Events

Reception with Rick Levin--Wednedsay, April 2, 2008

The Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale Club of Chicago cordially invite you and your guests to a reception in honor of Richard Levin, '74 PhD, 22nd President of Yale University. It has been five years since President Levin last came to Chicago to speak to the Yale Club. Join us to hear President Levin's timely update on Yale College, student life, and the many initiatives underway at Yale. This is also your opportunity to present your questions and concerns, as Yale alumni and parents, to President Levin!

Event will take place at the Union League Club of Chicago, 65 West Jackson Boulevard, in the sixth floor Main Dining Room, starting with a reception at 6:00 pm, followed by remarks from President Levin at 7:00 and then questions and answers. Hors d'ouerves will be served; cash bar. Cost is $35 per person, $20 for young alumni (classes of '97-'07), or $75 for patrons. Please rsvp by March 26 by calling the Yale Club of Chicago office at 847-256-5800, or click here for a reply card. For more information, please call the Yale Club office, or email to yaleclubchicago@aol.com.

IvyPlus Young Alumni Wine Tasting--Friday, April 4, 2008

Come join other IvyPlus young alumni for wine tasting on Friday, April 4, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm for good drinks and great conversation. There will be 20 different reds and whites from around the world to taste as well as several delicious snacks. This event is held every first Friday by Water Tower Food Court and is open to the general public. Cost is $15 at the door.

Water Tower Food Court is located at the rear of Water Tower Place (835 North Michigan Avenue). Very limited street parking. CTA North Michigan buses (e.g., 151) will drop you off in front of Water Tower Place.

Hosted by Penn and MIT. Look for Ophelia (Penn), Allie (Penn), Louise (MIT), and Rubi (MIT) wearing school colors to get a sticker identifying you as part of the IvyPlus group. Prompt arrival is recommended since the event can fill up. Plus it gives you more time to meet others! No RSVP required.

National Real Estate Conference at Yale--Friday, April 4, 2008

The Yale Alumni Real Estate Association (YAREA) invites Yale Club members and other alumni to participate in the National Real Estate Conference, which will be held at Yale University on Friday, April 4, 2008. This one-day conference will bring together real estate industry leaders, renowned architects, deal makers, attorneys and financiers from around the country. Planned speakers include:

  • Bruce Alexander, Yale Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs and Campus Development
  • Alan Forman, Director, Yale Investments Office
  • Alex Garvin, CEO, Alex Garvin & Associates; Yale Adjunct Professor
  • Paul Goldberger, Dean, Parsons School of Design; Architecture Critic, The New Yorker
  • Con Howe, Director, Urban Land Institute Center for Balanced Development in the West
  • Gary Mendel, Chairman and CEO, HEI Hotels and Resorts
  • Jon Pickard, Principal, Pickard Chilton
  • Daniel Rose, Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc.
  • Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture

Click on these links for the official conference invitation and reply card. For those who prefer to register online, please visit www.yalearea.org/register. For more information please contact Elisabeth Alden at the Yale Development Office at 203.432.8657 or elisabeth.alden@yale.edu. For more information on the Yale Alumni Real Estate Association, please contact David Schlussel at 201.836.6100 x201 or david@key-properties.com.

Lecture by Forestry School Dean Gus Speth--April 10, 2008

Gus Speth,'64 and '69 LLB, and now Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, will speak on "The Coming Transformation: America and the Environmental Crisis," starting at 7:00 pm. This talk will follow on to the topic of his new book, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. The lecture is free to the public, but reservations should be made. The number to call is 847-835-8261 to reserve a seat, or register online at www.chicagobotanic.org/school. The Botanic Garden facility has room for about 200+ and reservations are already coming in from Garden members, so early reservations are encouraged. The Chicago Botanic Garden is located on Lake-Cook Road in Glencoe.

Gus Speth, a distinguished early leader of the environmental movement and of environmental institutions over the past four decades, is the founder and was President of the World Resources Council, and was a co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also Chair of the UN Development Group. He was awarded Japan's Blue Planet Prize for "a lifetime of creative and visionary leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental problems."

A portion of the jacket blurb: "How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: If we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be an unfit place in which to live. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels--they are accelerating, dramatically--and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Speth, also author of the earlier Red Sky at Morning, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe."