For questions about the Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester, please contact the president, Patrick Kelly ’89,
at 585.244.0454 or by e-mail at pkelly17@rochester.rr.com.
Upcoming Events for 2008:
Saturday, September 27th, 2008: Tailgate Party in Ithaca. Come watch the Bulldogs defeat Big Red at Cornell Homecoming. The Yale Club and the Cornell Club of Rochester are holding a joint tailgate party in the Kite Hill parking lot, next to Schoellkopf field on the Cornell Campus.
The pre-game lunch will be fully catered, including beer & soft drinks. Tailgate starts at 10:30 AM, game at 1:00 PM. Tickets are general admission.
Cost:
Tailgate & game ticket for adults: $25. Tailgate only: $15.
Children 12 & under: Tailgate, free. Game ticket: $10.
Cornell's Big Red Band may perform in the Kite Hill parking lot following the game. Light fare and drinks after the game, weather permitting.
Please try to RSVP by Sept 22nd, but last-minute walk-ups are welcome for the food (not tickets). RSVP to Alex Chernavsky MS ’89 at alexc@aya.yale.edu or by phone at 585.217.2539. Email is preferred. Please bring payment to the event.
Thursday, November 6th, 2008: Evening at Kirtas Techologies
at 7620 Omnitech Place in Victor. Come find out about an exciting, dynamic start-up company located just outside Rochester. Kirtas Technologies creates robotic scanning devices that can automatically digitize books at over 2,000 pages per hour. Kirtas has a contract with the libraries at Yale and Cornell Universities to digitize hundreds of thousands of books.
CEO Lotfi Belkhir will talk about Kirtas and its relationship with Yale and Cornell.
Schedule:
6:30 PM Networking and light refreshments
7:00 PM Presentation by Lotfi Belkhir, CEO: “Kirtas: Moving
Knowledge from Books to Bytes”
7:30 PM Q&A / discussion
8:00 PM Tour of the facilities
There is no charge for this event, but because of space constraints, attendance will be limited to the first 25 people to respond. Please RSVP to Alex Chernavsky MS ’89 at alexc@aya.yale.edu or by phone at 585.217.2539. Email is preferred.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Johnson Club of Rochester (MBA alumni from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management).
For more information about these or other Yale Club events, please contact club president Patrick Kelly ’89 at (585) 244-0454, or by
e-mail at pkelly17@rochester.rr.com.
Past Event: Baseball Picnic, July 2008
See photos of this event here.
Summer Picnic and Baseball Game: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 6:00 PM. Rochester
Redwings v. Norfolk Tides. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and fireworks after the game. Food includes hotdogs &
hamburgers, potato salad, pasta salad, watermelon, and soda. Prices: $17.00 (adult picnic and seat); $11.00
(kids 4-12); children 3 and under are free. If you want a seat only, tickets are $5.00.
Past Event: Spring Dinner, March 2008
We invite you to our annual Spring Dinner! Come hear a lecture by Charles Hill,
Distinguished Fellow International Security Studies at Yale. Professor Hill's lecture is titled, "The
Presidency and Foreign Policy".
Tuesday March 11, 2008
The Country Club of Rochester
2935 East Avenue
Rochester, NY
6:30PM Registration/Cocktails
7:00PM Dinner
8:00PM Lecture
Cost: $35 per person, including dinner and beverage (Checks made payable to
the "Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester"; mail to
Johanna Bartlett, 7 Helmsford Way, Penfield, NY 14526).
Paid RSVPs required by March 7th as seating is limited.
Past Event: Ivy Casino 2008
Get ready for the second annual Ivy Casino! This is a fund-raising event that will benefit the Rochester Museum
& Science Center (RMSC). The date has been set for Saturday, February 2, 2008, and the event will take place
at the Museum again. Last year's event
was a huge success! Come have fun with us as
we raise money for this
worthy cause. When more information becomes available, it will
be posted on www.ivycasino.org.
