Recent Events

Friday, February 19, 2010

Feb Club Emeritus
at the
Dutch Goose
3567 Alameda de las Pulgas
Menlo Park 94025

Come join us once again at local favorite the Dutch Goose in Menlo Park for a night of rollicking good times with fellow Yalies! The Silicon Valley party is on a Friday this year so that you can stay longer.

From 6-9 pm we'll have the back room reserved and also be some of the first to experience the "Duck Blind," an outside bar where we'll be able to order food and drinks and not have to walk up to the front of the restaurant to order. The Dutch Goose is family friendly, so whether you're a vintage Eli, a recent grad or have some future Yalies in tow, all are welcome!

Please register at Feb Club Emeritus to record your participation for future generations of Yalies. Feb Club uses Eventbrite to send a ticket for the event. You do not need to print and bring the ticket with you. Admission to our event is free.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Career Within You
by
Elizabeth Wagele and Ingrid Stabb, '99 SOM

Book Talk and Mini-Workshop at Kepler's
at 7:30 pm
Happy Hour at the British Bankers Club
starting at 6:00 pm

Job satisfaction in America is at a 22-year low, at only 45%, according to a recent study by the Conference Board. While the recession is a factor, job satisfaction has been steadily decreasing even in boom times, in part, due to the fact that fewer workers consider their jobs to be interesting. Authors Elizabeth Wagele and Ingrid Stabb released The Career Within You (HarperCollins 2010) to help turn around job satisfaction one employee at a time by helping individuals better understand their greatest strengths and start in 2010 to reshape their careers around what genuinely motivates them and naturally captures their interest on a daily basis.

To be successful and fulfilled, your work life must reflect your true self, including calling upon the strengths you already possess. The Career Within You by Elizabeth Wagele and Ingrid Stabb helps you achieve just that. Its individualized approach determines your career type, then helps you forge the career path that best suits you, making it the ideal guide for job hunters and career changers of all stripes.

A marketing executive by profession, Ingrid Stabb epitomizes one of the nine personality types she writes about—the Adventurer—the generalist who continually takes on new endeavors in many different fields. She has served as an officer in the Army, developed and marketed products for Fortune 500 companies, and founded the nonprofit Russian adoption program for World Child. Most notably, Stabb developed and marketed the first SCORE! Educational Centers for kids, which was sold to the Washington Post in 1997; and became the second-largest network of learning centers in the country, with more than 150 centers nationwide. Stabb currently is a social media marketer for the startup Lithium Technologies.

The Career Within You Website has more information, worksheets,
and a career-type quiz.

A Happy Hour, too! We organized another Happy Hour/Kepler's combo at the nearby British Bankers Club with the Cornell club and our friends at Stanford. The Happy Hour begins before the talk at Kepler's, and people can decide whether to come to the Happy Hour, the talk at Kepler's, or both. Come to the happy hour to meet and talk with Ingrid and Liz before their presentation at Kepler's.

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Time:
6:00 pm Happy hour at the British Bankers Club (next to Kepler's)
7:30 pm Presentation at Kepler's Books

Location (Map):
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA 94025
(650) 324-4321

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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Probing the Secrets
of the Mind and Brain

Professor Marvin Chun
Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology
Master of Berkeley College

Why do people behave the way they do? What can brain imaging reveal about the unconscious percepts, thoughts, memories, emotions, and even social biases that influence everyday behavior? Where may research lead us in the future?

Come probe our minds with a multimedia presentation by Marvin Chun, Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology, Director of the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, and Master of Berkeley College at Yale University. Professor Chun uses functional neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study visual attention, memory, and perception.

Professor Marvin Chun is one of Yale's outstanding teachers and scientists. His Introduction to Psychology course is one of the most popular courses at Yale. He received the 2002 Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2006 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, which is given to young investigators (age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement. In 2007 Phi Beta Kappa chose Professor Chun for the William DeVane Award for Teaching and Scholarship at Yale.

