Harvard Club of St Louis Annual Dinner
Details for our annual dinner:
Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
St. Louis Zoo, McDonnell Center at River Camp
(same location as last year)
Keynote Speaker: Vetta Sanders Thompson, Washington University
Accessibility: Golf carts provided for door-to-door access
Your presence is requested at the club’s Annual Dinner, a lovely summer evening of connecting with fellow alumni and their guests over food and drink. We will celebrate the Harvard Club of Saint Louis's most recent year by hearing from our keynote speaker Dr. Vetta Sanders Thompson, E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity about "Stigma and Mental Health: The Lingering Impediment to Community Resources."
Also part of the program is the election of new board members and officers for the club, as well as the presentation of the community service award. This year's recipient of the award is the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis.
Note: Despite the rising cost of food, and labor, we have frozen the cost of our annual dinner to maintain accessibility, and ask those who can to make a charitable donation to support the club.
Tickets:
$60 for club members, and spouses
$45 for recent alumni (classes of 2020 - 2025)
$80 for non-members
Tickets include dinner and open bar.
Parking is complimentary at the Zoo South Lot.
Click here to rsvp and buy tickets!!!
Special Invite to a Private St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert
- April 8, 7:30PM, Powell Hall
(open and free to club members and guests)
Although Harvard club member Larry Katzenstein (Harvard Law school ’72) practices law as a partner in St. Louis law firm Thompson Coburn, he is also a serious amateur musician and for over 30 years has conducted a private St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concert at Powell Hall. He’ll be doing that again on Wednesday evening, April 8 at 7:30, conducting the Second Symphony of Jean Sibelius. All are welcome to attend…open seating and no tickets required. The concert will last about an hour with a reception following. RSVPs for the event are not required but are helpful to the Symphony in planning the event: rsvp@slso.org or 314-286-4101.
Location:
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
718 N. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63103