The PWN book club meets on a monthly basis in different alumn's homes around the Bay Area. We read a variety of books, including both nonfiction and fiction, that lead to interesting discussions.

For our January meeting, we are reading "The Professor's Daughter" by Emily Raboteau. The book is about a brother and sister of a interracial marriage, and how each sibling handles their heritage. Emily lived in Princeton, and the main character's father is a professor at Princeton.

We have also chosen to read "A Fine Balance" by Rohinton Mistry for February. Since it is a longer book, we thought we let people know now. It is about 4 ordinary people in India during 1975-76 when the Prime Minister declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as students and teachers.

Please let me know if you are interested in joining us.

Date:	Tuesday 1/17
Time:	7-9:30
Location:	Alumn's house, Bay Area, San Francisco
Address:
RSVP:	Not Required
Member Price:	Free
Non-Member Price:	Free
Contact:	Heather Kellman '99 415.341.4194

Join Princeton alumni in helping Larkin Street Youth Services in their mission to respond to the unique needs of homeless and runaway youth on the streets of San Francisco. Larkin Street has worked over the years to meet both the immediate and long-term needs of the young people they serve.

Our primary responsibility at Larkin Street will be to prepare a hot lunch at the Drop-In Center. The youth at the center will be encouraged to help out with the cooking, as it is an important life skill for them learn and would provide for some meaningful interaction.

Please note that all volunteers at Larkin Street must be atleast 21 years of age.

For more about Larkin Street Youth Services, see:
http://www.larkinstreetyouth.org/index.htm

Date:	Saturday 1/28
Time:	9-12
Location:	Larkin Street Youth Services , San Francisco
Address:	1138 Sutter Street @ Larkin Street
RSVP:	Please RSVP by January 21 to the contact listed below.
Member Price:	Free
Non-Member Price:	Free
Contact:	Joanna Armstrong '03 925-984-4203

Please join us for a lecture by Princeton History Professor Dirk Hartog who will be visiting the Bay Area to discuss how gay marriage has changed how we think about the history of marriage as an institution. Light lunch will be served.

Hendrik Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty. He holds a Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Brandeis University, a J.D. from the New York University School of Law, and an A.B. from Carleton College. Hartog has spent his scholarly life working in the social history of American law, obsessed with the difficulties and opportunities that come with studying how broad political and cultural themes have been expressed in ordinary legal conflicts. He has worked in a variety of areas of American legal history: on the history of city life, on the history of constitutional rights claims, on the history of marriage, and on the historiography of legal change. He has been awarded a variety of national fellowships and lectureships, and for a decade he coedited Studies in Legal History, the book series of the American Society for Legal History. He is affiliated with Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Affairs and with the Program in American Studies.

In 2000, Professor Hartog published "Man and Wife in America" which examines how marriage has changed in the last century and a half. When asked what is distinctively American about the history of American marriage, Hartog explains: "Americans have always asserted that marriage is politically crucial--that society rests on the marital couple. Yet at the same time, from the middle of the 19th century on, there has been a constant sense that marriage is in crisis. It is fascinating to watch these arguments play out over time. Marriage in the 19th century also involved an aspect of transformation, especially for women. By marrying you became a different being: woman became wife. This notion of a self transformed through marriage was closely connected to religious ideas about salvation and transformation. Vestiges of this idea are still with us. In a weird way, being married is part of being a grownup. I think this is one of the reasons why the gay marriage issue is so salient. If people lack the capacity to marry, it seems they lose a certain aspect of adult identity."

To read an interview with Professor Hartog regarding the topic of his book on the history of marriage and the evolution of marriage, please visit:

http://his.princeton.edu/people/e80/hendrik_hartog_inter.html

For more about Professor Hartog please see: http://his.princeton.edu/people/e32/hartog/profile.html

Date:	Monday 1/30
Time:	12-1:30
Location:	Gordon & Rees LLP, Embarcadero West, San Francisco
Address:	275 Battery Street, Suite 2000
RSVP:	Please RSVP by January 27 to the contact listed below.
Member Price:	$10
Non-Member Price:	$15
Please send your payment in by January 27 to the contact listed below.
Contact:	Phillip Wang '89 Phillip K. Wang, Esq. Gordon & Rees LLP Embarcadero Center West 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, California 94111