honorary board her royal highness princess badiya el hassan of

The Oxonian Society is pleased to announce its 2006 Termcard. The Oxonian Society is dedicated to provocative discussion and debate with the world’s best and most interesting minds. The Oxonian Society is a Manhattan-based apolitical non-profi t organization. The Oxonian Society is open to people of all educational backgrounds and experiences.

Like many great things, the Oxonian Society operates on a simple formula. Typical early evening events see A-list guests present unedited views and commentary on a subject of their choosing; members and guests then engage with the invited speaker in Q&A dialogue. Members mingle and socialize before and after. There is an annual Gala dinner — the last two years the guests of honor were the former British Prime Minister John Major and Conan O’Brien

Our membership is as diverse as our speakers — which is part of the Oxonian Society experience. Academics, artists, professionals, students, political fi gures, business leaders, not for profi t advocates — those are just a few of the categories of our members, who defy categorization.

Each year the Oxonian Society holds a series of mixers designed to allow existing members to introduce others to the Society, encourage individuals to learn more about the Society and promote interaction among the Society’s members.

The Oxonian Society prides itself on being an organization easily accessible to new members from a diverse set of academic, professional and personal backgrounds.

Honorary BoardHer Royal Highness Princess Badiya El Hassan of Jordan (Ch Ch)The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom KG CHSir Howard Stringer, Chairman and CEO of Sony CorporationGeneral (ret.) Pete DawkinsJim Woolsey, former Director of the CIASean Maloney, Intel Corporation

Patron and Co-founder Her Royal Highness Princess Badiya El Hassan of Jordan (Ch Ch)Chairman, President and Co-founder Joseph Pascal (Ch Ch)Hon. Secretary Margaret Chai Maloney (LMH)President Emerita and Co-founder Louise Bagshawe (Ch Ch)

TheOxonianSociety

TheOxonianSocietyWorld Class Speakers Available to All - Oxford Graduates or Not

If you are not already a member, you may join at www.oxoniansociety.com

“A leading organization such as the Oxonian Society that is open to people of all backgrounds has created a dynamic and invaluable place and vehicle where leaders can discuss and debate some of the most important pressing issues that affect us all. The Oxonian Society has rightly become a must stop for who s̓ who of leaders.” — General Brent Scowcroft, only person in U.S. history to serve as National Security

Advisor to two Presidents. Coined the phrase, “ The New World Order.”

Ralph Fiennes, star of The English Patient, Schlinder’s List, Constant Gardner, and Harry Potter. Two time Academy award nominee and Tony award winner

Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State

HighlightsSome of the highlights of 2005 were speeches by former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major KG CH, Melissa Etheridge, James Earl Jones, Newt Gingrich, Malcolm Gladwell, number one national best-selling author, Morgan Spurlock, Academy Award nominee for Super Size Me, Andrea Mitchell, NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Tina Brown, Patrick Lecioni, best-selling author, John Patrick Shanley, Oscar, Tony and Pultizer award winner, and Myrtle Potter, former President of Genentech, and Amazon.com board director.

The Oxonian Society is a non-elitist organization and membership is available to all. We warmly welcome those that attended Oxford, those that attended other universities, and those that did not have a chance to experience higher education. The Oxonian Society is not connected to Oxford University. As an independent organization we offer the benefi ts of membership to all those interested in hearing the world-class speakers we regularly host.

Our guests have spoken on topics ranging from fi ne art to hard-nosed business practices; from questions of faith to matters of politics; and from philosophy to comedy. We offer something for all members. Whether your interests are in law, art, music, politics, sport, big business, religious understanding, pop culture, defence or diplomacy, the Society’s world-class

The Oxonian Society 2006 Termcard

Mia Farrow, acclaimed fi lm and stage actor and UNICEF ambassador

Patron Members:Jonathan Adamsky, Heather Bain, Brooks Burdette, James Del Favero, Patty Kennedy, Karl Knapp, Merritt Lutz, Vijay Mayadas, Rory Millson, Anna Ramsden, Jonathan Ramsden, Nick Rini, Victor Rodriguez, Alan Walton

The Oxonian Society is grateful to:

Phot

o by

Jul

ia G

riner

Conan O’Brien, host of Late Night with Conan O’Brien

guest speakers have covered them all. Even the briefest scan of the list of past speakers demonstrates the breadth, depth and caliber of tier-one guests that Oxonian Society members have come to expect.

The Oxonian Society has garnered regional, national, and international interest and has been covered by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New York Sun, Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The Daily News, People Magazine, Village Voice, New York Observer, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Education Update, US Weekly, AM-NY, The Times of London, and The Independent amongst others.

Looking forward, the Society hopes to be able, with the support of key corporations and supporters, to signifi cantly expand its mission; to provide many more world-class speakers to an ever-wider audience and bring the benefi t of its speaker programmes to all those who share its values of education and enlightenment. Corporate membership is now available for your fi rm. Patron membership is also available for individuals. For more information on such memberships please contact [email protected]



The online membership application and RSVP system are easy to use and take

only a few moments to complete.

“ Entree to the Augusta National Golf Club would probably have been easier to come by.” — New York Sun on the Oxonian Societyʼs mixers

Oxonian Society mixer with a capacity crowd, with existing members introducing others to the Society.

Reb

ecca

Let

z


Continued on next page

JANUARY1/9 Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. The Secretary of Homeland Security will

provide a unique speech on airplane and airport security, protecting the U.S. drug (pharma)

supply, response to past and future disasters - including Hurricane Katrina, and the controversy

surrounding immigration.

Secretary Chertoff’s role is one of the most important today. Chertoff is responsible for mobiliz-

ing and organizing the United Sates to secure the homeland from terrorist attacks. Chertoff leads

180,000 Department of Homeland Security men and women. Many agencies are under Chertoff’’s

leadership including the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Citzenship and Immigration Services,

FEMA, Border and Transportation Security.

