Yale Day of Service
2024-05-11 11:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
Yalies around the world will be gathering in May to give back to the community in a variety of ways. Here is one opportunity for service in Vermont: On Saturday, May 11, join fellow Yalies at Josh’s House in Colchester to support Vermont veterans. Thanks to one of our own, Dr. Laura McGevna Nelson, Yale College 2001, for organizing this event.

Many of our veterans are in need of support, grappling with food or housing insecurity and chronic illnesses including PTSD. Josh’s House is a non-profit recreational center whose entire mission is caring for these veterans.

Do you love to cook? We are signed up for their meal train on May 11. So we need to donate enough food to feed 40-50 people. We’ll also help spruce up the grounds and stock the pantry with non-perishable items. (You don’t need to donate items to participate.) It’s for a great cause and a remarkably appreciative group!

To volunteer for this Day of Service, contact Laura McGevna Nelson.

Webinar on U.S. - China Relations
2024-04-29 19:00 - 19:30
The Yale Club of Vermont and the YAA Regional Clubs Team invite you to a talk presented by Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs: The Past, Present and Future of U.S.-China Relations, on Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. on ZoomRegister at:https://bit.ly/YCVTWestadWebinar

Odd Arne Westad is a scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He studied history, philosophy, and modern languages at the University of Oslo before doing a graduate degree in US/international history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he primarily worked with Michael H. Hunt. Westad has published sixteen books, most of which deal with twentieth century Asian and global history.

April Book Club: Daughters of Yalta
2024-04-17 07:00 - 20:00
Save the date: Next Book Club April 17, 2024. The next selection will be the club’s first dive into non-fiction. The Three Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz tells the dramatic story of three remarkable young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in the waning days of World War II. A zoom link will be sent to registrants in a separate email the day before the Book Club.

To register, please RSVP via email to Mary Jane Mona at maryjanemona@gmail.com. You will receive a confirmation email upon registering.

More about the book from The New York Times:

The Daughters of Yalta is Katz’s first book, and gives a “detailed behind-the-scenes account of the conference.” Katz “skillfully marshals diaries, letters, oral histories and memoirs to support her thesis that the pressures of wartime had warped normal familial bonds, so that the Western leaders’ relationships with their daughters had become more like those between business partners than between parent and child.” This eminently readable account is “packed with vivid personalities, jockeying aides and insider observations about a pivotal moment in history.

Salon with Ken Ellingwood
2024-03-23 14:00 - 16:30
The Yale Club of Vermont’ s March Salon will feature one of its own members, Ken Ellingwood, Yale College ’82 (BK). Now a Vermonter, this globetrotting journalist and author will lead a discussion of his book, First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery. This work of narrative nonfiction tells the story of a courageous newspaper editor (Lovejoy) who stood up to violent mobs in order to combat slavery. A staunch defender of freedom of the press, Lovejoy was ultimately killed by pro-slavery attackers, the first American journalist killed in the line of duty. His story has particular resonance at the moment, as America continues to deal with issues of a free press and the legacy of slavery.

To order your own copy of “First to Fall,” click on this link:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/First-to-Fall/Ken-Ellingwood/9781643137025.

Following an introductory presentation there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Light refreshments will be served.

We’ll gather on Saturday, March 23, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Duxbury home of Yale Club Board Member Jim Lengel, Yale College ’71. RSVP below to receive directions to Jim’s house.

Ken Ellingwood

Yale-Dartmouth Women's Basketball
2024-02-24 13:00 - 16:00 | Leede Arena, 6 S Park St, Hanover, NH, 03755, United States
Joint Event with the Dartmouth Club

Update: Yale won. See the report and the pictures from this event. Join Yalies and friends from the Dartmouth Club of the Upper Valley to cheer on the Yale team. Doors open at noon, and we’ve arranged for a pre-game meeting with the Dartmouth Club at 11:00 in the Oberlander Room in Alumni Gym. Use the link below to buy tickets for our special seating area.

Buy tickets.

Book Club November 29
2023-11-29 19:00 - 20:30
For our next Yale Club of Vermont Book Club, we are reading The Personal Librarian, historical fiction by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray.

A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, daughter of the first African-American graduate of Harvard. Hiding her racial identity to be hired by Morgan, Greene becomes a fixture in the New York book and art world, and leaves a lasting legacy — the collection of rare manuscripts, books and artwork of the J.P. Morgan Library. Thanks to Elaine Gustafson for this timely suggestion. There is currently an exhibition of some of the prize manuscripts of the library — including Gutenberg bibles — on exhibition at the J.P.Morgan Library, through January 2024. And next year, the Library will open an exhibition devoted to the life and work of Belle da Costa Greene herself. Happy Reading! Click here to register.

