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Keynote Speaker: Dr. Phillip Sharp, Nobel Laureate in Biology
Special Honorees: Robert Swanson '69, G’71, Genentech Co-Founder and Frederick Middleton Jr. '71, Genentech CFO
Since 1976 when the first biotechnology company --GENENTECH, INC.-- was founded, numerous debates have surrounded the future of biotechnology including: how
biotechnology can be effectively commercialized; what benefits
will the biotechnology bring to humanity and when; and what
limits should be placed on how biotechnology is used. For
example, recently the prospect of human cloning being a technological reality has stirred significant debate.
On Thursday, October 8th, the MIT Club of Northern California
(MITCNC) will be addressing some of these issues in a program
spotlighting the roles biotechnology in the new millennium.
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09/13 Sun Noon
Sunday Brunch and Matinee at China Valley in Los Altos
09/15 Thu 6:00pm MIT/Stanford Venture Lab: iPass, “Access, Anywhere”
09/16 Wed 11:45am Tour of San Francisco Transamerica Pyramid
09/16 Wed 7:00pm West Coast Swing Dance Lesson and Party in San Mateo
09/17 Thu 7:00pm Happy Hour at Faultline Brewing Company in Sunnyvale
09/19 Sat 9:30am In-Line Skating Clinic at Iron Horse School in San Ramon
09/19 Sat 1:00pm Tour of Murals of the Mission, Treasures of SF
09/20 Sun 10:00am Hike at Pinnacles National Monument
09/22 Thu 6:00pm Silicon Valley Regional Telethon in Palo Alto
10/01 Thu 6:30pm New Enterprise Crucible: Evolution of a Start-Up
10/02 Fri 7:30pm Ballroom Dance Lessons and Party at Metronome Ballroom
10/08 Thu 6:00pm Spotlight MIT '98:Biotechnology In the New Millenium
10/10 Sat 6:00pm San Francisco Symphony: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
10/11 Sun Noon
Sunday Brunch and Matinee at Babbo’s Pizzeria in Palo Alto
10/15 Thu 6:30pm MIT $50K Business Writing Competition Winners
10/15 Thu 7:00pm Happy Hour at BBC in Menlo Park
10/17 Sat 11:00am Welcome Reception for Class of 1998 in Atherton
10/18 Sun 10:00am Hike at Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
10/18 Sun 7:30pm NHL: San Jose Sharks vs. Boston Bruins at San Jose Arena
10/22 Thu 6:30pm New Enterprise Crucible: Kick-Off Event
10/24 Sat 6:00pm Dinner and Theater: Hecuba by Euripides at Geary Theater
11/05 Thu 6:30pm New Enterprise Crucible: Litmus Testing Your Idea
11/08 Sun Noon
Sunday Brunch and Matinee at Fumiyoshi Restaurant
11/12 Thu 6:30pm New Enterprise Crucible: Mixer
11/15 Sun 10:00am Hike at Castle Rock State Park
11/19 Thu 7:00pm Happy Hour at Blue Chalk in Palo Alto
11/20 Fri 7:00pm Ballroom Dance Lesson and Party at Starlite Ballroom
12/13 Sun Noon
Sunday Brunch and Matinee at Duoce France in Palo Alto
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To guide us into the future of biotechnology, we are very fortunate to have Dr. Phillip Sharp as our keynote speaker. Dr. Sharp
shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the
discovery of split genes. At MIT, Dr. Sharp is the Salvador E.
Luria Professor and head of the biology department. Dr. Sharp
is also a scientist at MIT’s Center for Cancer Research, where
he was director until 1991. Dr. Sharp is also a co-founder of
BIOGEN, INC. where he is Chairman of the Scientific Board
and a member of its Board of Directors.
Dr. Sharp’s has received numerous awards throughout his distinguished career including MIT’s James R. Killian, Jr., Faculty
Achievement Award (1993), the John D. MacArthur Professorship (1987-1992), the first Salvador E. Luria Professorship
(1992-), the New York Academy of Sciences Award in Biological and Medical Sciences, and the General Motors Research
Foundation Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize for Cancer Research. See
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/medicine-1993-2-autobio.html.
In addition to Dr. Sharp’s keynote address, we are pleased to
honor Robert Swanson ’69, ’71 and Frederick Middleton Jr. ’71
for their contribution to the biotechnology industry. Mr. Swanson is the co-founder of GENENTECH, INC. and served as
director and CEO of Genentech from the time of its inception in
1976 until 1990 when he was named Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Middleton joined Genentech in 1978 and served as the
company’s founding CFO. Mr. Middleton is a founder and general partner of Sanderling Ventures. This program is co-sponsored by Bay Area Bioscience Center.
Date/Time
Thursday, October 8, 1998
6:30 pm Reception
7:30 pm Dinner & Keynote
Organizer (RSVP/More Info)
Anne-Can
(408) 323-2255
[email protected]
c/o Spotlight MIT 98
6155 Almaden Express #230
San Jose, CA 95120
Location
Westin Hotel
5101 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara
Cost Make check to MITCNC
$40
Prepaid Members
$55
Other/At-Door
RSVP by October 1st
Please indicate entree: steak,
chick or salmon
A Word from the Club President, David Weitz ’87
Welcome to the 1998-99 club year of the M.I.T. Club of Northern California (MITCNC). As President of the MITCNC, I
have given a lot of thought to better defining the purpose and
function of the MITCNC. As a way of welcoming you to the
1998-99 club year, I thought it might be interesting to outline
some of the goals which the club has set on behalf of its constituency, the MIT alumni/ae in Northern California. By outlining
these goals, I hope to give you a better picture of what the
MITCNC is seeking to accomplish through the various events
and services described in this newsletter.
PROVIDING AN INTERFACE FOR MIT ALUMNI/AE
CREATING A SENSE OF COMMUNITY AMONG MIT
ALUMNI/AE
I encourage your feedback on how we can better achieve the
goals I have described and look forward to seeing you at
MITCNC events this coming year.