Food for Thought: The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life recently released a survey on the religious beliefs and practices of Americans, including information on such beliefs as astrology and ghosts by sex, race, age, education, political orientation, and religion.

More Food for Thought: Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ, March 24, 2009, in MIT Technology Review.

Join us to meet other alums and chat with Professor Chun about Yale and his research.

Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010

Time:
6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program and Q & A
8:00 pm            Reception

Location (map):
Kellogg Auditorium
Silicon Valley Bank
3005 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Directions:
Silicon Valley Bank is located near the Great America Parkway, which connects to both highways 101 and 237. The Kellogg Auditorium is next to the main office.

Ticket Price per Person:
               $15          Paid in advance
               $20          Paid at the door

Sponsors:
Yale Club of Silicon Valley and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by
Daniel Pink '91 YLS

Happy Hour at the British Bankers Club

Do you know how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home? As Daniel H. Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. Drive is bursting with big ideas-- the rare book that will change how you think and transform how you live.

Daniel H. Pink is the author of the long-running New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller A Whole New Mind, as well as The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation. He has written for The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, where he is a contributing editor. He has provided analysis for CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. Pink lectures on economic transformation and the new workplace at corporations, associations, and universities around the world.

A free agent himself, Dan held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government. He received a BA with honors from Northwestern University and a JD from Yale Law School.

A Happy Hour, too! We organized a happy hour at the nearby British Bankers Club with the Cornell club and our friends at Stanford. Come meet and chat with Dan Pink before his talk at Kepler's.

Date:       Thursday, January 14, 2010

Time:
6:00 pm   Happy hour at the British Bankers Club (next to Kepler's)

7:30 pm   Presentation at Kepler's Books

Location (Map):
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Yale Harvard 1891-2.jpg "The Game"
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Kick off at 9:00 a.m. PST

First & Main Sports Lounge
397 Main Street
Corner of First and Main Streets
Los Altos CA 94022
Map
650-949-1380

First & Main Sports Lounge opened in Los Altos in November of 2008, and we are trying it for the first time this year. We will be in the Lounge and Lower Dining Area.

Yale Fight Songs

Down the Field
Bulldog
Boola
Bingo, That's the Lingo
Goodnight, Harvard
Bright College Years

The game begins at 9:00 am, and First & Main will open around 8:30 am. There is no cover charge or minimum. Food and beverage will be available to purchase. Children are welcome. Our friends from Harvard will be joining us again, so we need lots of Yalies to out-shout and out-sing them. Come join us to watch the Game, meet old friends, and make new friends.

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Minds for Sale
by
Jonathan Zittrain '91
Professor of Internet Law
Harvard Law School

Moderator: Pulin Sanghvi '92
Assistant Dean &
Director of the Career Management Center
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Networks connect people as well as devices, and when they are cheap and easy to use, intellectual tasks can be broken out and performed elsewhere by other people. We are in the initial stages of distributed human thinking that can be directed at mental tasks the way that surplus remote server rackspace or Web hosting can be purchased to accommodate sudden spikes in Internet traffic. For example:

Firms like InnoCentive offer rewards of $5,000 to $1 million to solve challenges ranging from designing self-cleaning kitchen sponges to creating a new molecule or biomarker.
Marketplaces like Amazon's Mechanical Turk offer "HITs" - human intelligence tasks - for sale one unit at a time, from as low as $0.01 for boring and repetitive work to as high as $10.00 for more demanding tasks. If Mechanical Turk had preceded Wikipedia, potential contributors to the latter might have been more primed to wonder why they should give away for free what otherwise commands a price.
Firms like LiveOps allow people to take pizza orders one minute and solicit campaign donations the next. At some fast food drive-throughs, the microphone and speaker next to the menu board are patched through to an order-taker thousands of miles away. That person types up the requested order and dispatches it back to a screen in the food preparation area of the restaurant while the car is idling.