1/31 Alec Baldwin. Screen, Broadway and television legend, Alec Baldwin has left a lasting

impression on audiences around the world. Baldwin brought Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan colorfully

to life in The Hunt for Red October, and in Glengary Glen Ross with Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon and

Alan Arkin, he played a memorable hard-nosed real estate executive. Baldwin has received a

Best Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination for his role in The Cooler. He has also stared

in Martin Scorsese’s Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio, Alan Alda and Kate Beckinsale, Pearl

Harbor, Along Came Polly with Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston, Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio, and

Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice. Baldwin has received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in

Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire and has stared in David Mamet’s Life in the The-

atre. On television he appeared in Knots Landing. Baldwin is an out-spoken supporter of various

causes related to public policy, including environmentalism, the government’s support of the arts,

campaign fi nance reform, animal rights and gun control.

FEBRUARY2/18 Jackie Collins. With over 400 million copies of her books sold in more than 40 countries, and with twenty-three New York Times bestsellers to her credit, Jackie Collins is one of the world’s top-selling novelists. She is known for giving readers an unrivaled insiders knowledge of Hollywood and the glamorous lives and loves of the rich, famous, and infamous! Her international sensation, Hollywood Wives, a #1 New York Times bestseller, was made into one of the highest-rated mini-series staring Anthony Hopkins and Candice Bergen.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Alec Baldwin, Academy and Tony award nominee.

Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show and the Academy awards, and number one New York Times bestselling author

Melissa Etheridge, two-time Grammy award winner, and activist for breast cancer victims and survivors.

General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS


FEBRUARY (continued)2/21 Winter Mixer. Winter mixer at Bungalowe 8, one of the trendiest nightspots in Manhattan. Created by Amy Saco the brains behind LOT61, this time she’s created a private club that is reminiscent of the Beverley Hills Hotel and old Hollywood for passing jet-setters. You can soak up the faux poolside theme with potted palm trees and murals while tucking in a drink to warm the soul.

2/25 Ricky Gervais. Ricky Gervais is considered one of the most talented and popular fi gures today in television. Gervais was the star and creator of The Offi ce, which was a major hit in terms of ratings and with the critics in the U.S. and Britain. The Offi ce has won a couple of Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actor for Gervais as his role as David Brent, and Steve Carell for the portrayal of Michael Scott in the NBC hit series The Offi ce. Presently Gervais has another hit show on HBO called Extras, starring Ben Stiller, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Les Dennis, Ashley Jensen, and Stephen Merchant. This will be a unique event since Gervais rarely makes public appearances and has had such an infl uencing effect on American and British television and writing. After Gervais appears at the Oxonain Society he will then be on Late Night with David Letterman.

MARCH3/10 Al Franken. Al Franken, a master of many mediums., is doing for radio what he and his co-horts did for television when they created Saturday Night Live three decades ago; make it funny. Franken is winner of fi ve Emmy and two Grammy awards and is also the author of four New York Times best-sellers, including, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Franken may run for the Senate in the 2008 election. He is currently the host of Air America Radio’s fl agship program, The Al Franken Show.

3/13 Richard Dreyfuss. The youngest actor to win the coveted Best Actor Oscar, when he snared it for his performance in The Goodbye Girl. Dreyfuss has been in movie classics such as Mike Nichol’s The Graduate and Postcards From the Edge, George Lucas’s American Graffi ti, Stephen Spielberg’s Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me, Barry Levinson’s Tin Men, Barbara Steisand’s Nuts, Stakeout, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lost in Yonkers, and Mr. Holland’s Opus, which earned Dreyfuss a second Academy Award nomination. Dreyfuss is also an accomplished stage actor.

3/14 Jeffrey Archer. Lord Archer will provide a rare and unique address on humor, politics and entertainment. One of the United Kingdom’s former leading political fi gures and one of the world’s most successful authors, Lord Archer has sold over 120 million books worldwide. For over 25 years, he has captivated audiences with his intriguing characters, ingenious plots, and trademark surprise endings. A “master plot twister”, Lord Archer’s credits include, “Kane & Abel”, “Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less”, “Shall We Tell The President?”, “The Prodigal Daughter”, “First Among Equals”, “A Matter of Honor”, “As the Crow Flies”, “Honor Among Thieves”, “The Fourth Estate”, “The Eleventh Commandment”, “Sons of Fortune”, and “A Prison Diary”.

Tom Clancy, bestselling author

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, and fi rst woman ever to lead a modern Islamic nation.

Prime Minister John Major, guest of honor and speaker at the Oxonian Society annual gala.

Rebe

cca

Letz

Ricky Gervais, Creator, star, director and Golden Globe winner of the hit series The Offi ce, and Extras.

“Night to Cherish.” — New York Post on the

Oxonian Society address and speaker interaction


APRIL4/6 General Anthony Zinni. General Zinni was Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command, responsible for all U.S. forces in 25-country region, including the Middle East. He was succeeded by General Tommy Franks when he retired in July 2000. According to Franks, Zinni became fl uent in Vietnamese during his service in Vietnam. Zinni and Tom Clancy co-authored a book, which went on to become a bestseller. President Bush and Colin Powell selected Zinni as special envoy for the U.S. to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to try to negotiate a cease-fi re and peace settlement between the two sides. Zinni has been an outspoken critic of war in Iraq and post-battle planning. Before the invasion, Zinni said the U.S. forces risked entering a “Bay of Goats”, a reference to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Since the war he has widely been quoted with ten criticisms of the rationale and execution of the war, which include: the war planners “misjudged the success of containment”; the “strategy was fl awed” - the strategy of invading, occupying, and setting up a new government in Iraq would help solve the broader confl ict in the Middle East; the administration “had to create a false rationale for going in to get public support”; the war planners failed “to internationalize the effort”; underestimating the task of creating a free, democratic and functional Iraq; propping up and trusting the exiles such as the Iraqi National Congress and Ahmed Chalabi; lack of planning for the post-war stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq; and insuffi cient military forces on the ground. Zinni is also a Purple Heart recipient. Zinni will discuss the realities on the ground and answer your questions.

