The Isles Ensemble Presents Facing the Music: Music, Life and Death

Sunday, November 7, 2PM, $25

at Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church

2020 W Lake of the Isles Pkwy
Minneapolis, MN 55405

Featuring three local Yalies in the Isles Ensemble: Emily Switzer Y'17, MusM'19, Sarah Switzer Y'19 and Ken Freed Y'83, MusM '87. 

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Join the YAANW for a speaker event with

The Minnesota Star Tribune 

CEO and Publisher Steve Grove 

 Wednesday, November 13

at the Minneapolis Club

729 2nd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55402

5 pm cash bar and hors d'oeuvres

6 pm speaker

$40 per person* 

Steve Grove is CEO and Publisher of the Star Tribune, where he leads the company’s operations and directs its strategy. Alongside a new management team, he is leading the transformation of storied Minnesota institution towards a new vision – to become the leading model for local news in America. 

* Bulldogs of the Last Decade $20 per person

Questions contact yaanw@yaanw.org

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The New YAANW BOLD 

Announces another Social Evening at

Graze Provisions+Libations

520 N 4th St, Minneapolis, MN 55401 

Thursday November, 7

5:30 pm to 9 pm

RSVP   952-666-8058

Join us for a lunch and learn with

Dr. Megan L. Ranney 

Dean of the Yale School of Public Health

 Monday, October 28

at the Minneapolis Club

 12 Noon to 1:30 PM

 Hosted by the Lawrence Family Foundation (Jim ‘74, Mary MPH ‘97, Christian ‘16), participation and meal are complimentary for YAANW members and their guests. 

Special meal requests: yaanw@yaanw.org RSVP

Join YAANW for a Jim Dorsey YC'74 tour of St. Anthony Falls and the Mill District

Meet in the  parking lot of the Nicollet Island Pavillion. 

4o Power Street, Minneapolis 55401

90 minute tour  — will cover the geologic, economic, political, architectural and cultural history of St. Anthony Falls and the Mill District.  
After the tour, those who have the time can have lunch together at the Aster Cafe.   

Maximum 30 guests RSVP

BULLDOGS OF THE LAST DECADE (YALE BOLD) PRESENT:

ROOFTOP POOL Party

Friday SEPTEMBER 27 AT 6:30PM

270 HENNEPIN AVE, MPLS

FOOD PROVIDED AKA: WE'LL BE GRILLING!!!

BYOB

ALL YALE ALUMNI WELCOME

RSVP: TEXT ALE 952- 666-8058

See you there

Join us for a special talk with

James Stock YC '78

Harvard Vice Provost of Climate and Sustainability

Thursday September, 26 at the Minneapolis  Club

5 pm cash bar and hors d'oeuvres

6 pm speaker

$30 per person*

James H. Stock is Vice Provost for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Director of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. His current research includes energy and environmental economics with a focus on fuels and on U.S. climate change policy. He is co-author, with Mark Watson, of a leading undergraduate econometrics textbook. In 2013-2014 he served as Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where his portfolio included macroeconomics and energy and environmental policy. He was Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009. He holds a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley where Janet Yellen was his advisor.

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Add dinner at Charlie’s at Minneapolis Club Dutch Treat: contact yaanw@yaanw.org

Bulldogs of the Last Decade: Meet at Surely Brewing Co August 22 

Ale Campos YC '23 has made reservations! Join BOLD alums for a casual get together to network with local younger Yale alums. Yale alums of all ages invited as well. Complimentary light hors d'oeuvres. 

Meet at Surly Brewing Co

520 Malcolm Ave SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Thursday, August 22 6:30 pm- 8 pm

RSVP

Join YAANW for a Picnic at Beard’s Plaisance at the SW Corner of Lake Harriet (4525 Upton Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55410).

This is a new location for us and it is a welcoming site for all ages. Stop in after a walk around Lake Harriet, take the toddler’s to the playground and meet your Yale friends or just hang out for 3 hours and help grill. We are upgrading our menu items compliments of our new Board Member “X” Xioteng Huang, foodie extraordinaire.

