Participate in a day-long event at Horace Mann School: "Connecting Education, Values and Action:� Jane Addams and John Dewey, Then and Now."� The event is presented by the Center for Community Values and Action at Horace Mann and co-sponsored by YAAMNY.� Speakers at the event will be Louise W. Knight, author of Jane Addams: Spirit in Action; and Ira Harkavy, co-author of Dewey's Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform.� For full program details, click here. �

Created just last year, the Development Committee hosted our first ever (and fabulously successful) Benefit Soiree, a book talk with best-selling author Ron Chernow, and a spa-sporting event.��Our goals for 2011 are to promote the YAAMNY brand, to be a forum for multi-generational and multi-class interaction, and to raise funds.��Another Benefit Soiree is in the works, as are monthly dinners filled with lively conversations among alumni. Email Anne Moss at anne@yaamny.netThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  if you can attend the Feb 7 committee meeting.

ContributeThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  to crafting first-rate, thoughtful, and intellectually stimulating educational enrichment programs for alumni and the general public.� Graphic and web design, IT, social media, and audio/ video recording skills are especially of value. We also welcome overtures from alumni involved with educational or cultural institutions that may prove possible partners in developing enrichment programming.� Email yaamnyeducationalprograms@gmail.comThis email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript  with your interest and biographical information.

Join Artists on the Brink and the YAAMNY for a rewarding and intimately scaled studio visit to the architecture and industrial design studio of Moorhead & Moorhead. The visit will include an introduction to Granger and Robert Moorhead and their practice, representative projects, insights into their design process; and the working space, materials, and tools of a design team.� More details here.

Join Maya Lin ('81, M.Arch. '86, D.F.A. '87), the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) New York Chapter, and YAAMNY at this spectacular eight-course banquet and celebrate the Lunar New Year with fellow Yale alumni, families & friends.� Cocktail reception, dim sum, Peking Duck Sliders and more!� Proceeds will benefit the AAAYA Yale Summer Community Internship Program.� Full details here.