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ClassACT HR73 newsletters 

All 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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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December 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter

Highlights Include:

-2022: A Year in Review

-To 2023, our 50th Reunion, and Beyond!

-Bridges: It's All About Connections

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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

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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

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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

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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

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July 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin

Highlights Include:

-Save the date on our upcoming #ClassACTForum

Voter Suppression: A Cancer in Our Body Politic

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June 2022 - ClassACTions Newsletter

Highlights Include:

-Voter Suppression: A Cancer in Our Body Politic

-Spotlight on the Communications Committee

-Countdown to the 50th Reunion

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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January 2022 - ClassACTions Bulletin

Highlights Include:

-ClassACT Bridge Provides Coats for Kids

-Support the movement: looking forward to 2022

-Thanks to our 2021 donors!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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June 2021 - ClassACTions Newsletter

Highlights Include:

-The Team Behind Those Fabulous Forums

-Spreading the ACT to Other Classes

-Climate Change Gets Chronological

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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.”

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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

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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

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February 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!

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December 2019 - ClassACTions Newsletter

Highlights Include:

-Tom Cooper Shores up Media Ethics

-Update on the BBLP Fellows

-Health Updates from Ron Dieckmann and Jono Quick

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October 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 

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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

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September 2019 - ClassACT Bulletin

Highlights include:

-Sports Analytics Club presents at the Whitehouse 

-Kids Care Everywhere Autumn Soirée

-Highlights from the ClassACT Survey

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June 2019 - ClassACT Bulletin

Highlights include:

-Dick Friedman's write-up and Rick Brotman's video on our Weatherhead Assembly

-Classmate Updates!

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February 2019 - ClassACT & BBLP Bulletin

Highlights include:

-The April 12th Weatherhead Assembly

-South Asia Symposium - Challenges Facing the Leaders of tomorrow

-ClassACT Classmate Shoutout!

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January 2019 - ClassACT Newsletter

Highlights include:

- Dinner with Malala Yousafzai

- BBLP Assembly with Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

- Classmates Working for Social Change

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October 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

Highlights include:
- JusticeAid in NYC
- ClassACT at Reunion
- Thank you, classmates

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September 2018 - ClassACT Newlsetter

Highlights include:
- Classmates Reunite
- Thank you, Winkie Creamer!
- ClassACT Change the World

September 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

Highlights include:
- Looking forward to Reunion
- A message from Holly Weeks
- Early College Awareness

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September 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

Highlights include:
- Kids Care Everywhere, Costa Rica
- A message from Emily Fields Karakashian
- Sharing our goals

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August 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

Highlights include:
- Andrea Kirsh and Yeou-Cheng Ma, Children's Orchestra Society
- A message from Hugh Kelleher
- ClassACT's beginnings
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July 2018 - BBLP Update

Highlights include:
- Introducing the 2018 Fellows
- 2018 Mehta Lecturer

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July 2018 - ClassACT Bulletin

Highlights include:
- Spring 2018 Event Wrap-Up:
- Chicago ClassACT Weekend
- Cambridge Jeffersonian Dinner
- Washington D.C., JusticeAid

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May 2018 - BBLP Update

Highlights include:
- Radcliffe Lecturer: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
- Looking back on Weatherhead Symposium
- BBLP Director meets with Afghanistan's Attorney General

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April 2018 - International Health Connections

Highlights include:
- Improving global pediatric care
- Healthcare in Haiti
- Ending Epidemics

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April 2018 - Jeffersonian Dinner

Highlights include:
- America's bloated prison population
- Jeffersonian Dinner in NYC
- Art for Justice Fund

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February 2018 - BBLP Update

Highlights include:
- Fellowship News
- Network, Mentors, Advisors
- Upcoming Cambridge Events

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- December 2017 - ClassACT Bulletin Read

- November 2017 - Live Website Announcement Read

- October 2017 - BBLP Fellowship Announcement Read

- September 2017 - Announcing Human Rights Initiative Read

- May 2017 - JusticeAid Livestream Read

- May 2017 - Bridge Project Updates Read

- April 2017 - Bridge Project Happenings Read

- March 2017 - Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Assembly Read

- November 2016 - BBLP Assembly Special Notice Read

- November 2016 - ClassACT Bulletin Read

- October 2016 - ClassACT Bulletin Read

- May 2016 - ClassACT Bulletin Read

- April 2016 - BBLP Launch Reminder Read

- April 2016 - Class of '73 Rockin' for Justice Read

- March 2016 - Cambridge Bhutto Launch Read

- March 2016 - The ClassACT Chronicles Read

- February 2016 - Harvard North Shore Invite Read

- 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

- October 2015 - What Justice Means to Me Read

- September 2015 - Donna Brown Guillaume Letter Read

- September 2015 - JusticeAid Roots Concert Read

- July 2015 - Environmental Interests Email Read

- June 2015 - Mt. Desert Get Together Read

- June 2015 - Bay Area News from ClassACT Read

- April 2015 - Steve Milliken Invites You To... Read

- February 2015 - Second Chance to Check out ClassACT HR73 Read

- January 2015 - HR73 Takes Action Now! Read


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“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


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