4/11 April Spring Mixer. Join the Oxonian Society for the Spring Mixer. The Society has the private VIP room at Nikki Midtown. Nikki lounge has been entertaining famous customers around the world in exotic locations, such as, South Beach, St Tropez, St Barth, Marbella, Sardinia, Cabo, Puerto Vallarta and Marrakech. Now Nikki Midtown has come to New York and has become extremely popular.

4/ 24 General Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s highest military offi cer, has done something that no other military leader has done, lead the military during three simultaneous wars (the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and worldwide war on terrorism). General Myers has led the military through one of the most challenging and demanding times in history. General Myers served as the principal military advisor to the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the National Security Council. This is an unparalleled chance to hear the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff address the issues that face the free world today.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS


James Earl Jones speaking on the “Color of Delusion”.

Senator Chuck Hagel, leading senator and maverick.

Al Franken, bestselling author, co-creator of Saturday Night Live, and host of the hit Air America Radio Show.

Reb

ecca

Let

z

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives

Ricky Gervais, creator, star, director and Golden Globe winner of the hit series The Offi ce, and Extras.

Rebe

cca

Letz


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

4/25 Efraim Halevy. Israel’s Mossad is thought by many to be one of the most powerful and secre-tive intelligence agencies in the world. Efraim Halevy—a Mossad offi cer since 1961 and its chief between 1998 and 2002— will provide an unprecedented portrait of the Middle East crisis. Having served as the secret envoy of prime ministers Rabin, Shamir, Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon, Halevy was privy to many of the top-level negotiations that determined the progress of the region’s struggle for peace during the years when the threat of terror became increasingly powerful. Informed by his extraordinary access, he will provide the Society a rare portrait of the Mossad, the prime ministers he served under, and the other major players on the international stage: Yasir Arafat, Saddam Hussein, Hafi z al-Assad, Mu’amar Gadhafi , and presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush. From the vantage point of a chief in charge of one of the largest, secretive and most powerful intelligence organizations in the world, Halevy will discuss at the Society the diffi culty of running an intelligence agency in a time when heads of state are immersed, as never before, in using intelligence to protect their nations while, at the same time, acting to protect themselves politically. Halevy will also talk about how the world might achieve peace in the face of the growing threat from terrorist organizations. This will be a one of a kind event where Halevy opens his private dossier on events past and present: the negotiations surrounding the Israeli-Jordan Peace Accord and its importance for the stability of the region; fi gures in the CIA, like George Tenet, with who he worked (Halevy will also share his feelings about Tenet’s abrupt resignation); what really occurred behind the scenes with Black September, which Stephen Spielberg’s fi lm Munich portrays. Halevy will discuss the truth about what the Mossad really knew before 9/11, assess the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the region and beyond, what this spells for the future of international stability and survival, the increasing visibility of the CIA in the Middle East, and the terrorist at-tacks in New York, London, and Madrid and their far reaching effects. This will be a widely talked about event by the man who wielded his infl uence, in the shadows, to save the Middle East and the world from a never-ending cycle of violence and destruction.

APRIL (continued)

MAY5/11 Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State. Madeleine Albright was the fi rst woman Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States government. As Secretary, Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor and environmental standards abroad. Serving as a member of the President’s Cabinet and National Security Council for eight years, Albright was also the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. As a child Albright fl ed to England to escape the Nazi advance. Many of her relatives were killed in the Holocaust, including her grandparents at Auschwitz and Terezin. Albright is fl uent in English, French, Czech, with good speaking and reading abilities in Russian, German, Polish and Serb-Croatian. Albright will also discuss God in foreign policy.

5/15 Former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft. Brent Scowcroft has served fi ve Presidents and is the only person to have served two Presidents - Ford and Bush - as National Security Advisor. Both of these terms occurred during some of the most transforming times in our nation’s history. With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was National Security Advisor Scowcroft who coined the term and laid the foundation of the “New World Order.” He co-wrote, “A World Transformed” with President George H.W. Bush. Few leaders in modern history have the combination of experience and expertise in foreign policy and national security affairs as Brent Scowcroft.

“ He (General Wesley Clark) remininsced at length about his diplomatic dealings with Slobodan Milosevic.”

— New Yorker magazine on Oxonian Society and General Wesley Clark announcing for the fi rst time his national party affi liation.

Phot

o by

Bro

oke

Will

iam

s

Malcolm Gladwell, number one national bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink.

Richard Dreyfuss, Academy award winner for best actor.

Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former U.S. senator and secretary of defense under Bill Clinton.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE6/7 Summer Mixer. Join the Oxonian Society for the Summer Mixer. The Society has the space at Salon. The decadence and glamour of an old world salon. Landscape Hudson river views and old-world art deco design.

6/12 Dr. Randal Pinkett. The Apprentice was the #1 new show of the television season for adults 18-49 in its fi rst season, with an average viewership of 20.7 million people each week. Pinkett won in Donald Trump’s the Apprentice television show in the most controversial season. Pinkett will help with overseeing the $110M renovation of Donald Trump’s properties in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Pinkett will discuss his challenges, success, and how he convinced Donald Trump to choose him as his personal Apprentice. Pinkett holds fi ve degrees, is a former championship track and fi eld athlete, and has been featured in national publications as a future leader.

6/19 Joe Klein. Joe Klein, the legendary journalist and best-selling author of the critically ac-claimed novel Primary Colors, that caused the nation to go into a frenzied guessing game of who the anonymous author was. Primary Colors was the New York Times number one best-selling book and thinly-veiled portrayal of Bill Clinton’s fi rst presidential campaign. The book was made into a Hollywood blockbuster with John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thorton and directed by Mike Nichols.

Klein is considered one of the top journalists in the United States and was bureau chief of News-week, and columnist for New Yorker, New York, Washington Post, and now one of the premier journalists at Time magazine. He is a frequent guest on Larry King Live, Chris Matthews, and Charlie Rose news programs.

