Jim Kaplan History Tours Oct. 11 and 24
Jim Kaplan writes:
For those of you who missed my summer tours, I am giving new ones in the fall. As these tours are given at 1 pm, unlike the 2 A.M. July 4 tour, they may not be sold out and there could be space available if you sign up quickly:
Harlem: The Historic Capital of Black America, October 11, 1 pm-3 pm at 135th Street and Lenox Ave (in front of the Schomburg Library). This tour, sponsored by the OHNY.org, repeats a highly acclaimed tour that I previously gave on August 9, of this year and from 1989 to 2000 for the 92nd Street Y, and discusses Phillip Payton and the Afro American Realty Company, visits the world famous Schomburg library, and the site of Marcus Garvey's Liberty Hall. I will be assisted by my daughter Olivia who now works on 125th Street.
To sign up, visit www.culturenow.org/index.php?page=tours.
The Great Crashes of Wall Street, October 24, 1 pm. Richard M. Warshauer and I have given this tour for the past 20 years (since the 1987 Crash). We discuss the vagaries and vicissitudes of Wall Street as well as its history from its founding by the Dutch. This year I expect to cover more extensively than in the past Henry Hudson in honor of the 400th Anniversary of his discovery of New York. I have recently done more research on Hudson whom I now view as the archetypal driven corporate entrepreneur and a harbinger of things to come.
The Great Crashes tour is sponsored by the American Museum of Finance, and you should sign up through their website at www.moaf.org/events/walking/evt_20091024.
Alexis Krasilovsky Film Screening at Yale Club in NY Oct. 26
Alexis Krasilovsky writes:
I'm looking forward to a special screening of my film "Women Behind the Camera" at the Yale Club of New York City on October 26 at 6 PM. Please come!
I am delighted to report that the shorter version of the film, titled "Shooting Women," screened on September 14 at the Culture & Cultures Intercultural Film Festival in Soreze, France, followed by a panel discussion on sexuality and gender in cinema with the Australian filmmaker Denis Piel, the French filmmaker Liliane de Kermadec ("Le Murmure des Ruines"), the Scottish director of "Argentina in Therapy," Serbian director Lidija Mirkovic and French casting director Francoise Combadiere-Stern and myself. The film also screened at the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxy Cinema in San Francisco, September 1, and at the International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot, Israel on September 9. "Shooting Women" has also been accepted by the Lady Bug Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11.
For more details, visit www.womenbehindthecamera.com.
Alexis also writes about her new work in progress:
Following the festival in Southern France, I flew to Paris, where I spent an arduous but productive week shooting my film, "Pastriology." With the help of Anouchka Walelyk---assistant, interviewer and translator par excellence---I filmed in some of the most elegant patisseries of Paris---Carl Marletti's, and Eric Carasso's Patisserie des Reves---as well as filming a Tunisian Jewish woman baking in her tiny apartment in the banlieux (the equivalent of our inner cities) and children drawing pictures of their favorite cakes in a neighborhood cake-making atelier---which will be intercut with children drawing pictures of their favorite sweets in Kolkata, India.
On September 24th, Anouchka and I took a train to Lilles, where Prof. Georges Vandalle, Chair of the Department of Tourism of the University of Lille, introduced us to Meert, one of the foremost patisseries in France, originally founded in 1761, and once the Official Supplier of His Majesty, Leopold I. The footage that we shot in their kitchens, patisserie and restaurant rivals what I shot in the baklava factories of Turkey, and I'm looking forward to editing it together with my footage from other countries with our editor, Katey Bright.
I also met with documentary filmmaker Emil Weiss, whose festival in Paris screened my film "Exile" many years ago. Emil has agreed to approach French television on behalf of the "Pastriology" project with the French version of our proposal (in progress). The involvement of French television could enable us to get substantial funding from the Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie. Sanjoy Ghosh, our Co-Producer, is currently organizing upcoming shoots in India and Mexico.
