Tag: Sunday Supper

On Sunday, September 30, 2018, I-House welcomed approximately 200 Residents, Alumni, Trustees and friends for Sunday Supper, one of I-House’s oldest traditions. Held three times a year in I-House’s historic Davis Hall, Sunday Suppers provide an opportunity for Residents to share a meal in an elegant setting and learn from distinguished guest speakers. The evening’s speaker was Ambassador Norman Eisen, who shared insights from his career as an attorney, diplomat and special counsel for ethics and government reform for President Obama and discussed his new book, The Last Palace: Europe’s...

Pres. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: A Symbol of Resilience for the I-House Community It was something of a reunion for International House President Calvin Sims and Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who met on Sunday, September 24, 2017 for their first on-the-record conversation in more than a decade. This latest occasion was an International House Sunday Supper, an institutional tradition of more than 90 years. In 2006, as a correspondent for The New York Times, Sims interviewed Sirleaf, who then had just secured a historic presidential election victory...