Now that we have graduated from MIT, we no longer have a
close-knit university campus where we can associate with each
other. The MITCNC seeks to create a sense of community
among the 7000 (approx) alumni/ae in Northern California by
offering a diverse range of programs at which alumni/ae with
similar interests can interact. In addition, the MITCNC strongly
encourages alumni/ae with specific interests to help organize
club events. Help create that sense of community by attending
our events and encouraging fellow alumni/ae to attend.
The MITCNC seeks to serve as a conduit of information
between local alumni/ae and MIT, MIT related organizations,
and local businesses. Each year, the MITCNC arranges for professors and other MIT officials to make presentations to local
alumni/ae. Whenever possible, the MITCNC supports the local
efforts of MIT related organizations, such as MIT Alumni
Career Services, ICAN, the Educational Council, the Entrepreneurship Center, and the $50K Competition.
Sincerely,
David Weitz,
President, MITCNC
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The MIT Club of Northern California is the premier
regional alumni/ae club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The club offers numerous
resources in entrepreneurship, career development,
and professional networking in the Bay Area. In
addition, the Club provides many opportunities for
social interaction between MIT alumni/ae as well as
alumni/ae from similar university clubs.
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1998 MIT $50K COMPETITION WINNING TEAMS
Featuring Alex d’Arbeloff, Chairman of MIT Corporation and Founder and Chairman of Teradyne
ventures, critique their strategies, and
learn more about how the MIT community on the West Coast can participate in
the MIT $50K Competition, the hottest
student-driven event on MIT Campus.
The 1998-99 student organizing team of
the $50K and the faculty and staff of the
MIT Entrepreneurship Center will also
be on hand.
Alex d’Arbeloff, founder of Teradyne
and Chairman of the MIT Corporation
will provide the introductory remarks.
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Date/Time
Thursday
Oct 15, 1998
Location
Cafe Iris
Building 5
6:30pm Registration Silicon Graphics
7:30pm Presentation Mountain View
Map: www.sgi.com/Overview/images/campus_map.jpg
Cost
$15
$20
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
Other/At-Door
RSVP and Organizer
David Weitz ’87
The MITCNC is honored to host presentations by the three winning teams of the
1998 MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition -- Direct Hit, Volunteer Solutions, and CarSoft. Come and meet the
winning teams, hear presentations by
them on the progress of their ideas and
The MIT $50K Competition
The $50K Competition encourages students and researchers in the MIT community to act on their talent, ideas and
energy to create tomorrow’s leading
firms. Now in its tenth year, the Competition has awarded over $150,000 in cash
and business startup services to outstanding teams of student entrepreneurs,
facilitated the birth of over 35 companies
with an aggregate fair market value of
over $180 million dollars and created
over 500 jobs. There are events throughout the year to help teams with the educational,
mentorship,
networking,
teambuilding and funding activities vital
to forming a successful company. Learn
more about the competition by visiting
its website at http://web.mit.edu/50k/
www/.
The Winning Teams
DIRECT HIT (Co Grand-Prize Winner)
http://www.directhit.com/
Direct Hit’s award winning technology
provides highly relevant results for any
Internet search. Working together with
major search engines, the Direct Hit system keeps track of the web sites that people actually select from search results
lists. By analyzing the activity of millions of previous Internet searchers, the
Direct Hit system provides a list of the
most highly relevant results for your
search request.
VOLUNTEER SOLUTIONS, INC. (Co
Grand-Prize Winner)
http://www.volunteersolutions.org/
Volunteer Solutions, Inc.(VSI) enables
the easy and automated sign-up and
management of volunteers with nonprofit agencies. Their Internet search
engine allows volunteers to find the right
opportunity based on their interests and
concerns and their Corporate Volunteer
Program allows corporations to quickly
and efficiently implement companywide volunteer initiatives.
CARSOFT (Runner-Up)
CarSoft designs and manufactures a full
line of automotive diagnostic tools for
novices and experts. CarSoft is “software that lets you know what your car is
thinking”.
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Sabina Ahmed ’90
Mukesh Ahuja G’87
Thomas Burns ’62
John Chisholm ’75
Paul Cook ’48
Janet Grosser ’53
John Jarve ’78
Harbo Jensen ’74
George Keller ’57
Steven Kirsch ’78
Ronald Koo ’89
Stephanie Littell ’79
Financial Staff, Air Touch
President, IT Links
GM Executive Staff, Chevron
President, Customer Satisfaction
Chairman, SRI International
General Partner, Menlo Ventures
Manager, Chevron
Chevron Corporation
Chairman and Founder, Infoseek
Maxim Integrated Products
President, Morgan Laboratories
Leland Mah ’85
Samuel Maslak ’69
Roger McCarthy ’77
Denman McNear ’48
John Mikulsky, Jr. ’73
Bill Murray ’67
Walter Price, Jr. ’70
Elizabeth Seifel ’78
Paul Shepard ’53
Joanne Spetz ’90
Dennis Swanson ’68
Robert Swanson ’69
Acuson Corp
President, Acuson Corp
CEO, Failure Analysis Associates
Vice President, Endgate Technology
Partner, RCM Capital Management
President, Seifel Associates
Vice President, Cargill Salt
Public Policy Institute of California
Partner, Jackson, Tufts, Cole and Black
Chairman and Founder, Genetech
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New Enterprise Crucible ’99
Please pre-register to help us with
planning, by emailing your registration
Date/Time
Thursday
Location
Cafe Iris
Building 5
6:30pm Registration Silicon Graphics
7:30pm Presentation Mountain View
Map: www.sgi.com/Overview/images/campus_map.jpg
Cost
$15
$20
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
Other/At-Door
RSVP and Pre-Payment
Pre-pay by sending checks (payable to
MITCNC) or by credit card number to:
Anne-Can
c/o MITCNC Venture Incubator
6155 Almaden Expressway, Suite 230
San Jose, CA 95120
[email protected]
(408) 323-2255
Organizer and More Info
Tom Darbonne G’91
[email protected]
(408) 544-7169
Fred Lam G’89
[email protected]
(510) 251-8770
This October, the MIT Club of Northern
California launches the second year of its
popular venture incubator program. This
years program, New Enterprise Crucible
‘99, builds on lessons learned from last
year’s venture incubator program. The
objective of two-stage program remains
the same: help entrepreneurial alumni/ae
overcome obstacles impeding their
efforts to create new technology companies. The first stage of the program concentrates on helping participants form a
founding team and develop a business
concept for a new venture. During the
second stage of the program, participants
are assisted in converting their business
concepts into a quality business plan.
