Past Event: Narragansett Cruise aboard Coastal Queen

Featured Event: All Ivy / Oxbridge Clam Boil & Picnic!

Past Event: Tuxedo Park Book Lecture

Upcoming event: Hope Funds Awards Dinner

Yale Alumni Service: Free online classes

Yale Club News: Summer Fellowships

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(TUE) July 29, 2008;
Thanks to the the generosity of YARI member Jim Bishop Y'56, nearly 40 Yale Club members and friends spent an evening enjoying cocktails and passed hors d'ouevres while cruising on beautiful Narragansett Bay. For a forth year in a row the weather was magnificent and sights and sounds of the Harbor enjoyable. From the class of 2008 to class of 1950, everyone had a tremendous evening. Many thanks to board member Susan Daly for helping to organize and run this great event!

Here we are at the eve of August and the Yale Club has already had a remarkable couple of months including lectures and receptions at the Hope Club and Rosecliff mansion. We have just had another magnificent cruise thanks to the generosity of member Jim Bishop Y'56. If you have not participated in previous events, for whatever reason, make some room in your schedule to join us!
Sincerely,
Ross Sinclair Cann Y'85
President, Yale Assoc. of RI

(SAT) August 16, 2008, 11am to 4pm; Haffenreffer Estate, Bristol, RI
We will be holding our annual Clam Boil and Picnic on the 132-acre Haffenreffer Estate in Bristol. The special guest speaker is Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science at Brown University, who will be speaking on "Democratic Rights" at 11:30am.Lunch will be served at 1pm.

The price for this afternoon of food and fun is only $30 for the full Clamboil (Chowder, salad, mussels, clams with broth/butter, sausage, frankfurts, sweet & white potatoes, onions, corn & quahog dressing), $15 for the Vegetarian Option ("Summer Fresh" Lasagna, Corn & Salad) and only $8 for the Children under 12 option (Burgers, Hot dogs, Corn & chowder). Salsa, Chips, Watermelon, Cookies, Soft drinks & Water are included with all options.

Haffenreffer has an indoor eating area so rain or shine, the event is on! There are also restroom facilities, sports equipment including bocce ball, softball gear, volleyball pit with net and horseshoes available for our use, so bring plenty of apetite and energy.

Please contact Ginny McQueen at 401- 863-9598 to reserve your place today!

(THU) July 10, 2008, 7:00pm; Rosecliff Mansion
Author Christian R. Sonne Y'57 (President of the Tuxedo Park Historical Society) and photographer James Bleecker delivered a wonderful lecture on the magnificent architecture of Tuxedo Park, the exclusive enclave located just north of New York City. The reception that followed on the back terrace of Rosecliff was magnificent and the evening was a lovely reminder of the elegance and grandeur in which people once lived.

(SAT) August 9, 2008; Marble House, Newport, RI
The Hope Funds Foundation for Cancer Research is honoring Nobel prize winner, Craig Mello and the CEO of Gilda's Club, Vivian Hoexter Y'83, among this year's 4 award winners at its annual white-tie gala dinner. The Foundation has also announced a two-year $87,000 grant to a Yale post-doctorate reseacher, Dr. Pedro Medina, who will attend the event.
Tickets to the dinner start at $1000 and tickets to the dance afterwards are $250. If you are interested in attending this intellectual and philanthropic evening contact foundation chair, Leah Cann at 401-847-3286.

This year Yale is attempting to reach out to alumni and curious people around the world by making seven of the most popular course available online for free: including "frontiers in astrophysics", "modern Poetry" and and introductory classes in Political Philosophy, Psychology, Physics and the Old Testament. If this is a success, presumably new classes will be added each year, so reacquaint yourself with the thrill of learning by visiting the site and downloading a class!

The Yale Association of RI will be hosting two students this summer: one at the Bradley Hospital Neuro unit and the other at the Newport Art Museum. This is a program that enables non-profits to have access to bright Yale students for eight weeks at a very reasonable cost. The local Yale Club is responsible for helping find housing so if you would like the non-profit you are associated with to sponsor a fellowship or if you would like to host a student in future years, please contact Ross Cann. Your interest is deeply and support are greatly appreciated!