Imagine a future in which passengers on a subway train stare into screens even for just a few minutes and earn as much money in that time as their respective skills and stations allow.

Jonathan Zittrain '91 DC, will discuss the prospects and issues for this future in which human computing is ubiquitous and nearly any mental act can be bought and sold. Zittrain is professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School and author, most recently, of The Future of the Internet And How To Stop It, published by the Yale University Press. An interactive online version of the book is available on the Yale Books Unbound website of the Yale University Press. Jonathan Zittrain will have a new book out in 2010 on Internet Law.

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Future of Internet.jpg

Time:
6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program and Q & A
8:00 pm            Book Signing (paperback books for sale at the event)

Location (map):
Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium
1313 Newell Road (On the corner of Embarcadero Road)
Palo Alto 94303
(650) 329-2366

Ticket Price per Person (YCSV members will get the member code by email):
               $12          Paid in advance for YCSV members and 1 guest
               $20          Non-member price and price at the door
               $ 7          Student price (please show student ID at the door)

Sponsors:
The Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, Yale Club of Silicon Valley,
and Harvard Club of Silicon Valley.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Special Post-Show Reception for Attendees

Yellow Face
A SATIRICAL SELF-PORTRAIT

By David Henry Hwang '83 MFA
Starring
Pun Bandhu '01 MFA as D.H.H.
Francis Jue '86 as D.H.H.'s father

A revealing backstage comedy from the Tony Award-winning author of M Butterfly, this ferociously funny, utterly unreliable memoir chronicles David Henry Hwang’s struggle to define racial identity in the mixed-up melting pot of contemporary America. Part fact, part fiction, provocative yet full of heart, this Obie Award winner is a tale of cultural politics, family fortunes, and artistic integrity. Actor and Tony-winning producer Pun Bandhu plays D.H.H. Broadway star Francis Jue recreates his award-winning role as D.H.H.'s father.

Dinner: For those who wanted to get together before the performance, we will meet for dinner at the New Mongolian BBQ at 304 Castro Street in Mountain View beginning at 6 pm. Service is buffet style, so people can arrive at different times.

Post-show Reception: After the show playwright, David Henry Hwang '83 MFA, actors Francis Jue '86 and Pun Bandhu '01 MFA, and TheatreWorks Artistic Director Robert Kelley will meet with the group to discuss the play and their roles.

Date:          Thursday, September 10, 2009

Program:
6-7:15 pm    Meet for dinner (buffet style) at New Mongolian BBQ,
                   304 Castro Street, Mountain View, 94041
8:00 pm       Play begins
Post-show    Reception at theater with Francis Jue '86, Pun Bandhu '01 MFA,
                    David Henry Hwang '83 MFA, & Artistic Director Robert Kelley

Location (map):
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
500 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94041

Tickets:
TheatreWorks is offering us its group benefit ticket price so that we can sell the tickets at prices lower than its typical discounted rates. The ticket prices are:
Adult:     $35
Student   $25

Sponsors:
The Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) and the Yale Club of Silicon Valley are co-hosting this event. Part of the ticket price will go to AAAYA to raise money for its programs.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Chris Mooney '99
co-author of

UNSCIENTIFIC AMERICA
How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of twenty-first century require scientific solutions. And yet Americans are paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; according to Gallup and Pew polls, a large percent of Americans do not believe in evolution; the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-three since 1989. The gap between the scientific community and American culture grows wider every day.

In Unscientific America, journalist and best-selling author Chris Mooney and scientist Sheril Kirshenbaum explain how corporate interests, a weak education system, science-phobic politicians, and hyperspecialized scientists have created this dangerous state of affairs. They also propose a broad array of initiatives that could reverse the current trend and lead to the greater integration of science into our national discourse—before it is too late.

