Past Events (prior to April 2019)
The list of events below excludes informal events such as Pub Nights and is incomplete, and information for the Society's early years is sparse. However, a quick browse illustrates the impressive array of notable speakers who have educated, enlightened, and entertained the Society over the years.
Events from March 2019 and earlier:
Monday, March 18, 2019
Dr. Andrew Murray "Kings of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology with the Himalayan Sherpas"
Saturday, March 9, 2019
Brunch with Professor Jane Clarke, FMedSci FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Reception & Talk, The Right Honorable Andrew Mitchell, MP
Friday, February 15, 2019
Dinner with Matt Perkins, CEO of Oxford Innovation
Saturday, 26 January 2019
Burns Nicht, Back Bay Hilton, Boston (sold out!)
Friday, 30 November 2018
40th Anniversary Christmas Dinner, Winchester Country Club
Thursday, 15 November 2018
Royal Oak Foundation Lecture
"Highland Retreats", New England Historic Genealogical Society
Thursday, 1 November 2018
Royal Oak Foundation Lecture
"From Dickens to Downton", The College Club of Boston
Sunday, 4 November 2018
Actors Shakespeare Company: Equivocation
Sunday, 21 October 2018
Head of the Charles Regatta, Reunion Village, Charles River (photo)
Sunday, 23 September 2018
Atlantic Cup Polo at Myopia Hunt Club: Cambridge vs Yale, Oxford vs Harvard (photos)
Freshers and New Members Reception
Union Club of Boston, Thursday September 13, 2018
Society 40th Anniversary Celebration (see video)
Winchester Country Club, Saturday April 21, 2018
Oxford University Association Football Club
Harvard Gardens, Thursday March 29, 2018
Tavern 730 (formerly Tavern on the Square) , Saturday March 24, 2018
Winchester Country Club, Saturday January 27, 2018
Christmas Dinner with Michael Kosterlitz
Winchester Country Club, Saturday December 02, 2017
Reunion Village, Charles River, Sunday October 22, 2017
Freshers and New Members Reception
Union Club of Boston, Wednesday September 20, 2017
Spring Dinner with John Lambert
Winchester Country Club, Saturday April 22, 2017
Winchester Country Club, Saturday February 04, 2017
Christmas Dinner with Ashley Stevens
Winchester Country Club, Saturday December 03, 2016
Head of the Charles Regatta
Reunion Village, Charles River, Sunday October 23, 2016
Reception with Nazia Mintz-Habib
Algonquin Club of Boston, Wednesday May 18, 2016
Queen Elizabeth II Evening with Susie Kitchens
Union Club of Boston, Friday May 06, 2016
Shakespeare Anniversary Event with Professor Tiffany Stern
Algonquin Club of Boston, Thursday April 21, 2016
Omni Parker House, Boston, Saturday January 09, 2016
Christmas Dinner with Octavia Randolph
Winchester Country Club, Friday December 04, 2015
Reunion Village, Sunday October 18, 2015
Nat Greene's House, Marblehead, Sunday August 30, 2015
OES Panel & Reception with Natalia Kucirkova
British Consulate General, Monday August 03, 2015
Boat Race Dinner with Sarah Thomas
Cambridge Boat Club, Saturday May 30, 2015
OBA Consular Reception with Prof. Catherine Tucker
Consulate, Wednesday May 06, 2015
Omni Parker House, Boston, Saturday January 10, 2015
Christmas Dinner with David Eckel
Algonquin Club, Saturday December 06, 2014
New Members Reception with Helen Shirrah Davies
Berklee School of Music and Lir, Thursday November 20, 2014
Reunion Village, Charles River, Sunday October 19, 2014
Boat Race Dinner with Asma Khalid
Cambridge Boat Club, Saturday June 07, 2014
Spring Event with Drs. Abhishek Banerjee, Charles Jennings, Alan Jasanoff, Martha Constantine-Paton
Algonquin Club, Friday April 25, 2014
Omni Parker House, Boston, Saturday January 11, 2014
Christmas Dinner with Stephen Blyth
Federal Reserve, Boston, Saturday December 14, 2013
Fall Reception with Mark Damazer
Fairmont Copley Plaza, Sunday November 03, 2013
Reunion Village, Charles River, Sunday October 20, 2013
New Members Reception with Susie Kitchens
British Consulate, Friday October 04, 2013
