Welcome to the Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club of Zürich
An informal network of Oxford and Cambridge graduates living in the Zurich region who
meet up for good company, stimulating conversation, and to make
interesting new contacts. Dinners are only part of our activities.
Members are free to arrange any kind of event they think other members
may be interested in. At the moment, we have 184 members.
Forthcoming Events
Members should receive email announcements of events mentioned on this page.
If you do not ... are you sure your email address in our
database is up to date?
5th September 2008 - Talk by Prof Jonathan Story; performance by singer Nadine
Orlowsky; dinner. Joint event with INSEAD, organised by James Maughan.
30th August 2008 - Joint event with the Oxford & Cambridge Dining Club
of Geneva in Neuchâtel. Lunch and afternoon visit of the city. Organised
by Nick Jacobs and Julia Xoudis.
Recent Meetings
26th March - Another joint event organised by Rebekka Greminger,
with the alumni clubs of five Business Schools -
Wharton, Chicago, Stanford, Michigan and Kellogg (Northwestern University). This was
a speaker event, with an address by Dr Valentin Chapero, CEO of Sonova AG. Login
to the members-only section of the website
to see pictures of this event.
13th March - A joint lunch with the Wharton Business School Alumni Club,
at the Beef Club, in Zurich, organised by Rebekka Greminger.
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to see pictures of this event.
13th February - Drinks evening, to bid farewell to Peter Backé who is
leaving Zurich for Beijing. Peter helped to arrange several interesting events
for us all, and will be missed.
15th December 2007 - Joint event with the INSEAD Alumni Association, organised by James
Maughan: Apéro and aria recital by mezzosoprano Yi-Ping Li, followed by dinner,
in the Zunfthaus zur Schneidern.
6th December - Dinner, Drinks and Jazz. The end-of-year dinner, organised
by Rebekka Greminger, was held at the Trattoria & Soul in Seefeldstrasse.
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to see pictures of this event.
22nd November - a Wine Tasting, announced by Peter Backé and Paul Slomkowski.
This was at Selection Schwander, a small company conveniently located on two tram
routes and two bus routes, and also near Giesshübel S-Bahn station. The
selection of wines (a sparkling wine, two dry whites, three red wines, and finally
an excellent champagne) were presented by a knowledgeable member of Selection Schwander's
staff, and the event was free. Clearly the company hopes that the presentation will persuade
some of us to buy their wares, but there was no sales pressure at all. In view of the
very reasonable prices of most of these wines (only two of them cost more than 20
francs per bottle) they will probably not be disappointed.
11th October - We met for the guided tour of haunted Zurich, then repaired to the James
Joyce to recover. Another good idea from Peter Backé and Paul Slomkowski.
13th September - More than 35 people came to a Drinks evening in the Metropol,
arranged by Rebekka Greminger.
26th July 2007 - In perfect weather, we enjoyed a Drinks Evening on the lake, using the regular
Zürich - Küsnacht - Thalwil - Zürich ferry, which has a bistro on board.
Another imaginative idea from Peter Backé and Paul Slomkowski, which attracted
a lot of members.
8th June 2007 - Peter Backé and Paul Slomkowski arranged a Drinks Evening in the Jules Verne
Panoramabar, a spectacular location with views over the whole of Zurich.
The first meeting was a dinner in Basel on Saturday 25th November, 2006, arranged by
Sabrina Henze. Log in to see pictures.
All meetings are announced by email. They are posted here shortly after the email announcement is
sent, so if you are on our mailing list, you should have more details in your mailbox.
How to get on our mailing list
If you were on the Cambridge Society of Zurich mailing list, either as a Cambridge graduate
or as an Oxford graduate, you are already on the mailing list of the Oxford and Cambridge
Dining Club of Zurich. Otherwise, just click on "Join Us" in the menu at the left,
and follow the instructions.
Important Reminder to members:
Don't forget to update our record of your email address if it changes. If the email
address we have for you is no longer valid, you can't receive details
of meetings. You update our records yourself (you have to log in to do this); please don't
just send somebody an email about your change of address and expect that somebody to do it for
you.
History
The Oxford and Cambridge Dining Club of Zurich is the successor to the Cambridge Society
of Zurich, which had been inviting Oxford graduates to almost all of its meetings for
over a year.
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