Click here to register.

Yale won The Game: Yale v. Harvard
2023-11-18 12:00 - 16:00
The 20 Yale and Harvard Vermont alums who gathered at Essex Junction on Saturday, November 18, cheered the Bulldogs to victory, 23 – 18. We once again partnered with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Vermont for this annual viewing party. Perhaps it was the Bulldog gear and team spirit and singing that fomented Yale’s victory.

Tour of BETA Technologies
2023-08-01 13:00 - 15:00
The Yale Club of Vermont is invited to tour BETA Technologies, one of the most exciting start-up companies in Vermont if not the nation. Get an up-close and personal look at the technologies and people behind this pioneering attempt to build the world’s first-ever all-electric aircraft. You will get to see the prototype and even to fly in their immersive simulator. Join fellow Yalies on Tuesday, August 1, from 1 to 3 pm at North Hangar Headquarters, 1150 Airport Drive, South Burlington. (Thanks to Jacqui Hood for arranging this.)

Book Club
2023-07-12 19:00 - 20:00
Next Book Club. Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai. Makkai graduated from Middlebury College, and spends her summers in the Middlebury area. In this novel/mystery her New England sensibility is apparent. The novel takes place at the prep school Granby, in a fictitious town suspiciously like Hanover, New Hampshire. Makkai captures winter, ice and mud season perfectly. Register here!

Vermont Green Soccer
2023-06-21 18:00
Yale Club of Vermont at Vermont Green

Come join fellow Yalies on June 21 to watch our very own local soccer team—-VERMONT GREEN FC—-versus the Boston Bolts. VGFC plays in the USL2 League and their second season promises to be as exciting and successful as their first. It’s a really fun way to enjoy great soccer!. The game is at Virtue Field at the University of Vermont. Gates open at 6—it’s good to get there early because the center section of the stands is the most comfortable (the seats have backs!) and fills up quickly. Wear some Yale regalia so we can find each other. Tickets are all general admission. Adults: $15. Children: $8 VGFC is dedicated not just to winning soccer games but to promoting social and environmental justice. An important cause and a great way to show your support! For more on VGFC, check out their website: VermontGreenFC.com

Annual Meeting (via Zoom)
2023-06-07 17:30
Join us (via Zoom) on June 7, 5:30 pm as we elect the roster of officers and directors for the coming year. Candidates are:

OfficersMary Jane Mona, President (nominated)Terry Hook, Secretary

Vice President, openTreasurer, open

Board of DirectorsStephen Morris, ex-officioLisa Catapano-Friedman, ex-officio

(all below are in year 2 of 3 year terms)Elaine GustafsonMary Jane MonaTerry HookJacqui HoodJim LengelLinda DanilekMichael JacobsonMerideth Wright

Yale Alumni Association Leadership DelegatesElaine Gustafson (nominated, 3 year term)Jacqui Hood (2 year term)

Outgoing BOD members– Kathryn Blume, Kevin Burget

Register for meeting HERE .

American Cuisine with Paul Freedman
2023-03-29 19:00 - 20:30
Please join the Yale Club of Vermont for an evening with Paul Freedman, Charles D. Tripp Professor of History: American Cuisine … And How It Got This Way While we have a good (if not completely accurate) idea of what Italian, Mexican or Indian cuisine is, American cuisine could be anything from fast food to regional to eclectic and international. Many people, in other countries especially, don’t think there is such a thing as American cuisine. The talk considers the history of what American have eaten and what constitutes our culinary aesthetic.

Register here.

About Professor FreedmanProfessor Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, comparative studies of the peasantry, trade in luxury products, and the history of cuisine. His latest book is American Cuisine and How It Got This Way (Liveright/Norton, 2020).

Freedman earned his BA at the University of California at Santa Cruz and an MLS from the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in History at Berkeley in 1978. His doctoral work focused on medieval Catalonia and how the bishop and canons interacted with the powerful and weak elements of lay society in Vic, north of Barcelona. This resulted in the publication of The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia(1983).

Freedman taught for eighteen years at Vanderbilt University before joining the Yale faculty in 1997. At Vanderbilt, he focused on the history of Catalan peasantry, papal correspondence with Catalonia and a comparative history of European seigneurial regimes. He was awarded Vanderbilt’s Nordhaus Teaching Prize in 1989 and was the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Fellow there in 1991-1992. During that time, he published his second book, Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia (1991).Since coming to Yale, Professor Freedman has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Chair of the History Department, and Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine He has offered graduate seminars on the social history of the Middle Ages, church, society and politics, and agrarian studies (as part of a team-taught course).

