One of the faculty members will give a short presentation which will act as a catalyst for conversation during dinner. Dinner will be provided free of charge to all guests. Towards this end, the MIT chapter of Tau Beta Pi is pleased to inaugurate the TBP Leonardo Da Vinci Dinners , a series of dinner lectures to begin in the fall of 1997. It is our hope that by bringing together people from many different fields we can foster the kind of intellectual diversity and love of knowledge exemplified by Leonardo and representative of Tau Beta Pi. The dinners are an organizational nightmare.
Rooms have to be bookes for a whole semester, arrangements be made with the catterer.
We have to select and schedule the speakers, the guests, the ecquipment. A handbook is being written as of this writting to fully cover the organization of the dinners. While the idea of the dinners came from the president of the chapter Panayiotis Peter Pan Kamvysselis, who gave the original vision and drive, the dinners have been a group effort. In particulary, Amy Richards, former publicity officer helped with the publicity. Ien Cheng proposed the name of the dinners and used his prior experience from similar events to greatly enhance the rough original vision and bring the dinners to their current format.