ClassACT HR73 newslettersAll members of the HR Class of '73 have been sent our ClassACT monthly Newsletters, event announcements, and invitations, and will continue to get them unless they instruct us otherwise. You'll find the archive below. If you are a non-class member but have joined ClassACT HR73, you will receive future issues too! To share news of importance, contact ClassACT HR73. November 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Letter from the Chair: Marion Dry '73 -November 20th: Meet Our Bridges // Wings of Hope Global Cooperative -Maasai Culture and Safari Adventure: Medical Mission, June 2025 -December 11th: Staying Engaged as We Age: A Roadmap -Keep a NOLA Kid Warm This Winter! Join the Kids' Coat Drive October 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -JusticeAid: Music! Justice! Action! -Voting: Our Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities -Save the Dates -Bridges Updates September 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter During this pivotal moment for our country, we in ClassACT HR73 have been working to encourage our classmates and readers to join in efforts to get out the vote for national, state and local elections this November. We believe that supporting free and fair elections is one of our primary responsibilities as citizens of this great nation. In this spirit, we have devoted the September edition of our ClassACTions newsletter to reflecting on how our love of Democracy informs so many of our endeavors. We also offer ways for you to help others to exercise their constitutional right to vote and fulfill their responsibility.
August 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Meet Our New BBLP Fellow, Waheed Ahmad -Fall 2024 Programming with ClassACT -The Balance of Power in Wisconsin Could Shift Because of Fairer New Maps -Meet our newest Bridge: The Editorial Freelancers AssociationJune 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Meet Our New Bridge Partner: FoolProofMe -Inflation, Housing Concerns Could Swing Nevada to Republicans in November, by Jacki Swearingen '73 and Susan Okie '73 -Update on Growing ClassACT May 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -May 21st: JusticeAid NYC Concert "Soul of Justice" May 22nd: Grant Supremacy: The Art of Proposal Writing and Grantsmanship, with Linda Jackson Sowell '73 -Voter Suppression, Deep in the Heart of Texas, by Ryan O'Connell '73 April 2024 ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Celebrating Ten Years of Achieving Change Together: 10th anniversary video and timeline -Florida: Could the Abortion Rights Fight Shift a Red State into a Blue Column? March 2024 ClassACTtions Newsletter Highlights Include: -March 27: Building an App for your Nonprofit webinar with John Noran '73 -Fair Elections and Reproductive Freedom in Michigan, by Marilyn Go '73 -@50 Video project: Marilyn Go '73: Supporting Pluralistic Democracy February 2024 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -ClassACT HR73 and JusticeAid Present: To The Ballot Box! Our Vote, Our Voice, March 16 @5:30pm ET (zoom) -Voter Intimidation Could Be a Threat in Arizona, by Jim Harbsion '73 -@50 Video project: Bill Kristol '73: Preserving Liberal Democracy January 2024 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - ClassACT Launches New Webinar Series: -Creating a 501(c)(3) With Leonard Easter '73 -6 Steps To Promoting Your Non Profit On Social Media With Katie Marinello -Climate Change, Public-Private Partnerships, and Social Equity: Lessons from Bangladesh -Georgia's On Our Mind, by Ryan O'Connell '73 December 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - ClassACT HR73 welcomes three new bridges -ClassACT HR73 @50 Video Project: Meet Sylvester Monroe '73 - Pensylvania Supreme Court Keeps Gerrymandering At Bay, by Jim Harbison '73 November 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - Donate to the 4th annual Coat Drive for Ole & Nu Fellas Social Aid and Pleasure Club -ClassACT HR73 @50 Video Project: Meet Jim Harbison '73 and Ryan O'Connell '73 - ClassACT Webinars on December 12th: A Ten Point Plan For Building A Board of Directors on the Nonprofit World With Ron Dieckmann '73 October 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - Meet & Greet November 10th With Our Sixth Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Fellow, Nazmul Haque -#ClassACTHR73Forum: Update on Ukraine on November 13th -Voting Rights Updates: Virginia Elections Will Be A Bellwether -ClassACTHR73 @50 Video Project: Debbie Winn '73 September 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - ClassACT Welcomes Our Sixth Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Fellow, Nazmul Haque -Voting Rights Updates: Suggested End of Summer Reading -Half-Earth Forum II Transcript Available! July 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: - The Continuing Saga of Legislative Efforts to Suppress Voting Rights in Ohio -Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Fundraising A Success! -ClassACT HR73 supports Bridge Program UNAGB -Class Survey Results June 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -A Letter from the Chairs, by Marion Dry and Stan Mark -50th Reunion Recap, by Dick Friedman and the ClassACT Communications Committee -ClassACT HR73 Has A New APP! -Update on the ClassACT HR73 Survey May 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Getting to Know Classmates and Their Work: ClassACT HR73 @50 Video Project -Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program: Conversation with BBLP Fellows May 20. -Zoom Forum on the ClassACT Bridges May 11 -Voting Suppression Maneuvers from North Carolina, by Jim Harbison '73 -Volunteer Opportunities and Bridge Updates April 2023 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -50th Reunion updates: registration, pre-reunion