Dear Harvard Alumni,
Hello and welcome to the Harvard Club of St. Louis (HCSL), your home for building community with fellow Harvard alumni right here in The Lou. I’m honored to be a small part of your experience. For newcomers to STL, this is a place where you can meet new people who don’t split infinitives or drop their Oxford commas, don’t work with you, and don’t have kids who go to school with your kids. For longtime St. Louisans, this is a place where you can do those same things plus welcome the newcomers. Except for the part about split infinitives and Oxford commas, we are diverse in all other ways—spanning schools of the university, the years we spent “at a school in Boston”, and everything about our backgrounds from jobs and neighborhoods to age, race, gender, religion, and politics. Show up and hang out with us—there’s always food involved. Every year we gather for a holiday dinner, yearly dinner in late spring, Harvard-Yale football watch party, and Chinese New Year brunch, as well as smaller events throughout the year. Don’t hesitate to ping me with ideas about expanding the ways our club can serve Harvard alumni and the St. Louis region. You can reach me at hillary@post.harvard.edu for as long as the mothership wants to fundraise from me and surely that’s forever.
Hillary Anger Elfenbein
President, Harvard Club St. Louis 2024