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Google group for Sloanies

Due to popular demand, a Sloanies in the UK Google Group has been created. For those of you who are Sloan alums or current students and wish to join the Google Group,  please send a request to Yiting (yshen@sloan.mit.edu) indicating your preferred email address and class year.

The purpose of the group is to share Sloanies life stories, seek help from other fellow Sloanies, and keep in touch.

You can find more information about the Google Group at  http://groups.google.com/group/mitsloan_uk, and previous email logs to decide whether this is a valuable service for you.  Currently there are 50 Sloanies in the UK included in the Google Group. Further questions / comments, please do not hesitate to contact Yiting.

Annual General Meeting

At the Club's AGM on 17 June, Linda agreed to remain as president for a futher year.  The Board elected a list of officers for the 2009-10 academic year.
A  welcome visitor to the meeting was Nichola Haworth, winner of the 2009 MIT Inspirational Teacher Award.  Linda presented Nichola with a certificate and gift from MIT, and offered her the Club's congratulations and appreciation.

Sevenoaks School teacher wins 2009 MIT Inspirational Teacher Award.

The MIT Inspirational Teacher Award recognizes outstanding secondary school teachers who inspire in their students a love of learning, encourage them to pursue excellence, and give them the skills and enthusiasm they need to make a positive difference in the world.   Teachers are nominated by their students.  Information about the award and a list of winners is at http://web.mit.edu/inspire .

This year Nichola Haworth, a physics teacher from Sevenoaks School  UK has been granted this award, having been nominated by one of her students, Latifah Hamzah.  

Click here to see a copy of Latifah's letter of nomination.

Simon Stokes, Club Counsel, Ordained

On Saturday, 20th June, 2008, Simon Stokes, the club's counsel for many years was ordained as a deacon in the Church of England at St Paul's Cathedral on Saturday.  The event was attended by the club's president Linda, her husband, John, and  their daughter Rachel - and Yiting Shen, the club's membership VP.   A party was held afterwards, close to St Paul's, in Charterhouse, where Simon lives.

Simon said "It was a wonderful day.   It has taken me three years of part time study for a theology degree to reach this point and I'll spend the next four years with a parish just North of the City of London (www.holyredeemer.co.uk/) and it is planned I am ordained a priest this time next year.  I remain in full time employment as a solicitor and law firm partner.

http://www.london.anglican.org/NewsShow_10305 gives you some background.

Linda took some photos.

Events of other alumni groups

The 'fornogoodreason' website is no longer supported.  Events notified to us from other alumni groups (or links to them) will now appear on the Events page.

The Club on Facebook

There is now a Facebook group, administered by Yiting Shen

Yiting says, "Dear MIT Club of Great Britain Members,

You are cordially invited to join the MIT Club of GB Facebook group, which serves as a common space to share event information, thoughts, pictures and etc.

Cheers,
Yiting
MIT Club of GB Membership".

To see more details and confirm this group invitation, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=714895&k=ZZM52655TZ2MYGEHXF6UU

Everyone can join Facebook. To register, go to:
http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=714895&k=ZZM52655TZ2MYGEHXF6UU&r

Thanks,
The Facebook Team

MIT10 UK on Facebook

There is now a Facebook group, administered by Ben Maron.  The link is http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8053260969

Book Club

Clive Norris and Indranath Neogy have established a book club.  All MIT Club members are welcome to suggest books to read and discuss and to provide reviews.  For the time being, discussion will be via email; a blog-style arrangement may be set up in the future.  Reviews will be posted on this site.  Please contact Clive or Indy.

Alumni Leadership Conference, 2009  

Yting Shen, the club's Membership Secretary,  took part in this year's Alumni Leadership Conference at MIT .  She offers reports on the events and activities there.  Do have a look.

MIT UK students and alumnae/i - statistics  

The Institute has provided figures on alumni/ae registered as living here in the UK.  There is a breakdown by course and year (well, actually decade), and other information that may be of interest to you.   Have a look.

Invitation from Sloane Club

The Sloane Club is delighted to offer privileged use of the Club and bedrooms at weekends to members of The M.I.T. Club of Great Britain. Click for details.

Alumni/ae Publicity Pages

The Club has launched its member Publicity Pages

Club members are invited to submit information about events, business opportunities, personal interests, etc. that they would like to publicise to other alums. We have room for baby photos, too. Please see the Publicity Page for details.

Presidential Citation and Distinguished Service Awards

Texts of the Citation and Award

MIT Alumni Travel Program

Join fellow MIT alumni from all over the globe to discover new destinations with the MIT Alumni Travel Program. All trips are led by faculty from MIT or from other educational institutions. http://alum.mit.edu/lt/travel/

Royal Academy of Engineering - Ingenia Subscription Offer

The Royal Academy of Engineering has kindly offered MIT alumni living in the UK the opportunity to receive Ingenia, the quarterly magazine without charge. Click here for more information.