This year we introduce a stronger focus
on networking.
Stage I: Team formation and the Business Concept
The first stage of the program focuses on
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team creation and idea generation. Our
goal is to create an environment where
similarly minded individuals with complementary skill-sets can mingle and
develop a business concept that can be
refined into a single page abstract.
Enhancements to the program this year
include a web-based EntrePersonals site
to help prospective team members contact one another, three events whose
sole purpose is networking, greater outreach to affinity groups outside the MIT
community (for complimentary skills),
and an innovation workshop. If you can
crystallize your concept into a single
page abstract, we have members of the
venture capital community willing to critique it.
Stage II: The Business Plan
The second stage of the program consists
of educational events directed at producing a quality business plan. A series of
distinguished speakers will offer insights
on marketing, finance, and strategic partnerships. In this stage, participants will
meet successful entrepreneurs who will
share their experiences. We are also
planning a business plan workshop to
help teams structure their plans.
Who Can Participate?
While the program is open to the general
public, priority will be given to MIT
alumni/ae, who are members of the club
in good standing.
What time commitment is involved?
Participation in the program is flexible.
Those interested only in the speaking
events, may do so on a space available
basis. On the other hand, if you are seriously committed to starting an enterprise, the time commitment will be
heavy.
What does the program cost?
Generally, the week-night speaking
events cost $20 each. The MITCNC
web-site (www.MITCNC.org) will have
the latest details on each event.
Tentative Schedule of Events
Check the MITCNC web-site for the latest details on these programs
October 1
October 22
November 5
November 12
December 5
December 17
January 7
January 21
February 4
February 18
March 4
March 21
April 1
April 15
April 29
May 14
May 28
June 20
Evolution of a Start-Up
Enterprise Crucible Kick-Off
Litmus Testing your Idea
Mixer I
Innovation Workshop
VC Panel
Tales of Silicon Valley
Mixer
Analyst Panel
Seed Financing
High Tech Marketing
Business Plan Workshop
Lessons from the Trenches I
Valuation & Share of Equity
Lessons from the Trenches II
Mixer II
Lessons from the Trenches III
EntrepreneurFest ’99
iPass - Access, Anywhere A Winning Business Model Providing
Local Connectivity to the Internet from All Over the World
MIT/Stanford Venture Laboratory, a chapter of the M.I.T. Enterprise Forum
Date/Time
Tuesday
Sep 15, 1998
6:00pm Reception
7:00pm Presentation
Cost
$25
$30
Location
Bishop Auditorium
Stanford Graduate
School of Business
Make check to MIT Venture Lab
Pre-paid Active Member
Other/At-Door
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
MIT/Stanford Venture
Laboratory, P.O. Box 2506,
Monterey, CA 93942-2506
Phone: (408) 646-3377
http://www.vlab.org
[email protected]
Come hear about the company that was
voted the Best-of-the-Best in the Internet space. It was also the winner of the
Highest Honor Award at the recent Venture One Summit, where 550 handpicked venture capitalists and related
industry professionals rated venturebacked companies on market opportunity, management team, earnings potential and product quality.
Synonymous
with
"Access,
Any-
where", iPass provides the framework
for ISPs and telecom operators to meet
the rapidly growing remote access needs
of businesses by offering global Internet
connectivity with a local phone call. In
only two years, iPass has emerged as an
industry leader with a business model to
provide local access globally for the
entire Internet community.
Telecom operators and Internet service
providers (ISPs) have long-faced the
issue of how to provide TRULY global
Internet ACCESS FOR CUSTOMERS
due to the disparate nature of the Internet, high infrastructure costs, international regulations and difficulty in
negotiating bilateral peering or purchase
agreements with hundreds of other providers. Just as these issues were solved
through third-party clearinghouses in
other rapidly growing industries such as
cellular, banking and credit card transaction clearing, iPass has emerged as the
primary standards-based Internet clearinghouse to solve these issues for ISPs.
This evening, Chris Moore, Cofounder, President and CEO of iPass
Inc. will present the iPass business
model as being "borrowed" from other
successful, established industries and
will discuss the company’s strategy of
leveraging off the established infrastructure of numerous ISPs around the world
to meet the global needs of a burgeoning
Internet era.
Chris’s presentation will be followed by
a brief roundtable panel discussion
about the iPass model moderated by
Michael Kleeman, VP of the Boston
Consulting Group’s Global High-Tech
Practices. Members of the panel will
include William Tai from Institutional
Venture Partners (a venture capitalist
specializing in Internet businesses),
Robert Berger from Internet Bandwidth
Development (pioneer in Internet architecture), William Chenevich from
VISA International (EVP, Payment Systems), along with a representative from
Concentric Networks (a leading ISP).
The MIT Stanford Venture Laboratory
(http://www.vlab.org) is a public forum
through which entrepreneurs, managers, executives, and anyone can come to
learn about the issues involved with
starting and growing companies.
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Win a Palm III at the Silicon Valley Regional Telethon
Date/Time
Tuesday
Sep 22, 1998
6:00-10:00pm
Location
TIBCO
3165 Porter Drive
Palo Alto
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Theresa Joyce Lee
[email protected]
Edward Tau ’95
[email protected]
Get a chance to win the state of the art
personal information manager, the
3COM Palm III! Come to the MIT
Regional Telethon in Silicon Valley to
raise fund for student financial aid and
general endowment.