Freedman was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte in Göttingen in 2000 and Directeur d’Études Associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1995. His third book was Images of the Medieval Peasant (1999) and there are two collections of his essays: Church, Law and Society in Catalonia, 900-1500 and Assaigs d’historia de la pagesia catalana ( “Essays on the History of the Catalan Peasantry,” translated into Catalan).

Freedman edited Food: The History of Taste, an illustrated collection of essays about food from prehistoric to contemporary times published by Thames & Hudson (London) and in the US by the University of California Press (2007). His book on the demand for spices in medieval Europe was published in 2008 by Yale University Press. It is entitled Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. In the field of culinary history, he published Ten Restaurants That Changed America in 2016 (Liveright/Norton). A book for Yale University Press entitled Why Food Matters will appear in 2021.

Yale Club Salon: Design/Build
2023-02-28 19:00 - 20:00
Statewide Virtual Discussion via Zoom

We are excited to introduce a new program for the Yale Club of Vermont and hope you will be able to join us!

Design/Build

Yale Club Salons are designed to give you an opportunity to get up-close and personal with someone who is accomplished in their field, a fellow Yalie, and a fellow Vermonter!

Danny Sagan is an architect practicing in Vermont who teaches Active Building Systems at Norwich University and is actively researching the origins of the Design/Build movement in Vermont.

Sagan will be talking about the Design/Build movement, which took root in the Prickly Mountain area of the Mad River Valley in the late 1960s and was adopted by a motley crew of Ivy League refugees, many of whom stayed on to become the leading architects, builders, and renewable energy entrepreneurs practicing in the state today. He will highlight several of the movement’s key figures who also went to Yale and who continue their legacy through the ongoing presence of the Yestermorrow School.

The presentation will last about a half-hour with additional time left for questions and group participation. This salon is free and open to all members of the Yale Community. Meet some fellow Yalies and learn more about what interesting Bulldogs are living in these beautiful Green Mountains. Here is your link:

Join us, 7 pm on February 28

February Book Club
2023-02-08 19:00
We’ve got a date (February 8, 7 pm) and we’ve got a book. The next selection is Horse, a novel by Geraldine Brooks. Here’s the publisher’s description:

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism. As always, all are welcome at our book club discussions!

Bulldogs hit the slopes
2023-01-23 00:00 - 23:59
Stratton Mountain

On Monday, January 23, 2023 the Bulldogs Hit the Slopes at Stratton Mountain. Thank you Michael Jacobson for planning Yale Club of Vermont event. Interested Vermont Yalies are invited to:

• Stay Sunday night on the mountain. Reserve discounted rooms and lift passes via Stratton’s toll free number: 1-800-Stratton. Say you are with the Yale Club of Vermont. Make your reservation before January 8, when our unrestricted group rate expires. (You will still be able to make room reservations after that date, BUT they are subject to availability.)

• Breakfast together on Monday 7:30 – 9:00 at the Stratton Mountain Club. Reserve meals below.

• Ski (nordic or alpine), snowshoe, or relax until noon. As noted above, use the Stratton toll free number above to purchase your discounted passes;

• Lunch together at the Club at noon;

• Ski, snowshoe, or relax at the Club during the afternoon.

Reserve and Pay for Breakfast and Lunch at the Stratton Mountain Club:

The Game
2022-11-19 12:00 - 17:00
McGillicudy’s, noon, Essex, Vermont November 19, THE GAME … it’s on! Wear your colors and be prepared to take on your counterparts from Harvard. Thanks to club member Terry Hook for setting this up. See you at McGillicudy’s.

Fall Book Club September 14
2022-09-14 07:00 - 20:30
Join Us for the Yale Club of Vermont’s Fall Book Club on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. This will be a virtual meeting for which you must register.Reading: This Tender Land (Fiction), by William Kent KruegerOur own Elaine Gustafson ’86 MSN, from the Yale Club of Vermont Book Club Committee will facilitate!By popular demand, we’re keeping this quarterly book club virtual, to accommodate our book club membership spread out into every corner of Vermont. RSVP by Tuesday, September 13, 2022. Register here! The Zoom link will be sent to you once you register.

