Recent Club Events
State Senator, and the Democratic candidate for state treasurer Janet Cowell was our featured guest. Candidate Cowell presented her "State of the State" address, Tuesday, August 19, in the RTP
Baseball, Monday, June 2, the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Bulls versus the Boston Red Socks farm team. As before, our block of tickets is right above home base. A beautiful evening for baseball at beautiful new Durham Bulls Athletic Park. 30 Yalies had a blast. Oh, Bulls won.
May 15, Dinner and Play at Southern Seasons. The meal at The Weathervane was exquisite, followed by the Pulitzer-nominated play, "The Clean House," which originally started at Yale Repertory, recently finished its run at Lincoln Center. The event was a sellout.
April 6, The Triangle Yale Club Book Club had read and discussed Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. The book was one of the NY Times' top 10 books of the year.
February 29 The Third Annual Bowlerama, or Bowling for Non-Bowlers, or Let's Mix it Up on the Alleys, or . . attended by members of six of the Ivy League clubs, an exciting evening was had by all, no broken thumbs reported, two straight hours of trying to nail that last pin. Should we do it twice a year?
February 22-23, 2008 An evening, and morning with Yale Professor Jonathan Spence in a wide-ranging discussion of subjects from the opening film, "The Return of Martin Guerre," which anchored the event, to all things Chinese History. Photos at this location.
January 31, 2008 The TYC enjoyed an outstanding play, "Doubt, a Parable," at the Playmakers Repertory Theatre at CSU in Chapel Hill. It was preceded by heavy hors d'oeuvres and a talk by the director, New York based Drew Barr. Author John Patrick Stanley received a Pulitzer for this play, as well as a best play "Tony" in 2005. Drew talked with us, while the Club was feasting, about the play and its subtle shifts back and forth in power. The audience never really knew what was coming next, a wind from the north, or from the south. And where would it leave the characters? Slide show of members attending.
January 22, 2008 Donald C. Shoup, Yale Ph.D. and professor of urban planning at UCLA spoke at the Progress Center about developing urban renewal via parking meters, their use and pricing, and the use of funds therefrom.
Saturday, November 17, football fans migrated to Oh Mulligans sports bar near RDU to watch The Game in HD television, Yale vs. Harvard in Football. Harvard alumni joined in. After winning its first nine contests of 2007, the Yale football team's season ended with the disappointment of a 37-6 loss to Harvard at the Yale Bowl. In keeping with its 9-1 record, Yale placed 16 players on the 2007 All-Ivy League team, and junior running back Mike McLeod won the Asa A. Bushnell Cup as the 2007 Ivy League most valuable player. McLeod, a first-team All-Ivy pick for the second season, became Yale's first Ivy MVP in 20 years after running for a school-record 1,619 yards and 23 TDs and leading the nation for most of the year in average yards per game. He managed these numbers despite playing the last five games with a broken bone in his toe.
Saturday, Nov 3, the TYC arranged private tours, followed by brunch, of The North Carolina Museum of Art's major fall event: "Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism," The event was a sellout, and the quiche and conversation brunch in the bright and pleasant diving room went on into the afternoon. .
Friday, October 19: Yale Professor Ian Shapiro, director of Yale's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and former chir of Yale's Political Science Department, spoke to the Club on, "Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror." Dinner with the professor followed his well-received presentation. Shapiro pointed out that the strategy of containment would have worked just as well today's battle against terrorism as it did in the Cold War, ultimately bringing down the Berlin Wall, and breaking up the Soviet Union, and that the unfortunate components of the Bush Doctrine, preemptive war in far away places and massive dishonesty within the government, to the public and with the rest of the world world has brought us the failure and lack of options we enjoy today.
June 19th: TYC ball fans headed for the Durham Bulls ball park to cheer them into an 8-4 victory over the Scranton Yankees, farm team for the NY Yankees. Now bring on daddy in New York. Photos of the Club crowd will be available with this paragraph by day's end. Click for photos of some of the alumni present.
May 9: Professor Meg Urry, energetic chair of Yale's Physics and Astronomy Department, spoke to a sell-out audience of alumni and guests at UNC's Morehead Planetarium on, "Massive Black Holes and Expanding Dark Energy." Her multi-media additions were incredible.
April 11: Admittee Reception, 6 pm, A well-attended reception for current freshman class acceptees (Class of '11), their parent and recent grads was held this evening at the Chapel Hill home of Bill Dahl '69.
March 31: Redpath Seminar, All day, At the historic Yale Club residence by Grand Central, in New York. Your hosts are Professors John Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, Charles Hill. This was one of the most memorable days of your life.
February 23: Wild evening at the Second Annual Ivy+ Bowlarama, the Yale Club hosting. Members of most of the Ivy League clubs turned out for a exciting evening of bowling for non-bowlers (mostly), taking most of Mardi Gras Lanes in Chapel Hill. Many good scores. No photos - too busy rolling balls.
January 26: At the University Club, a reception and riveting talk by Yale Professor Jay Winter about differences in our Remembrances of War and those of Europe and Asia, and how these differences form mutual cooperation and support - or lack thereof. Many alums and their guests stayed for dinner with the professor, talked late into the evening.
Slide Show Prof. Jay Winter event, January 26.
January 13: Reception and Concert by the Yale Whiffenpoofs at Carolina Meadows. Slide show.
January 6: Holiday Receptions at private homes in Chapel Hill and Pinehurst.
November 18: Yale and Harvard alumni watch The Game at Quinn's sports lounge, 34-14 Yale.
November 18: Monet in Normandy, a sell-out at the Carolina Art Museum. Brunch and a guided tour of this historic traveling exhibit.
October 13: "The Taming of the Shrew," with Elizabethan dinner prior a production of the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Raleigh. Supper with cast members, followed by Shakespeare's finest romance with comedy on top.
September 28: Prof. David Gergen, a director of the Kennedy School of Government, spoke over dinner to 200 alumni and guests on American leadership and foreign policy, or not, and the lack of options regarding Iraq. Politicized operation of the Iraqi occupation has made us ineffective, created a hostile presence leaving us without options.
Bulls Game, June 13 Two beasts met at the Durham Bulls Athletic Stadium June 13, helped down Buffalo 3-2 with the TYC behind home plate. Photos
Prof. Paul Kennedy, May 4:
One of Yale's most popular teachers and speakers, addressed over 100 members of the Triangle Yale Club and guests, and featured his new book due out in June, "Parliament of Nations". Reception, annual meeting included, and a dinner followed, all at the NCSU University Club, in Raleigh. Click for slide show of the evening.
Dinner Theater, February 25, gourmet dining followed by an outstanding production of "Marvin's Room" by the Deep Dish Theater.
First Ivy+ Bolarama, Feb. 4, a wild and wooly evening of intercollegiate bowling at its best followed by dessert and coffee. Photos
Holiday Reception Jan. 3, hosted by John ('68) and Cathy Wright in their Chapel Hill home for current and about-to-be students, grads, parents. It was a dark night for mountain climbing.
Yale Prof. Charles Hill startled TYC members and their guests December 2, at the Raleigh Country Club. See Man and Myth at Yale from the Jan/Feb Yale Alumni Magazine. Photos