The regional telethon is an important
aspect of MIT’s fund-raising campaign.
It is targeted for in Northern California,
the second highest concentration of MIT
Alumni after Boston.
The telethon provides a great opportunity to chat and catch up with local class
mates and old friends from the 'Tute.
Last year’s regional telethon held at RayChem in Menlo Park raised over $40K
in one night.
This year’s telethon will be held at
TIBCO in Palo Alto, courtesy of Vivek
Ranadive. Dinner, drinks, prizes, and
instructions will be provided. No experience is necessary.
Job Placement Services in the Bay Area
Tap into the MITCNC job network
MIT CNC is putting together a webpage
(access it through Club’s homepage) to
help those of you looking for jobs to:
find contacts at companies whom you
can submit resumes to; job-shadow for a
day in order to explore different careers.
If you would like to be an employment
contact for your company, please send
me your name, address, email address,
fax number, and work/home telephone
numbers along with your company website URL and brief description of your
company. Your role would be to serve as
the company liaison to the MIT CNC
members: you would receive resumes
from MIT alumni/ae and refer/distribute
them to the appropriate contacts, as well
as answer questions about employment
opportunities at your company. None of
your contact information would be
posted directly on the website; interested
alumni/ae would contact the VP of
Career Development directly to get the
information.
If you would like to volunteer to allow
someone to shadow you for a day, please
send me your name, title, address, email
address, fax number, work/ home telephone numbers, company and a brief
description of what you do / what your
company does. Your role would be to
allow an MIT alumnus/a to “shadow”
you for a day so that s/he may make firsthand observations about your career.
You can call the MIT Alumni/ae
Association automated information
system toll free 24 hours a day:
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You can also submit changes of
address electronically by sending
your name, class year, current
address, and phone number, business address and phone number,
title, and e-mail address to:
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Suggestions? If you have any suggestions for career development services
and events that MIT CNC could offer
you, please contact Nancy Chan '96, VP
of
Career
Development,
[email protected].
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F/ASIP Giving MIT Freshmen A Working Leg Up
The Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program (F/ASIP) is off to a great
start on both coasts. F/ASIP is designed
to connect MIT freshmen with alumni in
the job arena through internships which
occur the summer after their freshman
year. MIT alumni take on the role of
mentors to the students, and act as a
resource while the student is interning.
Along with the summer internship, students are required to take several workshops and seminars during the spring
term. Attending these workshops and
seminars, the summer internship, writing
a paper and giving a presentation after
their summer internship will earn the student six credit units in their sophomore
year. The student then has the opportunity to be the spokesperson for the company that they worked for. It was
originally suggested that the program
start with ten internships in this first year.
The enthusiasm of alumni in companies
nearly doubled that number. Of the forty
students eligible for credit, twenty students went off to intern for the summer.
Three of them were placed in California,
two in the Bay Area. Our goal is to double the number of interns for next summer.
“Students should be acquainted with
both the theoretical and practical aspects
of the job process, “ says Robert Blumberg, president of SMS Technolgies and
mentor to MIT intern Justin Lin.
“employees have to know how to build
the product as well as program the computer.” Blumberg, whose company is in
San Diego, was intent on hiring a freshman intern, and contacted the F/ASIP
office after hearing that we were specifically targeting the San Francisco Area
for the first year pilot. He feels the program is heading in the right direction and
is excited at the prospect of in hiring an
intern next summer. Alumnus Chris
Kuszmal is both alumni and mentor on
behalf of MRJ Technology Solutions.
He’s quite happy with the experience and
is also very interested in continuing the
relationship that MRJ Technologies has
started with F/ASIP. He urges us not to
The MIT Parents Club of Northern California hosted a BBQ reception in Atherton for current
students, alumni, and parents of incoming freshmen. The reception was held by MIT parents,
Scott and Carolyn Feamsters.
make the program too easy, “...make it
hard - make the students stretch.”
Both alumni and supervisors are amazed
at the caliber of talent these freshmen
have. Alumnus Alex d’Arbeloff’s company Teradyne took six freshmen interns
for the summer, placing five in Boston
and one in the Bay Area. Tom Smith of
Teradyne in Walnut Creek supervises
intern Peter Lu, and is very pleased and
impressed with the quality of Lu’s work.
“If this kid were to quit MIT and come
work here, I could probably let two full
time guys go.” Smith said. He has
worked extensively with internship programs using California based colleges
and universities, and his is the first freshman that he has known to work at the
Walnut Creek facility.
The jobs are challenging, not “busy
work”. At SMS Technologies for example, one of intern Jason Wong’s tasks was
to perform an analysis of their labor standards. His supervisor Allen Stein says
that Justin “has accomplished the analysis very thoroughly and provided considerable data allowing us to better
determine our quoting system parameters.”
The summer job experience in a related
field is proving to be a most important
life experience for the freshmen. MIT is
well known to be exemplary for preparing students academically for jobs. However more jobs now demand that their
employees be able to communicate both
with other workers and clients, and it is
the experience that these interns are getting. It was a pleasure to see the effect
alumnus Chris Kuszmaul had on one of
his interns. She is extremely bright, very
analytical and a bit rigid. When I met her
in the site visit at NASA, she was markedly more relaxed, and expressive. My
sense is that the experience has allowed
her to communicate more openly and
freely; something for which Kuszmaul
would modestly never take credit.
We plan to visit the West Coast again in
the fall for a bit of follow-up, but mainly
to talk to MIT Alumni who are interested
in hiring freshmen for summer intern
positions. We appreciate any leads or
comments you may have. What makes
the program a win, win situation is that
freshmen get the job experience, while
companies get to hire some of the best
front end freshmen that MIT has to offer.
That in itself is great publicity for your
company and for recruiting.
