The Friday evening banquet will be held at Meadow Brook Hall on the campus of Oakland University. From the MBH website:

"Meadow Brook Hall is often described as an American castle. It is the former residence of Oakland University founders Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of automobile pioneer John Dodge, and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred G. Wilson."

The Dinner will be served in the Christopher Wren Dinning Room at 7:00 pm. Guests can meet in the Great Hall between 6:00 and 7:00 for light refreshments. Free tours of Meadow Brook Hall will be available before the dinner, and are very interesting. The tour lasts about 45 minutes, so you had best plan to be at the Great Hall at 6:00 if you plan to take the tour.

On the menu is: Chicken Champagne with Michigan Theme Salad, bread, scones, coffee and tea. For desert is a white chocolate mousse tort.

Paul Callaghan will present a brief after dinner talk from about 8:00 to 8:30, in the Christopher Wren Dinning Room.

You can find directions of how to get to Meadow Brook Hall (MBH) from the Oakland Center (OC) at http://www2.oakland.edu/map. MBH is about half a mile from the OC.

The deadline for reserving a spot at the banquet was September 24.