Welcome to Harvard Anime Society (HAS). HAS's goal is to bring Japanese Animation to Harvard University and its community. We are an activity oriented club, and that activity is to watch Anime The evolution of the club is explained below. To do justice to the club, this is what people think. . .
| members | nonmembers | |
| Anime | It is cool. The art form is Cartoons... Encompassing, from social satire to slap-stick comedy. Very enriching. | Why can't they go watch movies? |
| Organization | None. To organize is to sacrifice enthusiasm under the pressure of bureacracy. | You can't beat XXX club. We have all sorts of committees, meetings, discussions... |
| Members | We are cool. | Get a life. |
| Non-members | Come brethren. We love thee. Come embrace your transcendental ego. | Huh... We are fine. We have a life. |
| Conversation Topics | The motif in Iria and Tylor. Use of Beethoven Symphony in Dragon Half. Miyazaki's films as a reflection on modern industrial countries' problems. | Classes, weather, lunch, girls, med school... |
We are an enthusiastic lot. We know each other by name. We are willing to give money to the club (i.e. We are crazy). We subtitle animation (or try). We have a library. We show animation every other week. We show animation on TV/VCRs. We show animation on big screens. We love what we do.
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The present HAS traces its most direct root to Michael
Kim, who is the founder
of the Winthrop House Anime Show, the creator of the present HAS
constitution and the former HAS president. In the process of
creating a real official club from the Group, HAS absorbed members
from HRSFA's anime sig,
as well as the earlier Dunster House
Anime Society headed
by Richard Uyeyama. HAS passed a transition
period as HRAS, but due to the
awful acronym, it adopted its present name. At the moment, HAS is closely associated with Japan Society. It still shares functions with HRSFA, and we intend to keep close ties with HRTV. |
At present, we are involved with these projects:
This is the charter membership list that was submitted to the dean of students office when I went ahead and got us recognized by the college. I think it was Gio that convinced me to get off my butt and do it. We'd been having showings before this point, of course. This was culled from our mailing list so there are some non-Harvard students here. Notable members are Devin McLachlan (a cousin of Sarah!), Alex Wong (a fansub translator back in the day) and our charter officers (Ben, Gio, Royce and myself). Some of the regulars back then also included Larry Lee, John-Marc Chandonia, Hsien Wong. Harvard Anime Society Charter Membership List 1994-1995 February 2, 1995 Zimran Ahmed 98 ahmed@fas.harvard.edu Canaday A21 3-8210 John-Marc Chandonia G5 chandoni@fas.harvard.edu 217 Beacon #2 441-0586 Tanisha Alicea 95-96 tnalicea@fas.harvard.edu Adams A21 3-2007 Alisha Bermudez 95 ambermud@fas.harvard.edu Winthrop C23 3-3263 Crystal Burke cburke@fas.harvard.edu 562-0595 Phil Cartagena 96 fcartag@fierce.net Winthrop D32 3-0970 Jaime Chang 96 chang2@fas.harvard.edu Lowell I22 3-2980 Billy Chen 98 bcchen@fas.harvard.edu Hollis 01 3-3530 Amy Chused ace@fandom-house.org Matthew Ender Sydney J Freedberg 96 freedber@fas.harvard.edu Cabot N22 3-5739 Michael Giovinco 98 giovinco@fas.harvard.edu Matthews 310 3-3644 Drew Glazier glazier@isr.harvard.edu John Grothendieck 95 grothend@husc.harvard.edu Cabot N22 3-5739 Katherine Huang 97 kkhuang@fas.harvard.edu North W11 3-6311 Sunggook Joo 97 sjoo@fas.harvard.edu Apley 03 Michael Kim 97 leda@imsa.edu North C316 3-6012 Larry K Lee 95 lklee@atomsun.harvard.edu Adams B25 3-2041 Patrick Lee 95 lee5@fas.harvard.edu North C307 3-6009 Karin Lewicki lewicki@fas.harvard.edu Dunster D51 3-2205 Ana Licuanan 95 licuanan@fas.harvard.edu Adams A21 3-2007 Benjamin Liu 98 liu13@fas.harvard.edu Matthews 107 3-3629 Katherine Lu 95 kslu@fas.harvard.edu Devin McLachlan 96 mclachl@fas.harvard.edu 3-2250 Susannah Mandel 98 smandel@fas.harvard.edu Greenough 410 3-3518 Mia Markey markey@imsa.edu Aaron Milchiker 97 amilchik@fas.harvard.edu North C216 3-7226 Kyle W Niedzwiecki 98 kniedzw@fas.harvard.edu Matthews 101 3-3658 Brian Park 97 bkpark@fas.harvard.edu North C218 3-5997 Michael H Park mpark@fas.harvard.edu 450-0771 Royce Peng 95 rpeng@fas.harvard.edu Dunster F33 3-2230 Ed Rosenberg 95 erosenb@fas.harvard.edu Winthrop C41 3-3267 Nanaho Sawano 98 nsawano@fas.harvard.edu Thayer 414 3-1987 Nazim Soylemezoglu 98 mnsoylem@fas.harvard.edu Straus D41 3-3801 Matthew Tambiah 98 Pennypacker 18 3-3710 Alexander Wong awong@emerald.tufts.edu Charles Wong 98 ccwong@fas.harvard.edu Wigg F21 3-3938 Hsien Wong 96 hwong@fas.harvard.edu Quincy 313 3-3118 Mark Wunderlich mwunderl@fas.harvard.edu Winthrop I11 3-3343-- michael h kim [ sde | cpi ] http://www.imsa.edu/~leda