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EntrepreneurFest ’98: A Culmination of
ENTREPRENEURFEST ’98
Well everyone, I’d say that EntrepreneurFest '98 really put the
exclamation point on a very successful year! We heard a keynote
address from MIT President Charles Vest. We honored MIT
entrepreneurs Jerry Burnett (Visionary Corporate Technology),
Paul Cook (RayChem, SRI), Brian Hinman (Polycom), Suhas
Patil (Cirrus Logic), Vivek Ranadive (TIBCO), and Howard Shao
(Documentum). There were 20 private MIT start-up companies
out there demonstrating their products and services for a crowd of
300 people, VC's getting dunked, great weather, T-shirts, and delicious food. Ahhh, what a day!
EntrepreneurFest '98 was very good for MITCNC. It celebrated
MIT Entrepreneurship and brought people together. It gave us a
chance to showcase the success of the Venture Incubator and tell
folks what they can look forward to in the future.
I’m grateful to all who volunteered their time and efforts to help
make the event a success. I would like to take this opportunity to
give special recognition to those members of the EntrepreneurFest
'98 Organizing Committee who took active leadership roles in
driving this event forward: Paul Estey, Gus Tai, Reza Moazzami,
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Ken Decanio, and Sang Park. Special thanks to Alex Chisholm of Cambridge. Thanks also to Xerox PARC for providing the wonderful facilities.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM-YEAR IN
REVIEW
We began in the summer of 1997 by conducting two strategic
planning sessions in which we developed a mission statement
and outlined goals for the Entrepreneurship Program:
“The mission of the MITCNC Entrepreneurship Program
is to foster the success of MIT alumni/ae as entrepreneurs
through encouragement, education, and by bringing people together”
The SPOTLIGHT MIT '97: ENTREPRENEURSHIP dinner
banquet which drew over 300 people to listen to MIT Chairman Alex d’Arbeloff and the 3 winning teams from MIT’s
business plan competition, certainly helped get the year off to
a good start and encourage entrepreneurship.
The 1997-98 Entrepreneurship Program
The success of the VENTURE INCUBATOR series, aimed at
educating new entrepreneurs and wanna-be entrepreneurs, demonstrated that there is a real need for this type of program.
We are trying to increase entrepreneurship in the East Bay,
including general social/networking events. Our VP of EventsEast Bay, David Daniels will be spearheading these efforts;
Throughout the year, the ENTREPRENEURSHIP STEERING
COMMITTEE has developed and guided the events and programs that serve the MIT community. Our monthly meetings
also serve as an informal networking vehicle for MIT entrepreneurs.
We are also focusing our efforts to develop a lifesciences entrepreneurship track for emerging biotech entrepreneurs and their
companies. We hope that this year’s SPOTLIGHT '98:BIOTECHNOLOGY event helps us to springboard this new program. Betsy O’Neill is the contact person for this track.
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 1998-1999:
Finally, we will continue to maintain ties to the entrepreneurship resources at Cambridge (the Entrepreneurship Center, &
Enterprise Forum), promote the Women’s Entrepreneurship
track, circulate job openings at start-ups, and keep people aware
of what other local resources (MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, MIT
Sloan Club, New Enterprise Forum, etc.) have to offer.
We have already started planning for this coming year’s Entrepreneurship programs:
Tom Darbonne will continue his leadership of the Venture
Incubator series and it will go forth under the name Enterprise
Crucible;
We will launch the new MFN, the MIT Founderís Network,
which will give MIT entrepreneurs who are currently guiding
their companies forward, a forum in which to network and share
experiences with each other.
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If you want to get involved with the Entrepreneurship Program,
please contact me. We would welcome your participation in our
Entrepreneurship Program.
Fred Lam
VP Entrepreneurship 1998-1999
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NHL: San Jose Sharks vs. Boston Bruins
Date/Time
Sunday
Oct 18, 1998
7:30pm
Cost
$39
$44
Location
San Jose Arena
525 West Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
Others
RSVP and Pre-Payment
John Shield G’89
3109 Sunset Terrace
San Mateo, CA 94403
[email protected]
(650) 573-9627
Remember hockey in the Garden? Well
I don’t! When I was in Boston, tickets to
see the Bruins were impossible to get.
Well every year the Boston Bruins visit
San Jose for one game and we’ve got
tickets!
This year the Bruins visit the San Jose
Shark tank on Sunday, October 18th at
7:30 PM. This will be the home opener
for the Sharks. Last year they surpassed
numerous team records to again enter the
Stanley Cup playoffs. And this year they
are expected to do even better.
We have a block of upper reserve seats
available Tickets are $39 for MITCNC
members and guests, and $44 for nonmembers. Please send your check made
out to the MITCNC and self addressed
stamped envelope right away. Otherwise
we may be forced to sell the tickets to
that other alumni organization from
higher up the Charles.
Annual Welcome Reception and BBQ for the Class of 1998
Date/Time
Saturday
Oct 17, 1998
11:00am2:00pm
Cost
FREE!
$5
Location
Home of John Jarve
87 Linden Avenue
Atherton, CA
Cash
Members of Class of ’98
All Others
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Sang Park ’93
[email protected]
(650) 428-1249
Please join us in extending a warm welcome to MIT’s newest graduates, the
Class of 1998, to the Bay Area. Alumnus
John Jarve ’78 and his wife have generously offered their beautiful home in
Atherton for a casual outdoor barbeque.
This is a great opportunity for alumni to
meet members of the MIT community in
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the greater Bay Area (Berkeley, San
Francisco, Peninsula, and Silicon Valley)
and to find out what the Club has to offer.
If you know of any MIT alumni (not just
new graduates) who have recently
moved into the Bay Area, please invite
them to come! MIT graduate students at
Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF are especially encouraged to seek out new fellow
MIT students in their departments and
invite them to this event.
Plenty of food (accomodating vegetarians) and drinks will be served.
Directions:
From 101, exit on Marsh Rd. Head west
towards El Camino Real. Go left on
Middlefield Rd. Near the intersection of
Middlefield and Glenwood, turn left on
Linden.
