Alice Young on PBS July 3
Alice Young writes:
PBS (WNET13 in the NYC area) is airing a fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary about China's rural courts, with a short interview of me afterwards about China's economic growth. Please watch July 3 at 9:00 pm (check local listings at www.pbs.org ); I am not a professional commentator but I think you will find the program interesting.And Happy Fourth of July! Alice
WIDE ANGLE-- the weekly international documentary series-- airs on Tuesday nights at 9pm on PBS beginning July 3rd. This season's premiere, The People's Court, takes viewers inside the courtrooms and law schools of China to provide an unprecedented and unexpected portrait of its rapidly growing legal system. The documentary follows itinerant judges, law students, a human rights lawyer, and ordinary Chinese citizens seeking justice as the country tackles the massive task of establishing a legal framework for its new market economy. Poised to surpass the United States as the largest economy in the world, yet facing mounting domestic and international pressure for a fair and transparent framework of laws, China is racing to reshape the rules of society. Few nations have ever attempted to create a new legal system so quickly, yet the transformation is incomplete and the judiciary far from independent. This experiment to introduce justice and the 'rule of law' to a nation still firmly controlled by the Communist party has global implications.
The film will be followed by an interview with international lawyer and Asia specialist Alice Young, Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye Scholer LLP.
Hill Center Newsletter
Click below to see recent newsletters from the Calvin Hill Day Care Center:
Calvin Hill Center June 2007 newsletter
Calvin Hill Day Care Center Newsletter April 2007
Kitty Lustman-Findling
Our Class is sad to have lost Kitty Lustman-Findling, master of Davenport, who helped found Calvin Hill Day Care Center and for whom the CHDCC kindergarten is named:Click here for Kitty Lustman-Findling memorial notice
Macmurdo Memorial Service May 26
Dear Yale '71 classmates,
Click on link below to read Harry Levitt and Mitch Garner's letter with details on the Saturday, May 26 memorial service for our late Class Secretary and dear friend Boat Macmurdo.
Invitation to Yale College '71 classmates
Cross-Country Race
Mitch Garner reports, "On February 10, 2007, fellow Ann Arbor Track Club member J.D. Pepper and I competed on behalf of the AATC in the men's masters race at the 2007 United States Track and Field Association (USATF) National Cross Country Championships in Boulder, Colorado." They arrived in Boulder on Thursday, two days before the race. "There was snow around the city, and we were concerned that there might be a lot of snow on the course. On Friday, however, when we did a practice run on the portion of the course that had been set up for the runners, we found that the USATF had cleared the running path of all snow and that our only impediments on the course would be mud and water. . . ."For the full article, click here or visit www.aatrackclub.org.
Report Class Gatherings!
Classmates are invited to submit information about an upcoming class gathering: click on Contact Us in the menu at the top of this webpage.
Class Table - NYC
The Yale '71 Class Table meets on the second Friday of most months at the Yale Club of New York City. Contact Bob Shapiro or Bill Primps for more information.
71-ers Lead Fund Drive
Calvin Hill Day Care CenterKitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten
Our classmate Kurt Schmoke is a co-founder of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center, and the Class of 1971 has supported the Center since it opened in 1970.
Click on the thumbnail below to read Kurt's"On the history of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center"; there's more on the Center's founding in this profile, prepared in connection with the Ivy-at-50 celebration in January 2007.
In 2001, as the Center reached its 30th anniversary, we undertook to raise funds to expand the Center's building in New Haven.
Bob Shapiro spearheaded our efforts, and on April 8, 2005, he and our treasurer Andy Sherman represented us at the open house celebrating the new addition and thanking all the many contributors to the project:
For more information about our support of the Center, please contact Andy Sherman or our class secretary Harry Levitt.
Ivy Football Association
Ivy Football Assn Bi-Annual Black Tie Dinner NYC Jan 25, 2007
Bill Primps writes (9/18/06): Our class has been involved in the Ivy Football Association from its inception, and now the IFA, founded in 2001 to celebrate the colleges that gave birth to the sport of football, has set Jan. 25, 2007 as the date for its bi-annual black tie dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
Every other year, the IFA gathers in New York for a celebration that honors a representative of each of the eight Ivy schools for leadership and achievement in his career after undergraduate football days.At the first dinner, in January 2001, Kurt Schmoke was the Yale representative so honored; subsequent honorees have included Hank Paulson of Dartmouth, George Schultz of Princeton, and Tommy Lee Jones of Harvard, all former Ivy footballers. I presently serve as the IFA's Vice President (Princeton Hall of Fame fullback Cosmo Iacavazzi is President).
Kurt and I would love it if any interested classmates, football ties or not, would join us at this event.Classmates can learn more about the IFA, and can reserve a seat for our upcoming dinner, by going to the IFA website.