Chris Mooney is a contributing editor to Science Progress and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Republican War on Science, and Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming. He contributes to many publications including Wired, Slate, and The American Prospect and has appeared on radio and TV shows such as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Chris is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and will be a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2009-2010.

Date: Monday, August 3, 2009

Time:
6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program and Q & A
8:00 pm            Book Signing (books for sale by Kepler's Books)

Location:
Kellogg Auditorium
Silicon Valley Bank
3005 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408.654.7400

Directions:
Silicon Valley Bank is located near the Great America Parkway, which connects to both highways 101 and 237. The Kellogg Auditorium is next to the main office.

Ticket Price per Person:
$15 Members and non-members paid in advance
$20 Paid at the door

Sponsors:
Yale Club of Silicon Valley and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley

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Saturday, June 6, July 18, September 12 & October 10, 2009

San Mateo Memorial Park Creek Trail Building Project

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The park entry fee is waived for volunteers.

Mem Park June 4.jpg On the Yale Day of Service when many areas were roasting in 95 degree weather, Yale volunteers were enjoying 70 degree weather in the shade next to the picturesque Pescadero Creek in Memorial Park. This is a trail that has been closed for years and is not even shown on current maps. The Trail Center , a community service organization whose projects our club helps to promote, returned on June 6, July 18, September 12, and October 10 to finish the trail building on Creek Trail. We worked on the retaining wall and clearing the trail upstream to the suspension bridge, the connector trails, and the trail downstream from the waterfall.

This was a great opportunity for Yale alums to help San Mateo County maintain a park that is a favorite for many.

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Registration
Go to the Trail Center website to register for any project. Include that you are a Yale alum and how many people are in your party. Children should be 14 years or older. Check with the Trail Center before bringing younger children because of the dangers of the terrain and tools.

Schedule
Arrive at 8:30 am (about an hour drive from Palo Alto or SF because of the distance and winding roads) for safety talks, instructions on how to use the tools, and crew assignments. Work will start on the trail at 9:00. Bring a lunch for the lunch break, which we enjoyed last time sitting on the rocks in and next to Pescadero Creek. The work will continue after lunch until 2:30 or 3 pm, at which time the Trail Center breaks out the beer, juices, chips, dip, veggies, and other goodies for a refreshing feast and time to get to know one another better.

What to Bring
Volunteers should bring water, sunscreen, sturdy shoes, lunch, and a change of clothes. Wear long pants and a long sleeve shirt to protect against poison oak. The Trail Center provides tools, training, gloves, and refreshments after the workday.

Mem Park June 2.jpg Directions
Memorial Park is located on Pescadero Creek Road about 7 miles east of the town of Pescadero. The parking/meeting place for our group is the first picnic area in the Huckleberry Flat Group Picnic Area, which is about 0.4 miles to the west of the main park entrance. There should be a Trail Center sign on Pescadero Creek Road by the entrance to the Huckleberry Flat Group Picnic Area.

It takes about an hour to get to Memorial Park from Palo Alto. When coming from the bay side of the peninsula, use Highway 84 west from either Highway 280, 101 or 35 (Skyline Boulevard). If you drive through the town of Woodside, the speed limit is 25 mph and is often strictly enforced on weekends. Continue on Highway 84 to Pescadero Road, which is just past the town of La Honda. Turn left (south) on Pescadero Road and take it to the Huckleberry Flat Group Picnic Area about 0.4 miles past the main park entrance. Both Highway 84 and Pescadero Road are very winding and slow going in places. Mem Park June 3.jpg

When coming to Memorial Park from the coast side, take Highway 1 to Pescadero Road. This way is often faster and more comfortable for car passengers if you are coming from SF or areas north of Highway 92. Follow Pescadero Road east about 7 miles past Pescadero to the Huckleberry Flat Group Picnic Area entrance, which is about 0.4 miles before the main park entrance. If you pass this entrance, you can turn around at the main entrance.

The ranger at the main entrance booth can give you directions. Tell the ranger that you are working on the Trail Center trail building project so that you are not charged the entrance fee.

