AAAYA NorCal Annual Picnic, Don Ramos Park, Palo Alto, Sat., July 17th
The Northern California Chapter of the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA) would like to invite you to our Annual Picnic — a fun event for alumni of all ages, local Yale Students home for the summer, and members of the Class of 2014. This would be a great opportunity to network with friendly alums, meet old and new friends, and to provide a warm welcome to the pre-frosh (and their parents) before they leave for New Haven. Children, parents and friends of Yalies are not only welcome, but are encouraged to join in the fun.
Event details:
* Potluck Picinic at Don Ramos Park, 800 East Meadow Drive in Palo Alto (map)
* Saturday, July 17th, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
* Bring a hearty appetizer or main dish to share
* We’ll have a volleyball net set up for a spirited game
If you already own folding picnic/camping chairs and/or blankets, please bring them if convenient to supplement the picnic table seating capacity.
Please RSVP now via our eventbrite link http://www.eventbrite.com/event/731684488. If you have any questions, please free to contact Harry Chang (click here to reveal email address).
We hope you’ll be able to join us! Please sign up early and please help spread the word and bring your friends.
To see a recap and photos from last year’s picnic visit http://aaaya.org/?p=825.
Regards,
Harry Chang ’84 SY
President, AAAYA – Northern California Chapter
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In Celebration of Co-Education at Yale
Dear Friends,
You may have heard about the recent events in New Haven celebrating 40 years of co-education and 140 years of women at Yale. I am volunteering for a regional celebration of Women at Yale hosted by local NorCal AYA chapters and would like to extend the invitation to you if you have not seen it already.
General information is included below for your reference. For more detailed information, please visit
www.yalesf.org/article.html?aid=269. Attendance is NOT limited to women. Please forward widely to your Yale contacts in the area.
We are also looking for one volunteer to take photos during the event — you do not need to be a professional or have anything more than a digital camera. We just would love help recording the event. The registration fee is waived for the volunteer. Please contact event coordinator Ruth Kwon ’98 if you would like to volunteer
(click here to reveal email address).
Cindy Hwang ’98
AAAYA of Northern California invites you to join us on March 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. for the AAAYA NorCal Spring Extern Reception 2010. Come and welcome the Spring Externs and meet their Company Sponsors/mentors. This would also be a chance to meet with your fellow AAAYA members. Most importantly, it offers a great opportunity to learn how we all can support the Externship Program.
The Externship Program, sponsored by AAAYA and the Yale Asian American Cultural Center (AACC), is a one week externship during spring break that introduces undergraduate students to the work places of Yale alumni throughout the country.
The following are alumni sponsors in the Bay Area:
• Alma Soongi Beck of Beck Law Group
• Michael Chai of LeapFrog;
• Andrew Chen of D-Pop Labs.
• Wei Tai Kwok of Suntech Power;
• Robert Lee of Silicon Valley Accelerator;
• Alex Liu of A.T. Kearney
• Helen Mancebo of Multispan;
• Thuy Thi Nguyen of Peralta Community College, the Office of the General Counsel
The event will take place at the law offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, located at 405 Howard St., San Francisco (map). The Orrick building is located on the corner of First and Howard Streets, a few blocks from the Montgomery and Embarcadero BART stations. Parking is free after meter hours on Howard and surrounding streets.
Please RSVP to Ruth Kwon (‘98) at (click here to reveal email address) with your full name and the name(s) of any other guests, as well as your class year and any affiliated company. Please put “Spring Extern Reception” in the email subject line. Light refreshments and appetizers will be served. For our planning purposes, we encourage you to respond early, preferably by Thursday, March 11th. See you at the reception!
Come join AAAYA NorCal for a Lunar New Year dim sum brunch and/or Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade on Saturday, February 27th.
The day will start at 1:00pm with a no-host dim sum brunch at City View Restaurant (662 Commercial Street near Kearny St., tel: (415) 398-2838 map) in downtown San Francisco, just 2 blocks from Chinatown. For details about the restaurant, see www.yelp.com/biz/city-view-restaurant-san-francisco.
For brunch reservations email Kristina Yee (AAAYA NorCal Lunar New Year 2010 event chair) as soon as possible, but no later than Wednesday, Feburary 24th at (click here to reveal email address) with your contact info and the names of the brunch attendees. Please put “Lunar New Year Brunch” in the email subject line.
After brunch, we will spend the next couple of hours meandering through Chinatown and staking out a good spot from which to watch the famous Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year parade — voted one of the top 10 parades in the US. See more about the parade at: www.chineseparade.com
For those interested, there are bleacher seats available for $30 each. Otherwise, the parade is free.
If there is enough interest, we can order bleacher seats as a group for a 10% discount. If you would like to purchase a seat, please contact Kristina Yee at (click here to reveal email address) as soon as possible, but no later than Sunday, February 21st. Please put “Lunar New Year Bleacher Seats” in the email subject line.
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