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The Harvard Club of Washington invites you to
"POLO for the love of Elephants" Film + Reception
Hogan and Hartson
Concourse (lower level)
555 13th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Friday, March 26, 2010
6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
The film uses the King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament in the Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand as a backdrop for Thailand’s strenuous efforts to conserve its elephants. Numerous countries from South East Asia participate in this tournament. Teams are privately sponsored. As the game has evolved, it has become a major fund-raiser in support of elephant conservation. Only some twenty years ago, elephant polo started when a group of avid polo players thought it could be a natural extension of their game. The film is narrated by an American from Texas; he and his daughters both field teams for the tournament.
Edward Nef' '55
Born in New York, Ed is now a resident of Alexandria, Virginia, and since 1976, a part-time resident of Craftsbury Common, Vt. He graduated from Andover in 1951 and Harvard in 1955. After service in the military, he entered the State Department Foreign Service. He left the government to enter the language school business, establishing schools in the Washington DC area and in Japan, Mongolia and Viet Nam. While working in Viet Nam, he was impressed by the reconciliation which occurred between our two countries, and as a result produced and directed a documentary on that process. His second documentary is about the conservation of elephants in Thailand, set against a back-drop of elephant polo, a popular sport in that country.
For more information and to Register ($20), go to the Harvard Club event and registration (bottom) page.
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