HRC Weekly - Volume XIV Issue VII

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The HRC Weekly
Harvard Republican Club Bulletin
Volume XIV, Issue VII -- Week of 12 February 2007

This week's contents:

I. Lincoln Day Dinner 2007 - This Month!

II. Conservative Women's Caucus (CWC) 2007 - This Month!

III. HRC Webmaster

IV. Republican IOP Fellows

V. Write for the Salient!

VI. Buy a T-Shirt

VII. Pay Dues

I. Lincoln Day Dinner 2007 - Don't miss the Harvard Republican Club's fifth annual Lincoln Day Dinner on February 22, 2006 at 6:00 PM in Eliot House Dining Hall. The key note address will be given by Star Parker. Ms. Parker, a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, is the founder of CURE, a non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in inner-city neighborhoods. Please RSVP at http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/gop // ldd .html . If you have questions, please contact Vice President of Spekers and Political Discourse Caleb Weatherl at weatherl@fas.harvard.edu.

II. Conservative Women's Caucus (CWC) - Saturday, February 24 - Conservative Women's Conference, Saturday, February 24, Harvard Hall 104. Join fellow conservative women from Harvard and college campuses throughout the state to disprove the assumption that all college women are liberal! For more info and to register, please visit www.conservativewoman.org .

Schedule:
9:00 Registration opens, light breakfast provided in foyer
10-10:15 Conference Welcome
10:15-11:15 Chriss Winston , First woman to head the White House Office of Speech Writing as Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications and Director of Speech Writing for President George H.W. Bush
11:15-12:15 Kathryn Jean Lopez , Editor, National Review Online
12:15-1:15 Lunch Roundtables

Women in the Military: Capt. Kristin Hort , USAF, and Capt. Melissa Keller , USAF
Women in Academia: Dr. Mary Keys , Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Women in Government: Christina Bain , Republican State Committee Member and Executive Director for the Governor's Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence
"Pro-Life and Pro-Woman": Linda Thayer , Massachusetts Citizens for Life

1:15-2:15 Dr. Charmaine Yoest , VP of Communications, Family Research Council
2:15-3:30 Panel: Thoughts on Family and Career

Dr. Mildred Jefferson , Former President, National Right to Life Committee, and first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School
Carrie Severino , Harvard Law School graduate and clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Greer Swiston , Commissioner on the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women and candidate for State Representative from Newton

3:30-4:30 Appetizers in foyer

III. HRC Webmaster - The HRC is currently looking for someone with technological expertise to manage the Club website. If you are interested, please contact Jeffrey Kwong at jkwong@fas.harvard.edu.

IV. Republican IOP Fellows - Republicans Kerry Healey, Nancy Johnson, and Chriss Winston are among this semester's class of fellows at the IOP. For more information about the Kerry Healey study group, contact Kait Michaud at kmichaud@fas.harvard.edu; Nancy Johnson's study group, contact Brian Bolduc at bolduc@fas.harvard.edu; or Chriss Winston's study group, contact Andrew McCarthy at amccarth@fas.harvard.edu.

V. Write for the Salient! - Interested in contributing your opinions to the campus conversation so often dominated by the Left? The Harvard Salient, the college's most pretigious journal of political opinion, continuously solicits submissions for articles, editorials, and art. There are also ample opportunities in the Salient Business Office, for those more interested in the financial aspect of conservative activism. For more information on how you can get involved, please contact Ryan McCaffrey, rmccaffr@fas.harvard.edu.

VI. Buy a T-Shirt - You can buy an HRC T-shirt for $10 by emailing Treasurer Mark Shepard, at mshepard@fas.harvard.edu to arrange for payment and shipping/pickup.

VII. Pay Dues - If you haven't paid your $5 dues for the year yet, you can do so by mailing it with your name and email address to Membership and Publicity Director Christopher Higgins, 1626 Harvard Yard Mail Center, or email him at chiggins@fas.harvard.edu. Be sure to include your name and e-mail address in the envelope. Paying dues gets you a membership card, priority in our events, and an endless array of sundry benefits.

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