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Other Places To Go

After the Trail Center project is done, there is still time to visit the towns of Pescadero or Half Moon Bay. Half Moon Bay If you are passing through the intersection of 84 and 35, you can stop and enjoy the scene on weekends at Alice's Restaurant.

More Information about Memorial Park and the Project

The Trail Center website and the San Mateo website have more information about Memorial Park and the project.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

JWAL Cover.JPG Scotty McLennan '70

author
JESUS WAS A LIBERAL
Reclaiming Christianity for All

Member Reception

Scotty McLennan claims that Jesus championed a progressive social vision of the future, rationality, tolerance and freedom from religious authority. In modern terms, Jesus was a liberal. Today, the press frequently talks about a culture war between the religious right and the secular left. In the middle – forgotten or maligned – are liberal Christians. They represent at least twenty percent of Americans, and perhaps as many as fifty percent. This book seeks to give them a voice and to reclaim “liberal” as a positive word. Importantly, it also tries to build bridges to conservative and evangelical Christians as well as to those impressed by the new best-selling atheist books.

"[A] timely and powerfully reasoned argument that it's time for liberals to reclaim ownership of Christ as he was - an outlier, a passionate but rationalist revolutionary who spoke to the best in us." - Garry Trudeau, author of Doonesbury

The Rev. Scotty McLennan is the dean for religious life at Stanford University. He was the university Chaplain at Tufts University from 1984 to 2000, and senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School for ten of those years. McLennan received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970 as a Scholar of the House working in the area of computers and the mind. He received his M.Div. and J.D. degrees from Harvard Divinity and Law Schools in 1975. In 1975, he was also ordained to the ministry (Unitarian Universalist) and admitted to the Massachusetts bar as an attorney.

Before his presentation at Kepler's Books, please join Scotty and other Yalies at Cafe Borrone for an informal get-together. Rev Scot Sloan.jpg

Date:   Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Time:
6:30 pm Reception at Café Borrone (next to Kepler's)
              with Scotty McLennan
7:30 pm   Presentation at Kepler's Books

Location (Map):
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
(650) 324-4321

Hope to see you there. Peace!

Scotty and Garry Trudeau were roommates at Yale, and Scotty was the inspiration for Doonesbury's Rev. Scot Sloan.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Yale Day of Service

The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) launched the Yale Day of Service on May 16, 2009, with the goal that Yale alumni around the globe will come together to serve their local communities. The Yale Day of Service is designed to:

Celebrate the historic Yale tradition of service
Enable Yale alumni to make a difference in their local communities through a shared commitment to service
Give alumni the opportunity to connect with other alumni, especially young alumni and families, in new ways

The Yale Club of Silicon Valley sponsored three community service projects:

Positive Coaching Alliance in Palo Alto
EHC Food Bank in San Jose
Trail Center Trail Building at Memorial Park, San Mateo

Go to the AYA Day of Service website to learn more about the program and the projects that were done by our club and other clubs.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Gary Reback '71

author
FREE the Market!
Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace Competitive

Gary Reback’s new book, Free the Market!, draws on vivid, behind-the-scenes accounts of key Silicon Valley events and leading high tech lawsuits – involving top companies like Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and AT&T – to paint a tableau of government policy gone awry.

“You can read his account as eyewitness history,” wrote Scott Herhold in the San Jose Mercury News. “Free the Market! is a white paper meant to influence a new government in Washington D. C.”

Join Gary to discuss entrepreneurs, innovation, and the competitive struggle – and what we need to do to foster growth by reversing policies that favor a few big, entrenched firms. Among the timely questions Gary will consider:

Is Microsoft still a threat to Silicon Valley?
Is Google the new Microsoft? What should the government do about that?
Should the government block consolidation in Silicon Valley industries like software and pharma?
How should competition policy deal with companies that are “too big to fail?”