Klein’s most recent book is called, Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You’re Stupid. It cleverly analyzes the political handlers responsible for today’s bland, prefabricated candidates, carefully stage-managed campaigns and vacuous, focus-grouped policy proposals. Klein traces the political consultants’ infl uence through pungent insider accounts of presidential campaigns from 1968 to the present. He discusses the deadening of American political culture and celebrates the few politicians, like Ronald Reagan and John McCain, who occasionally slip the consultants’ leash, blurt out an unfashionable opinion, take a principled stand or otherwise demonstrate their unvarnished humanity.

6/29 Al Sharpton. Reverend Al Sharpton is a minister, a political and civil rights activist, and fi lm actor. Sharpton ran for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 2004. Sharpton has also run for the United States Senate and Mayor of New York City. Sharpton formed the National Action Network in 1991 to fi ght for progressive, popular-based social policies by providing extensive voter education and registration campaigns, and economic support for small community businesses. That same year, Sharpton was stabbed in an assassination attempt in a Bensonhurst. Eventually, he met and reconciled with his attacker. Sharpton has appeared in Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X, and in episodes of television shows New York Undercover, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, and Boston Legal. During the 2005 Tony Awards, Sharpton appeared in a number put on by the cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Sharpton has also hosted the late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live. Sharpton has also recorded the album God Smiled on Me with James Brown.


General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and presidential candidate.

Julia

Grin

erRe

becc

a Le

tz

Dr. Ruth signing books for members

Senator Bob Kerry, a leader of the 9/11 Commission and a author of the bestselling and critical report, former governor, senator and presidential candidate.

General Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“ Ice cool Brits: Knightsbridge hits the Upper East Side.”

— Times on the Oxonian Society


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

SEPTEMBER9/6 Former Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William Cohen. Former Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William S. Cohen, is an authority on world politics and American government.Secretary Cohen is one of the most respected Defense Secretaries in the history of the United States. He commands respect from both sides of the political aisle.

Signifi cant events in U.S. defense history during William Cohen’s tenure as Secretary of Defense include: the largest defense spending increase in 15 years, NATO enlargement with three new democracies, military to military ties with China, and reduced nuclear weapons in Russia. Under his leadership, the U.S. military conducted the largest air warfare campaign since World War II, in Bosnia and Kosovo, and conducted other military operations on every continent. During his tenure, Secretary Cohen held substantive meetings with foreign leaders in over 60 countries. He strengthened security relationships with countries around the world in order to reorient them from the Cold War to the challenges of a new era. Secretary Cohen also accomplished the cre-ation of the Joint Forces Command for foreign threats and the Joint Task Force for Civil Support to create a state of readiness in homeland defense for domestic threats such as terrorism. As he left offi ce, Cohen cautioned that Russia, China, asymmetric warfare, and weapons of mass de-struction were issues likely to confront incoming Bush administration national security offi cials.

From his very fi rst days in Washington, Secretary Cohen was singled out as a future Ameri-can leader. In 1974, during his very fi rst term in Congress, Time magazine named him as one of “America’s 200 Future Leaders. Elected to Congress in 1972, he served three terms in the House of Representatives and won election to the Senate in 1978, and re-election in 1984 and 1990. A moderate Republican, he served on both the Senate Armed Services and Governmental Affairs Committees, and was a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence for a decade, serving half that time as Vice Chairman, overseeing a large budget involving some of the nation’s most ad-vanced technology. As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aging, Secretary Cohen led efforts to improve the effi ciency of Medicare and other health care programs and was a central player in the health care reform debates of the 1990s.

JULY7/14 Ralph Fiennes. Critics consider Ralph Fiennes to be one of the top actors in the world. Fiennesmight be best known as Lord Voldemott in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Fiennes will also be in the 2007 release of the new Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Fiennes received critical reviews and an Oscar nomination for his horrifying yet complexly human portrayal of Amon Goeth, commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Plaszow, in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed epic Schindler’s List. In the English Patient, Fiennes and his co-star Juliette Binoche also received Academy Award nominations for their performances. Fiennes also starred in The End of the Affair with Juliana Moore, and in Robert Redford’s Quiz Show. Most recently Fiennes appeared in John Le Care’s The Constant Gardener, playing a kind, genial British diplomat in Africa who is shaken out his complacency when his beloved, politically outspoken wife is murdered amid suspicious and sordid circumstances, prompting him to try to tear open the secret conspiracy she was investigating. Fiennes played a blind man in the Ismail Merchant’s last fi lm, the White Countess. And recently was a leading voice in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Fiennes won a 1995 Tony Award for his portrayal of Hamlet, and this year he was nominated for another Tony for his performance in Faith Healer.


Mat

t Pey

ton

His Royal Highness Prince Hassan and Her Royal Highness Princess Badiya of Jordan.

Jim Woolsey, former Director of the CIA.

Sir Roger Moore, aka James Bond.

Dr. Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister and chief architect of the Camp David negotiations.

John

ny M

iller


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

His experience and expertise led to his selection to serve on the “Iran-Contra Committee.” His sustained leadership on environmental issues gave him the distinction of being the only Republican Senator endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters re-election after re-election, while his efforts on behalf of small business and early leadership in reversing federal defi cits won him awards from the National Federation of Independent Businessmen and the National Taxpayers Union. In 1996, widely expected to easily defeat whomever would be nominated to challenge him in the Senate, Secretary Cohen stunned Maine and Washington by announcing he would not seek re-election. Frustrated with partisan gridlock, Secretary Cohen decided he would return to private life to promote international business and, through his writings and the media, a more thoughtful public discourse on national political issues.

President Clinton interrupted these plans, however, when he asked Secretary Cohen to lead the Department of Defense, the fi rst time in modern U.S. history when a President had chosen an elected offi cial from the other party to be a member of his cabinet. At his January 1997 confi rmation hearing, Secretary Cohen set forth his prioritized objectives as Secretary of Defense and completed his tenure having accomplished them all. After 31 years of public service, Secretary Cohen has a record of unparalleled accomplishment, integrity, and respect, and takes with him unrivaled knowledge, reputation, and relationships across America and around the globe.

9/12 Ed McMahon. For nearly 30 years Ed McMahon played sidekick to Johnny Carson on the late-night hit The Tonight Show. McMahon introduced the show with a drawn-out “Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!” His booming voice and constant laughter earned him the nick-name the Human Laugh Track.

