2009-2010

About twenty-five AMCRF members and guests visited  George Washington’s Mount Vernon Home and Gardens (newly renovated) on Thursday, October 22, 2009.   Cliff and Pat Chieffo led a customized tour of the art collection. Many participants ended their visit with  lunch in the Mount Vernon Inn.

About eighty persons (including GU alumni, Library Associates, members of AMCRF. and friends and neighbors of the University) registered for the Fall 2009 program of the Georgetown University Learning Community (GULC). There were about 180 total individual course-registrations for ten short courses, the majority offered by AMCRF members.

About thirteen AMCRF members and guests are expected to enjoy tasting interesting wines, hosted by Prof. and Mrs. Douglas Brown, on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, from 3:00 p.m. to ~ 4:30 p.m., in the Claire Boothe Luce Room of the Intercultural Center (ICC 563) on the Georgetown University Main Campus.

2008-2009

On Wednesday, October 15, 2008 from 10:30 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m., about twenty-five members of  AMCRF and their guests visited the recently-renovated Dumbarton Oaks Museum and Gardens (http://www.doaks.org/) at 1703  32^nd Street, N.W.. (The Museum opens to the public at 1:00 p.m.) We had  guided tours (with two highly competent docents) of the gardens and of the outstanding pre-Columbian and classical collections.  After the visit, about sixteen persons enjoyed lunch at Cafe Divan, near the museum.

On Friday, November 14, 2008 at 1:15 pm, about fifteen members of the AMCRF attended a performance by the Marcolivia Duo (violin &/viola) in the “Friday Music Series” in McNeir Hall on the GU Campus. Then AMCRF members and their friends enjoyed a pre-pre-holiday AMCRF wine-and-cheese reception in the Theology Department conference room, New North 107 

Bill Reynolds, head of the GU Alumni Association, graciously invited all GULC registrants, and other AMCRF members, to a reception in Wagner Alumni House to mark the end of the  GULC year. About seventy people, including AMCRF members, GULC faculty and participants, and member of the "Magis" group of senior alumni, enjoyed Bill's elegant hospitality at Wagner Alumni House on April 2, 2009.

About twenty-five members participated in the  Annual Meeting of the AMCRF  held on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in the Healey Building on the GU Campus, immediately before a Mass of Thanksgiving in honor of retiring faculty and staff  that was held in Dahlgren Chapel at 12:10 p.m.  After the Mass, a luncheon (graciously hosted by John DiGioa, President of the University) was held for recent retirees, AMCRF members and guests (a total of about fifty persons) in The Riggs Library.

2007-2008

On October 17, 2007 members of AMCRF and guests (more than 25 total) visited the Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC.. Prior to that visit, 13 members and guests enjoyed lunch at the Georgetown University "Faculty Club" restaurant.

In April 2008, about 20 members  of AMCRF and their guests visited the Library of Congress and enjoyed a  tour of the Library facilities and lunch at a nearby restaurant.

The Annual Meeting of the AMCRF was held on April 25, 2008 in Wolfington Hall on the GU Campus, immediately after a luncheon (graciously hosted by the Georgetown Jesuit Community) that  followed a  Mass of Thanksgiving in honor of retiring faculty and staff  that was held in Dahlgren Chapel at 12:10 p.m.

A picnic for AMCRF members and their guests was held on at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 7, at the picnic area of The National Arboretum. Here is a photo of part of the AMCRF group at lunch at the Arboretum.

The AMCRF was scheduled to hold a holiday meeting in ICC 270 at 3:30 PM, Wednesday, December 5, 2007  The meeting was to have featured a presentation by Prof. William McDonald (Sociology and Anthropology) on "Immigration Reform: Back to the Future" as well as wine and cheese.  The meeting was cancelled due to snow.

 2006-2007

On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, about twenty-five members of and guests of AMCRF  enjoyed a private tour of the Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, with  Cliff and Pat Chieffo as guides, and then went to Lunch at Clyde's Restaurant.

On December 11, 2006,  about 20 members and guests of AMCRF participated in a discussion with the new-appointed Dean of the Graduate School, Timothy A. Barbari, Ph.D. and a reception.

 November 9, 2006 about fifteen members and guests of AMCRF met with Georgetown's Moslem Chaplain,  Imam Yahya Hendl, toured the Moslem prayer-room in Copley Hall, met with  Imam Hendl and several Moslem students for discussion, and had lunch in the Faculty Club.

In Spring 07, AMCRF members and guests visited  the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown’s Ballston Campus.