From: Jim Brooke
To: Yale Club Members
Date: Tuesday 3 September 2002

Dear Yale Alumni of Tokyo,

Greetings! This is a quick update on the revival of the Yale Club of Japan.

On Aug. 20, we had a very successful kickoff dinner with Prof. Gustav
Ranis, Director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, and
Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics at Yale University.
We had a great turnout -- despite vacations and the August heat, 58
alumni and guests turned out!

Afterwards, it seemed that about half of the participants migrated to the
press club bar to elect officers and set up committees. Below, I append the
names of officers and their emails. At the time of nominations for
president, 21 people at a large table curiously chose to sit on their hands
and stare into middle space. So, oddly, I  was chosen. Please feel free to
contact  us directly with suggestions at this temporary email address:

     yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com

We will notify you of the new email id that Yale will set up for us for general club use.

We decided that the venue for most of our weekday evening events would be
the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, 20th floor of the Yurakucho Denki
building, a downtown site that is of easy access to people working downtown.

Our next event will be Tuesday Sept 24 -- a dinner with Masayuki Komatsu
(Yale BA 1984), the point man for Japan's international campaign to lift
restrictions on commercial whaling. A more detailed invitation for that
will follow shortly.

In November, the microphone will go over to the green side: we hope to get
Gus Speth, the dean of the Yale School of Forestry, an environmentalist who
has been active in World Environmental Summit of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro and
2002 in Johannesburg.

In between, we may follow up on an excellent, calming suggestion:  a
chamber music recital.

The consensus that came out of the Aug. 20 post-dinner conversations is
that we are by no means the official keepers of lux et veritas in Japan. We
want to be completely open to ideas and suggestions from fellow alums.
Since we are running on volunteer power, your idea will be met by the
gentle suggestion that you help out on the organizing.

E-mailing allows us to reach everyone easily. So please help us keep our
list up to date. Please also relay our messages to fellow alums who may be
new in town and not on our list.  A recent review of our e-mail list
shows, at last count, about 325 alums in the Tokyo area.

Cheers and hope to see you Sept. 24!

- Jim Brooke

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List of the club Officers and Board of Directors

Board of Directors Yale Club of Japan 20 August 2002

President - James "Jim"Brooke '77 <brooke@nytimes.com>
Vice President - Sukeyasu "Steven" Yamamoto '55, Ph.D '59 <ssyammy@attglobal.net>
Treasurer - Dan Thomas <dthomas@iic.co.jp>
Secretary - Paul Contreras '82 <paul.contreras.SY.82@aya.yale.edu>
Programs & Events Committee - Robert Howe, Chair <robert.howe@aiggic.co.jp>
                  Tom Silecchia '93 <tom_silecchia@ml.com>
                  Ken Iida '00 GS <kensaku.iida@accenture.com>
                  Minako Iida '00 FES  <Iiida.Minako@jica.go.jp>
                  Ben Seiver <seiver.benjamin@aig.co.jp>
                  Hong Kim <htkim@tdk.att.ne.jp>
Recent Graduates Committee -
                  Machiko Inoue '00 inoue_machiko@hotmail.com>
                  Chigusa Hara '96 Chigusa.Hara@morganstanley.com
                  Masahide Hoshi '01 Masahide.Hoshi@ubsw.com
                  Hitomi Yoshio '01 ladyhitomi@hotmail.com
Alumni Schools Committee - TBD
Advisory Council of Past Presidents -
                  Koichi Itoh '63 <itoh@aya.yale.edu>
                  Yuji Ito  <yuito@yoyogi.ycc.u-tokai.ac.jp>

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