This event is jointly sponsored by the SCP and the University Club's Proctor Dougherty Society (PDS), the U Club's young member organization, whose great bashes of old are back! To add to the mix, we have invited the participation of several local charities that host social events around the area (these groups are listed below in parentheses after their representative's names).

Joanne Amos + Dave Asiello + Will Black + John Brasse
Jill Brown (Hands On DC) + Toby Burke + Stuart Burns
Tammy Burns + Jason Cave + Anne Marie DiNardo (Small Friendly Planet) + Fred Dombo (Society Ties)
Tom Donnelly + Sarah Easlick + Courtney Eden
Bob Emmett (2100 Fund) + Marilyn Fancher + Eric Fedewa
John Fedewa + Kirsten Fedewa (St. Ann's Infant and Maternity Home) + John Goodwin + Jennifer Hamm + James Head + Laurie Head + Claudia Hrvatin + Rob Forrester + Sue Hensley + Ted Kral + Michael Leurdijk
(DC Cares Social Circle) + Suzanne Lewis + Drew Manning
Stephanie Manning + Aimee Matthews (Party for Life)
Sean McAllister + Bill Murray (Hands On DC)
John Reagan + Joe Reblando + Colleen Rooney
Christina Russell (Hands On DC) + Melissa Sabatine Robin Scullin + Jennifer Sims + Pat Sims + Pete Snyder
Virginia Stevenson + Keith Strubhar + Leanne Strubhar Robert Traynham + Courtney Vaeth + Anita Walker
Tom Walker + Blair Watters + Robb Watters
 
 

$22 (includes two drink tickets and $2 processing fee)
Buy online at http://tickets.scp.org.
Tickets may also be sold at the door (if available).
 
Event proceeds will benefit the University Club Foundation, which supports a number of charitable projects, including educational scholarships, Christmas toys for needy children, and an annual clothing drive.
 
 

For dress code and other details, see http://tickets.scp.org.
E-mail: janus@scp.org
Tel. (703) 995-0383
 
 

"The cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters—it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head. It is said, also to be of great use to a . . . candidate: because, a person having swallowed a glass of it, is ready to swallow anything else."

Balance and Columbian Repository (1806)
 
 

While Seville is recognized as the birthplace of the modern cigar, it was probably invented in pre-Columbian Cuba, where natives tightly wrapped tobacco leaves with maize and smoked the rolled product during religious ceremonies. Christopher Columbus' crew quickly became accustomed to smoking these early cigars and brought back samples of the "Golden Leaf" to Spain. Initially, the smoking of cigars was considered a pagan ritual punished by imprisonment. However, after a few years, cigar smoking became widely accepted and eventually Spain would build an entire industry around the cigar. In 1821 Spain allowed Cuba to manufacture cigars locally and the Cuban cigar was born. In appreciation for Spain's kind gesture, the Cubans would deliver a box of  fabled Trinidad cigars to the Spanish king every year.

Montecristo Cigar Company
 
 

"The martini can be simultaneously 'civilized' and 'uncivilized' , 'classic' and 'individual', or 'sensitive' and 'tough', depending on how it is prepared, who is doing the drinking, with whom, and where."

Richard McKewen
 
 

Jamaican ska is a fusion of the Jamaican mento rhythm, American R & B, and a little bit of jazz. The drums carry the 2d and 4th beats (like the R & B and swing of American music), and the guitar emphasizes the upbeats of the 2d, 3d and 4th beats (the mento rhythm). The horns and/or piano will sometimes also play the upbeats.

Cluet Johnson coined the term "ska". Clue J and His Blues Blasters were big in the 50s and early 60s before the rise of the Skatalites. In explaining the "ya-ya" sound of the music & rhythm being made, the word "ska" popped out, probably because he greeted all his friends as "skavoovie".

Ska Jerk

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