Dear Classmates and Friends:

Our 40th Reunion – June 2-5, 2011, in Branford College – is fast approaching. Soon we’ll gather once again in New Haven to celebrate our history, our present, and our future.  Join us to reminisce, to rekindle old friendships and make new ones, or just to have a good time at a place which in so many different ways (communal and personal, shared and individual) so significantly influenced and shaped our lives.

We encourage you to register as soon as possible (and also so that we can better anticipate and manage the overwhelming tidal wave of attendance that we are certain is coming)!  Note – you still have to register “officially” even if you pre-registered on the AYA Website. For more information and registration, click here.

Your Reunion Committee has put together an outstanding group of events, including:

  • Traditional Class Dinner Friday Night
  • Class Dinner Dance Saturday Night with our own Bales-Gitlin Band and a special appearance by the Whiffenpoofs
  • Women’s Breakfast Saturday Morning (new event this year)
  • Extraordinary Class Panels Friday and Saturday afternoons addressing major issues in our lives: Healthcare, Politics and Transitioning to Retirement
  • Special recognition of our Class’ long-standing support of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center

Of course, all this supplements the full plate of events presented by the University.

Please see below for information regarding housing, financial aid, reunion memorabilia, reunion website, and on-line class book input.

We look forward to seeing you at Yale in June.

Your Reunion Co-Chairs,

Andy Kaufman and Ruth Lansner

andrew (dot) kaufman (at) kirkland (dot) com

ruth (dot) lansner (at) hklaw (dot) com

HOUSING – By the time you see this, it is unlikely there will be rooms available in the downtown hotels for those of you wishing off-campus accommodations. There may still be room at La Quinta Inn on Long Wharf. The greater New Haven Convention and Visitors’ Bureau (www.newhavencvb.org or 800 332-7829) has a list of hotels, bed and breakfasts and inns within 10-15 minutes of the Yale campus. To get to our reunion by car, simply park at Pierson-Sage parking garage (directions in the Reunion Booklet) and take the AYA reunion shuttle.

FINANCIAL AID – Financial aid is available to enable you and your spouse/partner to attend our reunion if resources are tight. It can include the full or partial cost of the registration fee and on campus housing. Requests for financial aid will be on a completely confidential basis, and should be directed to Jennifer Julier at AYA at 203 436-8014 or jennifer (dot) julier (at) yale (dot) edu.

WHO’S COMING – A link on the AYA reunion website will update regularly the names of classmates who are planning to attend our reunion. Please add your name to the list so your friends will be encouraged to come too.

SURVIVING SPOUSES/PARTNERS – Surviving spouses and surviving partners of classmates are encouraged to attend the reunion as our guests.  Fees and the cost of campus housing are waived.

REUNION MEMORABILIA – Each attendee will receive a windbreaker embroidered with our class logo.

REUNION WEBSITE AND ON-LINE CLASSBOOK INPUT – Please check our Class’ link on the AYA reunion website for updated reunion information.  A separate committee is organizing a website for an electronic class book, and information regarding that will also be posted to our Class’ link on the AYA reunion website.