Diving into the Deep with Alvin

The CCTC Spring Luncheon on April 15 at the Flying Bridge Restaurant featured a presentation by Lane Abrams, Lead Electrical Engineer of the Alvin Program and Senior Engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution entitled “Diving into the Deep with Alvin”. Lane’s presentation discussed not only the science that Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV) Alvin performs, but the equipment and engineering of the vehicle itself.

Cape Cod Museum of Art Tour and Lunch

Tufts club members met October 14th for a private docent led tour of the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis followed by an elegant private lunch at Encore Bistro and Bar, located on the museum grounds. Exhibitions included Jack Coughlin’s Themes and Variations and the Cape Cod Open Sculptural Invitational (CCOSI), the result of a partnership between the CCMoA and the New England Sculptors Association.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame –
The CCTC Annual Cape League Baseball Outing 

On Tuesday, July 12, close to twenty Tufts alumni and friends gathered at Red Wilson Field in Yarmouth for the annual CCTC Cape League Baseball outing where the East division leading Brewster White Caps faced their closest division competitor, the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, in a game that ended in a 1-1 tie…

2022 Annual Meeting: Explaining Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

On Sunday, June 26, the Cape Cod Tufts Club welcomed one of Fletcher’s most revered professors, Arik Burakovsky, Assistant Director of the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program at Tufts University, to explore the historical, geopolitical, as well as Russian and Ukrainian domestic political trends that led up to the war…

CCTC visits “The Greenhouse”– A Breathtaking Exhibit by Tufts Professor Edward Murrow at the Cahoon Museum of American Art

On  August 13, 2021 Tufts alumni and friends enjoyed a private tour of “The Greenhouse”, the new exhibit at the Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit featuring a massive site-specific installation produced by contemporary artist Ethan Murrow and three artist assistants — a panoramic wall drawing inspired by old growth forests that once existed on Cape Cod…

Mass Maritime Academy Luncheon and Tour

In October 2019 Cape Cod Tufts Club Alumni visited the Academy in Buzzards Bay and were hosted by a group of poised young cadets. Following lunch club members divided into groups for a tour of the school’s shipboard simulator and the machinery classrooms and later those wishing to toured the USTS Kennedy training ship…

2019 Annual Meeting and Luncheon

The Cape Cod Tufts Club’s 2019 annual meeting featured an exceptional presentation, entitled Uncovering the Cure: A Conversation on Degenerative Brain Disease Treatments, from Dr. David Kaplan, Professor & Chair of the Tufts University Department of Biomedical Engineering…

Whydah Museum’s Chris Macort Regaled Spring
Luncheon Goers with Pirate Tales

About 200 years ago the pirate ship Whydah floundered off the East Coast of Cape Cod and sank drowning Captain Samuel Bellamy and scattering a cargo of silver, gold and jewels.The CCTC April 2019 luncheon featured an entertaining talk by Chris Macort who has explored the Whydah…

Fletcher Professor Sung-Yoon Lee delivered fascinating and timely insights into North Korean policy past and present along with the history of United States diplomatic efforts, both failures and successes, which are few, with present Supreme Leader Kim-Jung-un and his father Kim Jung-il at the…