Happy Hour with Harvard
2022-07-07 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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 | Vermont
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.”

Nicholas Christakis
2021-04-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Vermont
Best-selling author and fellow Vermonter will speak to our local Yale Club via Zoom at 7 o’clock on Thursday, April 8. See the Yale News article on Prof. Christakis’ new book.

Nicholas Christakis to Speak to Club

YCV Feb Club
2021-02-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Zoom meeting
Feb Club Vermont – Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 5:00 PM
What is Feb Club?

Every year, Yale alumni and their friends gather around the world every night of February — in small groups and large, in cities, towns, hamlets and villages, on every continent. Why do we do it? Simple. Because it’s fun to get together. That’s it. There is no agenda. There is no plan. Feb Club is simply a way for Yalies the world over to get together. This approach has worked since the first worldwide Feb Club in 2008.
Since then, Feb Club has hosted more than 1,000 parties and has welcomed more than 30,000 guests all with one aim – to hang out with an amazing, diverse, vibrant, curious and fun group of people from all Yale College classes, all Yale graduate and professional schools and all walks of life. Feb Club Emeritus has only three rules: no speeches, no fundraising, it’s just a party. It’s that simple.

See https://febclubemeritus.com

Feb Club in Vermont 2021

Our Governor’s executive order will not permit us to meet in a bar, restaurant, or private home for Feb Club. So we will meet on Zoom at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 10. We will hear no speeches, suffer no requests for funds, endure no debates. We suggest you pour yourself a drink, assemble a bowl of snacks, and prepare to party. For this first activity of the revived Yale Club of Vermont, we suggest you either concoct a libation featuring Vermont ingredients or made in Vermont. Be prepared to tell us a little something about your beverage of choice! Or make the (blue) Yale Cocktail.

The Montpelier
Modeled on the Manhattan, this can be made from all Vermont-native elements.

2 ounces of Vermont whiskey (such as Whistle Pig. See https://802spirits.com/products/madeinvermont)
1/4 ounce white wine or dry vermouth (such as Dry Louise Swenson)
Dash of bitters (such as Runamok Maple Bitters)
1 teaspoon Vermont Maple Syrup

Fill a shaker with ice. Enter the ingredients. Shake well. Smile as you shake.
Pour into a chilled martini glass with a twist of lemon. Drink slowly and responsibly.

Contributed by Jim Lengel, Yale College ‘71

Organizational Meeting
2021-01-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Online Zoom meeting
Second Planning Committee meeting for the Yale Club of Vermont
