University Club meetings and programs are now in-person.

Dear University Club members and friends,

The University club has returned to in-person meetings at the Sycamore Room at the Doubletree Hotel.

To encourage all members and guests to attend, the luncheons served at our gatherings at the Doubletree will be available for just $20.00, a very deep discount being subsidized by the club.

We look forward to your attendance and participation.

David Sonner, President

The Club President and Members Welcome You

“Thank you for your interest in the University Club of Claremont. We are enthusiastic about our 100 years of continuous active engagement in the Claremont community. As a guest, you are always welcome to our meetings. We provide informative programs on a range of topics and enjoy the camaraderie as we meet and have lunch at the Doubletree Hotel. As a University Club member, we take pride in our Grants and Scholarship programs which provide educational support as well as High School scholarships. We hope you might consider joining as a member of the University Club of Claremont. “

John Townswick, President 2024-2025
E Mail : jtowns2@att.net

UClub first-time guest

We invite you to be our guest at any upcoming luncheon meeting of the University Club of Claremont, held the second and fourth Tuesdays of most months (first two Tuesdays of November and December), at the Doubletree Hotel in Claremont.  We gather at 11:30, have a good lunch at 12:00, and enjoy an intellectually stimulating program before adjourning about 1:30.  The current lunch price is $20, but you will be our first-time guest by bringing or referring to this ticket.

In order to be included in our lunch count, we need your RSVP to secretary@universityclubofclaremont.org by noon of the Saturday before the luncheon through December 2024.  We look forward to welcoming you soon.

February 11

“Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History”

Speaker – Evaggelos Vallianatos, author

Ev Vallianatos’s presentation will be about his new book, Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History (Universal Publishers, 2025). He presents a global overview of what the Greeks did well and what they did not. He draws implications from this history to our times in the twenty-first century in the West, which was founded o the virtues of Greek science and civilization. 

Ev studied Greek history and zoology at the University of Illinois; earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin and did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and the US Environmental Protection Agency, taught at several universities, and authored hundreds of articles and several books.