These are challenging times. Pembrokians are known to rise to a challenge. Pembroke taught us that creativity and community make us stronger…together. We would love to know how you are doing— and if there are any projects or accomplishments in your life that you feel may be encouraging or interesting to your fellow Pembrokians. Some […]

Pete Buttigieg ’05, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, his hometown, is running for president. On January 23, 2019, Pete announced the formation of an exploratory committee, the precursor to a formal declaration. Pete is one of a growing number of Democrats aiming for the 2020 presidential contest. “There’s a new generation of voices emerging in […]

Michelle Peluso, ‘93, a former Trustee of the Pembroke College Foundation, has been appointed IBM’s first-ever Chief Marketing Officer. Michelle was formerly CEO of Gilt, the luxury ecommerce company.  Before that she served as global consumer chief marketing and internet officer at Citigroup, and as CEO of the travel site Travelocity. Michelle has served as a […]

Novelist, screenwriter, extreme sports enthusiast, renowned Republican political consultant, and epicure Stuart Stevens ’72 is out with a timely new book, “The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear” (Random House), a dark comedy about an American presidential campaign involving a Trump-like character and set in a contested Republican convention. “I started the book before the (2012) […]

Multiple congratulations to famed maritime historian, Professor John B. Hattendorf ‘73, who was awarded the prestigious Doctor of Letters degree (D.Litt) by the University of Oxford at a ceremony in March 2016. John is Chairman of the Maritime History Department and the Ernest J. King Chair of Maritime History at the US Naval War College […]

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 […]

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’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 […]

Pembroke’s Tim Griffin ’90 was overwhelmingly elected Arkansas’ Lieutenant Governor on November 4. Tim defeated Democrat John Burkhalter and Libertarian Chris Olson. Tim, a two term congressman, succeeded former Arkansas Lt. Gov. Mark Darr, who resigned last year amid an ethics investigation. Tim is keeping up something of a Pembroke tradition – Win Rockefeller ’69, […]

Our own prolific – and prodigious – Walter Isaacson ’74 is out with a great new book. The Innovators, something of a sequel to his best-selling biography of Steve Jobs, is the fascinating story of the people who created the computer and the Internet, or as Walter puts it in his subtitle, “how a group […]