Happy Hour with Harvard
2022-07-07 17:00 - 19:00
We’ve been invited to join with members of the Harvard Club of Vermont for a summertime happy hour. For those living on the other side of the Green Mountains, the fun will be on Thursday, July 7th, 5pm-7pm at the Harpoon Brewery in Windsor (https://www.harpoonbrewery.com/windsor-brewery/) at 336 Ruth Carney Drive. Stephen Morris (stepmorris1@gmail.com) will be the contact point for this one .Both of these venues also offer food. There’s no upfront cost, nor need to register – just show up and buy a drink or two.

Annual Meeting
2022-06-22 19:00 - 20:00
The Annual Meeting of the Yale Club of Vermont will convene at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, June 22. Click here to register for this Zoom meeting. All Yalies in Vermont are welcome to participate.

Happy Hour with Harvard
2022-06-16 17:00 - 19:00
We’ve been invited to join with members of the Harvard Club of Vermont for a summertime happy hour. For those in northwestern Vermont, we’ll gather on Thursday, June 16th from 5pm-7pm at the Four Quarters Brewery at 70 Main Street in Winooski (https://www.4qbc.com). Terry Hook (terryhook@aol.com) will be the local Yalie-on-the-spot. Come help him hold back the Crimson tide!

Spring Gathering
2022-06-05 12:00 - 15:00
The Yale Club of Vermont will gather at the farm of Dorothy Porter just outside Brattleboro, on Sunday, June 5, 2022, from noon until 3 pm. Open to all Yale Club members (and if you are receiving this, then you are a member.) A catered lunch will be available for $20. BYOB. Put this event on your calendar, then register and pay below.

https://acerfarm.com/Acer Farm, a 186 acre maple sugar farm, owned by Yale Club member Dorothy Porter, will be the site of our gathering. Located just outside Brattleboro, VT and only 5 miles from Interstate-91, this picturesque property provides a quintessential Green Mountain setting for a reunion of Vermont Bulldogs. A catered lunch will be available for $20/each. Plan some extra time to walk the trails or to tour nearby Naulakha Estate, the legendary home of Rudyard Kipling, open for an Open House and Rhododendron Tour on this particular day.

Yale Faculty Speaker
2022-04-20 19:00 - 20:30
Seeking History Worthy of Grown Folks: Reflections on Du Bois & Archives of the Past, in the Present, for the Future

A live online event for Vermont Yalies, with

Michael Morand ’87, ’83 M.Div.Public Relations and Communications OfficerBeinecke Rare Book LibraryMichael Morand of the Beinecke Library will reflect on the copy of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters at Yale (JWJ) and share aspects of the collection which have relevance and resonance in our own time, shining light from the archives for contemporary pursuits of truth.

Michael Morand has lived in New Haven since 1983, when he came to Yale College as a first-year student. A graduate of the college and the Yale Divinity School, he has devoted his career in the university administration to building community and bringing people together. He currently is director of community engagement for the Beinecke Library and Yale Library special collections. He was previously deputy chief communications officer of the university and associate vice president for New Haven and state affairs.

Click here to register for the talk.

Book Club
2022-04-13 19:00 - 20:30
The Yale Club of Vermont Book group will convene over Zoom in April, on Wednesday the 13th at seven o’clock in the evening.

Where: Virtual Discussion – Registration Info Below Reading: Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro Our own Mary Jane Mona ’91 JD, from the Yale Club of Vermont Book Club Committee will facilitate. RSVP by Friday, April 8, 2022. Register here. The Zoom link will be sent to you once you register.

Nobel-Prize winning author Kazua Ishiguro (Remains of the Day) brings us his newest novel, Klara and the Sun. Long-listed for the Booker Prize, chosen as Maureen Corrigan’s Top Book of 2021, and on the “Top Book” lists of the New York Times, Time, the Guardian and more, Klara is a engaging read. Ishiguro likes to explore what it means to be human, or human-like, and centers this novel on a robot-like “Artificial Friend” named Klara, who narrates the novel and offers her observations about the humans who surround her. Set in the very near future where artificial intelligence plays a larger role in our lives, Klara is a best friend to a young teenage girl. Klara is such a compelling, emotional presence you may be convinced she is a sentient being. Is she? Come join us to discuss!

Feb Club 2/23
2022-02-23 17:30 - 18:30
Raise a glass with us! According to the Yale Daily News “Feb Club Emeritus began as a joke among friends who, busy with family, careers and adult obligations, yearned for unstructured time to hang out like they did in college. It has turned into an informal and dispersed gathering of Yalies worldwide.” How could we, as Yale alums and Vermonters, not be part of this? We plan to gather (via Zoom, because the driving can be dicey at that time of year) to toast each other with your favorite Vermont tipple. The Yale Club of Vermont’s 2022 Feb Club online gathering will take place on Zoom from 5:30-6:30 pm, Wednesday, February 23. In order to raise a glass with your favorite Vermont beverage, you need to register for this event.

