Harvard Travellers Club Meetings
The fifth meeting of the 2011-2012 season will be held in the Massachusetts Room of the Harvard Club on Valentine's Day, Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Cocktails are served at 6:00 p.m., dinner is at 6:45 p.m., and the meetings begin about 8:00 p.m. The price is $55 each for members and guests. Please respond as soon as possible using a postcard, email, or by telephone only if you are coming to the dinner. Reservations received after Noon on the Friday preceding the meeting will incur a $5 late fee. Members and guests who fail to attend without canceling their reservations prior to the above deadline may be liable for the dinner charge.
Annual Members' Night
Four presentations by Club members, each lasting about 12 minutes.
Judy Bell - Climbing English Oak Trees in Australia Judy, who has visited Mt. Dandenong for the last five years, introduces us to the culture of tree climbing in Australia, where she has learned to extend her view of what children do for fun.
Terry Vose - Ocean Trade Routes: A Roman Ship & Mother Nature
Robert C. Vose III (Terry) began diving 45 years ago with the objective to spend two seasons excavating a 2nd century AD Roman ship off southern Italy.
Judy Gregg - Muscat, the Wahiba Sands and Beyond
An Outward Bound journey to a modern city and a contrasting desert with a few surprises along the way.
Tony Tappé - Cruising the Danube and the Rhine
A leisurely trip on European waterways from Budapest to Amsterdam.
The 2011-2012 Season At A Glance:
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PREVIOUS SPEAKERS
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- May, 2011 Rich Wilson: Race France To France, Leave Antarctic To Starboard
- April, 2011 Kathryn Bard: Mersa/Wadi Gawasis - A Pharaonic Harbor On The Red Sea
- March, 2011 Alex Honnold: Alone On The Wall
- February, 2011 Members' Night: Four Presentations By Club Members
- January, 2011 Chris Leahy: Mongolia - The Last Wilderness Nation Faces The Global Market Economy
- December, 2010 Mark W. Moffett: Adventures Among Ants
- November, 2010 Alice DeLana: Provence - A Love Affair
- October, 2010 Jon Bowermaster: One Ocean
- May 2010 Dr. Isobel Williams: Edward Wilson, Life and Times
- April 2010 Patricia Glyn: Footing with Sir Richard's Ghost
- March 2010 Tina Ramme: African Lions and Maasai Nomads
- February 2010 Members' Night: Four Presentations by Club Members
- January 2010 Peter Athans: Secrets of Shangra-La: Re-Discovering the Caves of Mustang
- December 2009 Delafield DuBois: Back Roads: A 24-Day Journey Through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
- November 2009 Conrad Anker: The Shark's Fin
- October 2009 Geoffrey Clark: Abandoned in the Arctic
- May 2009 Lou Jones: Travel + Photography: Off The Charts
- April 2009 Dr. Lucy Der Manuelian: Armenia - Mountains, Monuments, Manuscripts And Miracles
- March 2009 Mark Richey: Climbing And Exploring Around The World
- February 2009 Members' Night: Five Presentations by Club Members
- January 2009 Wayne Petersen: Svalbard – An Arctic Naturalist's Paradise
- December 2008 Chris Davenport: Skiing Colorado's 14ers And Beyond – Ski Mountaineering The World's Great Mountains
- November 2008 Sebastian Junger: A Journalist In The World's War Zones – Report From The War In Afghanistan
- October 2008 Anita Klaussen & Bud Collins : Bhutan, The Happy, Sleepy Himalayan Kingdom
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