events, ClassACTHR73 @50 Video Project -ClassACT HR73 Forum: Protecting Half-Earth: Opportunities and Obstacles -Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Updates: Event with Fellow Laila Khondkar May 2, and Conversation with BBLP Fellows May 20. -Zoom Forum on the ClassACT Bridges May 11 -Election Updates from Marilyn Go, Jim Harbison and J. Ryan O’Connell March 2023 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Bridge Work -ClassACT HR73 Forum: Protecting Half-Earth: Opportunities and Obstacles -Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Updates: Event with Fellow Laila Khondkar May 2, and conversation with BBLP Fellows May 20. February 2023 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Richard Golob '73 and the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (article by Jacki Swearingen '73) -ClassACT HR73 Forum Addressing Anxiety & Depression in Young Adults: Leveraging What Works -Pending Critical Court Cases on Gerrymandering and Voting Rights January 2023 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Bob Waldinger '73 Publishes The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness (article by Jacki Swearingen '73) -ClassACT HR73 Forum Addressing Anxiety & Depression in Young Adults: Leveraging What Works -ClassACTors for the Environment December 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -2022: A Year in Review -To 2023, our 50th Reunion, and Beyond! -Bridges: It's All About Connections November 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Meet Sarah Stearns '73 and Michael Alexander '73, this month's ClassACTors changing the world! -Fishing for DNA in the Hudson with Jesse Ausubel '73 -Marie Kohler '73 debuts her history-oriented comic-drama, BOSWELL, Off-Broadway October 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Children's Orchestra Society Update: Music Prepares Children for Life -Hats off to Marion Dry '73! -Vote, Vote, Vote! Volunteer Opportunities before the midterms September 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Calling all classmates! 50th reunion video project -Voter Suppression Post Forum Update -KidsCareEverywhere Bridge and Dr. Ron Dieckmann '73 August 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -ClassACT HR73 leadership change -Calling all classmates! 50th reunion video project -ClassACT HR73 welcomes new Bridge, the Cole Resource Center July 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Save the date on our upcoming #ClassACTForum Voter Suppression: A Cancer in Our Body Politic June 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Voter Suppression: A Cancer in Our Body Politic -Spotlight on the Communications Committee -Countdown to the 50th Reunion May 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -JusticeAid Spring Benefit Concert for SMYAL -Profile on ClassACT Bridge White Pony Express -HR73 Pre-50th Reunion in Ohio April 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -White Pony Express responds to Ukraine humanitarian crisis -Videos and resources from #ClassACTForum: LGBTQ Youth Rights: Protecting the Queer Frontier -Take us out to the ball game: join us in Ohio as we kick off our 50th reunion year! March 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -A spotlight on our New Orleans based Bridges, Roots of Music and Ole & Nu Fellas Social Aide & Pleasure Club -ClassACT HR73 Presents: A Conversation on Russia's War on Ukraine -Our Next #ClassACTForum: LGBTQ Youth Rights: Protecting the Queer Frontier February 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Interview with Dr. Richard Wohns '73 about the Nepal Spine Foundation -ClassACT welcomes three new Board Members -Updates from David Weeks '73 on the Osiligi Hope Foundation and Salih Self Development Center January 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -ClassACT Bridge Provides Coats for Kids -Support the movement: looking forward to 2022 -Thanks to our 2021 donors!
December 2021 - ClassACTions Newsletter
Highlights Include: -2021 in ClassACT HR73: That Was The Year That Was -Examining US History Through Art -The News on Gerrymandering is Grim
November 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -#ClassACTForum: Can 21st-Century Capitalism Reverse School Failure, Climate Change, and Income Inequality? -Donate to the ClassACT HR73 Coats for Kids Drive in New Orleans! -ClassACT HR73 Responds to Afghan Refugees October 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Register for our Climate Change and Water Crises #ClassACTForum -Introducing our new Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Fellow, Zeina Majdalani -Bridge Program Updates: Understanding Our Differences September 2021 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include:-UNAGB: A Bridge to Sustainability -Gerrymandering and Voting Rights: An Update from Ryan O'Connell and Jim Harbison -Help for Haiti: where to donate according to classmates on the ground Read
August 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -#ClassACTForum: Climate Change and Water Crises: Drought, Flood, Contamination ... and What We Can Do About It -David Weeks '73 Seeks Help from Healthcare Professionals, Architects, and Vocational Educators for Projects in Kenya and Ghana -Understanding the History of Global Warming, Climate Science, and Policy: Sharon Tisher '73's Climate Chronology
June 2021 - ClassACTions Newsletter
Highlights Include: -The Team Behind Those Fabulous Forums -Spreading the ACT to Other Classes -Climate Change Gets Chronological
May 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -Farewell to Board Member Sallie Gouverneur -Our upcoming June Forum: Gerrymandering: Our Democracy at Risk -Upcoming JusticeAid spring concert on May 27th