Book Club Goes with Gunther
2022-01-26 19:00 - 20:30
Yale Club of Vermont Book Group Selection

Get ready for a treat that keeps giving. Back in 1988 Archer Mayor, Yale ’73, introduced his engaging detective Joe Gunther in Open Season. Full of twists, this whodunit police procedural is replete with authentic Vermontisms courtesy of Mr. Mayor’s residence in Newfane. No Hallmark stereotypes here! Please join us on Zoom for a discussion of this book on January 26 from 7:00 to 8:30pm. Perhaps the best part is that if you like it (and you will) there are 31 more in the series (so far!) and you can follow the adventures and mysteries of Joe right up to the present time.

Joe Gunther’s fictional adventures largely take place in Vermont. Gunther is the lead investigator in Mayor’s mystery series. Archer Mayor is currently a death investigator for Vermont’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Over the past thirty years, he has also been a detective for the Windham County Sheriff’s Office, a volunteer firefighter and EMT, and the publisher of his own backlist.

Register here.

Bulldogs Hit the Slopes
2022-01-24 07:30 - 16:00
On Monday, January 24, 2022 the Bulldogs Hit the Slopes at Stratton Mountain. Thank you Michael Jacobson for planning Yale Club of Vermont event. Interested Vermont Yalies are invited to:

• Stay Sunday night on the mountain. Reserve discounted rooms at the Yale Alumni page on the Stratton Mountain web site. Make your reservation before January 7, when our group rate expires.

• Breakfast together on Monday 7:30 – 9:00 at the Stratton Mountain Club. Reserve meals below.

• Ski (nordic or alpine), snowshoe, or relax until noon;

• Lunch together at the Club at noon;

• Ski, snowshoe, or relax at the Club during the afternoon.

Reserve and Pay for Meals at the Stratton Mountain Club:

Book Group
2021-09-15 19:00 - 20:30
The Book Club will be meeting at 7-8:30 pm on September 15 to discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Yale author Amor Towles. Elaine Gustafson will facilitate. Please register by September 10. Once you have registered, YAA will send you a Zoom linker the meeting.

Annual Gathering
2021-08-15 12:00 - 15:00 | Sky Acres, 670 Sky Acres Road, Washington, Vermont, 05675, United States
On Sunday, August 15 we will gather in person at noon for the first time in recent memory. Cilla and Russell Leavitt will be hosting us at Sky Acres, their farm and wedding venue in Washington, Vermont. The site, a one-time Girl Scout camp, boasts a pavilion that insures that we can meet RAIN or SHINE. There are a variety of recreational opportunities as well as a mountaintop view that is one of the most spectacular in Vermont! My wife Sandy and I were treated to a site inspection by Cilla and Russell, pictures of which can be viewed here. We’ll have salads, sandwiches, and assorted extras at about 1:00 PM. Bring your own beverages and a dessert to share. Register below, then send a check for your meals — $20 per person — to:Yale Club of Vermont c/o The Public PressStephen Morris100 Gilead Brook RoadRandolph VT 05060

Annual Meeting
2021-06-16 19:00 - 21:00
June 16, 7 pm will be our first Annual Meeting (via Zoom). We will be electing officers, approving a Board of Directors, and declaring ourselves official! Registration is required and will be administered by the Yale Alumni Association. Watch your Inbox for details, or check the website. One of the things we will be looking to accomplish at the Annual Meeting is to approve our by-laws.

Book Group
2021-05-05 19:00 - 20:30
Please join us for our first meeting (virtual, of course), on Wednesday,May 5, 2021 from 7:00 –8:30 p.m. We will be discussing Ian McEwan’s novel Nutshell. We’ll have time to socialize, discuss the future of the Book Club, and of course, discuss the book.

One of our own, Mary Jane Mona, will facilitate.

RSVP by Friday, April 30, 2021. Register here.

Tell other Green Mountain Bulldogs.

Ian McEwan is a contemporary wonder of a novelist, prolific and diverse in his subjects, penning such masterpieces as Atonement, Sweet Tooth, Saturday and On Chesil Beach.

In the short novel Nutshell, McEwan offers a thoroughly modern, loose retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Narrated from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell upends this classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world’s master storytellers.

“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”
