VOTE NOW in the 2021 Yale Club of Washington, D.C.
Elections and By-Laws Revision Vote! 

Dear Yale Alumni, 

It is time for our annual Yale Club of Washington, D.C. Board of Directors election.  There are 5 seats up for election and we have many qualified nominees, so please be sure to review the information carefully and vote! In addition, this year we have included a proposed revision to our Club By-Laws, so the ballot will include a vote on that as well. 

Only Yale Club of DC Members in good standing can vote.  Not a Member?  Join Today!

If you are Member of the Yale Club of DC, please log-in to view biographical information for the candidates, information about the proposed By-Laws revision, and the link to your ballot. You are encouraged to review this information carefully, as we have many qualified candidates this year and there are several key changes in the proposed By-Laws revision. 

Your participation in this election is important. By casting your vote, you are actively engaging in the governance of your Club, electing fellow alumni to represent your interests, to support and enhance existing Club programs, and to foster innovative ways to facilitate interaction between alumni and throughout the broader Washington and Yale communities.

Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, May 31, 2021. Only votes submitted before that time will be counted as cast. 

The three-year term of office for the new members of the Board will commence on July 1, 2021. 

Thank you for taking the time to vote!  If you have any questions related to the election or about how to vote, please contact our Executive Administrator, Alexis Gurganious.

FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT OF MEMBERSHIP

Dear fellow alumni,

For more than 146 years, members of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C. have served as the backbone of the Yale alumni community throughout the DMV.  Through this tradition of member support, the Club brings local Yale alumni together to connect, learn, socialize, and serve the communities in which we live.  We currently have 594 contributing Club members whose support allows the Club to serve the approximately 14,000 Yale degree holders, parents, and widows in the greater Washington area.  The Yale Club of Washington, D.C. is among the most vibrant of all Yale clubs across the country.  It is thanks to the financial support of our membership that we are able to do so much. 

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Club membership has started to decline, understandable, in light of its effect on people’s professional lives and livelihoods.  If you would like to be or remain a Club member, but are unable to do so due to financial hardship, please let me know. 

For those of you who are able, we invite you to become a member, if you are not one already.  And for those of you who are members, we urge you to renew your membership, when the time comes.  Being a member directly supports Club operations and activities.  Our Club is more than just a social club.  Our community service options, under the leadership of Maria Whelan, are particularly robust.  We work closely with the Capital Area Food Bank and sponsor multiple community service fellowships a year.  In addition, we offer educational programming focused on matters of urgent public interest, as well as a variety of topics that feature the diversity and achievement of Yale alumni.

In times like these, it is important to remain connected.  We welcome DMV Alumni from Yale College and ALL Yale graduate and professional schools as part of our community!    Please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] with your thoughts and suggestions, which will be most welcome.  Stay well and healthy.           

Chip Seward '65, Vice President of Membership  

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

The History of Jews and Yale, with Music by Magevet

Thursday, May 6, 2021

6:30-7:30pm 

In honor of Jewish American History Month, please join us for an evening of history and song! Dr. Dan Oren ’79, MD’84 will give a presentation on the history of Jews at Yale, while Yale’s Jewish a capella singing group Magevet will entertain us with their music.

DC Area Summer Mentorship Program Event 1 –
Using Yale Cross Campus for Alumni to Alumni (“A2A”) Mentorship

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

6:30-7:30pm 

Part 1 of our three-event series facilitating A2A summer mentorship pairings: Learn how to use Yale Cross Campus for alumni-to-alumni networking and mentorship!

A New White House: From Trump to Biden: A Front Row Seat

Thursday, May 13, 2021

7:00-8:00pm 

Join us to hear three nationally-renowned journalists share their perspectives on the transition from the dramas of the Trump Presidency to the efforts of the Biden administration to master a broad agenda of national problems.

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

 

Yale Virtual Performing Arts Series:
"Mother Tongue”
in Honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
with Adrianna Tam MM ‘13 and Jing Ling-Tam 

Saturday, May 29, 2021

2:00-3:00pm 

This meeting will be conducted on Zoom. 

Instructions will be provided upon registration

 

The program will offer audience members an entry point to the Asian-American experience: How does the first-generation  immigrant survive in the face of homesickness, language and cultural barriers, and xenophobia?  How does the second-generation American reconcile their hyphenated identity? Adrianna Tam partnering with her mother, Professor Jing Ling-Tam, a renowned musician and choral conductor, the program will also tell an intergenerational story of “making it” in America.

 

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

Feeling Understood:  A Workshop with Casey Watts '12

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

6:30-8:00pm 

With the approach in this workshop, mutual understanding can happen much more often! Beyond just “active listening,” this workshop covers a framework for how to help people feel understood: four levels of listening, and three levels of explicit validation. You can use this framework to support others, or to ask for support yourself.

YALE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC VIRTUAL EVENT

Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal with Nicholas Fox Weber MA '71

Thursday, June 17, 2021

5:30-7:00pm 

Please join this special event as Nicholas Fox Weber discusses Anni and Josef Albers, two of the 20th century’s greatest abstract artists with Prof. Barry Bergdoll. The iconic couple are the subject of Weber's definitive visual biography which is the first to truly present their extraordinary body of work and their relationship in one meticulously researched and elegant book. Co-sponsored with the Columbia Alumni Association of Washington, D.C., the Brown Club of Washington, D.C., and the MIT Club of Washington, D.C.