TD Notes and News – Week of 2-12-24

TIMOTHY DWIGHT NOTES & NEWS

WEEK OF 2/12/2024

HL’S PIECES 
 

Dear Red Lions,

We had a tremendous couple of days with our Chubb Fellow, Jill Ellis, former coach of the US Women’s National Soccer Team and the President of the San Diego Waves!  I think this “photo of the week” from Yale Athletics Director Vicky Chun gives you all a taste of the wonderful Chubb dinner in the TD Dining Hall! 

And here is one more from Chubb coordinator, KC Mills, of Jill with Handsome Dan himself. 

 

We will be posting the video of our conversation at SOM and the photographs taken throughout the day on our Chubb Fellowship website so please stay tuned!

Hard to believe but we’re only about 3 months or 100 days out from graduation!  So it’s time to create our TD senior class committee!!! As with TD tradition, our chief aides, Bernice Wang and Jai Chadha, will chair the committee to work on events for senior week and the TD gift to the graduating class.  Senior Lion Demi Lee will be spearheading the TD senior class video to be shown at senior dinner.  To join them on the committee, please email them at jai.chadha@yale.edu or Bernice.wang@yale.edu by this Friday at 11:59pm.  We aim to have our first planning meeting next week.  

Speaking of our Senior Lions, here is a photo of our seniors who joined with over 3,000 runners in this past Sunday’s IRIS 5k!  Well done, everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out for last Tuesday night’s listening session on the search for the next TD HoC.  If you couldn’t make it please feel free submit feedback via this survey.

Here are some important dates and events for this week and next:

Wednesday 2/14 9-10pm Valentine’s Day Special (TD Buttery)

Need a little last-minute treat or scrumptious gift?  The TD Buttery is bringing back their succulent Valentine’s Day tradition of serving up delectable, hand-dipped chocolate covered strawberries at the bargain basement price of $1each!!!  

Saturday 2/17 3-5pm Bracelet-Making Workshop (TD Art Studio)

Back by popular demand, our TD’s Art Studio Aides will be hosting a bracelet-making workshop!  Be sure to stop by the studio for a quick, creative study break! All materials will be provided, including beads, thread, wire, and more. This semester, the aides will have their drop-in hours are as follows:

Thursday 2/22 4:30pm Tea with Chef and Cookbook author Irene Li (TD House)

TD is excited to welcome back James Beard nominee, Irene Li!  She just came out with a new cookbook, Perfectly Good Food: A Totally Achievable Zero Waste Approach to Home Cookingand is excited to share the recipes and cooking tips with all of us.  The cookbook has already been listed by Food and Wine as a “best summer cookbook of 2023”.  She will bring with her an assortment of her tasty dumplings as well as copies of her cookbook to give away.  If you would like to have dinner with Irene in the Thompson Room after the talk, please sign up at this link.

Wednesday 2/29 5:00-7pm TD Black History Month Dinner (TD Dining Hall)

Our amazing TD Dining Hall staff is once again sharing their beloved family recipes with us in this special annual dinner.  Please come out to dinner and show your support of our incredible culinary team.  

Without further ado, here is a word from Dean Mahurin…

Àshe,
HL

Cynthia in the Snow

Gwendolyn Brooks

It shushes.
It hushes.
The loudness in the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirls away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts,
So beautiful it hurts.

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