Community Announcements:
From Beatrice Camino, '98:
Last year Brown launched BRUnet, the Brown Alumni Association's next-generation online career network! BRUnet, replaced ACCess (Alumni Career Connections). The Alumni Office was very excited to share BRUnet with the Brown community. Along with a new name, BRUnet provides improved functionality, greater search capacity and expanded career content, all intended to make networking connections more helpful, robust and valuable. Whether you use BRUnet, volunteer for BRUnet or both, it is an invaluable resource for every career stage - from pre-graduation to post-retirement!
Alumni volunteers are essential to the success of many Brown career programs and services. Through these and other programs, alumni have the opportunity to serve the University by sharing their professional expertise and experiences with students and fellow alumni. Unlike ACCess, BRUnet requires alumni to actively create a career networking profile and to sign up as a volunteer. The Brown Club of DC Board has received comments from several recent graduates and young alumni that there are very few alumni in the Washington area signed up on BRUnet. Would you please consider adding your profile to BRUnet and help other Brown Alumni with their careers? I just signed up on BRUnet and it was easy! Please visit https://alumni.brown.edu/alumni/BRUnet/. Please note, it takes approximately 15-20 minutes to update/create a complete BRUnet profile, but if you have a soft-copy version of your resume available, this time is greatly reduced. Thank you for help!
From Kim Boortz, '05:
"My father, brother and I have formed a team and will be participating in the NYC to DC AIDS Ride, www.nycdc.org, which takes us from NYC to DC over four days in September, raising money for Dr. Yuntao Wu and his AIDS research lab at George Mason University. Dr. Wu has worked for the past six years to decode how the AIDS virus destroys T cells, a study that breaks new ground in the search for a cure for AIDS.
This is the inaugural 330-mile ride from New York City to Washington DC and my family and I could not be more excited to participate. But, now comes the part where we need YOUR help! The Boortzie Bikers have set the ambitious goal of raising $7,000 for AIDS research but we can't do it alone. With your generous donations, I know we can reach our goal and help raise HIV/AIDS awareness and funds for ground-breaking AIDS research.
If you'd like to help us reach our goal, you can visit our team website, http://nycdc.kintera.org/boortziebikers, where you can donate online with a credit card.
The Boortzie Bikers greatly appreciate your support. HIV/AIDS research and awareness are important issues to our family and affect the lives of millions of people world-wide. Let's do our part in the fight against HIV/AIDS!"
From Ben Dalley, '03:
I am writing because I run a non-profit called Bike to the Beach. We are a biking organization that promotes biking as a legitimate way of travel, staying in-shape, and networking. We also host an annual fundraising bike ride, a 120-mile bike ride from Washington DC to Bethany Beach, DE to raise money for Autism Research.
We have over 80 members (4 Brown Graduates), who are mostly 20 and 30 somethings interested in biking, networking, and just having fun. I would really like Bike to the Beach to Partner with the Brown Club of DC. I think the Club's members would be very interested participating in Bike to the Beach and our cause, Autism.
This year's ride will begin on Friday, August 1, 2008, and will take my fellow-riders and I from the nation's capital to Annapolis, MD, across the Chesapeake Bay, and ending with a grueling 100-mile trek to the Atlantic. We have partnered with Autism Speaks and our goal is to raise awareness and $100,000 to help those whose lives are touched by Autism, a neurological disorder that affects 1 out of every 150 children. We have also been getting pretty good press coverage. I was interviewed by News 9 last week. You can see the interview at http://www.wusa9.com/rss/local_article.aspx?storyid=7379.
Please contact me to let me know if there is anything we can do together or if you have any further questions about Bike to the Beach for Autism. I'd love to hear from you and tell you about this great ride.
Thank you guys!
Ben Dalley
Founder and Co-President
Bike to the Beach For Autism
Benjamin@Dalley.biz
Visit us at www.BiketotheBeach.org
From Kiet Ko, '07:
Be a mentor for BUILD (www.build.org), a business-focused college prep program. BUILD provides real-world entrepreneurial experience that empowers lower-income high school students to excel in education, lead in their communities and succeed professionally. BUILD Metro DC is seeking mentors to work with local-area high school students b! eginning this fall. Mentor from 6pm-7:30pm one evening a week, Tuesdays or Thursdays, from October to May at either the Evans (5600 East Capitol Street, SE) or Shaw (1851 9th Street, NW) campus of Maya Angelou Public Charter School to help teams of high-potential, yet hard-to-reach 9th-graders learn entrepreneurship and write business plans for a big year-end competition. Please return applications to BUILD Metro DC by Aug. 31, 2008 by Mail BUILD Metro DC | c/o Mintz Levin | 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 900 | Washington, DC 20004 ; Email mentordc@build.org ; or Fax (202) 434-7400 c/o BUILD. Please contact Khiet Ho '07 at ktho@mintz.com (Subject line: BUILD mentor) for a! dditional information.
Interested in playing ice hockey? Kevin Wu '02 is in search of players for this fall's season at the Kettler Rink in Ballston. The season begins September 16th and runs every Sunday for 20 games(excluding holidays, schedule TBD). The level of competition is moderate-high, with most players having high-school experience. Contact Kevin at kevinwu1@gmail.com to learn more.
Message from Maria Ivkovic:
I am organizing a Writer's Group for DC-area aspiring prose fiction writers.
The group is called DC's Moveable Feast and I am trying to limit its size to 7-10 people.
I wanted to send out an invite to Brown alumni first, as I think this would be a great way to rekindle that passion for writing all of us shared at Brown.
About me:
I graduated Brown in 2001 and have lived in DC for the past four years. At Brown, I majored in Spanish Literature and took a few Fiction courses. I have a Masters Degree in International Peace and Security from Georgetown, and have (indefinitely) deferred Columbia University's Masters of Fine Arts Program in Fiction. In an effort to slap six-figure debt (intended for starving artists!) in the face, I would like to cultivate an environment as close to that experienced by Hemingway in Paris.
If you are interested, please send me a note about yourself, including the sources of your inspiration (such as favorite authors), as well as a paragraph or two of any prose you have written. Email entries to maria_ivkovic@yahoo.com
I am really excited about this project and look forward to the writer's circle! Also fyi I will draw
from my background in promotions and organize prose readings at local coffee houses. The group will meet once a week (flexible), with manageable deadlines each week.. for your own good! (2 p/week minimum)
Charity event Caldwell Bailey '05
My name is caldwell Bailey and I have a charity that I'm starting a chapter of in the DC area. It's called Mustaches for Kids ( www.m4kdc.org) and it basically involves growing a mustache for 5 weeks (or supporting those who choose to do so) and getting people to give you money for it. All proceeds benefit the Children's National Medical Center here in DC. Our first event is an informational gathering this Thursday, Nov. 9 at 8 pm at Porter's Saloon on 19th and M. 'Stache checkpoints are the following 5 Thursdays (except Thanksgiving). Please exhort the DC Brown alumni community to explore their charitable tendencies follicularly! Yours in the 'Stache, Caldwell Bailey '05
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