Harvard Club of Philadelphia

State of the Club: Annual Meeting & Dinner 

 Join us on April 29th for the Harvard Club of Philadelphia's State of Club: Annual Meeting & Dinner. This year's meeting will be at the Racquet Club and feature a fireside chat with Katherina Rosqueta, founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, on "Turning Good Intentions into Greater Social Change". 

We invite alumni and guests to join us for our annual meeting and dinner, which will be held in the stately and spacious Main Dining Room, the crown jewel of the Racquet Club.  An inaugural “State of the Club” annual report and pamphlet will be provided, as part of our Annual Meeting.  

Katherina ‘Kat’ M. Rosqueta is the founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy and a senior fellow at the Wharton Center for Leadership & Change Management. She also serves as the faculty co-director of High Impact Philanthropy Academy and adjunct faculty in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Founded as a collaboration between SP2 and alumni of the Wharton School, the Center for High Impact Philanthropy is the premier source of knowledge and education on how philanthropy can do more good.

Her work and comments have been cited in numerous publications including the New York Times, Slate, Money Magazine, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and the Wall Street Journal. She speaks frequently on social impact management and philanthropy and has lectured at the Wharton Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, and the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.  Kat received her a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Moderator: Harvard Club Board Member, Zachary Herrmann (EdLD '17), serves as the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Dr. Herrmann leads the Penn Leadership Education Institute, the Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice initiative, and designs partnerships and professional learning efforts focused on teacher and leader development, team effectiveness, negotiation, and creative problem solving. 

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Time: 5:45-8:30 pm
Location: Racquet Club of Philadelphia, 215 S 16th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Appropriate dress required. Business casual is recommended; jackets for gentlemen preferred. 

The dinner will be buffet style (soda, juice included) and cash only bar (liquor, beer, wine). The Racquet Club does not accept credit cards.  

If you would prefer a Vegan or Vegetarian dinner entree, please put this request in the comment section of the checkout or email admin@hrcphilly.com.

Evening Program:

• 5:45 PM Arrival 
• 6:00 PM Reception (cash bar)
• 6:30 PM Dinner (buffet style)
• 7:15 PM Annual Meeting, State of the Club 
• 7:30 PM Guest Speaker, Q&A
• 8:30 PM Conclude

Price:  RSVP Today!!!

• Club Members: $55.
  • Crimson Circle and Sustaining Members may bring 3 guests at member price.
  • Dual Members may bring 1 guest at member price. 
  • Regular Members - may bring guest at non-member rate.
• Young Alum/Recent Grad Members: $45
• Non-Members, guest of Regular Members: $75 (May join now to receive member price - Membership will be good through next year!) Join here.
• Event Sponsor: $150 (Name and organization will be recognized at dinner. Sponsorship includes 1 tickets to the event.) 

 
Space is limited to 75 people.  RSVP closes April 22nd. 

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Event Sponsors:

• Justin D. Richardson Martino, President, HCP
• Debbie Morton, Morton Contemporary Gallery

Harvard connection history note:

The Racquet Club of Philadelphia was co-founded by George D. Widener in 1905. He commissioned the architect Horace Trumbauer to design the signature Beaux-Arts club building, which opened in 1907.  Titanic passenger, Harry Elkins Widener, a 27-year-old Philadelphia businessman and book collector who graduated from Harvard College in 1907, perished in the boat’s sinking along with his father, George D. Widener. His mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener, survived, floating to safety aboard lifeboat No. 4. Not long after the Titanic went down, the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library went up at Harvard, thanks to a $2 million donation from his grieving mother. The Library was also designed by architect Horace Trumbauer.