Your YUWO newsletter includes signup forms, reservation deadlines, and program information for all YUWO-sponsored activities. Please check this website or your newsletter for specific information about activity groups that meet on a regular (i.e., monthly) basis as well as special activities or events.
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Many of our YUWO activity groups meet on a regular, monthly (or more often) basis, and are not listed below. For a complete list of all YUWO activities, their meeting times, and contact information, please see our Activities page.
November 2009
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Thursday, November 5
Luncheon Gourmet
For details about the November luncheon, or to join the group, contact Carol Dhawan, 562-0017, Marty Sherman, 605-5773, or Happy Thomas 393-7239.
Friday, November 6
Music Together
Aaron Jay Kernis, Symphony of Meditations with Glee Club, Schola Cantorum and Philharmonia, Woolsey Hall, 8 pm. Meet for dinner, 6:30 pm at Yorkside Pizza, 288 York St. Guests are welcome. Call Ileane Tombank, 288-5363, or Raejeanne Kier, 287-2443
Wednesday, November 11
CANCELLED
Fall Study Group: “The Physical Sciences at Yale: Past, Present and Future”
New Haven Lawn Club, 10:30 am with Dean Kyle Vanderlick has been cancelled due to Dean Vanderlick's illness.
Wednesday, November 11
Art Aficionados
We will meet at the British Art Center for a tour of “Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill,” a complimentary exhibit to “Mrs. Delaney and Her Circle,” which the group visited in October. Meet at the main desk, ground floor. We will to the nearby Indian restaurant Zaroka, 148 York Street, for lunch, immediately following the tour. Please call Nancy Ahlstrom, 203-865-2028, to reserve for the tour and/or lunch.
Tuesday, November 17
Lunch and Learn
School of Drama Professor Emeritus William B. Warfel will speak on “The Bones of the Diva: Stories from the Light Side of Grand Opera.” The meeting will take place at the Visitor Center, 149 Elm Street between Temple and College Streets (next to the Graduate Club). Come at noon with your brown bag lunch. Coffee, tea and dessert will be provided. The talk begins at 12:30, with a question period to follow. For information, call Lory ffrench-Mullen at (203) 421-1168.
Thursday, November 19
Fall Study Group: “The Physical Sciences at Yale: Past, Present and Future”
New Haven Lawn Club, 10:30 am. Professor Michael McBride: Modern Chemistry at Yale
Wednesday, November 23
Hiking Group
We will have one more walk this fall — on the "boardwalk" area of West Haven by the harbor, on the morning on Nov. 23. If you are interested in this walk, call Lyn Howe (288-1217) or Anne Schenck (878-3705)
December 2009
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Wednesday, December 2
Fall Study Group: “The Physical Sciences at Yale: Past, Present and Future”
New Haven Lawn Club, 10:30 am. Professor Charles Bailyn, Modern Astronomy at Yale: Observing the Visible Universe
Wednesday, December 9
Fall Study Group: “The Physical Sciences at Yale: Past, Present and Future”
New Haven Lawn Club, 10:30 am. Professor Meg Urry: Women in Science: Why So Few?
Friday, December 11
Music Together
Philharmonia’s New Music for Orchestra featuring David Lang and others, Woolsey Hall, 8 pm. Meet for dinner, 6:30 pm at Clarks, 68 Whitney Avenue. Guests are welcome. Call Ileane Tombank (288-5363) or Raejeanne Kier (287-2443).
Sunday, December 13
YUWO HOLIDAY PARTY - SAVE THE DATE!
4-6 pm, Horchow Hall (Hillhouse at Sachem)
We raise money with our famous basket raffle and the committee asks members to contribute items for the theme baskets to be raffled at the party. Theme suggestions include gardening, food, happy hour, cooking, games etc. Items can be taken to the Carriage House at the Edgerton Garden Carriage House before 9:15 on November 9 when the YUWO board meets. Items are also currently being accepted at the following locations by committee members - New Haven, Pat Axelrod, 891-6766; Hamden, Johanna Becker, 248-6391; Woodbridge-Bethany, Terry Martin, 393-0184 and Shoreline, Barbara Loucks, 245-9718.
January 2010
Wednesday, January 13
Art Aficionados
Meet at the main desk of the Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave for a tour of the current interactive exhibit, "Disease Detectives." Lunch will be at the restaurant Caseus—new and good. Please call Nancy Ahlstrom (865-2028) to sign up, especially for lunch reservations.