Upcoming Yale Club activities. Events listed without links will have their details announced later, but meanwhile please mark these dates on your calendar!

East to West to East: Book Launch by Randy Kwei (Wed, Nov 25)

Interclub Alumni Mixer (Thur, Nov 26)

Christmas Party (Dec 10)


East to West to East: Book Launch by Randy Kwei

Randy, Yale College '58, President Emeritus and a current committee member of the Yale Club of Hong Kong, will be launching his new book East to West to East: Journey of a US Trained Chinese Financier.  

 

Date

Wednesday, November 25

Time

5 to 530pm     Mingling

530 to 6pm     Author's speech + Q&A

6 to 630pm     Book signing

Place

Shop 305, One Exchange Square
Enquiry kara.lau@kellyandwalsh.com

Randolph's Kwei's remarkable life traverses varied realms: three separate careers in computing, banking and investing; a life lived on four continents; and the continual pursuit of personal growth.

Randy's memoir revels in the delights of a curious mind, the rewards of a generous spirit, and the importance of maintaining a positive outlook in the face of life's inevitable challenges.  The importance of family runs throughout, from Kwei's ancestral roots, to his formative years in war-time China, through his long and remarkable career, all the way to the rich professional lives of his children.

Thanks to his meticulous diaries, we share the insights of a man living by his own Gold Rules, foremost among them: maintain a positive attitude, take responsibility for your thoughts and actions, be passionate about your chosen activities, and don't take yourself too seriously.  Kwei shares his investment strategies and reveals how his diverse life experiences gave him invaluable insights into understanding - and often outsmarting - the stock market.  The result is a 15-year track record of outperforming the Asia market, which has witnessed some of the most volatile periods in modern times.

Weaving history and tales of financial markets into his life's story, this is an unforgettable adventure of one man who is riding the waves of change in the East as it closes its divide with the West.  


Interclub Alumni Mixer

You are cordially invited to the November 2009 Mixer hosted by: Bocconi, Columbia, Duke, Harvard Business School, Harvard Dlub, HEC, HKUMA, IMD, INSEAD, Imperial College, London Business School, London School of Economics, NYU Stern, Oxford & Cambridge, UBC, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, USC and Yale.

This will be a cash bar, no cover event.  RSVP is not required. Maximum venue capacity: 400 people.

Prive is offering BOGOF special and has offered to provide 20% of its drink sales to Habitat for Humanity China (www.habitatchina.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to the cause of eliminating poverty housing.   

Date

Thursday, November 26

Time

6:30 to 9:30pm
Place Prive, 60 Wyndham Street, Central
RSVP No RSVP required.  Exclusive for the alumni of the above universities only

Yale Club Holiday Party 2009

Please join us for our 22nd annual December celebration for an evening of full Christmas buffet and open wine and soft drinks bar, singing of Christmas and Yale songs and plenty of holiday cheer!   It will be a great chance to meet new friends and catch up with old ones as 2009 (finally!) draws to a close.

Please sign up to join us at the Ladies Recreation Club.  We'll continue our tradition of the infamous "Yale Club Christmas Gift Exchange" (see below) and we'll be singing carols around the piano... Come join in the fun!

We would need a keyboard or guitar player for carol singing as the Ladies Recreation Club does not have a piano.  If you would like to volunteer for this and bring along your instrument, please identify yourself when you sign up.

.Date

Thursday, 10 December

Time

7 p.m. through midnight

Place

Ladies Recreation Club, 10 Old Peak Road
Who All Yale Clubbers, their family members and guests are warmly welcome.
Cost HKD 400 for guests and non dues paying members; 350 for dues paying members; full Christmas buffet and open wine and soft drinks bar
Signup Sign up on hkyaleclub@yahoo.com.hk by Monday 7 December.  This is the deadline for both reservations and cancellations. We will require full payment for any reservations not cancelled by this deadline.
Note Once again this year, a highlight of the evening will be the celebrated "Yale Club Christmas Gift Exchange." Each person should bring one holiday-wrapped White Elephant gift for this anonymous lucky-draw event. It can be any item, including intellectually-stimulating gifts, artistic or hot items, or just-for-fun objects somebody gave you that you don't want (suggested value around $200). Tasteless Yale memorabilia would be especially prized!