Past Event: Yale Glee Club
The Yale Glee Club is coming to Rochester! On Saturday, January 5, 2008, the Glee Club will be performing a concert
at the Asbury First United Methodist Church of Rochester. The concert
will begin at 7:30 PM. The suggested donation is $10 for adults and $5 for children. If you are able to host
one (or more) of the Yale students, please contact Yale Club president Patrick Kelly ’89
at 585.244.0454 or by e-mail at pkelly17@rochester.rr.com. The students
would stay overnight at your house from Saturday night to Sunday morning.
Past Event: HYP Ball 2007
The 75th
Annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Ball took place on Saturday,
November 10th, 2007 at the Genesee Valley Club. The HYP Ball was organized by the Yale club
this year. The Johnny Matt Band provided the dance music. A good time was had by all! If
you have any good photographs of the event, please e-mail them to alexc@aya.yale.edu so
that they can be used to help promote next year's event.
Yale Club Membership for 2007 – 2008
Membership in Yale Club is open to all Yale alumni, including persons with Yale undergraduate, graduate or professional
degrees. Thank you in advance for your support. Payment of your dues makes you an active member of
the Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester and supports local alumni activities.
Please mail your check for annual dues of $20 for 2007-08, payable to YACR, to:
Johanna Bartlett
YACR Treasurer
7 Helmsford Way
Penfield, NY 14526
If you would like to be a Yale Patron, please send a separate check
for $85, payable to YACR, to Johanna Bartlett (at address above). Patrons save $50 per couple attending the
HYP Ball.
Latest issue of the Blues News:
The Blues News is the official newsletter of the Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester. The printed version is sent
by postal mail. Read the electronic version for Spring, 2007 here (link
opens a 79K PDF document).
Past Event: Carter Wiseman lecture, June 7, 2007
Join us for a Spring Gathering on Thursday, June 7, 2007. The featured speaker will
be Carter Wiseman ’63, Yale
Professor of Architecture and former editor of Yale Alumni Magazine. He will discuss the work
of Louis Kahn, the renowned
architect who designed the Yale Art Gallery and
the Yale Center for British Art. Meet us for dessert and coffee in
a building that Kahn designed – the First Unitarian Church
at 220 Winton Road South in Rochester.
Time: Mingling with Professor Wiseman over dessert & coffee begins at 6:30 PM. Lecture begins at 7:30 PM.
Cost: Dessert & coffee (by Phillips European
Restaurant): $10 per person when paid in advance by June 1; $12 when paid at the door. Lecture only: $5 at door.
On sale after lecture: Autographed copies of Carter Wiseman's new
book:
Louis I.
Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture.
Past Event: Picnic with Dick Jauron, June 10, 2007
We are pleased to invite you to a Spring Picnic by Lake Ontario with...
Dick Jauron, (Yale Class of 1973)
Head Coach of the Buffalo Bills
He will talk about his NFL career
Date/Time: Sunday June 10, 2007 at 6:00pm
Location: The waterfront home of Connie and Joe Vasile '87
570 Shipbuilders Creek Road
Webster, NY 14580
Catered picnic buffet and dessert. Casual attire.
Cost: $20 per person or $35 per couple.
Past Event: Casino Royale, February 3, 2007
The first annual Casino Royale – held on Sat. February 3, 2007 – was a huge success. We raised over
$2,500 for the Planetarium at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Click here
to view some photographs from the event.
Look for it again in February 2008!
Chris Carosa ’82 presents a check to Kate Bennett,
President of the Rochester Museum and Science Center.
Yale alumni and guests enjoy games of chance at Casino Royale 2007.
Past event: Harvard-Yale-Princeton Ball, 2006
This year's HYP ball took place on Saturday, December 2, 2006 at the Genesee Valley
Club. Click here to view some photographs from the Ball. Join us again
in December, 2007 for this warm, elegant, festive event!
Past event: The Game 2006
On Saturday, November 18th, 2006, alumni of both Yale and Harvard gathered at The Distillery to watch the Bulldogs break a five-year run by
the Crimson. Final score: Yale 34, Harvard 13. A good time was had by all! Click
here to view some photographs from the gathering. Join us again
next year for this fun, annual event!
