Congratulations to Professor David Finegold ‘85, who has been named President of the Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA.  He becomes the nineteenth President in the University’s 147 year history. David graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1985, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Pembroke. He received his D.Phil. in Politics in 1992. In selecting […]

It is with great sadness that I must report that John Barlow, ’52, Pembroke’s former acting Development Officer of many years, suffered a stroke and died on March 22, 2016.  He was 83. John was a great friend of generations of North American Pembrokians, and in particular of the author of this note.  He was […]

Walter Isaacson, ’74, received the prestigious Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism on March 3 in a ceremony at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Walter is a former chairman and CEO of CNN, former editor of TIME, current president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, author […]

  Pembroke College Emeritus Fellow Zbigniew “Zbyszek” Pelczynski OBE celebrated his 90th birthday at a black-tie dinner hosted by Master Lynne Brindley in College on December 4. Pelczynski, Pembroke’s storied politics professor from 1957 to 1992, was tutor to scores of Americans, including former president Bill Clinton.                 […]

The national celebrity profile of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg,’05 (subject of a North American Pembrokian profile last year), keeps increasing.  Fresh off an overwhelming re-election victory in November, Pete is, according to New York magazine, one of 10 young leaders cited by the magazine as the future of the Democratic Party, and possibly […]

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  “Pembroke’s own Stuart Stevens,’72 a true renaissance man of politics, history, haute cuisine, extreme sports and travel, is out with a terrific new book The Last Season: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime of College Football which is already garnering advance praise. Here’s what our own Walter Isaacson has to say:  “Through the lens of college […]

Some thirty Pembroke alumni and friends in gathered in San Francisco on July 27, 2015, to welcome three Pembroke Fellows —  Prof. Mark Fricker (Plant Science), Prof. Hannah Smithson (Experimental Psychology), and Strategic Development Director Andrew Seton – to learn of their latest research, and to be treated to a briefing on current College achievements […]

  Pembroke Fellows and fellow scientists Hannah Smithson (Experimental Psychology) and Mark Fricker (Plant Science) will be presenting their work aa Pembroke event in San Francisco on Monday, July 27. Hosted by Peggy Gyulai, partner of Jeremy Sutton ‘79, Hannah and Mark have billed their talk: Medieval Science: Light, Colour and Rainbows and how data is […]

  A gala dinner at historic Prospect House, the home of Pembroke Foundation Fellow Abdullah Saleh in Georgetown, and a private tour of the Library of Congress highlighted the April 2015 visit of Pembroke’s Master, Dame Lynne Brindley, to Washington, DC. Some 58 Pembrokians and their guests gathered at Prospect House on Friday April 10, a […]