Their edition of the show ran from 1962 to 1992, making both men household names. In the 1990s McMahon was introduced to a new generation via Phil Hartman’s impersonations on Saturday Night Live. And in later years joined Dick Clark as a pitchman for the American Family Publishers sweepstakes. McMahon is a longtime co-host of the annual Jerry Lewis telethon for muscular dystrophy.

He has recently authored a memoir Here’s Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship. McMahon is the only person who was with Johnny Carson, even before The Tonight Show, when they both fi rst appeared on Who Do You Trust. With Johnny’s blessing before he died, McMahon can fi nally share all the stories that only he knows. From the sofa at Johnny’s right, to backstage, to their personal relationship - McMahon will provide a real view of the man who was so careful to only show one side of himself to the public. Brilliant in front of the camera, but shy in person, Carson seldom gave interviews. Only McMahon can tell the stories and provide the insights into the personality that made Johnny Carson more of a friend we invited into our home than a television star.

9/13 Lanny Davis. Lanny Davis served as Special Counsel to President Clinton and in that position served as the White House spokesperson for various congressional campaign fi nance investigations and other “scandal” allegations against the Clinton Administration. Davis’s memoir of his work as President Clinton’s crisis communicator was published in 1999 and titled, Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself.: Notes From My White House Education. Tom Brokaw, formerly of NBC News, said, “Lanny Davis has written a book that should be required reading for all Washington

SEPTEMBER (continued)


General Barry McCaffrey, former Drug Czar.

Jeffrey Archer, one of the bestselling authors of all time.

General Brent Scowcroft, only person to serve as National Security Advisor under two Presidents, Bush and Ford.

Admiral Stansfi eld Turner, former Director of the CIA.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

offi cials and journalists alike. It’s an instructive and cautionary tale of the constant struggle to know the truth of what is going on at the highest degree of government.”

Davis’s latest book is called Scandal: How “Gotcha” Politics Is Destroying America. For more than four decades, politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians, extremists on the left and right, and the media. Lanny Davis, who has beenin the belly of the beast as Special Counsel to the Clinton White House, tackles the issue of “gotcha” politics and its deteriorating effect on our government. Davis covers historical scandals like Alexander Hamilton’s extramarital affairs and moves forward to today— how American politics has been reduced to the politics of personal destruction. He explains how this poisonous atmosphere is damaging not just politics but American society. He reveals a coalition of centrist politicians who focus on core policies rather than the missteps of the other party, and how this group and others like them can pull America back from the brink. Davis is a regular on CNN’s “Late Edition,” NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Fox New Channel’s O’Reilly Factor, and MSNBC’s Brian Williams Hour. He is often featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Davis will appear on Bill O’Reilly’s Fac-tor right before addressing the Oxonian Society.

This will be a fascinating event and analysis from one of the highest-ranking offi cials in the Clinton administration, before the upcoming mid-term and presidential elections.

“Lanny Davis has shown he understands the dangers from the left and right of the politics of personal destruction.” —Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT)

“This book could not come at a more appropriate time in American political life. . . Lanny Davis has been on the front lines of some of the sharpest political debates in our nation’s history. We should listen—Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)



Paul

Har

ris

Jackie Collins, bestselling author. Has sold over 400 million books.

Ken Burns, legendary documentary fi lmaker of the Civil War, Jazz, and Baseball. Burns won three Emmy awards and was nominated for two Academy awards.

Ed McMahon, longtime co-host of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Mic

hael

McC

rear

y

Dafn

a Ta

l

Ralph Fiennes, star of The English Patient, Schlinder’s List, Constant Gardner, and Harry Potter. Two time Academy award nominee and Tony award winner


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

9/19 Joe Eszterhas. Joe Eszterhas is a New York Times bestselling author and silver screen heavyweight.

Eszterhas is Hollywood’s most notorious screenwriter, who wrote Basic Instinct, Flash Dance, and Jagged Edge starring Glenn Close, amongst others. His $3 million paycheck for “Basic Instinct” in 1990 was the highest amount of money ever paid for a screenplay at that time. Eszterhas’s screenplays that have been produced into movies have collectively grossed over $1 billion at the box offi ce.

As of recently, Eszterhas has 9 unproduced screenplays in Hollywood’s studios: “Forplay” (screenplay sold for $3.5 million), “Male Pattern Baldness” ($2 million), “Gangland” ($3.4 million for screenplay adaptation and to produce), “Land of the Free” ($4 million), “Evil Empire” ($2 million), “Reliable Sources” ($3.4 million), “Original Sin”, “Sacred Cows”, and “Blaze of Glory” for somewhere in the $2 million range each as well.

Eszterhas is a throat cancer survivor after having been a heavy smoker. Four-fi fths of his esophagus was removed due to the cancer. He has since become an outspoken advocate against smoking in movies.

Eszterhas tells all about making it big in Tinsel Town in his latest book, The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood. Eszterhas takes readers deep inside the movie industry’s most famous and infamous minds.

Eszterhas keeps a relatively low profi le, having abandoned Hollywood for a quiet life in suburban Ohio. This will be a rare event where Eszterhas uses his controversial style and humor to dispense behind-the-scenes tips and hard-earned advice.

9/20 Fall Mixer. Join the Oxonian Society for the Fall mixer at Eugene. Eugene carries a number of different elements with plush, romantic art deco décor, the lounge dressed with a freestanding gothic aquarium and billowing drapes with metallic, silk, velvet accents, and low upholstered furniture where guests can lounge gracefully, making Eugene one of the best see and be seen spots in Chelsea.


Moby, global music superstar and descendant of Herman Melville.

Morgan Spurlock, actor, producer, director of the Academy award nominee fi lm, Super Size Me.

Efraim Halevy, former director of Mossad, and secret envoy for prime ministers Rabin, Shamir, Netanyahu, Barak, and Sharon.

,murof eht tA “ which was held by the Oxonian Society...at times sounded (General Wesley Clark) very much like a candidate.”

