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YAAMNY Webmaster / Bloggers Needed
Looking for an energetic and tech-savvy Yalie to help run the YAAMNY.net web site. No programming experience needed, the site is maintained through a content management system with a WYSIWYG interface - anyone who has ever worked on a blog would be a great candidate. Looking for someone with a few hours to spare each month to help keep the site and newsletter running well.
Interested? Please e-mail Mike Jacobs at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript
The Public Service/Social Justice Committee of the YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN NEW YORK has several meaningful activities/projects planned for the fall season, including family-friendly activities especially for Brooklynites. Each of you is bound to find something that will allow you to feel energized and great about being a New Yorker and YALIE. Please mark your calendars as more details & events will soon follow:
Sept.12: 5K Walk for Ovarian Cancer in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. We are looking for 15+ walkers for TEAM YALE to raise awarness of, and promote a cure for ovarian cancer. Proceeds will benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the leading independent agency dedicated to advancing ovarian cancer research. If you wish to register, or for further information, please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . More details about the event can be found at www.tealwalk.org.
Sept. 19: International Coastal Clean Up in Prospect Park from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 25 YALIES needed to clean the ponds that surround this gem in Brooklyn. Please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for details.
Oct. 3: Rocking the Boat-Regatta & Picnic/Party in Manhattan. Team Leader is John Joseph Hopkins '05, former captain of the Yale Crew Team. Sea lovers and sports buffs will enjoy this event where alums from various colleges will compete to benefit a great organization, Rocking the Boat, a group dedicated to helping children in the Bronx reach their full potential by teaching them about life skills through boating. We need 20 volunteers for the morning and afternoon shifts to help with serving food and the various activities planned on land. We are also looking for ROWERS to compete for Team Yale in hand-built wooden rowboats around Manhattan. This will be a fun event for the whole family - you can volunteer, row, or just come to cheer on the Yale rowers. Please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript or log onto www.rockingtheboat.com for details.
Oct. 31: Halloween Haunted Walk & Carnival in Prospect Park from 12-3p.m. We are looking for 25 YALE volunteers to dress up scary, prep meals for performers and assist with carnival games. This one is guaranteed to be fun! Please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for details.
Also, our ongoing Juvenile Justice Reform Task Force has finalized a project with Newark to advance the rights of youth in the State of New Jersey by shaping policy. Please contact This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript or This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript for details.
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| When: | February 9, 2010 4:30pm-7:30pm | |
| Where: | Public House NYC 140 E 41st Street New York 10017 |
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YAAMNY is excited to offer you this new "networking with start-ups" opportunity organized by JOBNOB:
Jobseekers need work. Startups are cash strapped. Mingle and find a solution!
Come "Jobnob" with cool new start ups and talented job seekers at this informal networking happy hour where you can find startup jobs. Be flexible on commitment and compensation - bootstrapped startups may be offering *alternative compensation: reduced rates, equity, internships, part time, etc. There will be alumni and entrepreneurs from many schools, including UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Rutgers, Yale SOM, and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Companies start pitching at 5pm.
Event is free, but please register here.
*Legal Disclaimer: Jobnob Happy Hour events and www.jobnob.com are for networking informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. Please be sure to check with an employment attorney and abide by all federal, state and local laws.
| When: | February 9, 2010 7:00pm-10:00pm | |
| Where: | The Arsenal 830 Fifth Avenue New York, NY |
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Join us for a cocktail in a unique NYC space - Central Park's historic Arsenal, in front of the Zoo. The Arsenal, home to the Department of Parks & Recreation since 1934, was built in the 1850s to store munitions, and we trust that Feb Club will be the most explosive event in the building's history. Since the building is an office, we will start at 7pm and wrap up at 10pm to allow the dust to settle before morning.
To RSVP and purchase ticket, go to www.febclubemeritus.com
| When: | February 9, 2010 7:00pm-8:30pm | |
| Where: | Museum 52 4 East 2nd Street at Bowery |
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The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee in collaboration with Insider Expeditions presents After Hours at Museum 52 with Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick.
