Book Club to Welcome Back Archer Mayor
2025-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Yale Grad and popular Vermont Author Archer Mayor Will Join us for a lively discussion of his Joe Gunther Mystery Tucker Peak.

Tucker Peak is a quintessential Vermont Story about a small ski resort struggling to survive, and a string of burglaries at the ski condos that leave resort management even more beleaguered. Joe has left his work in Brattleboro to oversee the newly-minted Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Gunther’s elite squad sniffs at first about assisting with such small-potatoes crime, but as quick as you can say maple syrup, the problems escalate to murder, drugs, embezzlement, the ethics of snowmaking, and beyond.

This action-packed crime novel about the underbelly of a one-company town is a particular delight for Vermont readers, sure to connect with local themes.

This event will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Register here.

Ski with Harvard and Brown February 21
2025-02-21 16:00 - 22:00
On Friday February 21 the combined Yale and Brown Clubs hit the slopes at Bolton Valley. The night shift started at 4:00 pm as the lights came on from the summit to the base. The intrepid participants soldiered on through the unexpected snow to conquer the mountain in true Ivy fashion. We were ever true and ever blue!

It’s not all work and no play, so seven of us gathered in the Tavern for dinner – three from Brown, three from Yale, and one with dual citizenship.Some had to head home afterwards, but others went back out for some post-prandial and post-libational runs. We’ll do it again next year!The weather is really cooperating for the ski event at Bolton on the 21st. Epic nor’easter rolling in this weekend – be there with the Bulldogs and Brunonians on Friday.The lifts are open from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm for top-to-bottom green-to-black illuminated skiing. Buy your tickets soon.Don’t forget that as the overall snow coverage is great, afternoon Nordic Skiing is also available at Bolton, and passes are $25 per person. If you plan to ski Nordic, before meeting up in the Lodge, feel free to text our organizer Terry Hook at (802) 355-4943 if you want to connect with other Nordic enthusiasts. Nordic tickets are here.

You may come and go anytime, but some of us plan to be “booting up” in the lodge at 4:00 pm – look for the Brown banner and any other collegiate paraphernalia. RSVP not necessary, but we can keep an eye out for you. You can also text Terry Hook at (802) 355-4943.After a few early runs (the sun sets at 5:30pm) some food, libations, and socialization would go well at around six pm. The James Moore Tavern is open until 9pm for food and drinks.

Book Club: Birnam Wood
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:30
Join fellow Vermont Yalies for an online discussion of Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, on January 29 from 7:00 until 8:30 PM on Zoom.

Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland.

Like her previous novel The Luminaries, the book is set in a fictionalised New Zealand, primarily in and around a national park in the South Canterbury region. The title is taken from a line in Macbeth.

Register here.

The Game: Yale-Harvard Viewing Party
2024-11-23 12:00 - 16:00 | McGillicuddy’s Pub in Essex Junction, 4 Pearl St., Essex Junction, Vermont, 05452, United States
Join with our frenemies at the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Vermont for a rollicking good time cheering on our respective teams from the comfort of McGillicuddy’s in Essex Junction. Food and beverage available for purchase. Game time at noon November 23 – come anytime from kickoff to the final play. There’s no cost but please RSVP below.

Join your Yale and Harvard friends…

Don’t be afraid to show your support…

Don’t get stuck in the past…

Book Club September 25
2024-09-25 19:00 - 20:30
The book for September is Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town’s Secret to Happiness, by Karen Crouse.

As we come to nearly the end of the Paris Summer Olympic Games, why not keep themagic going, and bring it closer to home? This delightful book chronicles the Town of Norwich,Vermont and explores why it produces the largest number of Olympic athletes percapita than anywhere else in the Country. Spoiler: It’s all about how great Vermont is!Author Karen Crouse, a New York Times reporter, is an excellent storyteller.Although published in 2019, the book’s thesis remains valid: A Norwich native iscompeting at the 2024 summer games, even though most of the past Norwich athletesare winter Olympians: https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2024-07-10/here-are-the-vermonters-at-the-2024-paris-olympics-team-usa)Please register here for the Book Club discussion (via Zoom) on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Salon with Ken Ellingwood, August 24
2024-08-24 14:00 - 16:30
The Yale Club of Vermont’s Summer 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. Register below.

Following an introductory presentation there will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. Light refreshments will be served. (This salon is rescheduled from the snowed-out event of March 24.)

We’ll gather on Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Duxbury home of Yale Club Board Member Jim Lengel, Yale College ’71. Register below to receive directions to Jim’s house.

Summer Picnic July 28
2024-07-28 12:00 - 16:00
Yale Club of Vermont’s Summer Picnic will take place, rain or shine, on Sunday, July 28, 2024, from noon until 4:00 pm at the home of Jacqui Hood in Georgia, Vermont, overlooking Lake Champlain from the hilltop. Meet fellow Vermont Yalies of all ages! Families are encouraged to participate. The registration fee covers a catered picnic lunch ($25 per person, $10 for children under 12). Bring your own beverages. We will have yard games aplenty on hand, including Jacqui’s very own Yale Cornhole set. Children are welcome at this event. If you have any questions feel free to email the Club’s President Mary Mona (maryjanemona@gmail.com). Register by July 23.

Click here to register and pay for adults @ $25.

Click here to register and pay for children @ $10.

Happy Summer, and Hope to See You There . . .

Yale Day of Service
2024-05-11 11:30 - 14:00
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.

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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!
