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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: | March 1, 2010-February 20, 2011 | |
| Where: | Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen 311 Temple St., New Haven, CT 06511 |
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| When: | March 19, 2010 8:15am-10:15am | |
| Where: | Yale Club of New York City (Grill Room) | |
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| When: | March 20, 2010 6:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | S Dynasty 511 Lexington Avenue (at 48th Street) |
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THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN YALE ALUMNI CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE YEAR OF THE TIGER 2nd ANNUAL LUNAR NEW YEAR BANQUET/FUNDRAISER
Tickets are $88/person until February 22nd, $100/person thereafter. Please see our website for further details: www.aaaya.org. Proceeds from this event will support summer interns who will work at NYC non-profit organizations serving the Asian community.
Co-sponsored by The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York
| When: | March 23, 2010 6:30pm-8:30pm | |
| Where: | Tap Room, Yale Club of New York City Vanderbilt Avenue |
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The Yale Club of New York City, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY), and Market New Haven bring an international extravaganza to the Yale Club for a special event open to all Yale alumni. Enjoy a sampling of award winning cuisine from 116 Crown (Wine & Small Plates Lounge); Barcelona (Spanish Wine Bar); bespoke (Modern American Cuisine); Thali (Regional Cuisine of India); Union League Café (Parisian Style Brasserie) and Zinc (Modern American), as well as several passed hors d’oeuvres from the Club’s own Executive Chef, Charles Kehrli.
Complementing New Haven's world class cuisine and Yale's ambition to be a world leading university, the AYA has made it a mission to be a world leading alumni association. New initiatives launched as part of the AYA's strategic plan have placed Yale's alumni relations programs on a world stage in a leading role. AYA Executive Director, Mark Dollhopf '77, will share some of the new global initiatives of the AYA that have sparked the interest of alumni worldwide and given them the opportunity to travel to Australia, Japan, Iceland, and Mexico. You can also learn the specific ways to get involved.
There is a $5 per person charge for this event, payable in cash at the door, plus a cash bar. Please reserve your spot in advance by calling the Yale Club at 212-716-2133 or by emailing
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. (Dress Code: business casual ... no jeans, no sneakers).
| When: | March 25, 2010 6:00pm-8:00pm | |
| Where: | Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY (between 51st & 52nd Street) |
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| When: | March 25, 2010 6:30pm-9:30pm | |
| Where: | RETREAT LOUNGE 37 West 17th Street Between 5th and 6th Avenues New York, NY 10011 |
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Join your fellow Yalies for an all-class mixer at Retreat Lounge on March 25th, 6:30pm. It's a chance to catch up with friends, meet new people, flirt and network!! If you are interested in joining the Host Committee (to help publicize the event and assist at the door), please email Audrey Leibovich '97 at
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Please use this link to RSVP: http://marchalumniparty.eventbrite.com/
| When: | March 26-29, 2010 | |
| Where: | Yale Campus New Haven, CT |
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Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in YaleCollege, 140 Years at YaleUniversitypromises to be an amazing alumni event. Although designed with Yale alumnae in mind, all graduates (men and women) are welcome. An incredible program awaits those who register:
. . . Featured speakers including Indra Nooyi '80 MPPM, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo; Margaret Marshall '76 JD, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court; Margaret Warner '71, senior correspondent and on-air anchor, The PBS NewsHour; Karen Lawrence '71, Kim Bottomly, and Carol Christ '70 PhD, presidents of Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, and Smith, respectively.
. . . Yale faculty presentations from Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management; Tamar Gendler '87, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Chair of Cognitive Science; Carolyn Mazure, Director, Womens Health Research at Yale; and Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Associate Professor, Department of Physics.
. . . A special look back at the coeducation of Yale College featuring Elga Wasserman '76 JD, former Special Assistant to the President on Coeducation; Henry "Sam" Chauncey, Jr. '57, former Secretary of the University; and John Wilkinson '60, '63 MAT, former Dean of Students and moderated by Mary Miller '81 PhD, Dean of Yale College.
And more!
Wow! What a weekend! Please click here for the full range of details related to the conference and easy, online registration.
| When: | March 26, 2010 6:00pm-9:00pm | |
| Where: | Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1000 5th Avenue (@81st Street), NY, NY Art Study room of The Ruth & Harold D. Uris Center for Education (mix & mingle) Special Galleries, 2nd Floor -- see details below Great Hall Balcony Bar, 2nd floor, cocktails (7:45 pm onwards) |
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| When: | March 28, 2010 2:00pm | |
| Where: | Cosi (21st & Park) | |
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The YAAMNY Arts & Entertainment Committee provides 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 This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript .
| When: | March 31, 2010 6:30pm | |
| Where: | Pranna, 79 Madison Ave (at 28th St) | |
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YEI-NYC in collaboration with YAAMNY presents a unique panel discussion + networking reception on the Future of Social Entrepreneurship. Join your fellow Yale alumni entrepreneurs in NYC for interesting conversation, tasty hors d'oeuvres, and sociable libations.
This month's event will feature a panel discussion focusing on the future of social enterprise from an enlightening group of Yale alumni social entrepreneurs, educators, and organizers. We'll get together to engage with the panelists, mingle with other Yale innovators, and talk about the future in Pranna's swanky Cellar Room. We've arranged a drink special, plus a selection of complimentary Asian cuisine hors d'oeuvres.
A $10 donation will be asked for at the door to cover expenses. This event is for Yale alumni and their guests only.
RSVP HERE: http://anyvite.com/fvnx57bq0p
| When: | March 31, 2010 7:00pm-11:00pm | |
| Where: | Tenjune 26 Little West 12th St. NY, NY 10114 |
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YAAMNY is excited to tell you about this Ivy Plus Society (TIPS) event happening end of March. TIPS has secured the very trendy club Tenjune for the festivities. Meet NYC alumni from various schools. There will be drink specials throughout the night.
For more information, and to RSVP, please go to: http://www.ivyplussociety.org/nyc.html