For sample footage and more information on "Pastriology," visit www.alexiskrasilovsky.com/pastriology.html.
Links to Archives on Coeducation
In connection with the Oct. 9 celebration of the 40th anniversary of coeducation at the Yale Club in New York, Vera Wells and Susan Yecies sent in these links to Yale Alumni Magazine and Yale Daily News archival materials on coeducation:
YAM's link on coeducation recent issue and access to what they electronically archived from that period:
www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/coed.html
The collection of articles on Coeducation (1967-1970) in the Library's online Yale Daily News Historical Archive:
http://images.library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/ydnsample.htm
The full archive, where many other issues from the period can be found, is located at:
http://images.library.yale.edu/digitalcollections/YaleDailyNews.aspx
Harvard vs. Yale Post-Game Celebration in Davenport Nov. 21
Harvard vs. Yale
November 21, 2009
Post Game Victory Celebration
After the game, our friend and classmate Richard Schottenfeld (who is the Master at Davenport College) has invited members of the class of 1971 and their guests to a victory celebration. The party will begin after the game ends in the Common Room at Davenport; there will be food, hot and cold non-alcoholic drinks and wonderful company so please plan to attend. No need to RSVP!!
Save the Date! Coeducation Celebration Oct. 9
SAVE THE DATE!
The Yale Class of 1971 Invites Classmates and Their Guests to a Celebration of 40 Years of Coeducation at Yale
Please join us for an insightful and fun event featuring the people who made it happen:
ELGA WASSERMAN, Special Assistant to the President on Coeducation
HENRY (SAM) CHAUNCEY, JR, Secretary of the University
JOHN WILKINSON, Dean of Students
Hear these key players tell us about Yale before Coeducation... Hear the funny stories and power plays behind the scenes... Hear them tell their own inside story of the beginning of Coeducation at Yale... Receive a special commemorative sampling of news clips about Yale Coeducation as early as the 1800s.
When: Friday, October 9, 2009, noon lunch with wine
Where: Yale Club of New York City
Price: $75.00 per person
RSVP: Space is limited so please rsvp by June 15 to reserve your place
RSVP: Email cori [dot] okeefe [at] yale [dot] edu to receive a reservation form
We look forward to seeing you at this historic luncheon!
Vera Wells & Susan Yecies
You're Invited! AYA Pregame Tent at Yale Bowl for Harvard Game Nov. 21
Harvard vs. Yale, Yale Bowl, November 21, 2009
There will be a pregame victory celebration for the Class of 1971 members who are attending the Harvard-Yale football game this year.
Plan to meet at the AYA Tent in Alumni Village next to the Bowl. Admission is FREE, food and drink will be served and most importantly you can catch up with other 71ers prior to kickoff.
Dave and Leah Vogel have promised to be there early with a big sign next to the designated area for our class.
Cell coverage has been known to be spotty at the Bowl on game day but if you have questions on game day you can try 323-445-7995 (Harry Levitt's cell). If you have any questions prior to game day, feel free to contact Dave Vogel (david [dot] vogel [at] yale [dot] edu; 203-432-7705) or Harry Levitt (harry [dot] levitt [at] mullintbg [dot] com; 949-467-2020).
Beat Harvard!
Book Talk on Mary Hallock Foote in Denver Oct. 23
Chrissy Citron invites anyone who'll be in the Denver area on Oct. 23 to an illustrated lecture co-sponsored by the Colorado Yale Association:
COLORADO CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND ART
&
COLORADO YALE ASSOCIATION & VASSAR CLUB OF COLORADO
WITH THANKS TO THE COLORADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
This event is open to the public and is free.
SAVE THE DATE FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2009 7 p.m.
ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
ABOUT
MARY HALLOCK FOOTE
BY
PROFESSOR CHRISTIE HILL SMITH
Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938), early and prominent western author and illustrator, was one of the first women to make a living writing fiction about the West. From a genteel background in New York (and educated at the Female Collegiate Seminary in Poughkeepsie), she moved west with her mining engineer husband (who had attended Yale University), lived in Leadville, CO and Deadwood, South Dakota, among other places. She frequently wrote and illustrated for Century magazine. In 12 novels and many short stories, she wrote about the cultural isolation she felt on the frontier. Three of her novels are set in Leadville. Her letters back East became the basis for Wallace Stegner's Pulitzer-prize winning novel, Angle of Repose, and were later published as an autobiography, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West.
Smith is associate professor of humanities at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. She is a graduate of Tufts and received her masters and doctorate from University of Denver. Her grandparents met at Yale in a Beowolf seminar in their own doctoral programs. Reared in Cambridge, Mass., she has lived in the West for thirty years.
Smith's book Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote will be available for purchase following the presentation.
LOCATION :
The Boettcher Auditorium at The Colorado Historical Society, 1300 Broadway, Denver
Advance RSVPs requested but not required.
Admission without reservation will be first come, first served.
For information about this free event or to RSVP, contact
CHRISTIANE CITRON
COLORADO CENTER FOR LITERATURE AND ART
303-777-2242
Fax: 303-777-7278
BookingDenver [at] msn [dot] com
Rubin on Kaylie Jones Memoir
WASHINGTON TIMES
Sunday, September 27, 2009
LIES MY MOTHER NEVER TOLD ME
By Kaylie Jones
Morrow, $25.99, 372 pages, illus.
REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN
All the time that I was spellbound reading this searing, brutally honest memoir, I kept thinking that Kaylie Jones was the perfect proof---and equally the perfect refutation---of that famous dictum by British poet Philip Larkin: "They [mess] you up, your Mum and Dad."
Of course, as many readers will know from his published letters, that fine old four-letter word he used when he meant mess was one of his absolute top favorites. It was certainly a word that Ms. Jones heard a lot growing up from her famous father James Jones (of "From Here to Eternity Fame") and her even more profane mother, actress Gloria Mossolino (a sometime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe), who probably gave Larkin a run for his money in using it as often as possible in a sentence. And also a word that Ms. Jones overused to a fault in her published debut to the point that it was positively off-putting even to those who do not mind profanity. It occurs throughout "Lies My Mother Told Me" as well, but always to good effect, whoever is saying it. . . .
For Martin's full review, click here or visit www.washingtontimes.com.
Paul Angiolillo Sculpture Exhibit in Weston, MA
Paul Angiolillo invites us to an exhibit of his work during the month of October. The opening reception is on October 1:
Sculptures in Wood
by Paul Angiolillo
An exhibit in the Weston Library, 87 School St., Weston MA
October 1 through 31, 2009
reception: Thursday, October 1, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
for more information: 617-924-1656
www.paul.angiolillo.net
Rubin on 'The Lessons of War'
WASHINGTON TIMES. Monday, September 7th, 2009.
By Martin Rubin
THE LESSONS OF WAR: THE EXPERIENCES OF SEVEN FUTURE LEADERS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR
By William van der Kloot
The History Press/Trafalgar Square/IPG Books, $34.95, 240 pages
Reviewed by Martin Rubin
. . . [I]n this unusual book, William van der Kloot, distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, . . . allows readers to draw their own conclusions as to the effect "the war to end all wars" had on seven men caught up in its maelstrom, every one of them destined to govern his own nation later in the century.
And what a septet they are, all of course indubitably world-renowned figures, but some better known than others to the general reader. Perhaps because of their unique horribleness and the terrible effect they had on their own nations and the world, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini are still pretty prominent on the radar screen. It has been a while, though, since Kemal Ataturk, Charles de Gaulle, Harold Macmillan or Herbert Hoover have been in the spotlight at center stage. As for the seventh man, Gustav Mannerheim, the founding father of modern Finland, his fame does not extend much these days beyond his own land. . . .
For Martin's full review, click here or visit www.washingtontimes.com.