Did you know that the
MITCNC has an electronic
mailing list which we use to
remind members of upcoming
events? Approximately every
other week, you’ll receive a
message with the latest information. To be subscribed, just
ensure that the MIT Alumni/
ae Office has your email
address and knows that you
are living in the Northern California area. You can send
address updates to the MIT
Alumni/ae Office by emailing
<[email protected]> (this is the
preferred contact method), or
by phoning Alicia Kikuchi at:
(617) 253-5205.
Tour of the San Francisco Transamerica Pyramid
Date/Time
Wednesday
Sep 16, 1998
11:45am
Cost
$30
$35
Location
LaSalle Partner’s Office
600 Montgomery Street
4th Floor
San Francisco
Check/Credit Card
Prepaid Members
All Others
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Libby Seifel
MITREA c/o Seifel Associates
220 Montgomery Street Suite 448
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 989-1244
(415) 989-1245 (FAX)
Built in 1972, the Transamerica Building
became an instant icon on the San Francisco skyline. Now 25 years old, the
building continues to command the top
rents in the City.
Our tour of the Transamerica Pyramid
will be led by Andrew T. Segal, Vice
President of LaSalle Partner’s San Francisco operations, who directs all aspects
of leasing and management for the
760,000 square foot Transamerica building. Mr. Segal will be joined by Sean S.
Ohno, General Manager, and Robert W.
Scott, Vice President and Regional Manager, of LaSalle Partner’s Northern California.
After the tour, we will eat lunch and discuss this unique building and how it fits
in the San Francisco office market. We
will also learn about LaSalle’s investment portfolio in California. The event
cost includes lunch.
The most appealing view of the pyramid is
from Columbus Ave at Kearny Street (on the
edge of Chinatown) where you can combine
it with the copper-plated turret of the Columbus Tower building (Courtesy of PhotoSecrets.com).
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ARCHITECTS
[email protected]
123 Townsend Suite 230
San Francisco, CA
94107
tel. 415.546.4145
fax. 415.546.0656
Ogrydziak Architects specializes in progressive, program-specific architecture.
The firm concentrates on innovative architectural solutions, within the parameters of a given project. In opposition to an increasingly generic built environment, we emphasize creativity and "play" in our work. Each project represents
a unique intersection of client, program, budget, and site -- provoking an
equally unique architectural language, symbolically appropriate to the specific
circumstances. The single rule which binds all projects is a rigorous demand
for internal consistency within each project. The firm operates at a range of
budgets and scales, often creating "symbolic" rchitecture with limited means
and/or non-traditional materials. We believe that significant works of architecture are always experimental, rooted in the process of making Architecture.
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Davis, CA
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Hecuba by Euripides
Translated and Adapted by Timerlake Wertenbaker
Directed by Carey Perloff, in association with Williamstown Theatre Festival
Hecuba tells the story of the ill-fated
widow of King Priam, slain ruler of
Date/Time
Location
Troy, who in exile designs a master plan
to wreak vengeance on those who sought
Saturday
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Oct 24, 1998 San Francisco
to wipe out her family and her civilizahttp://www.act-sfbay.org/
tion. Set in a mystical Thrace circa 1,400
5:30pm
Dinner (Cityscape in Hilton)
b.c.e., Hecuba speaks in timeless words
8:00pm
Play (Geary Theater)
of justice, forgiveness, and humanity.
Cost
$37
Make check payable to MITCNC
All
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Ravi Soundararajan
[email protected]
(650) 325-5278 (Home)
(650) 725-1683 (Office)
PO Box 8961
Stanford, CA 94309
RSVP deadline:September 14, 1998
Please send SASE for tickets
Before the play, dinner will be at Cityscape, the SFO Hilton’s 46th floor with
spectacular 360-degree view of the city
and the Bay. Cityscape can be reached at
(415) 923-5002. SFO Hilton is located
at 333 O’Farrell Street -- just around the
corner from the Geary Theater. Dress is
semi-formal.
Movie Mania: Saturday Night Cinema and Sunday Matinee
Date/Time
Sunday
Sep 13, 1998
Noon
Location
China Valley
355 State Street
Los Altos, CA 94022
(650) 941-9898
Date/Time
Sunday
Oct 11, 1998
Noon
Location
Babbo’s Pizzeria
717 Stanford Shopping Mall
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 321-1488
Date/Time
Sunday
Nov 8, 1998
Noon
Location
Fumiyoshi Restaurant
1991 W El Camino Real
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 969-9990
Date/Time
Sunday
Dec 13, 1998
Noon
Location
Douce France
93 Town And Country Vlg
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 322-3601
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Sramana Mitra G’95
[email protected]
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Are you a movie buff? Do you want to
be one? Come and join other MIT
alumni and friends who are movie buffs
and movie buffs-wanna-be’s. MITCNC
is now holding monthly movie outings in
San Francisco and the South Bay.
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In the South Bay, every second Sunday
of each month is Sunday Matinee. A
pre-movie brunch gives late risers a
chance to fill their stomach before catching a blockbuster matinee.
In San Francisco, every third Saturday of
each month is Saturday Night Cinema,
featuring artistic and foreign films in San
Francisco’s historical repertoire theaters.
After the film, we will
explore one of the local
restaurants to eat, drink
and discuss the film.
The announcement of
the film and location
will be on the Club’s
web site.
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Murals of the Mission, Treasures of SF
Date/Time
Saturday
Sep 19, l998
1:00pm
Cost
Free!
Location
348 Prectia Avenue
San Francisco
Make check payable to MITCNC
All
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Monika Gorkani G’93
[email protected]
Explore some of the most beautiful treasures of San Francisco, the murals of
Mission Street!
This tour will start with a slide show of
the history of murals on Mission Street.
After some historical perspective, we
will begin on a 2-hour walking tour to
see the murals in person. Wear comfortable walking shoes.
Most of the murals are remembered images from
the homelands left behind for one reason or
another (the Mission is overwhelmingly Hispanic,
but unlike So. Cal., it's not overwhelmingly Mexican, but Central American, and South American).
