Minutes of Planning Committee, 3/9/2021

Yale Club of VT

Organizational Board Meeting 3 (Virtual)

March 9, 2021

Minutes

  1. President’s Remarks – Welcome and roll call

Stephen:

Sugar buckets have been hung! Winter’s back is broken.

  1. Review of Minutes of February 4, 2021 meeting – Stephen

Terry to take minutes for today

  1. Committee Reports: 
  1. 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.

  1. 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: 

  1. Website update: Jim Lengel

All up and online. Yaleclubvermont.org. Diane will improve links from Yale Alumni pages

  1. 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: 

  1. 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

  1. Summer TBD – Stephen

Late summer in person (!) possible event. Brattleboro or Washington possible

  1. 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