Harvard Club of Washington, DC: Gridiron-Sunday Reception and Show-SOLD OUT!

Gridiron-Sunday Reception and Show-SOLD OUT!

The firm deadline for registration is March1

Sunday, March13th@ 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Renaissance Washington Hotel
999 Ninth Street NW.

For 126 years, the Gridiron Club has regaled an annual white-tie dinner with satire and songs that skewer Presidents and congressional leaders, lobbyists and sacred cows. Saturday night’s Spring Dinner sponsored by the Gridiron, Washington's oldest organization of journalists, is attended by 600 people invited by the Club's membership, which is limited to 65 of the capital's most respected reporters and columnists.

Now we are opening our Sunday afternoon performance, given for friends and family, to a wider audience that includes members of Washington-based college alumni groups and State Societies. As the incoming president of the Gridiron Club and Foundation, I'm writing to invite your group to participate. The Gridiron's Sunday Reprise will be on March 13, 2011, in the ballroom of the Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW.

Because the Gridiron Club is a 501© (3) organization, most of the cost of the ticket is tax-deductible as a charitable contribution.

We think your members would have a ball at our show, one of Washington's signature events.

What they'll see is our members -- including such well-known faces as David Broder of the Washington Post, John Dickerson of Slate, Al Hunt of Bloomberg, John King of CNN, Mara Liaisson of NPR, Andrea Mitchell of NBC, Bob Schieffer of CBS, Chuck Todd of NBC and Judy Woodruff of PBS -- performing songs and skits in costume. Columnist Mark Shields outlines the speeches delivered the night before, which typically include remarks by the President and a leading Democrat and leading Republican. Running the musical performance is the director of the Marine Band, Col. Michael Colburn, the Club's musical director.

The reception, which includes an open bar, begins at 3 PM, the show at 4 PM. It ends by 6 PM.

Place: Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, on Mount Vernon Square. Parking is available at the hotel garage on I Street or in a public lot across 9th Street. Attire: Business dress.

Cost: $75 Members and guests

Contact: Caren Pauley 202-337-1300: caren@harvard-dc.org