— New York Times


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

OCTOBER10/3 Ed Rollins. Ed Rollins has long been known as one of America’s premiere political strategists and communications experts. He directed the most successful Presidential campaign in the history of the United States, serving as President Ronald Reagan’s 1984 National Campaign Director. He also ran Ronald Reagan’s 1981 campaign. Rollins has worked for seven American presidents. Along with his work at the top levels in the White House, Rollins has ridden high and low.

Rollins will provide a wealth of juicy and humorous information, which he is willing to share--holding nothing back, including the weirdness and running the Ross Perot Presidential campaign. Rollins will also analyze and provide a behind the scenes look at the upcoming mid-term elections, where the Senate and House of Representative might change the balance of power. Rollins will discuss why President Reagan is considered by analysts and the public to have been the great communicator and insights into his high-level interactions with President Regan.

He is the author of Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, a revealing look at Washington’s power games and the backstage of several campaigns he has managed in his more than 30 years in politics.

If you are interested in an insider’s view of the Presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan and Ross Perot, the upcoming mid-term elections, winning public opinion, and managing a media crisis, this event is not to be missed.

10/9 Andy Summers. Andy Summers with Sting and Stewart Copeland formed the Police, one of the most successful and infl uential bands in music history. The Police sold over 75 million records and garnered fi ve Grammy awards.

Summers met Sting and Stewart Copeland in 1977; together, the trio gradually developed a style centered on jazz and reggae-infl uenced pop/rock. Summers help compose some of the most successful albums in music history including the Police’s Synchronicity, Ghost in the Machine, Zenyatta Mondatta, Regatta De Blanc, and Outlandos D’Amour.

In March 2003 Summers—already in the guitar Player Hall of Fame—along with cohorts Sting and Stewart Copeland was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Before forming the Police, Summers was a member of Eric Burdon’s famed band the New Animals. In 1969, Summers took time away from the world of rock bands to study classical guitar and composition at UCLA for four years, supporting these activities by teaching music, performing with LA bands and acting with various theatre troupes. Upon his return to England at the end of 1973 he re-entered the London music scene to quickly establish himself as a premier guitarist.

After the Police Summers established himself in musical realms outside of rock & roll and composed several fi lm soundtracks (Down and Out in Beverly Hills, 2010, Weekend at Bernie’s, etc.). While Summers is best known as the guitarist of the Police (1977-86), he has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career with contemporary instrumental music that, like his work with Sting and Stewart Copeland, draws on his love for jazz, world, classical music and his fascination with creating sonic textures. Summers with the New Composers Orchestra recently played Carnegie Hall and continues to show his critically acclaimed photography exhibitions around the world.

Summers has fi nally composed his long awaited autobiography One Train Later, which is a memoir on a life that began in gloomy 1940s Bournemouth, England and progressed to an illustrious, globe trotting music career. The Edge of U2 wrote the foreword, since Summers has had a major impact on the Edge’s musical career.


Sir Howard Stinger, Chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation.

Joe Eszterhas, Hollywood’s notorious screenwriter (Basic Instict) and New York Times bestselling author.

General Tony Zinni, former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Central Command, Special Enovy to the Middle East, and bestselling author.

Senator George McGovern, Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 1972.

Leading Senator. Has served in Congress for over twenty-four years..


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Summers is a multi-talented individual and will discuss his incredible career and life, including with the Police and Sting.

10/10 Private screening and talk by the critically acclaimed director, Stevan Riley, of the hit fi lm Blue Blood . Blue Blood, took the Tribeca Film Festival by storm this year. Before Blue Blood goes into release in North America, the fi lm’s director, Stevan Riley, will have a private fi lm screening and talk at the Oxonian Society. If you enjoyed recent independent super hits such as Bend it Like Beckham, Napoleon Dynamite, or My Big Fat Greek Wedding, then this is a cannot miss.

With wide acclaim, Blue Blood, is a hilarious and moving documentary about the training regimen and sparring contests of Oxford students who step out of the ivory tower and into the boxing ring to settle mat-ters with their Cambridge rivals. In underlining the freedom to not care about failing, or about what other people think, Blue Blood, paints a winning portrait of the spirit of the underdog. Five Oxford scholars (a fi ne artist, astrophysicist, philosopher, mathematician and biochemist) all quickly realize that a sharpened pencil and straight A’s are of little use when the gloves are on and violence reigns.

10/16 Ambassador Arye Mekel of Israel. With war raging between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Mid-East in crisis, and mounting causalities and displacement of civilians, Ambassador Arye Mekel of Israel will address the Oxonian Society and provide an in-depth analysis, possible solutions how the never-ending bloodshed can end, and answer audience questions. This is the fi rst time that missiles are striking major Israeli cities such as Haifa and the holy city of Nazareth that was home to Jesus. This is also the fi rst time that Lebanon’s fl edgling democracy has had to deal with so many displaced people.

The child of Holocaust survivors, Arye Mekel was born in the former Soviet Union in 1946. Ambassador Mekel served as Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (1986-1989) and Director General of the Israel Broadcasting Authority, responsible for all State television and radio (1989-1993).

Newt Gingrich and other leading politicians have called the current crisis the beginning of World III. Ambassador Arye Mekel will provide and insider’s look.

10/19 Senator Byron Dorgan, a leading senator. Senator Byron Dorgan, from the high plains to Capitol Hill, with both barrels blazing, and with biting wit and an unerring moral compass, will weave colorful stories and warn of economic peril. With $2 billion a day in trade defi cits, Senator Dorgan says we are mortgaging our future and our way of life. Senator Dorgan pulls no punches and will offer a bold, refreshing strategy for putting the United States back on track. Senator Dorgan is a member of the Senate Leadership and has served in the U.S. Congress for over twenty-four years.

Senator Dorgan will discuss the one white building on Church Street in the Cayman Islands’ capital that is the offi cial “home” to 12,748 U.S. corporations, alarming trade defi cits with China, Japan, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Korea, and the link between oil trade and terrorism.

