ClassACT newsletters AND BULLETINS

All members of the HR Class of '73 have been sent our ClassACT quarterly Newsletters, monthly Bulletins, 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, you will receive future issues too!

To share news of importance, contact ClassACT.

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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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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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

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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Highlights Include:

-The Team Behind Those Fabulous Forums

-Spreading the ACT to Other Classes

-Climate Change Gets Chronological

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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!

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

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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October 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

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

September 2018 - ClassACT Newlsetter

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

August 2018 - ClassACT Newsletter

July 2018 - BBLP Update

July 2018 - ClassACT Bulletin

May 2018 - BBLP Update

April 2018 - International Health Connections

April 2018 - Jeffersonian Dinner

February 2018 - BBLP Update

“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