Boat Race Dinner with Simon Winchester
Cambridge Boat Club, Saturday June 01, 2013
Reception with Lord Rees of Ludlow
Athenaeum , Tuesday April 23, 2013
Reception with Dr. Gillian Bennett
British Consulate , Tuesday April 16, 2013
Spring Dinner with Jonathan McDowell
Algonquin Club, Saturday March 23, 2013
Cambridge Boat Club, Saturday January 12, 2013
Christmas Dinner with Andrew Berry
Mt Ida College, Saturday December 15, 2012
Sunday October 21, 2012
Algonquin Club, Wednesday October 3, 2012
New Member Reception with John & Tessa Hedley-Whyte
Russell Museum at MGH, Tuesday September 18, 2012
Prentice Cup Tennis at Longwood
Wednesday August 8, 2012
Boat Race Dinner with John Ochsendorf
Saturday June 9, 2012
Spring Dinner with Belinda Wilkes
Saturday March 17, 2012
Saturday January 14, 2012
Christmas Dinner with Robert McBurney
Saturday, December 10th
Algonquin Club Reception with Anthony Monaco
Thursday, November 10th
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
New Member Reception at Harvard Memorial Church
Thursday October 6, 2011
Broad Institute Lecture by Nick Patterson & Reception
Wednesday September 14, 2011
Court Tennis Exhibition & Reception
Thursday July 14, 2011
Boat Race Dinner with Kathleen Coleman
Saturday 4 June 2011
Spring Dinner with John Robinson
Saturday 19 March 2011
Huntington Theater Evening: Educating Rita
Saturday 12 March 2011
Saturday 15 January 2011
Christmas Dinner with Robert Anderson
Saturday 11 December 2010
Sunday 24 October 2010
Cricket at Longwood Cricket Club
Saturday 23 October, 2010
Actors' Shakespeare Project: "Timon of Athens"
Friday June 11, 2010
Boat Race Dinner with Jane Portal
Saturday May 22, 2010
Spring Dinner with Alice Prochaska
Saturday March 27, 2010
Saturday January 16, 2010
Christmas Dinner with Janet Browne
Saturday December 12, 2009
Sunday, November 22nd 2009
18th October 2009
Boat Race Dinner with Martha Lufkin
31st May 2009
2nd May 2009
Reception and talk by Jonathan Zittrain, with the Yale Club
21st April 2009
Dinner and talk by Sir Brian Donnelly, with the English Speaking Union
16th April 2009
Spring Dinner with James Collins
Saturday 28 March 2009
16th January 2009
Huntington Theater Evening "The Corn is Green"
9th January 2009
Christmas Dinner with Piet van Boxel
Saturday 6th December 2008
Tuesday 11th November 2008
Sunday 19th October 2008, Reunion Village, Weeks Bridge
Saturday 18th October 2008, Longwood Cricket Club
Friday 8th August 2008
Boat Race Dinner with Dr. John Durant
Saturday 31st May 2008
Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Spring Dinner with Simon Hoggart
Saturday 29th March 2008
18th January 2008, Cambridge Boat Club
Christmas/Holiday Dinner with Jill Ker Conway
8th December 2007, Roxbury Latin
Saturday 20th October 2007
Huntington Theater Evening "The Thirty-Nine Steps"
Friday 14th September 2007
Longfellow House Tour
Thursday 12th July 2007
Boat Race Dinner, with Doug Foy
Sunday 3rd June 2007
Spring Dinner, with Hubert Murray
Saturday 31st March 2007, Mt Ida College
Darwin Exhibit, Museum Of Science, with Prof. Duncan Porter
Sunday 4th March 2007
Christmas/Holiday Dinner, with Rev. Prof. Peter Gomes
3rd December 2006, Boston Athenaeum
Lady Kenny, Dinner for Oxonians
Saturday 4th November 2006
Professor Alison Richard, Reception for Cantabrigians
Friday 10th November 2006
Saturday and Sunday 21st/22nd October 2006
Fall Reception with Nick Patterson
Thursday 5th October 2006, The Union Club, Boston
Boat Race Dinner, with Sir Michael Atiyah
Saturday 3rd June 2006, Cambridge Boat Club
Spring Dinner, with Sir Terence and Lady English
Saturday 8th April 2006, Showa Institute/British School
Reception at MIT Museum, with John Durant
Sunday 5th February 2006
Christmas Dinner, with Prof. Frederick Schauer
Saturday 10th December 2005, Mount Ida College
Friday 21st October 2005, Joe's American on the Boston Waterfront
Alumni Presentation & Fall Reception with Una Ryan
Thursday 13th October 2005, The Union Club, Boston