Gary Reback is best known for spearheading the efforts that led to the federal lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s. California Law Business called Reback “the leading proponent of [Silicon] Valley’s emerging technologies in the courts.” The National Law Journal has referred to Reback as the “antitrust champion” and the “protector of the marketplace.” “If there’s one person who’s going to help define antitrust law for the 21^st Century,” wrote Wired magazine, “it’s Gary Reback.”

Gary has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal and is quoted regularly by major media. He is currently of counsel with Carr & Ferrell LLP.

Rob Hof, the Silicon Valley bureau chief for Business Week, will be the moderator for the program.

Date: Thursday, May 14, 2009

Time:
6:15 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program and Q & A
8:00 pm            Book Signing (books for sale by Kepler's Books)

Location:
Kellogg Auditorium
Silicon Valley Bank
3005 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408.654.7400

Directions:
Silicon Valley Bank is located near the Great America Parkway, which connects to both highways 101 and 237. The Kellogg Auditorium is next to the main office.

Ticket Price per Person:

$20 Members and non-members paid in advance

$25 Paid at the door

$ 7 Student price

Sponsors:

Yale Club of Silicon Valley and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Is Peace Possible in the Middle East?

Joseph Cumming

Director, Reconciliation Program

Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Yale Divinity School

The Yale Divinity School has taken the leadership to develop programs to bring together Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders to reconcile the theological, political, social, cultural, ethical issues that traditionally divide them. Rev. Joseph Cumming, the Director of the Reconciliation Program, has a wealth of information to share with us about the progress that is being made in the Middle East and the work that remains to be done. By bringing political and religious leaders together in new ways, can Yale play an important role in the peace process and help to bridge differences that have not been resolved through the political process alone?

The recent conference at Yale was featured in the Sept/Oct 2008 issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine ("Love Thy Neighbor") with Joseph Cumming's response to the Letters to the Editor in the Nov/Dec 2008 issue and Letters to the Editor in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue.

We scheduled this event after the first 100 days in office for President Obama and after several important political events in the Middle East to learn how much the situation in the Middle East has changed during the first months in 2009.

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009

Time:
6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program
7:30 pm            Q & A

Location:
Michaels at Shoreline http://www.michaelsatshoreline.com/
2960 Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View 94043
650-962-1014

Directions:
Michaels is the clubhouse for the Shoreline Golf Links. The gate to the golf course is about 1 mile north on Shoreline Blvd. from the exit at 101. Continue on the road that winds around the golf course for another mile to get to Michaels.

Ticket Price per Person:

$15 Members and non-members paid in advance

$20 Paid at the door

Sponsors:

Yale Club of Silicon Valley and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Yale Redpath Seminar

The Future of Asia

http://www.yaleredpath.org/

Westin St. Francis Hotel

San Francisco

$75 ($90 at the door) per person

$50 ($65 at the door) for Yale alumni classes 1999-2008

Each year the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) presents the Redpath Seminar, a full day of lectures, panel discussions, and receptions, at a different location around the country.

This year the seminar focuses on The Future of Asia. As China and India strive to position themselves as economic powerhouses and Asia plays an increasingly significant role on the world stage, what impact will this have on the U.S. and other countries? What is propelling Asia's growth, and more importantly, what may be undermining potential expansion? Taking into account historical trends as well as the present economic climate, what can we expect for Asia's future?

A distinguished Yale panel:

· Nayan Chanda, Editor of YaleGlobal Online at the Yale Center for Globalization

· Amy Chua, Professor of Law at Yale and author of Day of Empire and World on Fire

· Marian Chertow, Director of the Industrial Environmental Management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

will explore these questions and provide key insights into Asia's position as a global power.

