Yale Club of VT
Organizational Board Meeting 3 (Virtual)
March 9, 2021
Minutes
- President’s Remarks – Welcome and roll call
Stephen:
Sugar buckets have been hung! Winter’s back is broken.
- Review of Minutes of February 4, 2021 meeting – Stephen
Terry to take minutes for today
- Committee Reports:
- Book Club update: Mary Jane Mona
Invitation for May 5 discussion drafted – to go out ASAP; to go out several times, and also to be included in the newsletter. Also special attention to registrants.
- Governance/Bylaws: Elaine
Using Yale template; subcommittee to meet once more to finalize and then submit to committee for vote
Diane discussed insurance – can omit but omit the relevant clause.
Please send any suggestions
Upon approval it would then be appropriate to elect officers. Officers are elected from a list of up to 15 Directors.
Perhaps staggered terms – one to three years, especially early to allow for new members
4. Communications:
- Website update: Jim Lengel
All up and online. Yaleclubvermont.org. Diane will improve links from Yale Alumni pages
- Newsletter: Stephen
Web pages are linked on newsletter. Unusually high response rate, but concern that it may get shunted to spam folders. Google docs profiles for members!
5. Events:
- April Lecture: Nicholas Cristakas Thursday April 8 7pm
All set up by Diane. Announced in newsletter. Registration will be available in the next week or so. NB: see his interview in Yale Today. To be linked into website
- Summer TBD – Stephen
Late summer in person (!) possible event. Brattleboro or Washington possible
- Feb Club Emeritus Review: Jim Lengel
About 15 attendees. Fun time! New England version used “Gatherly” Some hundreds of participants. Pretty positive experience.
New Business:
Are job postings appropriate for the newsletter and web and so on? Perhaps Career Services a better forum for that.
7. Next Meeting: Tuesday April 13 5pm