Past event: All-Ivy tent at the annual regatta
Sunday, October 8, 2006 was the 18th annual Head of
the Genesee Regatta. The event took place at Genesee River
Park, on the University of Rochester campus. The regatta featured local and regional collegiate teams, as well as some teams from
area high schools. Additional entertainment was provided by singing groups and jazz bands from RIT and U of R. The
Ivy Alliance tent featured free lunch and snacks.
Some additional photographs are available here.
Past event: Baseball Game and Picnic
The Yale Club's annual summer picnic took place on Friday, July 21, 2006 at Frontier Field in Rochester. Good food, good company,
a baseball game, and fireworks – what more could you need? Click here to view some
photographs of the event. Join us again next year!
Past event: 2006 Spring Dinner and Concert
The Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester was pleased to host the 2006 Spring Dinner and Concert, held on
Friday, March 24, 2006 at the Country Club of Rochester. The evening featured a very special concert
from the Duke's Men, one of the finest undergraduate a cappella singing groups at Yale! Two of its members
are from Rochester, and they brought the group home for a weekend of singing. For more information about
the Duke's Men, see: http://www.yale.edu/dukesmen/
For more information, please contact Patrick Kelly '89 at 585.244.0454.
BLUES NEWS
The Autumn, 2005 issue of Blues News has hit the streets. The Blues News is the official newsletter of the
Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester. Members receive the printed newsletter by postal mail. Electronic versions
of the five most-recent issues are available below:
RECENT EVENT: The Game, Nov. 2005
On Saturday, November 19th, 2005, alumni of both Yale and Harvard gathered at The Distillery to watch "The Game". And
what a game it was! After a triple-overtime contest that lasted almost four hours, the Bulldogs took second place. The final
score was Harvard 30, Yale 24.
Click here for more photographs from "The Game".
RECENT EVENT: Annual Baseball Picnic, Summer 2005
July 22, 2005 was a warm, summer Friday – a perfect day for an evening of baseball! Local Yalies gathered at Frontier Field
to eat a delicious picnic dinner and then watch a game between the Red Wings and Durham Bulls. The night ended with fireworks. Children
of all ages had a great time.
Click here for more photographs from the picnic
RECENT EVENT: The Game (November, 2004)
On Saturday, November 20th, 2004, Yale (and Harvard) alumni gathered at The Distillery to watch "The Game", broadcast
by satellite. The Yalies were heard cheering mightily as the Bulldogs took second
place. Some photographs are available here.
ALUMNI SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
Thanks to ASC Chairman Rob Turner ’83 for organizing interviewing activities and coordinating
everything with the undergraduate admissions office in New Haven. Further
thanks to all 27 of this year's alumni interviewers:
Johanna Bartlett ’87
Alex Chernavsky ’89 M.S.
Stefan Cohen ’87
Glenn Currier ’94 M.P.H.
Joseph C. Finetti ’81
Steve Friedenberg
Joel Galand ’83
Brijen Gupta ’54
Teresa D. Johnson ’75
Henry M. Hamlin ’51
Patrick J. Kelly ’89
Kate Kressman-Kehoe ’84
John T. Langfitt ’81
Robert G. Nassau ’81
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L. Fred Nazarian ’60
Daniel P. O’Brien ’88
Rene H. Reixach, Jr. ’66
Robert Rutzen ’67 Ph.D.
Arline Santiago
Julia S. Tan ’66 Ph.D.
Yen T. Tan ’66 Ph.D.
Donald H. Tingley ’81
Robert Turner ’83
Mark D. Whitaker ’98 J.D.
Roy S. Wiener ’77
Jeffrey M. Wilkins’68
Michael E. Yurcheshen ’95
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We need more alumni interviewers for the 2005-2006 admissions seasonl. If you're interested in interviewing
applicants to Yale, please contact RobTurner.
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ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION
Alumni who would like to join the Yale Alumni Corporation of Rochester should send a check for dues to our
Treasurer, John Titus, at 116 Bay Village Drive, Rochester, NY 14609.
Annual dues are $20 for all classes. Please let us know your e-mail address!
Contributions to the Howard Cumming Scholarship Fund are always welcome.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2006
In alphabetical order:
