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MASTER’S PIECES
Evening, my fellow destinarians. Warmth and sunshine is in the forecast, and I am ready to say yes to this. We also have wonderful things coming up in TD this week and the week after. Don’t let them pass you by!!!!!
Monday, March 31, 4:30 pm in the Master’s House: Master’s Tea with Frank Bennack, Jr., former CEO of the Hearst Corporation As Hearst’s extraordinary CEO for 28 years until this past year, Mr. Bennack increased revenues by 12 times and grew earnings more than 30 times. He launched three leading cable networks - A&E, HISTORY and Lifetime; invested in the ESPN family of networks; acquired Lagardère’s 100 international magazines; and purchased healthcare information leader Milliman Care among many other accomplishments. Today, Hearst is comprised of some 200 businesses and 20,000 employees. Come and hear something about how it happened and why.
Friday, April 4, Yale Law School Auditorium at 4:30 pm - Chubb Fellowship speaker Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Chubb Fellowship Dinner opportunity at 6:30 pm Mdm. Gbowee played an extraordinary role in bringing peace to Liberia in a time of war, and has since been active in the empowerment of women around the world. You can attend the free public presentation and you can also sign up in the Master’s Office for the Chubb Dinner with Mdm. Gbowee, which will be held at 6:30 pm at the LoRicco Ballroom at 216 Crown Street in a joint event with the Yale African Association for Peace and Development. Signup deadline is end of day tomorrow (Monday). Over 140 African students at top colleges are coming for the YAAPD conference, and the Chubb Fellowship Dinner is where you can mix and mingle with amazing people from some incredible places.
Saturday, April 5, Mott Woolley Council trip to New York City Mott is back with its annual sponsorship of a terrific day in the city. For a total cost of $20, you get a round trip train ticket (itself worth more than $20) PLUS free admission to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) for the morning, then a choice in the afternoon of either free admission to a hot Broadway Show with TD alumni connections (“Mothers and Sons”) or a trip to City Field for a sunny seat (also free!) to watch the New York Mets. The trip will leave at 8 am sharp from TD and folks will return to New Haven about dinner time. The number of spots on the trip is limited, and you must register for one here: https://yalesurvey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3BJQuULgQq7ekh7, before midnight tonight (Sunday).
Stuff Coming Down the Road:
Wednesday, April 9, 8:30 pm in the Thompson Room – Info Session on Medical School and Science PhD application preparation. Applications to professional and graduate school programs have become increasingly competitive in recent years, incorporating a holistic approach beyond the GPA and standardized test scores. Join a conversation about how to strengthen your credentials to maximize your application for medical school and science graduate programs. Presenters include: David McCormick, Professor of Neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine; Lanch McCormick Executive Director of Unite For Sight, former senior advisor at Undergraduate Career Services; Kristin McJunkins, Director of Health Professions Advisory Program at Undergraduate Career Services; Michael Schwartz, Associate Dean for Curriculum and Admissions Committee Member at Yale University School of Medicine.
Saturday, April 12, the annual TD Crawfish Boil !! Yes, another Mott spectacular, with crawfish flown in fresh from New Orleans and picked clean right here in the TD courtyard, with all the fixings and to the accompaniment of Cajun music. The boil starts about mid-afternoon.
Sunday, April 13, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm: TD Celebration of Dean John Loge – Portrait Unveiling and Community Sing To celebrate Dean’s remarkable career and retirement in down-home style, we’re going big with a courtyard barbecue, an official portrait unveiling (!) and a massive community music night in the dining hall afterward. Performers, start your engines and get your acts together.
Tuesday, April 15, 4:30 pm in the Master’s House: Master’s Tea with the REAL Captain Phillips!! You’ve seen the movie. Meet Captain Richard Phillips and get his take on what really happened, and what’s happened in his life since Tom Hanks portrayed him in the film.
Friday, April 25, TD DAY!!!! Last day of classes. You know that this means in TD. NOT a good time for your family to hold a reunion in Oklahoma. You need to be here in the courtyard.
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ACADEMICS
Deadline: April 4: Last day to convert from the Credit/D/Fail option to a grade in a spring-term course. This conversion may be done online through SIS or by using a form in your TD dean’s office.
