| From: Jim Brooke
To: Yale Club Members
Date: October 2002
Greetings Yalies!
Our Yale Club is on a roll with a variety of programs in coming weeks: talks by
two visiting Yale Deans Divinity and Environment -- music recitals by two
graduates of the Yale School of Music; plus a sociably raucous viewing of the
Yale-Harvard game -- with members of the Harvard Club in Japan -- on what should
be a suitably crisp fall afternoon -- Sat. Nov. 30!
In quick,
bullet form, here is a calendar of highlights. The main event organized by your
Club is the dinner talk by Gus Speth, Yale's leading environmentalist. This is
the only one that should be RSVP'd back to us. We hope to see you there!
-
Jim Brooke
Yale Club of Japan
President
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+
Monday Oct. 21: 7:00 p.m. Kei Hirayama, flutist, Yale School of Music 2000; Oji
Hall, Ginza
+ Monday Nov. 4; 2:00 p.m. Ima Autumn Concert, Yoko Matsuda,
violin; Yale School of Music; Musicasa, Yoyogi Uehara
+ Wed. Nov. 6; 7:00
p.m. Harold W. Attridge, Dean of Yale University Divinity School; "Religion in
the Aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001: Meaning and Identity." International House of
Japan; RSVP to 3470-3211 or to program@i-house.or.jp
+ Friday
Nov. 15; 7:00 James Gustave Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies; International House of Japan; RSVP to Yale Club to
attend; call 3470-4611 for a map to I-House
+ Sat. Nov. 30; Yale-Harvard
football - "THE GAME" Come watch a tape on a big screen with Harvard Club at
Hobgoblin, a Roppongi bar. Please RSVP to Makiko Harunari makiko.harunari@aya.yale.edu or
Jud Taylor (Harvard) taylor@gol.com.
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A few programming notes:
The two deans will be speaking at the
International House of Japan, a lovely 1955 building on a secluded estate in Roppongi, blessed with one of Tokyo's most beautiful private gardens. There is a
move afoot to trade this stirring setting for two floors in a Mori highrise so
come early, explore the garden, and get to know the I-House before it may be too
late! Today, I inspected the hall we have reserved for the Gus Speth dinner.
Befitting Yale's top environmentalist, we will be surrounded by green.
Dean Speth's talk will be a nice counterpoint to the Komatsu-san dinner, which
drew a good turnout to the Press Club last month to hear debate over whaling in
Japan. Because of the holiday confusion, we ended up with a few no-shows at that
dinner, almost forcing members present to cover financially for those who
reserved, but did not attend. This prompted Dan Thomas, our efficient Treasurer,
to suggest: "Let's advertise a 1000 yen no-show fee if we don't get a
cancellation by noon on the day of the event." So be it.
Looking ahead,
I have talked with Thierry Porte, president of the Harvard Club in Japan, and
Bruce Dunning, president of the Princeton Club in Japan. They both want to do
joint 3-way events in coming months, and are open to ideas. Short term, there
will be the Yale-Harvard football game viewing, tentatively set for Sat. Nov. 30
at Hobgoblin bar/restaurant in Roppongi. The Nov. 23 game will not be available
on satellite outside of North America, but I have ordered a tape, which should
arrive by Nov. 30. For more details, contact Makiko Harunari makiko.harunari@aya.yale.edu or
Jud Taylor (Harvard) taylor@gol.com.
Thierry and Bruce are working to set up a 3-way Ivy Club program on journalism
and Japan. Scheduled for early December and appropriately reserved for the press
club, this debate/discussion will hopefully include such Harvard luminaries
as Rebecca McKinnon of CNN and Yoichi Funabashi of the Asahi Shimbun.
Also, in the name of inter-Ivy harmony, I append an invite from the Princeton
Club to hear their choral group, the TigerTones. We hope to have our own Yale
singing group here next spring.
The Princeton Club is well on its way
to building its own website. Our very own Bryan Atwood and Hironori Kamemoto (hkamemoto@kankyo-kanri.co.jp)
have started working on a Yale Club website. They welcome suggestions and
volunteer assistance!
