| Entrepreneur's Breakfast
| Join Boston-area SOM and Yale alumni for an informal breakfast get-together at the Embassy Suites in Waltham (just off Rte 128). Bring your questions and share your expertise among self-employed and start-up entrepreneurs -- participate in good discussions and problem-solving opportunities.
Cost: FREE to attend; approximately $20/pp for the hotel's breakfast buffet. Please bring cash to ease settling up.
Register at http://events.som.yale.edu/index.php?eventid=1018
The last session had a great discussion on how to set pricing. Other suggested meeting topics include:
1. Marketing (how to market, using social media, lead generation, generating word of mouth)
2. Why do you become an entrepreneur?
3. Vendor Sourcing
4. Board of Directors: if, why, when, how & who?
5. Alliances and Partners
6. Can't crack the nut -- taking an idea to market
7. Funding
Got a topic you'd like to suggest? Send it to Philip Plottel philip@plottel.com or Ryck Lent ryckblent@gmail.com
| Date: | Tuesday, February 07
| | Time: | 7:30am - 10am | | Location: | Embassy Suites (formerly Doubletree) - 550 Winter Street, Waltham
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Just off Route 128 at exit 27. Lots of FREE parking around the hotel | | Info: | Philip Plottel, philip@plottel.com, 617 669-9855
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| Feb Club Emeritus 2012
 | Feb Club Boston returns to the Back Bay! This year's festivities will be in the Rotunda at the new Boston Common Hotel (formerly John Hancock Conference Center), adjacent to the University Club and Back Bay Station on Stuart Street between Clarendon and Dartmouth. A mere $15 in advance/$20 at the door will cover our private room all night long, food, and...of course....unlimited Mory's Cups all night long.
Parking is available at the Garage at 200 Clarendon (f/k/a Hancock Garage) around the corner on Clarendon, and Back Bay Station is around the corner on Dartmouth (oops - did we mention that already?).
Boston has had some of the planet's biggest Feb Club parties with a huge range of classes from the '50's to the 00's, so come join in and join old friends and new at FC Boston Round V.
You can register here and we hope to see you there!
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| Hasty Pudding Theatricals: There Will Be Flood
 | YaleBoston has a block of tickets for this year's hilarious Hasty Pudding show. As in past years, tickets are sure to sell out quickly and a great time will be be had by all.
In the future, an ancient prophecy has come true and a massive flood threatens to destroy the world! In order to save humanity, a wayward crew of futuristic time travelers must journey to the past to stop that prophecy from ever being made.
Can the time travelers survive the past long enough to save the future? Will the chubby cherub Angela Foodcake lose enough weight to fly again? Will the desperate dinosaur Tyra Nassaurus find a mate before her species goes extinct? Can the bible’s first woman Eve Olution convince everybody that creationism is false? Find out as you get swept away by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 164th production, There Will Be Flood!
Optional Dutch Treat dinner next door at Spice Thai Cuisine, 24 Holyoke Street, at 6:00 pm. For the dinner, please reply to Murray Wheeler at murwheels@gmail.com by February 13.
| Date: | Wednesday, February 15
| | Time: | 8:00 | | Cost: | $25 - register via PayPal
You can also register by sending a check to YaleBoston, PO Box 812934, Wellesley, MA 02482 | | Location: | Hasty Pudding - 12 Holyoke Street, Cambridge
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| Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: One Year Later.
 | Amy Chua’s witty and provocative memoir in extreme parenting, published last year, ignited a firestorm of debate across the nation, join us for a talk and book signing by Professor Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
Amy Chua is the John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Her first book, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, a New York Times bestseller, was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2003. Her second book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall, was a critically acclaimed Foreign Affairs bestseller. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and two Samoyeds in New Haven, Connecticut.
Proceeds from this event go to YaleBOSTON's Scholarship Fund and community outreach.
| Date: | Wednesday, February 29
| | Time: | 6PM Reception
7PM Talk
8PM Q&A and Book Signing | | Cost: | $35 - register via PayPal
$50 includes new paperback edition of book - register via PayPal
$15 for the event & book for Eli Members - register via PayPal
You can also register by sending a check to YaleBoston, PO Box 812934, Wellesley, MA 02482 | | Location: | Harvard Club - 374 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
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Parking in rear of club at 415 Newbury Street, charges to be paid in cash |
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| Ivy+ Fine Spirits Showcase
 | This extraordinary event will feature the world's finest distilled spirits - whisky, bourbon, cognac, rum, mezcal, liqueurs, and more - for you to taste at your own pace.
Spirits list, more information, and tickets available at
http://bostonclub.mit.edu/showcase
The 2012 Ivy+ Fine Spirits Showcase is open to alumni, faculty, postdocs, and graduate students of the Ivy+ universities (Ivy League plus MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and Duke). This event sold out last year and had over 120 people on the waiting list - don't miss out!
Price: $39/person - a premium event at a casual price, as other events like this in Boston cost over $100/person
| Date: | Saturday, March 03
| | Time: | 2:00-6:00pm (come and go as you please) | | Location: | Royale - 279 Tremont Street, Boston
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| Second Annual(?) YCOB Ski Trip to Sunday River
 | Continuing a long-standing YCOB tradition, club members and friends are invited to meet
at Sunday River for skiing on Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4.
A block of 15 rooms is available at the Victoria Inn in Bethel, Maine, 10 minutes from the ski slope.
Rooms may be reserved by calling 888-774-1235 and mentioning the Yale Club of Boston. Room rates range from $129-$159 per night for two people
including breakfast
We will meet at the Inn for late-night cocktails on Friday night March 2 at 9:30-11:00, lunch on the ski slope Saturday and Sunday, cocktails on Saturday night at the Inn,
and dinner at a place TBA. Registration is $5 per household to help us keep track of everyone. Skiers who have their own place to stay
are welcome to join the festivities and skiing on the mountain. Limited car-pooling will be available for those who need rides.
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| Latinos at Yale: Past / Present / Future
 | Preparations are under way for the second Yale Latino Alumni Reunion (YLAR2) to be held in New Haven, April 20 through April 22, 2012. We know that those of you who attended the first reunion can’t wait to come back and we’re excited about hosting those of you who were unable to make it the first time around. Your second chance to attend is finally here!
Reunion weekend will be filled with events that have been especially selected to appeal to a wide range of alumni. Speakers, panels and workshops will explore issues important to our community. A special plenary will bring all of us together to reflect on 50 years of Latinos at Yale. Traditions will be revisited and there will be plenty of opportunities to reminisce about your time at Yale while also meeting new generations of alumni and current students that you’ve not yet met, as our community has grown significantly over the years.
Past reunion speakers include: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor LAW '79; former California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno '70; and Professor and nationally-recognized Latino/a voting rights expert Joaquin Avila '70. Stay tuned for YLAR2 speaker lineup! Opportunities to gather like this are limited in life. Visiting the campus on your own is just not the same and truthfully, social media is limited in what it can offer. Come back to a familiar setting and find out how your old friends are really doing. You’ll be amazed to see how great it feels to connect with folks face to face. You won’t regret it!
Maria Marta Chavez-Brumell, MA ’93, PhD ’04, YLAR2 Reunion Co-chair
Graciela Trilla, Branford ’79, YLAR2 Reunion Co-chair
Rosalinda Garcia, Assistant Dean, Yale College
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