• Courtesy of Sadio O’
http://sadieo.ucsf.edu/sf/murals/murals.html
West Bay Opera presents Carmen!
Date/Time
Saturday
Feb 20, 1999
Location
Lucie Stern Theatre
Middlefield Road at
Melville in Palo Alto
7:15pm Reception Community Room
8:15pm Opera
Theatre
Cost
$33
$38
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
Other/At-Door
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Janet Grosser ’58
1016 Lemon Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 321-0444
Join us on Saturday, February 20, 1999 when West Bay Opera presents Bizet’s passionate opera Carmen in French with English
supertitles. Carmen is considered the most popular work in the
whole opera repertory. Carmen’s superlative, lyrical music and
compelling story about the fervent actions and disastrous fate of a
man caught in the web of a woman of intoxicating beautry and
seductive charms reach out to audiences worldwide. You’ll be spellbound from beginning to end.
(L to R) Rachel Louis Michelberg as Carmen, and Benoit Gendron as Don
Jose. Photo by John Todd.
MITCNC will host a reception for alumni and friends prior
to the performance. Dress is semi-formal. Seats are limited, so order yours early. Please send SASE for tickets.
MIT CLUB OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Ballroom Dance Lessons & Party Sunday Hikes
Date/Time
Friday
Sep 11, 1998
7:00pm
Location
Starlite Ballroom
1160 N. Fair Oaks Ave
Sunnyvale
(408) 745-7827
Date/Time
Friday
Oct 2, 1998
7:30pm
Location
Metronome Ballroom
1830 17th Street at De Haro
San Francisco
(415) 252-9000
Date/Time
Friday
Nov 20, 1998
7:00pm
Cost
$6
Don’t know how to dance? Dancing
alone isn’t fun? Learn ballroom dancing... Waltz, Foxtrot, Rhumba, Cha Cha,
Swing, Hustle, and more. No need to
RSVP, and no partner necessary. All levels of experience are welcome. Bring
your friends!
Date/Time
Location
Sunday
Windy Hill Open
Oct 18, 1998 Space Preserve
10:00 am
8 mi, 1100’ climb
Skyline Ridge trip descends to Corte Madera creek. Combines ridgetop views with
fall colors.
Location
Starlite Ballroom
1160 N. Fair Oaks Ave
Sunnyvale
(408) 745-7827
Pay cash at site
Lesson and party
Date/Time
Location
Sunday
Castle Rock State Park
Nov 15, 1998 6 mi, 800’ climb
10:00 am
Crawl around in Sandstone caves at Castle
Rock and Goat Rock. Nice views, pretty
woods, interesting rock formations
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Waldemar Horwat
[email protected]
Argentine Tango at Alberto’s Night Club
Date/Time
Mondays
Sep 28, 1998
Oct 26, 1998
Nov 23, 1998
7:30pm Lesson
9:00pm Dance
Cost
$12
$7
Location
Alberto’s Night Club
736 Dana Street
Mountain View
http://www.albertos.com
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Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Jim Reich ’89
[email protected]
(650) 969-4558
NOTE: These hikes are getting on into the
rainy season -- please check the website
after 830A on the morning of the hike for
weather cancellations.
http://home.earthlink.net/~jreich/mithikes.htm
Pay cash at site
Lesson, party, and drink
Free Drink for MIT Alumni
Party and drink only
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Sramana Mitra G’95
[email protected]
Socialize, have fun and network with
other professionals all at the same time.
Learn to dance one of the world’s classiest and most passionate dances: the sen-
Date/Time
Location
Sunday
Pinnacles National
Sep 20, 1998 Monument
10:00 am
8 mi, 1500’+ climb
Tall stone spires, canyons and caves, caves,
caves. Spectacular scenery, and NO
FLOODING -- what more could you ask
for! All-day out-of-town trip RSVP
required!
sual Argentine Tango! No need to RSVP,
and no partner necessary. All levels of
experience are welcome. Bring your
friends!
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MITCNC Happy Hours
“Drink Rum, Drink Rum, Drink Rum All
Day and Come Along With Us...”
Happy Hour in Sunnyvale
Date/Time
Thursday
Sep 17, 1998
7:00 pm
Location
Faultline Brewing Company
1235 Oakmead Parkway
Sunnyvale
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Melissa Kwok ’95
(408) 467-1200 x216
[email protected]
Happy Hour in Menlo Park
Date/Time
Thursday
Oct 15, 1998
7:00 pm
Location
BBC
1090 El Camino Real
Menlo Park
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Melissa Kwok ’95
(408) 467-1200 x216
[email protected]
Happy Hour in Palo Alto
Date/Time
Thursday
Nov 19, 1998
7:00 pm
Location
Blue Chalk
630 Ramona
Palo Alto
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Melissa Kwok ’95
(408) 467-1200 x216
[email protected]
West Coast Swing Dance Lessons & Parties
Date/Time
Location
Wednesday Peninsula Social Club
Sep 16, 1998 100 North B Street
San Mateo
(510) 886-3487
7:00pm
Beginner Lesson
8:00pm
Interm./Advanced Lessons
9:00pm
General Dancing
Cost
$7
Pay cash at site
Lesson and party
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Peter Kacandes
[email protected]
www.peterk.com
More Swing info available at:
http://www.peterk.com/Docs/Interest/
Dance/wcs.html
The State Dance of California West
Coast Swing is a dance that developed in
the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s and is derived
from Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, and East
Coast Swing which are all enjoying a
resurgence due to the popularity of the
Retro Swing Bands such as Big Bad
Vodoo Daddy, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and
Royal Crown Revue.
What’s the Difference? West Coast
Swing (WCS) evolved in LA at the instigation of Dean Collins in order to make
it easier to Film swing dancing. Consequently WCS is a slotted dance in which
the partners dance in a linear slot
(approximately 2ft wide by 5 ft. long)
where they exchange places as part of
each pattern, as opposed to Lindy where
the partners constantly circle while danc-
ing (making
it very hard
and dizzying to film).
