We are well into our new year, and the Club is getting busy again. It’s good to see the members back again. We started the year with a evening of Tom Bopp and his music, a nostalgia-filled evening featuring songs from about 1910 through the years of the depression. Now the Events Committee and the management are planning more member events for the rest of the year. Watch for dates in the Newsletter and plan to be there. Further work is being planned for the renovation of more hotel rooms, and the installation of bathrooms in those that currently lack them. We will keep you informed as the work gets under way. I look forward to working with you during the new year. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any help to you at the Club.

We apologize for the error in price that appeared in last month’s newsletter. This lovely evening of dining and dancing will cost $60 per person, including tax and service. The reception will begin at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7, and dancing to Tim Ross’s trio until 10 p.m. Book now by calling Mark at 540-5678, extension 224.

On March 21st join us for a dinner with Chalk Hill winery. The reception will start at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m. Total cost for the evening is $60 per person, plus tax and tip. The most elegant meals presented at the Club are those that Felix and our chef put together for these periodic winemaker’s dinners. At these events, wineries send representatives to plan a presentation of some of the finest wines they produce and offer members the opportunity to order at highly advantageous prices. Sometimes the wines presented are hard to find on the open market. If you’ve never been to one of these dinners, come and be amazed! Call Mark at extension 224 to make your reservations.

The next meeting of the Golden Girlfriends will be held on Wednesday, March 12th. Members who attend these luncheons will receive notification in the mail during late February.At the group’s January meeting Dorothy Shack presented a account of her trip to New York to accept a prestigious award made posthumously to her husband, William Shack, for his book (which he did not live to see in print) on the role of Black musicians in Paris life in the period between the two world wars. life: Harlem in Montmartre (University of California Press). Shack (as his friends called him) was for some years president of the Club.

As we go to press, the art show for March has not been finalized. Watch the corridor during the coming week for the next installation.

Arrive at the Club on any week night between 5 and 6:30 to enjoy a complete meal for the incredible price of $11.95! All meals include soup or salad, plus dessert. Add a couple of glasses of wine and still pay less for two meals than for a single meal, without wine, in a downtown restaurant. Reservations are recommended, especially on basketball game nights and dates when there are major events at Zellerbach. (Still, some drop-ins can usually be accommodated.) Reserve at 540-5678 extension 0.

Coming Events February 14th - Valentine's Day Dinner & Dance March 7th - Third annual Jazz Night and Dinner 12th - Golden Girlfriends' meeting 21st - Winemaker's dinner

Repeat of a grand event that gets more supporters every year. Come to the Club for the third annual dinner and evening of jazz on March 7th. Enjoy our chef’s fine dinner creations after a selection of hors d’śuvres. Then settle down to an evening of hot, foot-stomping classic jazz from the twenties by the fine international jazz band, the San Francisco Feetwarmers. Dancing will be irresistible! The group has a fine website. Check it out at www.sffeetwarmers.com. Then hear them live at the Club. The cost is only $30 per person, all inclusive. Reservations in by February 15th

New Club Publication

We still have copies available of the beautiful new publication put together as a souvenir of the Club’s 2002 Centennial year. Many members were present at the symposium held in the Seaborg Room as a preface to our grand Centennial party last March. The papers presented on that occasion have been published in a volume entitled The Idea of a Community of Scholars, with contributions from Richard Muller (Physics), Anne Kilmer (Near Eastern Studies), Walter Alvarez (Geology), and Martin Trow (Center for Higher Education). It can be bought at the front desk for $10 a copy. This beautifully produced book, with a preface by Jack Coons, is illustrated with color photographs of the Club. It also contains the reprint of an early account of the financing of Club construction and expansion by subscription from the members themselves. As we pointed out last month, we are living in a time when faculty clubs around the nation (including those at some prestigious private schools) are becoming little more than campus-run hotels and dining rooms. We, on the other hand, can take pride in the fact that our Club is flourishing and maintains the tradition of being a true club, directed by its members, and alive with academic dignity. We chose to mark our Centennial by pausing to think about the special role that the Club has always filled in promoting the ideal that a great University is more than a collection of discrete scholarly modules – it should function as a community, a grouping of scholars in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This book stands as testimony to the Club’s role in promoting this ideal. The edition is limited to 750 copies – get yours while they last!

Happy Hour in the Club Bar

Members are invited to drop the burdens of the day, or gird themselves for the evening ahead of them, by coming to the bar for a break. Meet your friends over a drink between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Enjoy complimentary snacks and a changing offering of specially chosen wines (in addition to all the usually available libations, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic).

Elections and Annual Meeting

At the beginning of March, the Nominations Committee will post on the bulletin board the list of candidates who have agreed to run for the vacancies on the Board of Directors. In the course of that month, members will receive ballots and background information on candidates. The results of the election will be announced at the Club’s annual meeting – at 12 noon on April 5th in the Howard Room (complimentary coffee and cake). Over the past few years our Board of Directors has had to reach many thoughtful decisions about Club policies and future actions. To be a member of the board is both an honor and a responsibility. If you are interested in putting yourself forward as a candidate, get in touch with any member of the current Board who will then pass your name on to the Nominations Committee. We are fortunate that so many busy people agree to undertake the task of serving on the Board. Please take time to vote and participate in this effort.

Upcoming Events

Watch next month’s newsletter for details of the evening we are planning with Narsai David. And prepare to hear Fred Crews “rave about Freud,” as he puts it, in our first faculty lecture of 2003. As soon as dates and details are set, a notice will be posted on the Club’s bulletin board.

ATM in Bar

A reminder that the Cal State ATM is available in the bar for your convenience in getting cash–all day, every day.


The Faculty Club Newsletter is published monthly by: The Faculty Club University of California Berkeley. CA 94720-6050 Contributions and comments may be mailed to the Editor, Phyllis Brooks, at the Club, or by e-mail to pbrooks@vdn.com Board of Directors, 2002-2003: Bruce Bolt, President Dick White, Treasurer Dan Melia, Recorder Jack Coons Joyce Kallgren Bill Oldham Phyllis Brooks Club Manager: Felix Solomon


Club numbers: Telephone: 510-540-5678 Fax: 510-540-6204 Reservations: Kerr Dining Room: Extension 0 Parties: Extension 5 E-mail: info@berkeleyfacultyclub.com Website: www.berkeleyfacultyclub.com Kerr Dining Room hours Breakfast 7:30-10:00; Lunch M-F 11:30 –1:30; Dinner M-F 5:00-8:30 Bar hours: M-F 11:30-1:30; Happy Hours 4-30-6 30; closes at 8:30 p.m. Buffet lunch: 11:30-1:30 M-F Guest accommodations available: Reservations may be made at 540-5678, ext. 3 or through our website. Membership: Call Felix, at ext. 9.

The Faculty Club Newsletter

February 2003

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