Schedule

8:00 - 9:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am	Welcoming Remarks
	Lecture by Nayan Chanda
	Globalization and the Re-emergence of China and India
10:30 - 10:45 am	Break
10:45 - 11:45 am	Lecture by Amy Chua
	How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why They Fall
11:45 - 1:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 pm	Lecture by Marian Chertow '81 M.P.P.M., '00 Ph.D.
	Asian Economic Power and the Environment
2:15 - 2:30 pm	Break
2:30 - 4:00 pm	Faculty Panel and Discussion
4:00 - 5:00 pm	Reception

For more information on the seminar and speakers, go to http://www.yaleredpath.org/.

Hosted by the Bay Area Yale clubs.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Craig Johnson '68
(1946-2009)

The Virtual Service Firm (VSF)

A New Way of Working

Recent improvements in high speed Internet connectivity; the availability of low cost enterprise software tools; seemingly never ending increases in the billable rates and overhead of conventional professional service firms; and widespread dissatisfaction with the pressures and lack of work/life balance inside these firms have led to the emergence of a new kind of business – the virtual service firm (VSF). VSFs allow professionals in law, accounting, recruiting, product design, investment and other fields the flexibility to work from home, set their own hours and rates, work in teams, live where they want to live, work less, charge much lower billable rates, be less of a burden on the environment and still earn more money than they could at conventional firms.

Craig Johnson, CEO and co-founder of Virtual Law Partners LLP, will discuss this emerging trend and the reasons the VSF model benefits both professionals and clients. Prior to founding VLP, Craig was the Chairman and co-founder of Venture Law Group and before that was a senior partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Craig has been recognized by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America and by Forbes Magazine as one of the country's top private company investors ("Midas List").

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Time:
6:30 pm Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm Program and Q & A

Location:
Kellogg Auditorium
Silicon Valley Bank
3005 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-654-7400

Directions:
Silicon Valley Bank is located near the Great America Parkway, which connects to both highways 101 and 237. The Kellogg Auditorium is next to the main office.

Ticket Price per Person:

$20 Members and non-members paid in advance

$25 Paid at the door

Sponsors:

Yale Club of Silicon Valley and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley

Thursday, February 19, 2009

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, commemorating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first recorded astronomical observations of the heavens with a telescope and the publication of Kepler's Astronomia nova in 1609.

Are We Alone?

The Dance of a Fertile Universe

Lynn Rothschild '78

Astrobiologist

NASA Ames Research Center

Fr. George Coyne

Astronomer & Former Director

Vatican Observatory

The potential for life was present at the Big Bang, but the only place that we have found that promise to be realized is planet Earth. What have we learned about the possibility for life elsewhere in the universe? George Coyne, an astronomer and Jesuit priest, and Lynn Rothschild, an evolutionary astrobiologist at NASA, will approach this question from their different perspectives. Against the canvas of the physical universe, the niches for life will be sketched, concluding with thoughts on the meaning of this remarkable potential.

George Coyne is the former director of the Vatican Observatory and the President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical research institutions in the world, and its research group operates the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT) at the Mount Graham International Observatory (MGIO) in southeastern Arizona. It does leading research on current issues in astronomy such as dark matter, dark energy, quasars, and supernovae. Dr. Coyne has published many papers on polarimetric studies of interstellar medium, stars with extended atmospheres, interacting binary star systems that give off sudden bursts of intense energy, and dust about young stars. The asteroid 14429 Coyne discovered by Shoemaker and Levy is named for him. Dr. Coyne has commented often on the differences between science and theology, for example, opposing intelligent design as defined by many of its supporters. Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, interviewed Dr. Coyne for Dawkins' television program The Genius of Charles Darwin in the UK.

Lynn Rothschild is an evolutionary biologist-astrobiologist at NASA’s Ames Research Center and a consulting professor at Stanford and Brown Universities where she teaches Astrobiology and Space Exploration. Dr. Rothchild's research has focused on how life, particularly microbes, has evolved in the context of the physical environment on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the solar system and universe. Her work has taken her to the harsh environments in some wild places on Earth. Most recently she has taken to the air in conjunction with the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Stanford, flying experiments up to 106,000 feet on high altitude balloons.