April 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -Our upcoming May Forum: Health Disparities and the COVID-19 Vaccine -Our upcoming June Forum: Gerrymandering: Our Democracy at Risk -Information on the upcoming JusticeAid Riverside Church Forum and spring concert
March 2021 - ClassACTions Newsletter
Highlights Include: -Interview with Rick Jones, Executive Director of NDS PACE, and our Racism and the Criminal System #ClassACTForum panelist -The Sports Analytics Club Program's 2020 Annual Report -Find classmates near you via ClassACT's map feature
February 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -An event honoring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and a conversation with HR79, NYC Mayoral Candidate Ray McGuire, and NPR's Michel Martin -Save the date for a March #ClassACTForum -JusticeAid - Coming Up
January 2021 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -Get to know Dr. Vivian Lewis, our new board member -Take a peak at our upcoming #ClassACTForums in 2021 -Forum events to attend in February from Harvard related groups
December 2020 - ClassACTions Newsletter
Highlights Include: -What to look forward to in 2021 -The story behind those fabulous forums -Updates from the Justice & Civic Engagement Initiative
November 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -ClassACT's Coats for Kids Appeal -Volunteer with Open Progress for Georgia's run off senate races -Report from the Justice & Civic Engagement Initiative
October 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -ClassACT welcomes new board member Vivian Lewis '73 -Understanding Our Differences needs volunteers -Portaits in Black, a series hosted by James Brown '73 focusing on the Black professional athlete experience
September 2020 - ClassACTions Newsletter
Highlights Include: -A Big Assist for Bobby Clayton's Sports Analytics Club Program -Understanding Our Differences is Newest Bridge Project -UNAGB Hosts 75th Anniversary Virtual Forum
August 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin
Highlights Include: -Classmates in the News: Donna Brown Guillaume and Tom Cooper -United Nations Association of Greater Boston, a ClassACT bridge, is teaching the next generation to be global citizens -The Election is coming up! Check out some ClassACT supported volunteer opportunities July 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Farewell to BBLP Fellow Nadia Rehman -Congratulations to Board Member Leigh Hafrey on winning the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society program “Ideas Worth Teaching” award. -JusticeAid Updates June 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -Whose Independence Day Is This? Social Justice and Racism in America Zoom Forum -Pandemic Proactivity with classmates David Weeks and Ron Dieckmann -Board Member Rick Weil wins NSF grant for “Community Cooperation in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” May 2020 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Voices to Protect the Vote: JusticeAid Virtual Concert -Our Voter & Civic Engagement Initiative is taking off! -Catch up on our Age of COVID-19 Zoom Forums March 2020 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -A Letter from Board Chair Jonathan Sprague on COVID-19 -The Voter & Civic Engagement Initiative -Updates from ClassACT's Bridges ReadFebruary 2020 - ClassACTions Bulletin Highlights Include: -ClassACT's new Voter & Civic Engagement Initiative -JusticeAid Concert + Public Forum in May! -ClassACT Regional Event in Dayton/Cincinnati in July! ReadDecember 2019 - ClassACTions Newsletter Highlights Include: -Tom Cooper Shores up Media Ethics -Update on the BBLP Fellows -Health Updates from Ron Dieckmann and Jono Quick ReadOctober 2019 - ClassACT Bulletin Highlights include: -BBLP hosts reception for newest fellow Nadia Rehman -JusticeAid announces the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as 2020 beneficiary -Classmate Updates September 2019 - ClassACT Newsletter Highlights include: -ClassACT's newest board member, Rick Weil -BBLP announces 2019-20 fellow Nadia Rehman -ClassACT partners with the United Nations Association of Greater Boston September 2019 - ClassACT Bulletin Highlights include: -Sports Analytics Club presents at the Whitehouse -Kids Care Everywhere Autumn Soirée -Highlights from the ClassACT Survey June 2019 - ClassACT Bulletin Highlights include: -Dick Friedman's write-up and Rick Brotman's video on our Weatherhead Assembly -Classmate Updates! February 2019 - ClassACT & BBLP Bulletin Highlights include: -The April 12th Weatherhead Assembly -South Asia Symposium - Challenges Facing the Leaders of tomorrow -ClassACT Classmate Shoutout! January 2019 - ClassACT Newsletter Highlights include: - Dinner with Malala Yousafzai - BBLP Assembly with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Classmates Working for Social Change ReadOctober 2018 - ClassACT NewsletterHighlights include: September 2018 - ClassACT NewlsetterHighlights include:- Classmates Reunite
- Thank you, Winkie Creamer! - ClassACT Change the World September 2018 - ClassACT NewsletterHighlights include: September 2018 - ClassACT NewsletterHighlights include: August 2018 - ClassACT NewsletterHighlights include: July 2018 - ClassACT BulletinHighlights include: May 2018 - BBLP UpdateHighlights include: April 2018 - International Health ConnectionsApril 2018 - Jeffersonian DinnerHighlights include: February 2018 - BBLP Update- November 2016 - BBLP Assembly Special Notice Read
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- January 2016 - Bhutto Launch Invite Read- December 2015 - Share Warmth in Treme Read- November 2015 - ClassACT Newsletter Read- October 2015 - White Pony Express Read- October 2015 - Salih Vocational Center Read | 157x201 “I am delighted with a new opportunity to work with other classmates, through ClassACT HR73, to advance philanthropic opportunities in remote sites around the globe.” -Ron Dieckmann |