Join Yale School of Art Faculty Daphne Fitzpatrick for an intimate after-hours discussion and aperitif at Museum 52, a critically acclaimed contemporary art gallery on the Lower East Side. Fitzpatrick's work centers on the changing urban environment, as seen from the wandering vantage point of a dandy. In large sculptures, photographs, video and installation, she fuses a morning-after feeling with a keen sense of craft. Ms. Fitzpatrick attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Studio Program. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Bellwether, New York and La Galleria at La MaMa, New York. Her work has been exhibited widely at venues including The Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle and the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She has written for publications including Artforum, and she is the recipient of grants from Art Matters and the Jerome Foundation.
Enjoy the work on display, and a lively discussion of Ms. Fitzpatrick's methods and motives. Early registration $15, or $20 after February 5. Space is limited, and we expect this exclusive, after-hours event to sell out. Register today at http://yaamny-fitzpatrick.eventbrite.com/.
| When: | February 10, 2010 12:30pm | |
| Where: | The Rudd Center | |
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Join us for a conversation with Dina Brewster on:
Farmer; The Hickories; Ridgefield, Connecticut; Cultivating a Local Food-Shed
| When: | February 10, 2010 7:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | Ashiya Sushi - 167 1st Avenue (11th Street and 1st Avenue) | |
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| When: | February 10, 2010 7:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | Ashiya Sushi, 167 1st Avenue (between 10th and 11th Streets) | |
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We wish to invite you to the upcoming Public Service/ Social Justice Committee meeting to discuss many great opportunities for alum to engage in meaningful service projects and advancing social justice.
We are particularly interested in discussing and organizing a fundraiser for the children of Haiti. We ask all alumni to consider donating to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund (www.clintonbushhaitifund.org), Doctors without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org), the United Nations Children's Fund (www.unicefusa.org) or the American Red Cross (www.redcross.org).
The agenda is as follows:
1. Report on January Projects (soup kitchen and mock interview session)
2. Discussion of upcoming events -- considering Haiti Fundraiser
3. Selection of April Project
4. Update regarding Day of Service
5. Social Justice Project Update
6. Discussion of YAAMNY Charity Ball Fundraiser
7. Final Comments
| When: | February 10, 2010 8:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | LC105 | |
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| When: | February 10, 2010 8:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | LC 317 | |
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| When: | February 10, 2010 8:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | LC 317 | |
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| When: | February 11, 2010 6:30pm-8:30pm | |
| Where: | BAR, 245 Crown St, New Haven | |
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| When: | February 12, 2010 12:30pm | |
| Where: | Branford Dining Annex | |
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Join PHC for a special talk with Dr. David Katz, an international figure on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease
Dr. David Katz is an Associate Professor Adjunct in Public Health Practice. Named one of the 25 most influential people in childrens lives by Childrens Health, Dr. David Katz is the inventor of the Nuval Nutrition System and was a nominee for the position of U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Katz co-founded the Yale Prevention Research center, founded and directs the Integrative Medicine Center, which combines allopathic and naturopathic care, is a syndicated health columnist for New York Times, a nutrition columnist for the magazine O, and is a medical contributor for ABC news.

| When: | February 12, 2010 1:00pm-6:00pm | |
| Where: | Unite For Sight headquarters in downtown New Haven (across the street from Yale's Whitney Humanities Center) | |
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Do you have an idea for a program, project, or organization? Unite For Sight's Founder and CEO will hold a 1/2-day workshop to help you develop and launch your idea.
The workshop will focus on effective healthcare delivery and the importance of best practices in global health, successful strategies of social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and mentoring and guidance on how to establish new initiatives and organizations. What strategies can be applied to effectively provide healthcare for the world's poorest people? Through case discussions, the workshop discusses the realities and complexities of global health, innovation and social entrepreneurship in healthcare delivery, and evidence-based design and measuring outcomes. The workshop will be a small, intimate forum with a limited capacity of 10 participants.
Complete details online at http://www.uniteforsight.org/global-health-university/global-health-workshop
| When: | February 12, 2010 1:00pm-2:00pm | |
| Where: | Pierson Master’s House | |
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| When: | February 13, 2010 12:00pm | |
| Where: | Pane e Vino Ristorante 174 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 |
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Heads up all you actors, singers, singer-songwriters, musicians, comics... in a word, performers out to make your mark in the Apple. In line with our mandate to bring creative arts folk together, YAAMNY Arts/Entertainment is planning a series of performance parties. We have secured the use of a large pleasant space in Brooklyn, complete with a piano, excellent PA system - and inexpensive food and drink, and will hold an organizational meeting and tryouts for our first Performers' Round-up on Saturday, February 13th. If you want to participate in the round-up, please join us on for this meeting and be ready to give us a sample of what you can do. Performers must limit themselves to 10-12 minutes.
