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→ March 12, 2024
To celebrate Pembroke’s 400th anniversary, the College invites all alumni to return to Pembroke to join their peers for special, events and themed dinners — so they can take part in the celebrations and make their mark on this unique moment in Pembroke’s history. One such event is the Baddeley dinner–open to all Visiting Students from Pembroke’s past and […]
→ December 3, 2023
Get in the holiday spirit with Pembroke’s Nine Lessons and Carols Service — performed on November 26th and 27th, 2023. You can watch them at your convenience, here via YouTube.
→ October 23, 2023
GREAT NEWS…HOT OFF THE PRESS! The World University Rankings are out…and Oxford University was just named the world’s top university for a record, eighth year in a row. You can read a bit about this amazing accomplishment via the university’s alumni portal. Or you can see for yourself here…and also check out how the […]
→ October 4, 2023
It is no surprise that Walter Isaacson’s latest book – his biography of Elon Musk – is already a best-seller in its first week of publication. I caught up with Walter on his book tour recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was interviewed by his friend and able interlocutor David Rubenstein. “Why do you write biography?” Rubenstein […]
→ April 29, 2023
Join Pembrokian alumnus, Glenn Fine (1979, PPE), as he covers his career as former Inspector General for the US Departments of Justice and Defence, as well as the issues he encountered in these roles, including; investigating abuses to immigrant detainees after the 9/11 attacks; investigating corruption in the Federal Bureau of Prisons; the need for […]
→ January 16, 2023
Cong. Josh Gottheimer ’96 (D-NJ), a trustee of the Pembroke College Foundation, is a leader of a bipartisan group of centrist representatives in Congress and is expected to play a key role in getting any legislation passed in today’s sharply divided congress. Josh is the subject of a flattering profile in Politico Magazine. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/13/josh-gottheimer-congress-power-player-00074987
→ January 12, 2023
Peter Bolton Grose ’57, Honorary Fellow ’87, award-winning author, foreign correspondent, editor, public servant, and founding president of the Pembroke College Foundation, died of complications from a stroke on December 31, 2022. He was 88. Peter’s storied career led him to cover some of the most historic events of the 20th century as a foreign […]
→ January 6, 2023
New Jersey Alumni Event: Tea Tasting at the Village Tea Shop Where: The Village Tea Shop Dates: Wednesday 25th January Time: 6pm Your local Alumni Ambassador, HyunJu Kwak, invites you to join your fellow Pembroke alumni and guests for tea tasting at the Village Tea Shop in Ridgewood, NJ. For more details and to register email: hyunjukwak@hotmail.com
→ November 15, 2022
Mid-term election day, November 8, was Victory Day for Pembrokians Josh Gottheimer ‘96 and Tim Griffin ‘90. Josh, a Democrat representing New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, convincingly defeated his Republican opponent with 54% of the vote in a “purple” constituency in a suburban and exurban district stretching north and […]
→ October 25, 2022
Dear Editor: After almost three years of being away from Pembroke College because of COVID restrictions, it was thrilling to be welcomed back for Pembroke’s Annual Alumni Weekend (September 15-16, 2022! This year it was particularly meaningful to my husband, Jim, and I since we longed to meet the new Master, Sir Ernest Ryder, […]