BOAT RACE DINNER: Washington, D.C., 2016

THE 69th ANNUAL OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE DINNER

was held Thursday, April 7, 2016

at the National Press Club, 14^th and F Streets, N.W., Top Floor

Cocktails at 7 p.m., Dinner at 8 p.m. 

Moderator:

William W. Chip (Clare, Cambridge) Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling will preside. Bill studied economics at Clare as a Mellon Fellow, earning his law degree at Yale University after serving as a Marine Corps officer in the Pacific.  An international tax lawyer by day, in his spare time he authors (occasionally politically incorrect) articles in economic, political, and religious journals such as The National Interest, The American Conservative, and First Things.

Speakers:

Professor Angela E. Stent (Girton, Cambridge), Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University.  She has served on the National Intelligence Council and the Office of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State.  Her latest book, The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the 21^st Century (2014), won the Douglas Dillon Prize of the American Academy of Diplomacy. Professor Stent will give the Toast to the Universities.

Professor Sir Drummond Bone, MA, FRSA, FRSE, Hon, LittD, Master of Balliol College and an acknowledged expert of the poetry of Byron and is President of the Scottish Byron Society.  He is the former President of Universities UK, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Principal of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London and Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Glasgow.  Sir Drummond will give the response from the Universities.

THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE COMMITTEE of Washington, D.C. 

Steven Beller, Jesus, Cambridge Michael R. Beschloss, St. Antony’s, Oxford Nicholas Boyle, Emmanuel, Cambridge Esther Brimmer, New College, Oxford Patrick Brogan, King’s, Cambridge Jonathan Davidson, Pembroke, Cambridge E.J. Dionne Jr., Balliol, Oxford Lucie Morton Garrett, Manchester, Oxford Elliot F. Gerson, Magdalen, Oxford Thomas L. Hughes, Balliol, Oxford

George R. Keys, Jr., Balliol, Oxford, Chairman David B. Law, Christ Church, Oxford, Hon. Treas. Sarah Papineau Marshall, King’s, Cambridge  Janet Matricciani, Trinity, Cambridge  Amit Pandya, New College, Oxford  Victoria P. Rostow, King’s, Cambridge  George Stephanopoulos, Balliol, Oxford  Cynthia Walker, Girton, Cambridge  Carolyn H. Williams, Girton, Cambridge  Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Jesus, Oxford