Dr. Rothschild has appeared on a number of Naked Science TV programs on the National Geographic Channel and on the Alien Faces episode for The Universe TV program on the History Channel.

Date:       Thursday, February 19, 2009

Time:

6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments

7:00 pm            Program and Q & A

Location (Directions):

Ballroom, Building 3 Conference Center

NASA Ames Research Park

Moffet Boulevard/NASA Parkway

Mountain View

Note:  You will need to show an ID at the security gate.

The guard can direct you to the Building 3 Conference Center.

Ticket Price per Person:

$10 YCSV members and one guest (member + guest = $20)

$15 Non-members and additional guests

Note:  The ticket price for high school and middle school students is $5.

Sponsors:

Yale Club of Silicon Valley, Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley,
and NASA Ames Research Center

Monday, February 2, 2009

Van Jones '93 YLS

author

The Green Collar Economy

Van Jones Website

As climate chaos and soaring fuel costs batter the U.S. economy, Van Jones brings a unique perspective to the color green. A 1993 Yale Law School alumnus, Van is a tireless advocate committed to creating "green pathways out of poverty" and greatly expanding the coalition to fight global warming. So when he imagines an Earth-friendly economy, he dreams of a society that has no throw-away species or resources - and no throw-away kids or neighborhoods.

He argues that a green economy that rescues the polar bears can also rescue the U.S. economy - putting America back to work; driving down energy and food prices; giving green-collar jobs and a second chance to wayward youth; and ending forever the need for oil wars and resource wars. In his vision, the green economy can be much more than a place for affluent people to spend money. It also can be a place for more ordinary people to earn money - and for poor people to save money.

Shifting the new environmental discussion from green consumers to green workers, Van shows how the shift from an oil-dependent, pollution-based economy can create a powerful engine for economic renewal - creating jobs for millions. Warning against the dangers of "eco-elitism" and "eco-apartheid," Van calls for a "Green New Deal" to help all classes and colors enjoy the work, wealth and health benefits of the green economy.

Date: Monday, February 2, 2009

Time:
6:30 pm            Check-in/Reception with light refreshments
7:00 pm            Program and Q & A
8:00 pm            Book Signing

Location:
Kellogg Auditorium
Silicon Valley Bank
3005 Tasman Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-654-7400

Directions:
Silicon Valley Bank is located near the Great America Parkway, which connects to both highways 101 and 237. The Kellogg Auditorium is next to the main office.

Ticket Price per Person:

$20 Members and non-members paid in advance

$25 Paid at the door

Note:  The ticket price for high school and middle school students is $7.

Sponsors:
Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, Yale Club of Silicon Valley, and

Yale Law School Association of Northern California

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Yale Glee Club Winter Tour 2009

7:30 PM

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Grace Cathedral

1110 California Street

San Francisco, CA 94108

Tickets:

$10 General Admission

$8 Students and Seniors

City Box Office

180 Redwood Street

San Francisco, CA

http://www.cityboxoffice.com

(415) 392-4400

The Yale Glee Club, founded in 1861, is Yale University's oldest musical organization and premier undergraduate mixed chorus. Today, the Glee Club is a chorus of eighty women and men - majors in music or mathematics, biology or philosophy, political science or art - drawn together by a love of singing and an understanding that raising your voice with others to create something beautiful is one of the noblest human pursuits. One of the most traveled collegiate choruses; the Glee Club has appeared on six continents and in most of the major concert halls in the United States. The ensemble collaborates regularly with internationally renowned guest conductors and presents frequent premieres of new music.

Under the direction of Yale School of Music professor Jeffrey Douma, this year's tour program features works by Guerrero, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Pärt, and a new piece composed for the Glee Club by eminent American composer Ned Rorem, as well as arrangements of folk songs, spirituals, and traditional college songs.

Past Events from previous years