Signet Events Calendar

 

Would you like to organize a Signet event in your city? Email signet@post.harvard.edu for help getting started.

 

Upcoming Events

  • July 5, 2010. 7:30-9pm. 10th arro., Paris, France.  Open house and wine for Signet members and alumni at the home of Olivia Custer. Email signet@post.harvard.edu to RSVP and for address/directions.
  • Summer 2010, Wednesdays 1pm. Even though Signet House is closed until the fall, Signet members are invited to gather informally on Wednesdays at 1:00 pm on the porch of the Harvard Faculty Club (20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA) to continue the conversation and fellowship we enjoy during the academic year. Bring your own food and beverage. No reservations necessary.
  • April 30, 2011.  Kirkland House, Cambridge, MA.  120th Annual Dinner. 

Past Events

  • May 29, 2010.  3-5pm.  Signet House, Cambridge.  Alumni Reception.  No reservations necessary.
  • May 27, 2010.  4-7pm.  Signet House, Cambridge.  Senior/Alumni Post-Commencement Reception. No reservations necessary.
  • May 14, 2010 1-2pm. Last Signet lunch of the academic year.
  • April 25, 2010.  7-9pm.  The Roger Room, Los Angeles, CA.  Cocktail party. Members and guests welcome.
  • April 25, 2010.  Signet House, Cambridge.  Brunch.  No cost.  Members (including Signet alumni) and guests welcome.
  • April 24, 2010.  6:30pm, cocktails. 7:30pm, dinner. Kirkland House, Cambridge.  Annual Dinner, celebrating the Signet's 140th Anniversary.  Members (including Signet alumni) and guests welcome.
  • April 23, 2010.  8pm. Signet House, Cambridge. Cocktails. No cost.  Members (including Signet alumni) and guests welcome.
  • February 4, 2010.  7pm.  Home of Victoria de Menil, London.  Screening, dinner and director and artist's Q&A of the BBC documentary “Where is Modern Art Now?” in which art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford explores the state of British art in 2009.  The film was directed by talented young documentary maker, Zara Hayes, and features a number of British greats from Antony Caro to Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker by way of Whitney McVeigh. Email signet@post.harvard.edu to RSVP. 
  • January 27, 2009.  1pm.  First lunch of 2010.  All members and alumni welcome to join lunches Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays during academic year.  Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.
  • December 30, 2009.  Evening.  Harvard Alumni Association Global Networking Night.  20 cities around the world.  For more information and to register, visit http://alumni.harvard.edu/haa/globalnetworkingnight.  Registration is free; deadline is December 23. 
  • December 18, 2009.  1pm.  Last lunch of 2009.  All members and alumni welcome to join lunches Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays during academic year.  Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.
  • December 5, 2009.  5:30-7pm.  Reception for Walter Isaacson on publication of his new book, American Sketches.  Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.
  • December 4, 2009.  5-7pm.  Associates tea.  Open to all alumni.  Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.
  • November 19, 2009.  7-9pm.  Marylebone, London. Cocktails at flat of Tom Moore '98 for Signet Society members.
  • November 5, 2009. 6-8pm. Vermillion Wine Bar/Art Gallery 1508 11th Ave (between Pike St & Pine St), Seattle, WA.  Cocktails for Signet alumni in Seattle area.
  • November 2, 2009.  7pm.  Hearth Restaurant, New York City.  Autumn Sherry Dinner with Fareed Zakaria.
  • October 24, 2009. 4-6pm. Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge. Friday tea honoring Classes of 1964 and 1979.
  • October 14, 2009.  7-9pm.  Building on Bond, Brooklyn, New York City.  Welcome party for recent Signet graduates (classes of 2005 - 2009).
  • September 2, 2009.  Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.  First lunch of 2009-10 served. All alumni welcome to join lunches during the academic year: Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays at 1pm.
  • Thursday, June 4, 2009, 4-7pm. Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge. Reception honoring graduating seniors and Signet alumni, classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009. Free of charge.
  • Saturday, June 6, 2009, 3-5pm. Signet House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge.  Reception for Signet Society alumni. Reconnect with Signet classmates, renew your connection with the Society, and meet some of the current undergraduate members.  Free of charge.
  • April 19, 2009, 11am. The Signet Society House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge. A Southern drop-in brunch featuring smoked Tennessee ham and North Carolina grits. Prepared by Matt Lee '92, author of award-winning Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. No cost. Members (including Signet alumni) and guests welcome.
  • April 18, 2009, 6:30pm.  Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Harvard University.  The One Hundred and Eighteenth Annual Dinner.

The Toastmaster: Thomas Conley Rollins '98
The President of The Signet Society: Simon Williams '09
The Poet: Sarah Manguso '96, recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Musicians: Daniel Gurney '09 and Malcolm Campbell '10
The Signet Medalist: Hendrik Hertzberg '65, political commentator for The New Yorker magazine
The Speaker: Diane Paulus '87, new Artistic Director of the A.R.T. in Cambridge 

  • April 17, 2009, 8pm. The Signet Society House, 46 Dunster St., Cambridge. Cocktails in honor of Sam Sifton '88, Culture Editor, The New York Times. No cost.