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 ONE OF THE OLDEST
AND GREATEST TRADITIONS of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of intellectual, social, legal, artistic,
historical, scientific, musical, theatrical, and philosophical
issues in the company of educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the beneficent influence of
substantial amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal Smokers,
University Series lectures, and Cigar Society
Dinners, in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important component of our version of
the classical
symposium. Members of the Union League Club, the
Chicago Club, the Standard Club, and the University Club, as
well as any other like-minded ladies and gentlemen,
are all
welcome to attend our events. Reservations are required.
To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the
Secretary
at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
Chris Jones, chief theater critic at the
Chicago Tribune, will talk about
The Death of the Critic, September 28, 2010.
Rooftop Mixer in the Loop, September 14, 2010.
Charles Middleton, President of Roosevelt
University,
Jobs, Higher Education, and the Future of America, September
7, 2010. Abe Kocheril,
Professory of Medicine at the University of Illinois,
Letter from Urbana.
In the Loop and in
Beverly,
June 18 and 19, 2010.
Ernie and Marco
Freudman hosted a
Rooftop Smoker at QuotePro, May 25, 2010.
Mark Warden, past president of Daley College
and Loop College,
The
Community College in American Education, Tuesday, May 11,
2010.
Bill Daley, Chicago Tribune,
An
Interview with Ellen Warren, Tuesday, April 26, 2010.
Lee Allison, the Lee Allison Company,
How
to Tie One On: The History and Contemporary Significance of
the Necktie, Tuesday, April 13, 2010.
Augustus Higginson, Chicago Architectural
Foundation,
The
Rise of the Skyscraper in Chicago, Tuesday, March 30, 2010.
Asad Hayaud Din, consul of Pakistan,
Pakistan,
Afghanistan, and U.S. Policy in the Region, March 16, 2010.
Sam Sisodia, the Thomas Reynolds Sr. Family
Professor of Neurosciences and Director of the Center for
Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, on the
causes of
Alzheimer's Disease, Tuesday, February 23, 2010.
Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune,
on various things, Tuesday, January 26, 2010.
Augustus Higginson hosted an
Informal Smoker in Lake View, January 12, 2010.
Jeff Dreyfuss, Metropolis Coffee Company,
How
to Drink Coffee, Tuesday, December 8, 2009.
High C's on the High Seas: Chicago Opera Theater's Opera and
Cigar Cruise, September 24, 2009.
Augustus Higginson hosted a
Salon in Lake View, September 14, 2009.
Max and Kim Kort
hosted a
Cigar Society Rooftop Mixer, September 1, 2009.
Bill Daley, wine and food critic, Chicago
Tribune, on "Wining
and Smoking," Tuesday, June 30, 2009.
Billy O'Hara, owner, Jack Schwartz Importer,
hosted a
cocktail and cigar party in the Board of Trade Building,
June 11, 2009.
Randy Mosher, author is Tasting Beer
and Radical Brewing,
led a beer tasting on Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
John Nelson and
Charles Hannon led a
tour of historic houses in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, May
29-30, 2009.
Abraham Kocheril,
Director of Clinical Electrophysiology, UIC, talked about "Therapy
for the Heart: Music (and Wine)," April 28, 2009.
Daniel B. Honigman,
Tribune Interactive, on "Social
Media and the Future of Journalism," April 14, 2009.
Augustus Higginson
hosted a
St. Patrick's Day Cigar Party in Lake View, March 17, 2009.
Robert Wallace,
Professor of Classics, Northwestern University, gave "An
*illustrated* history of Greek Sex Lives in the Classical Age,"
March 10, 2009.
Charles Wheelan,
Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Chicago, "Our
Economic Situation," February 24, 2009.
Samuel C. Dudley,
MD, PhD, Professor and Chief of Cardiology, University of
Illinois at Chicago, on
"Mending
Broken Hearts," Tuesday, February 10, 2009.
Donald H. J. Hermann,
Professor of Law and Philosophy, DePaul University, on "Shrinks,
Torture, and Terror," Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
Augustus Higginson
hosted an Informal Smoker in Lake View, January 13, 2009.
Sebastian Melmoth,
special to Cigar News, wrote about "Infamous
'U-Club Four' SUSPENDED for Sixty Days," December 2008.
Charles Middleton,
president of Roosevelt University, on "Funding
Higher Education: Who pays? Who should pay?" December
9, 2008.
Asad Hayaud Din,
Consul of Pakistan, on "The
War on Terror -- Score Card: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the
Region," November 18, 2008.
Jeff Dean
hosted an "Election
Night Dinner and Cigar Party in Hyde Park," with live jazz
from the Ben Paterson trio, November 4, 2008.
Jorge del Castillo,
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern
University and Associate Chief of the Department of Emergency
Medicine at Evanston Hospital, talked about "The
Emergency Room," October 28, 2008.
Augustus Higginson
hosted a Salon in Lake View, September 15, 2008.
Augustus Higginson
hosted a Salon in Lake View, June 17, 2008.
