The 72nd San Francisco Boat Race dinner celebrates the 153rd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. It promises to be a fine affair in the elegant ambience of the University Club atop Nob Hill in the heart of San Francisco. The University Club is located at Powell and California Streets, adjacent to the Fairmont Hotel.

Baroness Ruth Deech, DBE, Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, will be the distinguished guest speaker. She was formerly a Rhodes Trustee, Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, Chair of the UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and Governor of the BBC.

Co-chairs are Dennis Bonney (Hertford, Oxford) and Walter Sedriks (Pembroke, Cambridge).

Cocktails are at 5:30 pm and dinner will be served at 7:15 pm. The Boat Race video will be played before dinner at 6:15 pm and again after dinner.

Dress - Black Tie Preferred

RSVP by April 20th 2007

The dinner, including wine, is $94 for adults and $89 for seniors and students. Special rates are available for bookings made before March 30th 2007. Note that there is a limit of one accompanying guest for each Oxford or Cambridge alumnus.

If you have difficulty with the online payment system, please visit www.oxcam.org, print out the flyer and mail it with a check to the Treasurer, Alexander Driskill-Smith. For other queries about payment, contact him by email at treasurer@oxcam.org or telephone at (408) 807-4402.