Harvard Club of Philadelphia

President's Message . . .  

September 14, 2025

Dear Harvard Alumni, Families, and Community,

I am honored to continue to serve as President for the Harvard Club of Philadelphia (HCP), 2025-2027, along with Executive Committee members Becky Wald Thomas, AB '07 Vice President, Jenna McNeill, AB '95 Secretary, and Varghese Thomas, ALM '19 Treasurer. 

We invite you to attend the upcoming September 16th Welcome to Your City event at Yards Brewing to meet & greet new arrivals to our region and to hear from two local leaders!

The coming year will bring many fun and special events including our Fall Opener on October 8th at Morton Contemporary Gallery and a Longwood Gardens Science Talk & Tour on November 1st.  Please see our newsletter, social media, and website for the complete and ongoing listing of upcoming events: book group, author series, historic place, Ivy+ mixer, Union Soccer, The Harvard-Yale Game, and more! (View upcoming events here)

HCP is a community where you can have collegial and memorable conversations, find familiar faces and make new acquaintances, enjoy social, cultural, educational, and community events, engage with speakers, experience different venues, explore the treasures of the Philadelphia region, volunteer as an interviewer for admissions candidates to Harvard College, donate to our Scholarship Fund and Prize Book programs, and host / sponsor special events!

HCP is also a place to find engagement with: regional Harvard clubs / communities, like Delaware, Princeton, and HBS, with nonprofits like PhillyBOLT, The Independence Historical Trust, The Curtis Institute, and The Wayne Art Center.

In addition, we also extend and enjoy invitations for collegial interactions and programs with alumni from other universities, including All Ivy: Penn/Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Northwestern, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, MIT, UVA, Swarthmore, etc.

The HCP Board of Directors and committee members all serve as volunteers to our HCP community. We are eager to continue to build upon the service that our past leaders have dedicated to HCP and Harvard. And we look forward to hearing your program ideas and thoughts for our community. (Fill out survey here.)

We look forward to seeing you at in-person and online events!

And we also look forward to your membership application or renewal as club dues support our programming and community giving. 

Sincerely,

Justin D. Richardson Martino, AB '91

President, Harvard Club of Philadelphia

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