West Coast
Swing
is
also more
traditionall
done
to
slower and
more modern music
such as R&B, Blues, Jazz, Rock, and
even Countryand and some Disco, as
opposed to old big band music (although
yo can do it that also if its at a good
tempo). So you can dance WCS to your
favorite music and you’re not limited to
the old stuff.
West Coast Swing is also an open dance
where each of the partners has their own
part which they can modify, style, and
interpret, so you are not limited to the
mirror patterns of traditional Ballroom
and Latin dancing.
Sound good? Want to Learn More? No
need to RSVP, and no partner necessary.
All levels of experience are welcome.
Bring your friends!
Directions: 101 N or S to Third Avenue
Exit in San Mateo. West on Third Avenue until you hit North B Street North on
North B Street The Club is on your right
about a mile up after the shopping center
on the left. It’s at the top of Beardsley’s
at the Peninsula Social Club
New mailing list: [email protected]
An unmoderated, open mailing list is now available so that members can subscribe
themselves to it. This is to help people organize impromtu get-togethers with other
MIT alumni/ae without having formal, organized events planned months in
advance. But any formal, organized events will be publicized to *both* the main
club list <[email protected]> and this social list.
To subscribe, send email to [email protected], with the text "subscribe mitcnc-social YOUR-EMAIL-ADDRESS" in the body (not subject line!) of the
message. Do NOT send subscription requests to the mailing list itself, only to the
-request address.
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San Francisco Symphony: Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
Date/Time
Saturday
October 10, 1998
6:00 pm
8:00 pm
Cost
$90
Location
Davies Symphony Hall
Dinner
Symphony
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
$45 per person for the symphony
and $45 per person for the cabaret
style dinner at Vivande Ristorante
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Alex Sherstinsky, Ph.D. ‘94
[email protected]
(650)572-5804
Please send your checks to
Alex Sherstinsky
FaceTime Communications, Inc.
1155 Triton Drive, Suite A
Foster City, CA 94404
Include your email address and phone number for the confirmation.
Sylvain Cambreling conductor
Nikolai Lugansky piano
Boulez Notations I-IV (SFS premiere)
Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
Mozart Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
Reservations due by September 15
For musical excitement, nothing
matches what you will hear in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall. On
October 10th, Mozart’s musical energy
and passion will be unleashed as the
guest conductor Sylvain Cambreling and
the pianist Nikolai Lugansky join a host
of world-class musicians of the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra in heartfelt performance of Mozart’s Symphony
No. 41, or the Jupiter Symphony. Also
on the program are Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and the San Francisco
Symphony premier of Boulez’s Notations I-IV.
This will be great evening, which we will
start by having a cabaret style dinner at
Vivande Ristorante from 5:30pm to
7:30pm. Dress is semi-formal.
The $45 price includes: a cabaret style
dinner, two glasses of wine, plus tax and
gratuities. The final details of the menu
will be sent by email and posted to the
MITCNC Web site at a later date.
A secure parking garage with attendants
on duty is conveniently located within
the Opera Plaza, which fills the block
bounded by Van Ness Avenue and Franklin; enter from Turk Street or Golden
Gate Avenue. Parking will be discounted 50% (to $7) with the restaurant
validation.
We hope you can be a part of this MIT
Club night at the San Francisco Symphony! These events have a cap of 30
people each.
Vivande Ristorante, an Italian restaurant,
is located at 670 Golden Gate Avenue, in
Opera Plaza San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: (415) 673-9245, Fax: (415) 6732160. From the Opera Plaza, the restaurant is entered through a mini Romanstyle courtyard, where our reception will
be held.
In-Line Skating Clinic by Liz Miller, Author of “California In-Line Skating”
Date/Time
Saturday
Sep 19, 1998
9:30 pm-Noon
Cost
$30
Location
Iron Horse Middle
School, San Ramon
(famous Iron Horse
trail runs alongside it)
Check/Cash/Credit card
Pre-paid Active Member
Organizer (RSVP and More Info)
Mat Waltrip
4874 Drywood St.
Pleasanton, CA 94588-4205
(925) 426-9435 (home)
(408) 563-5026 (work)
[email protected]
Attend a special In-Line skating clinic
just for MIT alumni. This clinic is taught
by Liz Miller, author of “California InLine Skating, The Complete Guide to the
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Best Places to Skate.” For a descripton
of Liz's clinic, check out her web page at:
http://www.getrolling.com/
sk8class.html
What to bring besides gear: Something
to drink, sun screen, a picnic lunch,
stretchy loose-fitting clothes (jeans are
uncomfortable under knee pads)
Skill Level: From never tried it to intermediate. EVERYBODY will start off
with a discussion on injury free skating
and a serious lesson on using the heel
brake so it really works. To maximize
the effectiveness of the instruction, we
wish to limit the event to adults only,
please. Attendance is limited.
Handouts will be provided by Liz,
including “Learn to Love Your Heelbrake,” and “Don’t Be a Cheapskate:
How to Shop for Your First Pair of InLine Skates.”
All students required to supply own
skates, wear helmet, wrist guards, knee/
elbow pads. Rentals are available at Any
Mountain in the Market Place shopping
center nearby at the corner of Bollinger
and Alcosta Blvds. in San Ramon.
Directions: Exit 680 at Bollinger Canyon
Road in San Ramon. Head east to the
stop light Alcosta Blvd. and turn left.
Pass the Community Park and Firestation until you reach the entrance to Iron
Horse Middle School on the left. Park to
the left of the entrance, where we’ll
meet. We’ll skate in the new basketball
courts and in the park.
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Young Alumni of the Bay Area (YABA) is an association of young alumni representing Bay Area alumni clubs from twenty universities across the country.
The purpose of YABA is to hold social and community service events on a regular basis that give participating alumni a chance to meet other young people in
the area who share similar collegiate experiences. Check out YABA’s web site
for a updated calendar of events:
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