Notes and News - Week of November 2, 2020

Hope you enjoyed the Halloween festivities in the courtyard this Saturday.  Many thanks to the TD staff, aides team, and Frocos for their work in pulling together pumpkin carving, trick or treating, and the YSO film screening.  For those of you who ventured out to Escape New Haven, I hope you all broke out of the crypt or stayed safely away from werewolves.  

I had so many great “photo of the week” submissions!  Many thanks to Frocos Seyade Tadele and Jadyn Trayvick for sending a link to the Saturday photo shoot they hosted in the courtyard.   I also have this cute video of the kids’ trick or treat.  
 

With the increasing rates of COVID-19 cases we are going to do very little in-person programming between now and the end of the semester.  But I have been working with the Mott Woolley Council as well as our terrific First-year Class Council (FCC) reps, Gabe Dos Santos and Matthew Merritt, to organize some farewell events for the week of 11/16 prior to the closing of the college on 11/21.  So please stay tuned!

As you all know, tomorrow is Election Night and this year with all the extra voting options we will likely not hear a result immediately.  In the meantime, I hope we will all continue to do our utmost to maintain a community that respects and cares for one another.  This is what it means to be a part of our residential college community and I have high hopes that we will all continue to live up to that promise.

I am sharing here a link to a fun and reflective quiz shared by Emmy James TD ’23, who is part of this year’s CCE team.  She writes, “the Yale CCEs designed this quiz to help you reflect and connect with Yale resources” so that you can take full advantage of what is offered.  

Here are our upcoming TD events for the next two weeks:

Wednesday 11/4 8pm TD Knitting Circle (over Zoom)

Last call to join the TD Knitting Circle!  Please register at this link and attend the meetings on Wednesday nights.  You’ll see the Zoom link for the meeting on the registration page.

Thursday 11/5 3:30-4:30pm Home-made Apple Crisp (TD Package Storeroom)

Sharon Goldbloom will be baking up home-made apple crisp!  They will be individually packaged for grab and go to eat back in your rooms.  Only one per student.  Make sure to come early if you can.  We’ll serve while they last!

Wednesday 11/11 4:30pm Virtual Tea with Bryan Konietzko (Zoom)

Our last virtual tea of the fall is with Bryan Konietzko, the co-creator of the popular Avatar series.  We’ll be serving up a grab and go menu from the Avatar nations in the TD Package Storeroom from 3:30-4:15 just ahead of the tea.  We’ll send out the link closer to the date.  In the meantime, please make sure to fill out the Google form if you would like to ask a question.

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

Àshe,
HL

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