Achy Obejas,
Pulitzer-prize winning Chicago journalist, novelist, and poet,
talked about "Cuba:
What's Next?" April 29, 2008.
Jeffrey Dean
hosted the Cigar Society at his apartment in Hyde Park,
April 15, 2008. Jeff's musical guests were the Ben
Paterson Trio---"Truly fabulous."
Ted Cohen,
expert on esthetic theory and professor of philosophy at the
University of Chicago,
told jokes. April 1, 2008.
Ron Dorfman
gave a slide show of pictures from "Harold!
Photographs from the Harold Washington Years," by Salim
Muwakkil, Antonio Dickey, and Marc PoKempner. March 18,
2008.
Edward Hamilton,
Ministry of Rum, lectured and hosted a rum tasting. March
4, 2008.
Augustus Higginson
hosted an Informal Smoker, February 12, 2008, in Lake View.
Robert Karrow,
Curator of Special Collections, Newberry Library, on "Maps:
Finding our Place in the World," December 11, 2007.
Allen Frantzen, professor of English at Loyola
University and author of "Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and
the Great War", gave a slide show and
talked about war memorials. November 13, 2007.
Stephen Presser,
the Raoul Berger Professor of the History of Law at Northwestern
University, talked about "The
Rule of Law in America: Observations on Recent Supreme Court
Decisions" over dinner on
October 11, 2007.
Jesse Gram,
Lyric Opera, gave an
overview of the upcoming season. September 25, 2007.
Charles Middleton,
president of Roosevelt University, posed the question, "History
Repeats Itself---or does it?" September 11, 2007.
George Thiruvathukal,
professor of computer science at Loyola, "Episodes
in the History of Information Technology." August 28,
2007.
John Nelson,
Chicago Plan Commission, hosted a
Cigar Society Garden Party on July 31, 2007.
The Cigar Society
observed the anniversary of Yale University professor Hiram
Bingham's
rediscovery
of Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas, in the Peruvian
Andes, on July 24, 1911.
Augustus Higginson hosted the Cigar Society,
June 19, 2007.
Ted Foss,
associate director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the
University of Chicago, talked about "Jesuits
in China." June 5, 2007.
Alexander ("the
Great") Sherman and Darius ("the Third") Gill
read scenes from their screenplay "334:
Battle on the Granicus." May 22, 2007.
Charles Wheelan,
lecturer in public policy at the University of Chicago,
talked about public policy. May 8, 2007.
The Cigar Society
observed the
610th anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer's first reading of the
Canterbury Tales, at the court of Richard II, April 17,
2007.
Jack Zimmerman
opened the spring baseball season with readings from his
southside-Chicago baseball novel, Gods of the Andes.
David O'Connor celebrated his birthday. April 3, 2007.
The Cigar Society
observed the anniversary of Douglas MacArthur's famous
utterance "I shall return" on
March 20, 1942 in South Australia, as he retreated, on orders
from President Franklin Roosevelt, from his worsening position
in Bataan, in the Battle of the Philippines. March 20, 2007.
Robert Wallace,
professor of classics at Northwestern University, presented "A
Whirlwind Tour through Greek and Roman Coins," March 6,
2007.
Rick Kogan and
Charles Osgood, Chicago journalists,
talked about their book, "Chicago Sidewalks," February 22,
2007.
The Cigar Society
observed the
96th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, February 6,
2007.
Mark Warden,
past president of Daley College and U of C PhD under Leo
Strauss, "Leo
Strauss and Neoconservatism," January 23, 2007.
The Cigar Society
commemorates the
speakeasy. November 28, 2006.
Curtis Tuckey
led the group on a round-the-world
tour of private clubs, November 14, 2006.
A
Cigar Dinner at the Tower Club
featuring old- and new-world dishes, on Columbus Day,
October 12, 2006.
Douglas Johnson on Martin Luther; John Nelson on reproduction.
A classic! August 8, 2006.
Jeffrey
Dean and David Morris on "Sartorial
Formalism." July 11, 2006.
A Midsummer's Eve scotch tasting. June 20, 2006.
Craig Trumpeter
and Mary Springfels in a very rare
viola da gamba duet at the Tower Club. June 7, 2006.
Jorge del Castillo
read from the book,
Holy Smoke: A Literary Romp through the History of the Cigar,
by Cuban-born British novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante (winner
of the 1997 Cervantes Prize), and reminisced about old Cuba.
May 30, 2006.
The Cigar Society
observed much in the
month of April 2006.
The Cigar Society
observed the
70th birthday of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
The Cigar Society
observed the
anniversary of the birth of Albert Einstein, March 14, 2006.
Billy Lombardo,
Chicago author, read from his book The Logic of a Rose
during a
cigar dinner at the University Club, February 2, 2005.
Classicists Gregory O'Leary (Northwestern '84)
and Alexander Sherman (Princeton '97) read,
with translation, from Suetonius's "Lives
of the Caesars" ('Divus Julius,' sec 32) on the anniversary
of Julius Caesar's utterance of "iacta
alea est" ("the die is cast") on this date in 49 BC.
January 10, 2005.
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