Senator Dorgan says for generations to come, we will be paying for this folly unless immediate and swift action takes place. Few leaders in Washington have emerged with as clear a voice or as coherent a strategy as Senator Dorgan.

The Washington Post says that Senator Dorgan is “a populist straight from the traditions of the William Langer and Hubert Humphrey.” And the New York Times says he “sets an example for political statesmanship.”

OCTOBER (continued)

Ambassador Danny Ayalon of Israel, Israel’s Ambassa-dor to the U.S. gave the Society a unique speech days before war broke out in the Middle East.

John Patrick Shanley, Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer award winner.

Joe Klein, lengendary journalist and author of the New York Times number one bestseller, Primary Colors

Tina Brown, former editor of The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Talk and Tatler magazines

Reb

ecca

Let

z

“ The former head of the Mossad on Iraq, terrorism in New York, and what Stephen Spielberg got wrong.”

— New York magazine on the Oxonian Society and the former director of the Mossad



CALENDAR OF EVENTS

10/26 Senator Chuck Hagel. Senator Chuck Hagel, is a leading senator and political maverick. He is considered to be one of the top contenders for the Republican Party’s nomination for the President of the United States for the 2008 election. On August 18, 2005, Senator Hagel became the fi rst Republican U.S. senator to publicly criticize the Iraq war and to call for withdrawal. He has compared the war to Vietnam, openly mocked Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that the Iraqi insurgency was in its “last throes,” and called for a withdrawal of troops to begin “within the next year.” In November 2005, Senator Hagel made a much-publicized statement saying “To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic.” This was in reference to the increasing amount of debate surrounding the Iraq War. In December 2005, in reference to President Bush, the GOP, and the Patriot Act, Senator Hagel made a much-publicized statement: “I took an oath of offi ce to the Constitution, I didn’t take an oath of offi ce to my party or my president.” Senator Hagel further criticized the Bush administration, saying, “National security is more important than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. And to use it to try and get someone elected will ultimately end up in defeat and disaster for that political party.”

On February 12, 2006 Senator Hagel was on the cover, profi led and the feature story of the Sunday New York Times Magazine. The article was titled, The Heartland Dissident.Senator Hagel serves on the Foreign Relations; Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Intelligence and Rules. Senator Hagel is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations International Economy Policy, Export and Trade Promotion Subcommittee and the Senate Banking Securities and Investment Subcommittee.

Senator Hagel served in Vietnam with his brother Tom in 1968. They served side by side as infantry squad leaders with the U.S. Army’s 9th Infantry Division. Senator Hagel earned many military decorations and honors, including two Purple Hearts. Many consider Senator Hagel to be a leading moderate and impressive leader.

10/24 Gala - Sir Roger Moore, KBE, and Her Royal Highness Princess Badiya of Jordan. The Oxonian Society is pleased to announce that in addition to Sir Roger Moore, a.k.a James Bond, and Her Royal Highness Princess Badiya of Jordan will a the keynote speakers at the Society’s 2006 annual black tie gala.

HRH Princess Badiya is patron and a co-founder of the Society, and has been a progressive leader for interfaith understanding and women’s rights. HRH Princess Badiya graduated with Hons. from Oxford University and worked for the U.N. in New York and Geneva. Presently HRH Princess Badiya’s work centres on projects to further cross culture understanding. She is also involved with initiatives to promote human rights in genral, and, more specifi cally, the rights of asylum seekers and refugees. HRH Princess Badiya has had a presence on the World stage and will provide the Oxonian Society an eloquent address.

Sir Roger Moore, KBE, is known for his suave, handsome, unfl appable, witty demeanor as James Bond. To date, Sir Roger is the longest-serving James Bond. Ian Fleming created James Bond as an agent of Her Majesty’s Secret Service. James Bond holds code number “007”. The ‘double-O’ prefi x indicates his discretionary license to kill in the performance of his duties. Sir Roger was in such James Bond classics

OCTOBER (continued)

Oxonian Society Debate

John

ny M

iller

Robert Reich, President Clinton’s Secretary of Labor.

Reb

ecca

Let

z

His Royal Highness Prince Zeid, the Jordanian Ambassador to the U.N. discussed the International Criminal Court,

John

ny M

iller

saw rialB ynoT nehW “winning American friends with his pledges of solidarity, it (Oxonian Society) has been gathering popularity with Manhattan Anglophiles ever since.”

— Times

such as The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and Live and Let Die. Sir Roger is known for his classic scenes with M’s Secretary - Miss Moneypenny, his customary beverage order, “A martini, shaken, not stirred,” racing his Aston Martin DB5, and as a playboy.

Each fi lm begins with what is known as the James Bond gun barrel sequence, which introduces agent 007. A gun barrel is seen from the assassin’s perspective — a side-on view of James Bond walking, who quickly turns and shoots. The scene then reddens (signifying the spilling of the would-be assassin’s blood), the gun barrel dissolves to a white circle, and the fi lm begins.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

11/7 Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Pakistan has become a major force on the international stage, and critical ally for the United States in the War on Terrorism. Pakistan is one of the most populous Muslim nations in the world. Often what happens in Pakistan has resounding affects in the United States and the world.

On December 2, 1988 Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the fi rst woman ever to lead a modern Islamic nation. In the preceding decade of political struggle, Ms. Bhutto was arrested on numerous occasions; in all she spent nearly 6 years either in prison or under detention for her dedicated leadership of the then opposition. Throughout the years in opposition, she pledged to transform Pakistani society by focusing attention on programs for health, social welfare and education for the underprivileged.

She became active in politics after her father, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfi kar Ali Bhutto, was ousted from offi ce in a 1977 military coup and later executed. Having sworn to carry her father’s political fl ame, Benazir Bhutto, overcame government persecution and led her Party to victory in the November 1988 and October 1993 parliamentary elections. As Prime Minister, Bhutto has been praised for moving swiftly to restore civil liberties and political freedom, suspended under military rule. As Prime Minister, Bhutto emphasized the need to reduce discrimination between men and women and launched a nationwide program of health and education reform.

