Stanford Club of Pasadena

Dr. Mara Mather ‘94 gave a wonderful presentation on her Alzheimer’s clinical research at the South Pasadena Public Library Community Room on June 14. Thank you Dr. Mather, and thank you to all who attended, including members of the MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and Carnegie Mellon alumni clubs!

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who attended Stanford Club of Pasadena’s Beyond the Farm service event to support the Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena on Sunday!

Thank you Stanford Law Professor Norm Spaulding for leading us LA-area alums last Sunday in a vibrant discussion and workshop on rebuilding civil discourse 🙏🏽 . .

Stanford alumni spent a wonderful evening at East West Players' and the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song, with book updated by Stanford alum David Henry Hwang '79. The evening started with a reception catered by Little Tokyo's iconic Far Bar and a conversation between David and USC Professor Dorinne Kondo, Stanford '77. As the first Broadway production (1958) and then the first mainstream Hollywood film (1961) to feature an all-Asian cast and to be about Asian Americans (rather than Asians), Flower Drum Song holds a special place in Asian American history. David and Dorinne talked about David's career, why he rewrote the book(a second time) for Flower Drum Song, and why he asked East West Players to stage the newly rewritten work.

What a fantastic way to kick off April! The Stanford Club of Pasadena had a wonderful visit to the Carnegie Science Observatories on Santa Barbara Street—right here in our own backyard.

Carnegie is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern astronomy, and our tour brought that history to life. We visited the historic Hale Library—the very room where Albert Einstein once announced that Hubble's observations had changed his mind about the expanding universe—and toured the working machine shop where engineers and astronomers build instrumentation for telescopes in Chile.

A huge thank you to the team at Carnegie Science Observatories for such a generous and informative tour. We hope to be back. https://carnegiescience.edu/obs

Prof. David Miller, Chief Technologist for the Astronomy and Fundamental Physics Directorate at NASA’s JPL, gave a stellar talk to over 140 guests from Stanford Club of Pasadena, MIT Club of Southern California, Princeton Club of Southern California, and CalTech Alumni Association. Dr. Joel Hartman, Stanford ‘03, Harvard PhD ‘08, and currently a research astronomer at Princeton University, facilitated the lively Q&A session following the lecture. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for making it such a cosmic success!

We had a wonderful evening of observing at Mt. Wilson with our docent Tim and telescope operator Geo, and used the 60 inch telescope to see Vega, the Ring Nebula, Campbell’s Hydrogen Star, Albireo, Saturn, and the moon. The weather was perfect and made for clear seeing all night!

Stanford Club of Pasadena hosted a sold-out trip to Mt. Wilson Observatory on November 1st. As the group's astronomer guide announced that he wa focusing the telescope on a "blue" star, the Dodgers clinched the World Series! A perfect night achieved! Thank you to Perry Vidalakis and Eva Davis for leading the tour and to Warren Loui for organizing the event.

Garden party event - wonderful times and hosts Rose & Warren