The actual YAAMNY Arts Performers' Round-Up will be in April, details to be posted on the YAAMNY website soon. After the performance there will be time for informal networking. And you don't have to be on stage to come to the performance; just be ready to enjoy yourself and meet alumni/ae in all the arts, all ages, all stages of their careers.
Please notify me ASAP ( This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript ) if you will be joining us on February 13 for try-outs, and tell me what type of performer you are.
| When: | February 13, 2010 2:00pm-4:00pm | |
| Where: | SeeClickFix | |
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| When: | February 14, 2010 11:00pm | |
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| When: | February 18, 2010 8:00pm-10:00pm | |
| Where: | Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 West 114th Street at Broadway, Manhattan | |
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| When: | February 19, 2010 7:00pm | |
| Where: | Dwight Hall Library | |
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| When: | February 20, 2010 2:00pm-5:00pm | |
| Where: | Ripley-Grier Studios 520 8th Avenue |
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Make it Happen Now! Workshop
February 20th, 2-5 p.m.
Make it Happen Now! Workshop
What do you want more of in your life? More work? More love? More money?
Whatever your dream, the best way to get more of what ... |
| When: | February 23, 2010 6:00pm-8:00pm | |
| Where: | The Yale Club of New York City 50 Vanderbilt Avenue New York |
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The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite you and your guest to a reception hosted by Jon Butler, Dean of the Graduate School, featuring a conversation on poetry with Elizabeth Alexander '84, Professor, African American Studies, American Studies and English.
Complimentary hors d'oeuvres, cash bar
Professor Alexander's talk will begin at 7:00
R.S.V.P. by February 16 to
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Space is limited; please reserve early
Elizabeth Alexander ’84 BA was invited by President Barack Obama to compose and read a poem at his inauguration on January 20, 2009. She is the author of four books of poems, The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American Sublime (2005, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), and a collection of essays on African American literature, painting, and popular culture, The Black Interior (2004). Professor Alexander is an inaugural recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that “contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.” She earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now chair of the Yale Department of African American Studies.
| When: | February 23, 2010 6:00pm-8:00pm | |
| Where: | JP Morgan Chase, 277 Park Avenue, 17th Floor | |
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The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) is co-sponsoring a program spearheaded by the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York. You are cordially invited to an evening with Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss investment opportunities in the wake of the Copenhagen summit.
Professor Sachs will speak on the role of the private sector in driving sustainable investment and offer his thoughts on
-- Where these opportunities exist in the face of political gridlock.
-- How the business community can participate in the development of the sustainability market.
-- The sweet spot for investors, i.e. where business can contribute to sustainability, environmental justice and increased profits.
Professor Sachs is the Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He was recently named among the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
Register today at: http://www.cbsacny.org/store.html?event_id=810. Yalies should select the "partner" ticket option at $30 per ticket.
| When: | February 26-28, 2010 | |
| Where: | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York City | |
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| When: | February 26, 2010 7:00pm-11:00pm | |
| Where: | Upper West Side....details to follow. | |
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The UWS party was the first Feb Club Emeritus party! Check out the Feb Club website for more details:
| When: | February 28, 2010 2:00pm | |
| Where: | Cosi (21 St & Park) | |
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The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee strives to provide a forum where alumni can enjoy, share in, and learn from leading practitioners in the world capital of fine and performing arts, and support alumni in the arts, through regular presentations and events that will offer opportunities for networking and performance. Whether you have won a Pulitzer and travel by limousine or are pushing cabs between auditions, come share your ideas and help create a resource to assist us all in our work.
All are welcome. Please RSVP to
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| When: | February 28, 2010 7:00pm-11:00pm | |
| Where: | Brooklyn...details will be available soon. | |
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The Brooklyn party ends the month! It will be fun, hip and happening.
Check the Feb Club website for more information: www.febclubemeritus.com
Hello, I'm Yale med grad ('06) looking for a 2-3br in the Carroll Gardens/Boerum Hill/Cobble Hill area to share with a friend. We are quiet, conscientious and busy professionals looking for a bright, sunny apartment. Prefer washer/dryer or W/D hookup. Our move-in dates are somewhat flexible.
If you have something or know someone moving out from a charming, lovely apt please do let me know.