Events

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 […]

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! 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]