The IvyLife-Yale Referral Network offers Yale alumni a chance to engage in professional networking via online and in-person forums.  Beginning Friday, March 5, 2010, all Yale alumni are invited to meet on Friday mornings at 8:15am in the Yale Club of NYC's Grill Room for meetings of the IvyLife - Yale Referral Network for coffee and professional conversation on strategies, contacts, and other business topics for general networking, building a business, or effecting career change.

Reserve your place by the preceding Wednesday (for this week, March 3) by sending an RSVP to Holland Sullivan, IvyLife - Yale Referral Network's Global Director,  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

The Public Service/Social Justice Committee is proud to participate in Project Cicero's 10th Annual Book Drive. Project Cicero has distributed nearly 1,300,000 books to under-resourced New York City public schools and others in need by creating or supplementing school and classroom libraries.

We need 30 volunteers to sort donated books into appropriate categories while meeting and re-connecting with fellow Yalies. Two shifts are available on March 6 and 7. If interested, please register at http://tinyurl.com/yd7p53b. Children 13 and above are welcome to join their parents to help out.  If you are interested in donating books for the drive, please visit www.yaamny.net/13529. 

For further information, please contact our veteran Cicero volunteer and Team Leader Matthew Haiken (BK '86) at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or Amanda Taffy at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  or visit http://projectcicero.org.

The Association of Yale Alumni Presents:
Special Preview of the new opera Before Night Falls and discussion with Composer Jorge Martin '81

Sponsored by: YAAMNY, Yale GALA, Yale Latino Alumni Association, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program

Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls, an opera based on the memoirs of Reinaldo Arenas, the gay, Cuban, dissident author who died of AIDS in New York in 1990, premiers at the Fort Worth Opera in May 2010 (www.fwopera.org). The opera follows the life of Arenas from his time as a rebel in the Cuban revolution to his eventual escape to and death in the United States and explores issues of sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration. Yale Opera students Chrystal Williams ’10 MUS, Eric Barry ’10 MUS and Vince Vincent ’10 MUS will perform excerpts from the work. Following the performance, we will have a conversation with composer Jorge Martin ’81 and a reception.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW here: http://beforenightfalls.eventbrite.com/

The Educational Programs Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York is engaged in planning educational enrichment programs for New York City area alumni. If you are interested in crafting first-rate, engaging, and intellectually stimulating programs with fellow Yale alumni, you are warmly invited to the join the Committee. If you would like to join, please contact the Committee at: This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . All are welcome.

THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN YALE ALUMNI CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE YEAR OF THE TIGER 2nd ANNUAL LUNAR NEW YEAR BANQUET/FUNDRAISER. All alumni (not only those of Asian decent) and guests are welcome!
 
Banquet will be a sumptuous and elegant twelve course gourmet Chinese feast including Peking Duck, Fresh lobster and snow crab claws. Tickets are $100/person.   Proceeds from this event will support summer interns who will work at NYC non-profit organizations serving the Asian community. Please see website for further details:  www.aaaya.org

Co-sponsored by The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York

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  This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript . (Dress Code: business casual ... no jeans, no sneakers).

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!!  Appetizers will be provided.  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 This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript

Please use this link to RSVP:  http://marchalumniparty.eventbrite.com/

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.

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 .

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

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