Prime Minister Bhutto will discuss the future of India and Pakistan relations, Pakistan’s role in the world, fi ght against terrorism, and where she believes Osama Bin Laden is hiding. She will also take questions after her important address.

Prime Minister Bhutto has addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, French National Assembly, United Nations and Princeton University.

NOVEMBER


Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC.

Earl Spencer, brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, mingling with members and addressing the Society on the art work and treasures of theAlthorp estate.

Mat

t Pey

ton

Patrick Lencioni, business guru and New York Times bestselling author, addressed the Society on his runaway best-sellers, The Five Temptations of a Leader, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, and Death by Meeting.

The Oxonian Society annual black tie gala will include an elegant three-course dinner, with live music, and an addresses by Sir Roger Moore, KBE, and HRH Princess Badiya.

Table purchases are available – please email [email protected] . The Society has added an additional number of single tickets that are available here. The gala is an annual and premier fundraising event. A portion of the table and single ticket purchases are tax-deductible.

The Oxonian Society is donating a table to New York University. John Brademas, Oxonian Society member, strong supporter of the Society, and NYU president emeritus, will select a group of talented NYU students to attend the gala for free.

OCTOBER (continued)


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

11/8 Oxonian Society and Cambridge Alumni NYC Debate. “This House supports no restrictions on immigration to the United States.” Join the Oxonian Society for a “traditional” and lively debate.

In PropositionRod Clayton, Brasenose, Oxford, executive vice president and general manager of Weber Shand-wick and winner of the International Observer Mace, the McGill World Invitation, and the ‘Great Debate’ in Kuala LumpurDaniel Raglan, LMH, Oxford, shareholder at Greenberg Traurig,LLPDavid Zilkha, Balliol, OxfordAtif Ansar, Pembroke, Oxford, and works at the World Bank

In OppositionPartho Ghosh St. Edmonds, Cambridge, is Chairman of Cambridge Alumni - New York City. Ghosh represented Cambridge University when he was British Debating champion and World Debating Finalist. Ghosh is an investment banker.Christopher Tine, King’s, Cambridge, is a television producer and director in New York; he has worked regularly with the BBC, Discovery Channel, TLC, and Travel Channel.Matthew Wittman, Clare, Cambridge, is no studyding for a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University.Bobby Webster, Trinity, Cambridge, after a stint at the London think tank Demos, is now studying fi lm at the Tisch School at New York University.

11/13 Mia Farrow.Mia Farrow is an acclaimed fi lm and stage actor and UNICEF ambassador. The stellar list of fi lms she has starred in includes Rosemary’s Baby, The Great Gatsby (Farrow played Daisy Buchanan opposite Robert Redford), Hannah Her Sisters (played the title role of “Hannah”), Zelig, Crimes and Misdemeanors, New York Stories, Broadway Danny Rose, Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Alice, September, Husbands and Wives, Private Parts, amongst others.

Farrow was the person on the fi rst issue of People Magazine. Her sister, Prudence Farrow, inspired The Beatles song Dear Prudence. Farrow is considered one of the most beautiful and talented women to grace the silver screen.

As the mother of fourteen children - ten of whom are adopted, Farrow has devoted her life to humanitarian efforts and the care of a truly remarkable family. With the goal of helping those who are less fortunate, she brings an unending source of courage, hope and spiritual strength to her role as mother and activist. Farrow has incredible passion and sincere commitment to the children of the world.

Presently Farrow is one of the few people in the world that continues to campaign for an end to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. In reference to the women and children of the devastated region of Darfur, Farrow said “These are the most courageous women I’ve ever met. We can only bow our heads with the deepest respect at this time of suffering and terror. These people have no voice to tell the world what is happening.” She has become the courageous voice of the voiceless people of Darfur. Farrow recently wrote a piece in the Chicago Tribune. Farrow will be returning on her second trip to Darfur. Ronan Farrow, son of Ms. Farrow, recently wrote a moving article on Darfur in the Wall Street Journal.

Farrow remains one of Hollywood’s most extraordinary women. Farrow will address the Oxonian Society with eloquence and honesty in a unique presentation that is sure to inspire any audience. Farrow will refl ect on her ever-evolving life journey and why it is important that the world assist the innocent people of Darfur.

11/14 Thanksgiving Mixer. Join the Oxonian Society for the Thanksgiving Mixer at the famed Gypsy Tea Lounge. Gypsy Tea shines like a beacon and is the latest hotspot in the Flatiron. The fl oor is bathed in bright vibrant colors and surrounded by tables as well as elaborate interior accents, cushy pillars, and a grand aquarium.

Lanny Davis, President Clinton’s former special counsel and spokesperson.

Walter Isaacson, former Chairman and CEO of CNN, and bestselling author of Benjamin Franklin, An American Life.

John

ny M

iller

Ed Rollins, ran President Ronald Reagan’s two successful Presidential campaigns, and Ross Perot’s independent ticket.


NOVEMBER (continued)


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

11/15 George McGovern. George McGovern, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 1972, served in the House of Representatives from 1957 to 1961, ran the Food for Peace Program under President Kennedy, and served in the Senate for eighteen years, and then served as ambassador to the UN Agencies on Food and Agriculture in Rome under President Clinton. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross for service as a bomber pilot in World II and the Presidential Medal of Freedom for humanitarian service.

NOVEMBER (continued)

If you are not

already a member,

you may join at

www.oxoniansociety.com

Myrtle Potter, former President of Genentech.

Rebe

cca

Letz

Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, brokered an end to the war in Bosnia, and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

Andy Summers, Grammy award winner and member of one the bestselling musical bands in history, the Police.

sredael sekam yteicoS nainoxO ehT “ accessible to the public.”

— Education Update

The Oxonian Society is incorporated as a not-for-profi t corporation in New York and is an exempt organization under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code; it is a private society and not legally connected in any way with Oxford University itself. The Oxonian Society is also not connected with any other alumni societies of Oxford or its colleges, but is completely independent. The Oxonian Society is proud to be open to everybody, whether they attended Oxford or not.

Jon Stewart

honorary board her royal highness princess badiya el hassan of

Documents