Upcoming Events

Email Notice of Events...
otice of each NYC Alumni Seminar or Event is emailed to the NYC list managed by the Alumni Association. To join this list, go to alumni.stjohnscollege.edu and click on "Register" in the top right corner. Once you have registered, click on "Alumni Chapters," scroll down and click on "New York City Chapter." The chapter page has a “Join the Group” button which will include you in mailings. Then you will be assured of knowing what readings are coming up, any changes to locations, and other events that the chapter has planned. See you soon!

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Wednesday, September 15: Recent Graduates Reception
Gather for a pleasant evening meeting other alumni in the New York area. Wine and other refreshments will be served.

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Tuesday, October 12: Antigone
Steven Sedlis (A73) will lead this seminar on Sophocles’ tragedy.

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Tuesday, November 9: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Peter Weiss (A46) will lead a seminar on the novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981.

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This is Your Website

his website, dedicated to and maintained by St. John's alumni in the New York area, supplements the site. Here you may find more local color and it may possibly be more up to date. Please send suggestions and content to .

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Want to Lead a Seminar?
The NYC Chapter of St. John's College Alumni Association is looking for a seminar suggestion that you would be willing to lead. Please contact with the short seminar reading that you would enjoy introducing to the chapter. Seminars are held on one Tuesday of each month, beginning at 7 p.m. and concluding at 9 p.m., when the conversation is invited to continue at the local diner. We look forward to your suggestions and thank you in advance for your participation.

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“Dans” a Music Video Project
Joshua Paverud, SF03, wrote a while back that he's making a short film this summer and he'd like us all to be a part of it. He has now received the funding he sought! Click on the Dans picture at the left to read about it.

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Annual Potluck and Meeting

Thank you all for attending the June 8, 2010 Chapter Potluck and Business Meeting. News of the meeting will be posted soon.

Basically, the same board was re-elected but continues to welcome any suggestions or offers to assist. Seminar suggestions and leaders were requested; please continue to do so in the weeks to come as we will be planning the seminars for the upcoming year over the summer.

We are also looking for your news. What fun things are you enjoying about NYC? Do you have a blog you wish to let the rest of the community read? Just send us your snippets and we will post them! Do you want to write anything fun for the website? Just let us know. We hope the website can be transformed into a helpful guide to the city for all of us Johnnies who live and work here.

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Media Galleries

Here are galleries of many events. Keep sending in your pictures! (And, thanks to Benjamin Van Doren, we even have 4 video clips of our Schooner Odyssey!) So far you can tour:

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— and the collection of we use to adorn our masthead.

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Famous Faces

Our masthead is decorated with pictures of men and women who have made significant contributions to philosophy, science, religion or art. We've collected over 500 portraits, so we change them randomly — but only once an hour. (To see the person's name, just hover your mouse pointer over their image.) To see all the pictures, . If you have an interesting picture you'd like to contribute, or can think of someone we've overlooked, please contact .