Book Club Goes with Gunther
2022-01-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
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.”

Nicholas Christakis
2021-04-07 19:00 - 20:30
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
