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Club Events
 Wednesday, July 28th
Meet Stephanie Syman, author of
“The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America”
Wednesday, 07/28/10 at 6:00 pm NEW TIME
"Meet the Author" table at Cafe Borrone
(Cafe Borrone is next door to Kepler's)
7:00 pm presentation at Kepler's
Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321
Yoga’s history in America is longer and richer
than even its most devoted practitioners realize. It was present in
Emerson’s New England, and by the turn of the twentieth century it was
fashionable among the leisure class. And yet when Americans first learned
about yoga, what they learned was that it was a dangerous, alien practice
that would corrupt body and soul.
A century later, you can find yoga in gyms, malls, and
even hospitals, and the arrival of a yoga studio in a neighborhood is a
signal of cosmopolitanism. How did it happen?
It did so, Stefanie Syman
explains, through a succession of charismatic yoga teachers, who risked
charges of charlatanism as they promoted yoga in America, and through
generations of yoga students, who were deemed unbalanced or even insane for
their efforts. The Subtle Body tells the stories of these people, including
Henry David Thoreau, Pierre A. Bernard, Margaret Woodrow Wilson,
Christopher Isherwood, Sally Kempton, and Indra
Devi.
Stefanie Syman, a literature graduate of Yale, was a founder of Feed,
an early, award-winning Web magazine. She has written for The Wall Street
Journal, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Yoga Journal. A native of Los Angeles,
Stefanie Syman lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn and
has practiced yoga for fifteen years.
Thursday, July 29th
Open Science Summit 2010
Join fellow Yalies
Victoria Stodden, Ethan Guillén,
Shay David and other leading scholars, activists, and scientists at Berkeley
at the Open Science Summit, the first conference examining how the
institutions and practices that comprise science can be updated to enable
the collaboration and transparency required to solve humanity's greatest
challenges.
Thursday, July 29th at 4:00 PM to
Saturday, July 31st at 10:00 PM
Chevron Auditorium, International House
2299
Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2320
register at: http://opensciencesummit.eventbrite.com/
Bios:
Victoria Stodden is a Postdoctoral Associate in
Law and a Kauffman Fellow in Law at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
After completing her PhD in statistics, she obtained a Master’s in Legal
Studies in 2007 from Stanford Law School where she created a new licensing
structure for computational research. Her paper proposing an Intellectual
Property framework, called the Reproducible Research Standard, won the Kaltura Writing Competition, given in connection with
the Third Conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K3) in 2008.
Ethan Guillén has
been with University's Allied for Access to Essential Medicines (UAEM) as
its executive director since September 2007. After receiving his
bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University in 2002, Ethan
taught primary school in rural India. UAEM's
genesis was at Yale in 2001, when student Amy Kapczynski
helped lead efforts that resulted in Yale University and Bristol-Myers
Squibb permitting generic competition and providing steep price discounts
for an important anti-AIDS drug (d4T) in South Africa. UAEM now has
chapters at many major research university's and
works to promote socially responsible licensing of technologies.
Shay David is the co-founder and VP of
Business and Community Development of Kaltura, a
software startup company. Kaltura is a leader in
open-source video creation, discovery, and collaboration. Kaltura’s goal is to create the world’s first and
largest network of legally sharable and remixable
rich media content. Shay is also a fellow at the Yale law school
information society project.
Saturday, July 31st
Angel Island Centennial
Seeking Volunteers for the Commemoration of Angel Island
Immigration Station
July 31st
We are hoping that volunteers will be
available to help out the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation at
our Centennial Commemoration. Last year, the Immigration Station was the
site of the Northern CA Association of Asian American Yale Alumni’s day of
service project, as volunteers helped prepare exhibits and cleared the
grounds of weeds, making a major contribution to the immigration station.
Angel Island Immigration Station was the point of entry for close to one
million immigrants to the U.S. from 1910 to 1940 – in some ways the Pacific
version of Ellis Island, but for some the “Guardian of the Western Gate,”
as some in federal government called it. People from 80 countries
passed through the station, and because of the restrictive Chinese
Exclusion Acts, Chinese who sought to immigrate had to stay on the island
for weeks, months, or even years. Some of them left bittersweet poems
carved in the barracks' walls. The discovery of these poems in 1970 led to
the saving of the immigration station.
Here is more information about the event and
discounted ferry tickets:
http://www.aiisf.org/index.php/updates/318-get-ready-to-celebrate-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-angel-island-immigration-station-on-july-31
Volunteers can take a ferry from San Francisco
(9:45 am) or Tiburon (10 am) and walk over to the immigration station and
be able to enjoy the first half of our program from 11am to noon. At that
time we will open the barracks for free self-guided tours and that’s where
you’d come in. We need people to take two-hour shifts (noon - 2pm or 2 -
4pm) in one of the historic barracks rooms and guide people through the
exhibit and encourage people to go to the next room. It would be great if
you know a little bit about the station’s history, which you can learn on
our website at www.aiisf.org. We also need someone to be our
audio/visual techie during the program’s second part, held at the historic
mess hall.
Please email Grant Din (’79), Director of
Special Projects at gdin@aiisf.org or call 415-262-4433 and let him know if
you’re interested.
Sunday, August 1st
Yale Club of Orange County's
Pageant of the Masters
*EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY*
Sunday, August 1, 2010
8:30
PM
Laguna Beach, CA
Some
of the most glorious art ever created has eloquently expressed the singular
joys of being alive. The 2010 Pageant of the Masters will devote its
uniquely theatrical celebration of the art of “living pictures” to a
jubilant exploration of our collective capacity for seizing the moment,
letting our hair down, and raising a heartfelt toast to the good
life. From Bacchus to Bourbon Street, from the elegant fetes of 17th
century Europe to the flappers of the Jazz Age, Eat, Drink and Be Merry
will savor the timeless masterpieces that have captured and enhanced the
exhilaration of good times and, even more remarkably, buoyed spirits when
times were hard. With its surefire recipe for theatrical fun and
unforgettable “living art”, the 2010 Pageant promises a memorable le feast
for the senses.