Food and beverages will be provided by YAANW! Questions yaanw@yaanw.org

Register

Cedar Lake Park Cleanup

Join fellow Yalies for a morning of work in the Park. Bring work gloves for pulling out invasive non indigenous species. For more information contact max.musicant@gmail.com

Watch the Yale vs Harvard Game

at Bunny’s Bar and Grill

5916 Excelsior Blvd, St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416

Saturday November 18, 10 am to 4 pm

Game start 11 am….Get there early to get a table!

https://www.bunnysbarandgrill.com/

Meet at Minnesota State Capital Building at 10:30 AM

75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard., St Paul, MN 55155

Kenneth Freed and the Isles Ensemble 

Exodus, A Musical Journey focusing on Jewish Culture 

Sunday October 15, 2 pm

Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church

2020 W Lake of Isles Parkway, Minneapolis 55405

Join Isles violist and former YAANW President Ken Freed as he takes us on a personal journey of faith and hope that spans centuries of prayer, memory, and the eternal. Newly uncovered arrangements of music from Auschwitz will serve as the counterpoint to the music of Bruch, Mendelssohn, Bloch, Ravel and Golijov.

Contact kenfreed007@gmail.com for more information

Complimentary Wine Tasting with Page Knudsen Cowles Y'77, General Partner of Knudsen Vineyards

Join us for lunch on September 13

With Charlie Zelle, Yale SOM '83

Chairman Metropolitan Council

Lunch 12 pm- 1:30pm $45

The YAANW is hosting it's Annual Summer Outing
at the Minikahda Club
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Featuring speaker Minnesota Rep Liz Lee Y11
Cash Bar: 6pm, Dinner: 7pm and speaker 7:30pm
business casual (no denim, sports apparel or sneakers)
$80 dinner
$40 dinner young alums (classes of 2013-2027)

Golf Tee Times Available contact Nannette Beckley at Nannette@yaanw.org

Yale alumni, students, and families are invited to a picnic at the picnic shelter at Hidden Falls Regional Park in St. Paul on June 10. We will serve lunch, including sandwiches, chips, cookies, and soft drinks, provided by YAANW. Bring your favorite lawn games! Please register at https://www.yaanw.org/event/2023/picnic.

The Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest invites you to join us for a rare reception and talk with Peter Salovey, the 23rd president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris professor of psychology. President Salovey is coming to the Twin Cities for a special visit with Yale alumni and families.

The price for the event is $40 per person ($25 for recent alums), which includes heavy hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, and private access to adjacent galleries. Registration is required by April 20.

We are hopeful that as many of you as possible will join us. Economic times might have you watching your expenditures, so please contact events@yaanw.org if you need the fee adjusted to your circumstances. Likewise, if you are able to sponsor additional guests, please consider an additional donation to support young alums and current students attending the President Salovey event and YAANW community programs.

The novelty of the new year has worn off and winter continues its brutal deluge of snow and bitter temperatures, which can only mean one thing: FEB CLUB IS HERE.

Don't know what Feb Club is? Every night of February, Yale alumni and their friends gather around the world in small groups and large, in cities, towns, hamlets and villages, on every continent. Feb Club is simply a way for Yalies the world over to get together for a happy hour, dinner, or other social gathering.

Come join other Yalies across the Twin Cities area at Graze | Provisions + Libations in the North Loop (520 N 4th St, Minneapolis, MN 55401) on Monday, February 13th from 5:30-7:30pm. Please RSVP at https://www.yaanw.org/event/2023/febclub so we know how many to expect.

If you've never been to a YAANW event before or you've just moved to the area, this is the PERFECT way to get started and meet other alumni over food and drinks (purchase on your own). We can't wait to see you there!

Join us for an afternoon of chamber music featuring an All-Yalie Quintet playing music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. 

2:30 pm: Meet the musicians for coffee, prosecco and cookies in the Green Room (pick up tickets here) 

4:00 pm: Concert in the Target Atrium

Questions: contact Nannette Beckley at nbeckley@holden2011.com or 307-690-3781.

Join Katie Luber, MA ’85, Minneapolis Institute of Art’s Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President for coffee and a discussion on the current Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi special exhibit. Katie will join us in conversation before optional self-guided tours of the exhibit. 

Coffee and conversation will be from 10-11 am. Half-price VIP Exhibit tickets offer admission to the exhibit at anytime without reservations.

Cost: $32 (includes coffee/pastries, talk, and VIP exhibit ticket) or $22 (coffee/pastries and talk only; no ticket)

Contact Tara Doyle at tara@yaanw.org with any questions.

The annual YAANW financial and investment panel luncheon will occur in the Club Room at the Minneapolis Club on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, at 12:00 noon.

The panel will include Conley Brooks ’68, Stephen B. Wellington, Jr., ’71, Christian Lawrence ’16, Leslie Goedken MArch ’09, Nannette Beckley ’78, and David Royal ’93.

Registration is required for the in-person luncheon ($47) at https://secure.givelively.org/.../2022-yaanw-financial-panel

Parking is not included in the fee. Guests are allowed. Questions: contact the Schuster Clinic at Yale@schusterclinic.com or 952-920-8386.