This event has passed. For Current Residents Are you interested in getting to know your fellow I-House residents? Do you want to explore your creative side? Or do you just love ice cream? If you answered “yes” to any of these, this is the event for you! Please join us for a socially distanced version of one of our most fun and longstanding traditions, the Ice Cream Social — this time with a fun painting twist. Beginners are welcome! Register here and read about the protocols we have set in place for your safety. Please note: To ensure we are following the social distancing...

Please join Vandana Sood-Giddings ’08, Founder of Prana Buzz, for an hour-long yoga class. The class will focus on yoga poses that use movement and breath to work through negative emotions and patterns of the mind. The class will be accessible to all regardless of age or injuries. Register here. If you have any questions, please contact Vandana at crystalyogi@gmail.com.

On Sunday, July 11, 2021 an informal reunion in New York’s Central Park brought together about two dozen I-House alumni from different backgrounds and generations. Anita Haravon ’11 (at right) organized the event and selected a shady spot just inside the park’s Sheep Meadow, which was easy to find so that alumni could come and go throughout the afternoon. Haravon, president of the New York Area Alumni Chapter (NYAAC), brought homemade muffins and welcomed each new arrival. Attendees represented the diversity of nationalities, professional disciplines and cultures that have characterized...

When a 32-year-old anthropologist arrived at International House from Auckland, New Zealand, in September 1984, he could not have foreseen the role he would play in the community during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, nor the impact I-House would have on him and his subsequent work. William G. (Bill) Hawkeswood had received a President’s Fellowship to pursue his PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University. An openly gay man, his eventual scholarly focus would be the gay community in Harlem, which would result in groundbreaking research that became a posthumously published book. Few...

Richard D. “Dick” Simmons, an International House Trustee from 1984-91 and a longtime supporter of the House, died on June 21, 2021 in Alexandria, VA at age 86. Simmons’ service as an I-House Board member partly coincided with his presidency of The Washington Post Company, where he also served as Chief Operating Officer for nearly 10 years, from 1981-1991. In 1985, Simmons spoke at an I-House “Meet Your Trustee” program, in which he fielded questions from I-House residents about fairness in the media, the quality of reporting in the US press, and whether the American media has...

Dear I-House Residents, To celebrate American Independence Day, we are having a Pizza Party outside on the Abby O’Neill Patio and then heading downtown to watch the iconic Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks show. Please note: The Pizza Party is for current residents ONLY. Click here to register and to learn more about the safety protocols for attending the pizza party! If you have any questions, please contact our event hosts, your Summer Fellows, Jalaj Bhandari  and/or Irene Sanchez-Martin.