, others will not. This is a great opportunity to meet important people in the Bay Area education community and to articipate in a conversation focused on creating solutions to difficult challenges facing our public education system. K12 public school students fight an enormous number of challenges both within and outside the 4 walls of the classroom. Legislators, Superintendants, and Principals are requiring that students spend up to 4 weeks of their academic year taking standards-based assessments, and many are calling for these exams to be the sole determining factor in a student's promotion or graduation. Educators, students, parents, and others have begun a campaign to fight the notion that students can be subject to one set of standards handed down from the state or federal government. Meanwhile, schools struggle to recruit and retain highly skilled professionals to teach because of low salaries compared with the enormous challenge of the work. How will students, particularly those in resource-deprived school districts, be able to meet a state's learning standards without smaller class sizes and, powerful, inspired teaching? Panelists: Co-Moderator: Temp Keller '98, Exec. Dir, Charterteach Organization (www.charterteach.org) Co-Moderator: Doug Roberts '97, Taxonomy and Standards Manager, Project Achieve, Inc.(www.projectachieve.com) Debbie Weil '87, Manager of West Coast Operations and Business Development, Co-Nect (www.Co-Nect.com) David Ogden '89, Program Manager, Wested (www.wested.org) Mark Isero, English Teacher and Department Chair, Leadership Charter High School Leesa Daymond, KIPP Fisher School Leadership Program (www.kipp.org) Jonathan Denholtz, Producer of Educational Software, Real Time Learning and The Learning Company. Members of the Project Achieve Staff and others TBA Date: Tuesday 11/6 Time: 5:30-6:30 Location: Project Achieve, Inc. , San Francisco Address: 250 4th St @ Folsom and Howard RSVP: Please RSVP by -1 -1 to the contact listed below. Member Price: Free Non-Member Price: Free Contact: Doug Roberts '97 415-566-2702
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A Vocal Bouquet by Rebecca Plack Ferguson '91	11/11	4-6	SF	Dan Sullivan '63
An Intimate Concert with Rebecca Plack Ferguson '91 in the Home of Nelson Wild '55 Rebecca Plack Ferguson '91 will present a vocal bouquet of songs about flowers and gardens in an intimate concert in the San Francisco home of Nelson Wild '55. The program will include songs by Faure, Schumann, Rachmaninoff and other composers. It will be a private preview of a public concert of "A Garden of Songs" that Rebecca will present a week later at the St. Matthews Lutheran Church in San Francisco. She will be accompanied by Blaise Bryski, a pianist who was on the faculty at Cornell. Rebecca is a lyric soprano who specializes in art songs of the 19th century, and she enjoys informal settings that engage the audience in the performance. She received rave reviews at her PCNC premiere in July. Attendance is limited, so don't wait to send in your reservation for her next PCNC performance. Date: Sunday 11/11 Time: 4-6 Location: Home of Nelson Wild '55, San Francisco Address: 2221 Webster @ Clay St RSVP: Please RSVP by November 3 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $15 Non-Member Price: $20 Please send your payment in by November 3 to the contact listed below. Contact: Dan Sullivan '63 359 Church St. San Francisco, CA 94114 415-626-8153
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Silicon Valley Lunch	11/14	12-1:30	Palo Alto	Peter Heinecke '87
Eric Schmidt '76, CEO, Google Inc and Chairman, Novell, Inc Eric Schmidt ’76 will discuss his experiences leading Novell, Inc. and Google, Inc. and give his views on the future of Silicon Valley at a lunch in Palo Alto on Wednesday November 14. Mr. Schmidt earned a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton in 1976 and then earned a Ph.D in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. Early in his career he worked at Zilog, Bell Laboratories and Xerox PARC. He worked at Sun Microsystems for 14 years and rose to the position of Chief Technology Officer. In 1997, he became CEO of Novell (where he is still Chairman of the Board) and in August of this year joined Google, Inc. as CEO. The lunch will be held on Wednesday, November 14 at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, 975 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto at 12 noon. 975 Page Mill is half a block west of El Camino Real on the south side of the road (N.B. this is not the main WSGR building). The building complex is shared with Genencor; the lunch is in the building closest to Page Mill Road. Date: Wednesday 11/14 Time: 12-1:30 Location: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Palo Alto Address: 975 Page Mill Road @ El Camino Real RSVP: Please RSVP by November 7 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $10 Non-Member Price: $15 Contact: Peter Heinecke '87 650-496-4056
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Princeton Men's Basketball - BCA Classic	11/15	6-10	Berkeley, CA	Christina Smith '99
Basketball Tournament @ Cal-Berkeley Please join fellow alumni in support of Princeton Men's Basketball as they compete in the BCA Classic. This event is a four team men's basketball tournament that benefits the Black Coaches Association. The other teams in the tournament are Cal, St. Joseph's and Eastern Washington. First round games pit Cal against Princeton and St. Joseph's against Eastern Washington. So please come out and cheer on Princeton as they begin what will hopefully be another Ivy League Championship season. Dates: November 15 & 16 Times: exact times TBA, but will be evening doubleheaders Location: Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA Teams: Princeton, Cal, St. Joseph's and Eastern Washington Cost: $22-$26 Please contact cbsmith@alumni.princeton.edu for directions and parking information. Date: Thursday 11/15 Time: 6-10 Location: Haas Pavilion, Berkeley, CA Address: RSVP: Please RSVP by November 1 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $22-$26 tba Non-Member Price: $22-$26 tba Please send your payment in by November 1 to the contact listed below. Contact: Christina Smith '99 430 Masonic Ave. Apt. 1 San Francisco, CA 94118 415-292-7053
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SFLuncheon Program with Philip Starr '83 MD	11/28	12-1:15	SF
Frontiers in Brain Surgery: New Surgical Treatments for Parkinson's Many common and devastating brain disorders do not yet have adequate treatments. "Deep brain stimulation" is a relatively new technique that has improved the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other disorders of movement, and is now also applied to epilepsy and to sychiatric disorders. In the talk, Dr. Starr will present in layperson's terms the rationale for brain stimulation, an overview of surgical techniques as practiced at UCSF, and some "before and after" videos. Following graduation from Princeton University in 1983 with a B.A. in chemistry, Dr. Starr obtained his MD and PhD at Harvard Medical School. He was a Resident in Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston 1989-1995. Following a fellowship in the surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease at Emory University 1996-1998, he became Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He and his colleague Dr. William Marks, Assistant Professor of Neurology, direct clinical and research programs in the use of chronic electrical stimulation of the brain for the treatment of movement disorders. Come and meet other local alumni and enjoy a lively discussion over lunch. Luncheon reservations are required by 10 a.m. on Tuesday, November 27; to reserve, please contact . Date: Wednesday 11/28 Time: 12-1:15 Location: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, courtesy of Robert Feyer '68, San Francisco Address: 400 Sansome Street, 2nd Floor, Conference Room B RSVP: Please RSVP by November 27 to the contact listed below. Member Price: $10 Non-Member Price: $15 Please send your payment in by November 27 to the contact listed below. Contact: 53 Hartford Street, Apt. A San Francisco, CA 94114