British & Irish Universities Ball
Friday 23rd September 2005, Marlowe Hotel
Boat Race Dinner with Christopher Ricks
Sunday 5th June 2005, Cambridge Boat Club
Presentation Evening & Spring Reception with Sir Richard Dearlove
Thursday 14th April 2005, Cambridge Boat Club
Spring Dinner with Professor Owen Gingerich
Saturday 19th March 2005, Roxbury Latin School
"The Far Side of the Moon" with Gideon Lester
Thursday 17th February 2005, American Repertory Theater, Cambridge
Christmas/Holiday Dinner with Simon Winchester
Saturday 11 December 2004, Mount Ida College
Alumni Presentation Evening with Dr. Gilbert Strang
Thursday 16th September 2004, Cambridge Boat Club
Boat Race Dinner with Nigel Hamilton
Sunday 6th June 2004, Cambridge Boat Club
Family Picnic and Cricket Match
13th June 2004, The British School of Boston
Spring Dinner with James Wood, Senior Editor, The New Republic
"Reminiscences of Student Life at Cambridge"
Saturday, 13 March 2004, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Dr. Joseph Stanislaw, President, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Saturday 20 December 2003, The Boston Athenaeum
Boat Race Dinner with Lady English, Principal, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
“Transitions”
Sunday, 1 June 2003, Cambridge Boat Club
Spring Dinner with The Right Honourable Kim Campbell, Former Prime Minister, Canada
Sunday, 16 March 2003, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Dr Richard Wendorf, Director and Librarian, Boston Athenæum
“Down 30 Years and still Sorting It Out”
Saturday, 21 December 2002, The Boston Athenæum
Boat Race Dinner with Kwame Anthony Appiah
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University
“Unbeing Oneself”
Saturday, 1 June 2002, Cambridge Boat Club
Spring Dinner with Anthony Smith, CBE. President, Magdalen College, Oxford
“The Elite University Today and Perhaps Tomorrow”
Sunday 17 March 2002, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Anita Desai, Novelist
Saturday 15 December 2001, Mount Ida College
Boat Race Dinner with Sir Ivor Roberts, KCMG
Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland and Former Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Saturday 2 June 2001, Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Roscoe Suddarth, Former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan
“Middle East Challenges to the Bush Administration”
Saturday 17 March 2001, Roxbury Latin School
May Ball
Saturday 3 June 2000, Noble and Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Sir Jeremy Isaacs, Former Director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
“The Future of the Arts in the Age of Mass Culture”
Saturday 11 March 2000, Noble & Greenough School
Christmas Dinner with Dame Gillian Beer
President, Clare Hall and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge
“The Booker Prize – A Judge’s Experience”
Saturday 11 December 1999, Roxbury Latin School
Reception with Jane Pickering, Director, MIT Museum & Dr. Christopher Norris
Sunday 10 October 1999, MIT Museum
Boat Race Dinner with Dr. Geoff Tabin, Mountaineer and Physician
Saturday 29 May 1999, Noble & Greenough School
March Dinner with Sir John Boyd
Master, Churchill College, Cambridge, and Her Majesty’s Former Ambassador to Japan
“Churchill: A Mid-Atlantic View”
Saturday 20 March 1999, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Ambassador Charles Crawford, Her Majesty’s Former Ambassador to Bosnia
“Some Thoughts on Bosnia and Kosovo”
Saturday 19 December 1998, Noble & Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emerita, University of Chicago
Saturday 6 June 1998, Noble & Greenough School
March Dinner with Dr. Eric Anderson, Provost of Eton College
Sunday 29 March 1998, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Dr. Rosemary A. Steven
Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday 6 December 1997, Marriott Newton Hotel