TIMOTHY DWIGHT
TD Senior Mellon Forum: Tuesday, April 1, 5:30, Master’s House This week’s presenters are Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer, Niko Efstathiou, Amy Xiao, Matthew Johnson, and Amanda Murray. Questions tojacob.marcus@yale.edu and diane.charney@yale.edu
TD ROOM DRAWS THIS WEEK
Senior Applications due Tuesday, April 1, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
(All room types except Sextets)
Junior and Sophomore Octet Draw
Applications due Wednesday, April 2, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Octet Draw Number and Room Pick Wednesday, April 2, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Senior Draw Number Pick Wednesday, April 2, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Quint Draw Applications due Thursday April 3, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quint Draw and Room Pick Thursday, April 3, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Seniors Draw Room Pick Thursday, April 3, 8:00pm, Dining Hall
Senior Clean-Up Draw Thursday, April 3, 9:00pm, Dining Hall
Junior Quad Draw Applications due Friday, April 4, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Junior Quad Draw Number and Room Pick Friday, April 4, 5:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Draw Applications due Friday, April 4, 4:00pm, Dean’s Office
Sophomore Sextet Draw Number and Room Pick Friday, April 4, 5:30pm, Dean’s Office
Applications and Information are available at http://timothydwight.yalecollege.yale.edu/deans-office/housing and also in hard copy on the bulletin board in Town Hall. Questions to Dean Loge and members of the TD Housing Committee: Cory.combs@yale.edu; Shelby.davis-cooper@yale.edu Alexandra.krause@yale.edu; Kelly.wu@yale.edu; Alexander.Petros@yale.edu; Adam.mahler@yale.edu;Blake.mueller@yale.edu;
CAREER SERVICES
Life After Yale: Apartment Hunting in NYC (Seniors)
Tuesday, April 1, 4:00-5:00pm, WLH Room 211
Visit the UCS Calendar of Events for a full list of upcoming events. Log in to Yale UCS Symplicity under Events/Employer Information Sessions to RSVP.
Study, research, or teaching abroad after graduation—come hear about terrific opportunities beginning in 2015-16, with application deadlines beginning in August. Attendance at an information session is required before a one-on-one meeting with an adviser, so don’t miss out! Note that there are only a few of these info sessions offered each spring.
- Fulbright: Friday, April 4, at 11:00am, CIPE room 305
- Postgraduate study in the UK & Ireland: Tuesday, April 8, at 4:00pm, CIPE room 305
- Writing essays for national fellowships: Friday, April 11, at 2:00pm, CIPE room 305
- More on our calendar
International Summer Award
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/international/funding/isa/index.html
Deadline: May 1, 2014
NOTES
In a Bloom County episode, after bemoaning the troubles in the world for several frames, the final frame shows a group among dandelions at the edge of a pond. Now that seems right to me. A turn to nature’s certainties and continuities seems appropriate to me in times of uncertainty and rigid categories. A turn in the outdoor pool would be better, but since I am not in Florida as some are, I decide to take a walk, even in today’s drizzle. I head down Whitney toward that small park squeezed between Whitney and Temple, at Trumbull Street. That’s a lot of streets, but the park invokes the values of an entire nature, if one lets it. And I am inclined to set it and I set out so that it will be so.
Volunteers keep the part up (Phelps Park, it is called), and they do a pretty good job. I see the addition of marble benches made from the pink marble of coastal Stony Creek, not far from here. They evoke the prospect of open water, of sailboats, of the beach. Mountain Laurels, the Connecticut State Flower, are planted along the wrought iron fence around the park. They evoke walks in the woods in early summer when the cupped laurel blossoms overwhelm on bushes tall enough to walk under, of camping in the woods, of sun showers. I stand at the far end of the park and face back toward town.
I look down the narrow park to the symmetry of a secret society across Trumbull. With recollections of where I have been, where I might be, and where I am, a small sense of place and connection sets me in place and at ease for a moment or two. This day when warm air beckons (finally!) coaxes us out of doors and perhaps also out of our woes and worries, private and public. The welcome news of this wet and warmer season is the old news of vernal ponds and dandelions, of buds on our Ginkgo and our Magnolias, and of less clothing and more dancing in the longer light. They are certain, these buds; of them I am certain, also. I imagine I am as natural as they are and that each of us is similar to them and to each other in our continuities of being and thoughts and feelings in this community of friends and neighbors. We can place ourselves to dream, together. We can set ourselves to assume the best, together. We can take a walk in the park in order to then return and turn into the certainty among ourselves in our TD courtyards.