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IvyLife-Yale Referral Network: Early-bird Networking Meeting

When:   March 19, 2010 8:15am-10:15am
Where:   Yale Club of New York City (Grill Room)
  0.00Reception
The IvyLife-Yale Referral Network offers Yale alumni across the world a chance to engage in professional networking via online and in-person forums.  IvyLife has 11,000 members and holds in-person weekly networking events for graduates of the eight Ivy League universities in nearly all major global cities.  We ...

AAAYA LUNAR NEW YEAR TWELVE COURSE BANQUET/FUNDRAISER

When:   March 20, 2010 6:00pm-9:00pm
Where:   S Dynasty
511 Lexington Avenue (at 48th Street)
  100Party

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

AYA Goes Global: International Food Tasting and Presentation

When:   March 23, 2010 6:30pm-8:30pm
Where:   Tap Room, Yale Club of New York City
Vanderbilt Avenue
  $5 per person; payable in cash at the doorReception

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).

YALE ALUMNI PARTY!

When:   March 25, 2010 6:30pm-9:30pm
Where:   RETREAT LOUNGE
37 West 17th Street
Between 5th and 6th Avenues
New York, NY 10011
  $10 until 3/19, $15 after and at doorParty

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 RSVPhttp://marchalumniparty.eventbrite.com/

Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale University

When:   March 26-29, 2010
Where:   Yale Campus
New Haven, CT
  See websiteConference

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.

All-GALA LGBT Night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Gallery Viewing & Cocktails

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)
  Museum entry donation (suggested $20 adults, $15 65+ and $10 students). Museum members attend for freeArts
There will be an All-Ivy GALA Art & Cocktails Series at the glorious Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, March 26, 6-9 pm.  We will see the drawings of Bronzino, Victorian photocollage and contemporary photographs while meeting other gay & lesbian alumni interested in art. 6:00 to 7:00 PM ...

Arts & Entertainment Committee meeting

When:   March 28, 2010 2:00pm
Where:   Cosi (21st & Park)
  FreeArts

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 / YAAMNY] The Future of Social Entrepreneurship: Panel + Reception

When:   March 31, 2010 6:30pm
Where:   Pranna, 79 Madison Ave (at 28th St)
  $10Reception

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

TIPS Party

When:   March 31, 2010 7:00pm-11:00pm
Where:   Tenjune
26 Little West 12th St.
NY, NY 10114
  $12 until 3/21, $15 afterwardsParty

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