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.
Monthly Book Groups (click here for details of all the groups)
Monday, September 8
9:30 am
YUWO Board Meeting
Edgerton Park Carriage House
Tuesday, September 16
4:30 - 6 pm
Wine and Cheese Reception
Join us for our annual Wine and Cheese Reception, graciously hosted once again by Jane Levin, wife of Yale president Richard Levin. 43 Hillhouse Avenue. For information, contact YUWO membership chair Audrey DeFronzo, 230-0592, or Newcomers Chair Betty Ann Levitin, 488-5862
Thursday, September 18
1:00 pm
Movie Matinees
Mitchell Branch of the New Haven Library, 37 Harrison Street in Westville. The movie will be “The Letter,” directed by William Wyler (1940, 1hour, 35 minutes). Based on W. Somerset Maugham’s drama, set in Mayaya (Malaysia), it focuses on a married woman who shoots her lover in a jealous rage and then tries to cover up the murder by pleading self-defense. Leona Nalle will lead the discussion. Please note the change of venue from Branford to New Haven. Call Mara Cunningham, 772-4007, Eva Ewing, 315-5160, or Leona Nalle, 387-7932, for information.
Thursday, October 2
YUWO Luncheon Gourmet Group
12:30 pm
Participants share the meal’s expenses and take turns planning the menu, preparing and presenting the luncheon. Dues covering printing costs and other incidentals are $10.Contacts: Marty Sherman, 605-5773, Carol Sirot, 453-5755, Carol Dhawan, 562-0017, or Happy Thomas 393-7239.
Wednesday, October 8
Fall Study Group: "The American West" — First Lecture
The fall study group will feature seven lectures by several professors and be entitled “The American West.” The first lecture on October 8 will take place at the Lawn Club at 10:30 a.m. and will be presented by Professor Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of
History. It will be entitled “How the West Came to Yale and How Yale Discovered the West.” You will receive a registration form with details. The cost will be $65 which includes parking at the Lawn Club.
Monday, October 13
9:30 am
YUWO Board Meeting
Edgerton Park Carriage House
Thursday, October 23
Depart 8 am
YUWO Excursion
"Henry Moore and Chrysanthemums at New York Botanical Garden." This largest show of Henry Moore’s monumental sculptures features 20 major pieces positioned throughout the garden’s 250 acres and 50 gardens. In addition, there is an exhibit of Moore’s preliminary maquettes and found objects in the Garden’s library building. At the Enid Haupt Conservatory, there will be a special exhibit, Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum, as well as its usual outstanding habitat collections of shrubs, plants, and flowers. We will have a private tram tour of the Garden with a docent who will tell us about the Moore Sculptures. Lunch is on your own at the café in the Garden or bring your own bag lunch to eat on benches in the central area. There is also a garden shop. The bus leaves promptly at 8:00 a.m. from the La Quinta Inn parking area on Long Wharf, off I-95. Cost of $65 includes bus cost and tip, admission and private tram tour of the Gardens. Return will be around 5:30 p,m. Reservation deadline is October 3. No refunds after October 10. Click here to download a reservation form.
June 6, 2009, 11:30 am
YUWO Annual Luncheon
New Haven Country Club