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The tax-deductible amount of your Asilomar payment is $61.34. Use Novato CA as the PBKNCA location.

A few recent events. Click the pictures for more...

Bay Area Turtle Rescue Center,
June 6, 2009
Turtle Rescue Center
 
Mission Murals
 
Berkeley Botanical Garden, Apr 2008
Berkeley Botanical garden
 
Wine Tasting at Asilomar
 
Julia Morgan House
 
 
Asilomar at Sunset
 
Hawk Hill 2005

 

 

 

Upcoming Activities

We have many interesting tours, about one per month, for our members. Check the newsletter for the latest. And click on the pictures at the left for some of the past events.

Currently, we have scheduled the following events. See the newsletter for details.

We hope we have provided enough variety to challenge your imagination and stimulate your participation.

Respectfully submitted, , First Vice President - Programs

Scholarship and Teaching Excellence Awards
Presented at the Annual Meeting, May 3, 2009

Don't miss the next Annual Meeting on May 2, 2010

ΦBKNCA Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner - Sunday, May 3, 2009

The Teaching Excellence awardees for 2009 are:

  • Kathryn Olmsted, Department of History, UC Davis
  • Noah Guynn, Department of French and Italian, UC Davis
  • William James Stover, Department of Political Science, University of Santa Clara

The Scholarship awardees for 2009 are:

Berkeley Faculty ClubThe awards were presented on May 3 in the collegial setting of the UC Berkeley Faculty Club at our Annual Dinner. On this occasion we celebrated our primary mission: providing scholarships and teaching awards to deserving scholars and professors to recognize and enhance their educational and research activities. More details here...
"Thank You" from Graduate Student Awardees

Robert Pringle, 2007 scholarship recipient. Read the letter. Also see a San Francisco Chronicle article about his work.

John Randolph, 1997 scholarship recipient. Read the letter
Report from the Austin Triennial

Janiece Nolan, Chapter Liaison, participated as NCA’s delegate, sponsored by the national PBK office. She also had the honor of being selected as one of 17 nominees for 11 senator at large vacancies.

Can you imagine almost three hundred members of Phi Beta Kappa from across the country gathered into one room, over three days, to discuss various issues of importance to our Society? Such meetings took place October 1-4, 2009 in Austin, Texas. It was Phi Beta Kappa’s 42nd Triennial Council.

Read Janiece's full report here
Honors to Board Members

Janiece Nolan, Ph.D. received the Distinguished Leadership Award and has been named to the Contra Costa Commission for Women's Ninth Annual Hall of Fame. Read more...

Eno Schmidt has received the Cupertino CREST Award. Read more...

Upcoming Activities

We have many interesting tours, about one per month, for our members. Check the newsletter for the latest. And click on the pictures at the left for some of the past events.

Currently, we have scheduled the following events. See the newsletter for details.

  • The San Francisco Gourmet Chocolate Tour - Saturday, November 7, 2009
  • Visit to San Francisco's KQED Radio and TV Education Network, Thursday January 21, 2010
  • Asilomar Conference, Feb. 12-15, 2010
  • Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of The Pharaohs, Tuesday, March 3, 2010
  • Brunch and Theater with Mark Twain! Sunday, April 11, 2010
  • Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner, May 2, 2010
We hope we have provided enough variety to challenge your imagination and stimulate your participation.

Respectfully submitted, , First Vice President - Programs

 

Are You a Young Phi Bete?

The Board is still trying to form a group of young Phi Betes who might want to have their own activities. However, our first problem is what constitutes a "young Phi Bete." Traditionally for organizations, the cut-off age for "younger" members is 40. But as far as we are concerned, if you still have hair which is not completely gray and feel young at heart, and especially if you want to be in charge of some event, you qualify.

It seems the best way to communicate with younger members is through our website, so please check out the Young Phi Bete page to see if anything is happening for those of us who don't remember life before tv.

Click the image to enlarge

Phi Beta Kappa Award Certificate

Association Honored by the National Society

Our Association received a significant honor at the concluding banquet of the Triennial in Seattle Aug. 6-10, 2003. The award included a check for $1000 that we may use for either our endowment or scholarship fund. We also received the certificate pictured at the left. Click on the image to see an enlarged view.

The wording on the Certificate of Recognition is:
"The Senate of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on the recommendation of the Committee on Associations honors the Northern California Association for excellence in representing the ideals and commitments of Phi Beta Kappa during the 2000 –2003 triennium.* Presented at the 40th Triennial Council meeting August 6-10, 2003".

(Signed by Joseph W. Gordon, President and John Churchill, Secretary)

*From the Key Reporter, Fall 2003, issue:
"...among its accomplishments were presenting 15 speakers and other events in the past year; organizing an annual retreat at (Asilomar) State Conference Center, presenting honoraria for teaching excellence to four area professors; awarding scholarships to nine graduate students at area institutions; and producing a newsletter and website." Our President, Mary Hanel is shown receiving the award.