Please join Yale Alumni, family, and friends
for a special evening in Laguna Beach. Gallery hop, dine, and meet
your fellow Yalies and friends at our SAPPHIRE
Laguna Reception, followed by this year’s Pageant of the Masters.
SAPPHIRE Hosts - Chef Azmin
and Laura (Howe) Ghahreman ‘95.
Tickets are $50 per person, which includes our
SAPPHIRE Laguna Reception, entrance to the Festival of Arts, and Main Tier
seating for the Pageant.
Please make your check payable and send to:
Yale Club of Orange
County
4000 Westerly Place
#250
Newport Beach, CA 92660
For more information, contact Jim Gonzales ’83
at james.gonzales@lpl.com
or 949-975-8145.
http://www.foapom.com/site/pageant_program.asp
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The Yale Historical Review, a new journal on campus, is
seeking financial support
Every year students in Yale’s diverse history courses
compose praiseworthy papers on topics from the post-World War I Spanish flu
epidemic to a merchant’s travels on the Silk Road. The Yale Historical
Review is looking to reward these students for their diligent work and to
promote the diffusion of ideas throughout Yale’s history community.
They intend to publish one paper from each type of history class, ensuring
that freshmen through seniors get an opportunity to be published in the
journal.
They have structured their operation so that
nearly 100% of all funding goes to printing and they expect printing
costs will range from $2,000 to $3,000 per semester. They will
also publish the journal online for broader accessibility.
Contributors of:
$500 or more will have
their names printed in the front flap of every issue under the title of
“Founding Patrons”
$250 will have their
names printed in the same location under the title of “Founding
Contributors”
$100 will have their
names printed in the same location in the first issue only under the title
of “Contributors”
Contributions should be directed to the
following address: “Y. Historical Review P.O. Box 207137 New Haven, CT
06520.”
For more information, please contact the
Editor-in-Chief, Christopher Magoon (Christopher.magoon@yale.edu)
or the Communications and Development Editor, Josh Tannen
(Joshua.tannen@yale.edu).
They would be delighted to speak with you over the phone.
For more information and to see their first
issue, please click here: www.yalehistoricalreview.org.
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Other
Activities and Organizations of Interest
Association of Asian American Yale Alumni
The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni
(AAAYA) is a volunteer-run, membership-based organization that provides a
vehicle for Yale
University alumni to
promote the civic participation, leadership and service of Asian Americans
and Asians at Yale and in the broader society.
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Yale Life Sciences Alumni
Association
The Yale Life Sciences Alumni
Association (YLSAA) is a Yale shared interest group that organizes
events in the Bay Area and New
York.
Click on one of its events for more information and for its
LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook links.
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San
Francisco Bay Area Ivy Plus
SF Bay Area Ivy
Plus organizes and communicates events for alumni from Ivy League plus a
few other universities. SF Bay Area
Ivy Plus has a monthly newsletter on LinkedIn and
a Facebook group to inform members about local
business and social networking events that it organizes or that are
sponsored by its alumni groups and open to other Ivy Plus alumni.
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Stanford Social Networking Club
The Stanford
Social Networking Club was founded in 2009 to provide opportunities for
single alumni to meet, mingle, and enjoy networking with one another.
Yale alumni are invited to attend its upcoming events. See Photos
of its past events.
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Ivy Alliance
The Ivy Alliance
is a Yahoo group mailing list for alumni from the Ivy League and Seven
Sisters. It organizes events and
promotes events sponsored by participating alumni clubs which are open to
all Ivy/Seven Sister alumni. In
addition to its own mailing list, the Ivy Alliance will broadcast event
notices to the other alumni clubs for inclusion in their regular
newsletters and/or posting on their websites.
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Ivy Gourmet
The Ivy Gourmet is an informal meeting
of Ivy League and Seven Sister alumni who enjoy good food and company. It was created to provide a fun and
relaxing environment for Ivy alumni to meet and socialize and to experience
many diverse cuisines in neighborhoods all around the San Francisco Bay
Area.
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The Ivy Plus Society
The Ivy Plus Society (TIPS)
brings together young alumni (age 21-42) from a group of schools (too many
to list here) to create a community of talented, dynamic individuals and endeavors
to initiate opportunities for this exceptional group to connect in the real
world, beyond the iron-gates of our alma maters. Its philosophy – if you are going to go
out, might as well head somewhere fabulous!
TIPS members and qualified alumni attending events are welcome to
bring guests from non-TIPS schools.
For more information about The
Ivy Plus Society and to register for events, go to: www.ivyplussociety.org
Jobnob Ivy Plus Happy Hour Job Fairs
Come "Jobnob"
with cool new startups and other job seekers at FREE informal networking happy hours where job seekers who want to keep their skills sharp
are matched up with startups that could use their help. Jobnob started
in May of 2009, and past events have had 60 to 120 companies and 200 to 400
attendees. Check out its website for
more information about events
and job listings.
The Ivy Connection
The Ivy Connection organizes
speed dating events in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for alumni of Ivy League and a group
of other colleges. The speed dating consists of a maximum of 12 mini
dates, and the event lasts about 2 hours. Go to How Events Work
for the list of colleges and a description of the speed dating process.
To get a 10% discount through our club, click on "Review Your
Order," then on "Add Special Instructions To Merchant," and
enter the code YCSV.
The age ranges for events are
recommendations. Participants can
select the event with an age range with which they feel most comfortable.
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