Annual Banquet with HAA Executive Director Philip Lovejoy
May 13, 2015 | 6:00 p.m. | Jax Cafe | 1928 University Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418 | Cost $55 | Registration will close 5/11/15 at noon
Please join us for the 2015 Harvard Club of Minnesota Annual Banquet, with our special guest speaker, Philip W. Lovejoy, Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association
May 13, 2015, 6:00 p.m.
Philip Lovejoy's employment at Harvard began in 1998, but the University has always been a part of his life. The son and grandson of Harvard graduates and dedicated alumni volunteers (and great grandson of a Radcliffe alumna), he recalls dinner table conversations about Harvard's positive impact on the world. Those conversations, and the many he has had with alumni around the world, inform his vision for developing a deeply engaged and connected alumni body for Harvard - alumni who are excited about the Harvard of today and the Harvard of the future, and who will continue to steward the University as ambassadors, volunteers, and donors.
From 1998 to 2004, Philip was director of external affairs at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, where his responsibilities included directing the public programs and all fundraising efforts. Since joining the HAA in 2004, he has worked in a variety of roles, previously serving as deputy executive director, director of University-wide alumni affairs, and associate director of alumni education. Philip has positioned the organization to deepen alumni engagement with Harvard through five points of connection: access to intellectual content, connection to the campus and students of today, treating alumni as "insiders", increasing participation in volunteerism and philanthropy, and promoting participation in alumni communities. In connection with the critically important network of alumni volunteers, Philip and the HAA are working to translate positive feelings toward Harvard into a deeper alumni engagement with the University and an abiding commitment to it's success.
Philip is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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