Boat Race Dinner with Professor Mary Lefkowitz, Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley College
Saturday 24 May 1997, Noble & Greenough School
March Dinner with Professor Christopher Ricks
Former King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, Cambridge
“A. E. Housman and ‘the colour of his hair’”
Saturday 15 March 1997, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Sir John Weston, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Saturday 7 December 1996, Noble & Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Sir Hans Kornberg, FRS, Former Master, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Saturday 1 June 1996, Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Baroness Perry of Southwark, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England
Saturday 23 March 1996, Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Dr. Gordon Johnson, President, Wolfson College, Cambridge
Saturday 9 December 1995, Noble & Greenough School
Christmas Dinner with Dr. Gillian Gill
Saturday, 4 December 1993 at Noble & Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Sir David Hannay
Saturday, 29 May 1993 at Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Lord Jenkins, Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Saturday, 27 March 1993 at the Rivers School
Christmas Dinner with Dr Oliver Strimpel, Executive Director of the Computer Museum
Saturday, 5 December 1992, at the Rivers School.
Boat Race Dinner with Seamus Heaney
Saturday, 23 May 1992 at Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Sir David Williams, Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University
Saturday, 4 April 1992 at Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Professor Professor J. Kenneth Galbraith
Saturday, 7 December 1991, Noble & Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Meg Vaillancourt
Saturday, 25 May 1991, Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Rev. Prof. Peter Gomes
Saturday, 8 March 1991 at Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with Ved Mehta
Saturday, 8 December 1990, Noble & Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Richard H. Baker, headmaster of the Noble & Greenough School, and Richard A. Bradley, headmaster of the Rivers School
'The Crisis in American Education'
Saturday, 19 May 1990, Noble & Greenough School
Spring Dinner with Dr Jonathan McDowell
Saturday, 10 March 1990 at Roxbury Latin School
Christmas Dinner with the The Rt Hon Shirley Williams
'Life after the Iron Curtain'
Saturday, 2 December 1989 at the Rivers School
Boat Race Dinner with Roderick MacFarquhar, Chairman of the Fairbanks Center
'Gorbachev goes to Beijing: MacFarquhar comes to Nobles'
Saturday, 13 May 1989 at Noble & Greenough School
Philip McLean
'Some impressions from his first encounter with South America'
Friday, 24 February 1989 at the Club of Odd Volumes
Christmas Dinner with Peter Ashton, head of the Arnold Arboretum
Saturday, 3 December 1988 at the Rivers School
Boat Race Dinner with Hedrick Smith, New York Times
Saturday, 14 May 1988, Noble and Greenough School
March Dinner with Christopher Hogwood, Director Handel and Haydn Society
March 26, 1988, Club of Odd Volumes
Christmas Dinner with speaker Robert Reich and honored guest Professor Warren Ault
December 12, 1987, Noble and Greenough School
Boat Race Dinner with Daniel Coquillette, Dean of Boston College Law School
May 23, 1987, Noble and Greenough School
Christmas Dinner with Mary Moore, Principal of St Hilda’s, Oxford
December 6, 1986, The Rivers School
Boat Race Dinner with Samuel J. Keyser, Assoc. Provost, MIT
May 17, 1986, Noble and Greenough School
Christmas Dinner with Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Regius professor of Greek, Oxford University
“The classics at Oxford, 1984”
December 13, 1984? Milton Academy
Other Speakers have included:
David Burns
H.D.S. Greenway
John Habbakkuk
Anthony Howard
Meghan O'Sullivan
András Riedlmayer
Malcolm Rogers
John Sears
Shirley V. Williams