Finally, I have a very encouraging response from
an aide to Yoriko Kawaguchi (Yale Economics MA 1972).
With luck, we
will a very stimulating dinner this winter with Japan's Minister of Foreign
Affairs!
Cheers!
Jim
PS Please note at the end this
are two appeals, one from Yale Student David Davis, a board member of the Japan
Association of Yale who is looking for Japan housing and one from recent
graduate Ian Roberston '02 also looking for housing/work in Japan. jb
1) Kei Hirayama concert; Y3,500; for more information: tel:
5237-9990 or keiflute@music.prserv.net
2)
Ima Autumn Concert; Y5,000; 3488-2717 or Yoko Matsuda at: strady2@aol.com
3) "Religion in the
Aftermath of September 11, 2001:
Meaning and Identity"
Harold W.
Attridge
Lillian Claus Professor of the New Testament
Dean, Divinity
School, Yale University
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 7:00 pm
Lecture
Hall, International House of Japan
One of the roots of September 11 was
religious. Professor Attridge, a prominent scholar in the New Testament,
will address its implications for religious life in the United States. In
this lecture he will treat the ways in which believing Christians have
reacted to the terrorist events of last year. On the one hand, the tragedy
raised traditional concerns about theodicy (why do innocents suffer so
much?). The events also raised questions about the relationship between
religion and violence in various traditions, forcing Christians to examine their
presuppositions about their own identity and the character of other world
religions.
Harold W. Attridge received his Ph.D from Harvard University, and
taught at Perkins School of Theology, the Southern Methodist University
Department of Theology, and the University of Notre Dame, joining Yale in 1997.
He is president of the Society of Biblical Literature. His major works include:
The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius
Josephus (Missoula: Scholars, 1976), Nag Hammadi Codex I (The Jung Codex)
(Leiden: Brill, 1985) and Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews
(Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989).
Those who wish to attend are requested to
call the International House Program Department for reservations (Tel:
03-3470-3211, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm; Fax: 03-3470-3170; e-mail: program@i-house.or.jp)
4)
Gus Speth background
Yale Dean Receives Blue Planet Prize
New
Haven, Conn. -- The Dean of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies has been awarded the international environmental Blue Planet Prize by
the Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation. The prestigious prize has been awarded
annually since 1992 to two individuals or organizations that have made major
contributions to global environmental conservation.
Yale Dean James
Gustave Speth was awarded the prize for "a lifetime of creative and visionary
leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental
problems and for pioneering efforts to bring these issues, including global
climate change, to broad international attention."
The other recipient
of this year's prize is Harold Mooney, the Paul S. Achilles Professor of
Environmental Biology at Stanford University. Speth and Mooney will be honored
in a ceremony in Japan in November and each will receive an award of 50 million
yen.
The prize citation observes that Speth "has devoted his career to
creating and invigorating environmental institutions of extraordinary
importance." It also notes that he played a leadership role in creating the
Natural Resources Defense Council in 1970 and that he was among the first to
call for international action on global climate change.
"In 1980,"
according to the citation, "he helped to predict the current challenge to the
global environment in the Global 2000 Report, as chairman of the Council on
Environmental Quality in the Carter Administration. He then founded the World
Resources Institute and led it in the search for science-based solutions to
large-scale environmental threats. He went on to serve as administrator of the
United Nations Development Programme and focused the agency on sustainable,
people-centered development. As Dean, he now seeks to help the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies become the first global school of the
environment."
Yale President Richard C. Levin said, "Gus Speth's
unwavering commitment to issues affecting the global environment makes him truly
deserving of this prestigious honor. We are proud of his achievement and we are
also proud to have him at the helm of the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies."
Previous winners of the prize include: Norman
Myers, an honorary visiting fellow at Oxford University; Lord Robert May,
president of the Royal Society of London; Paul Ehrlich, director of the Center
of Conservation Biology at Stanford; the late David Brower, who was chairman of
the Earth Island Institute; Wallace Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology at
the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University; Maurice Strong,
chairman of the Earth Council; Bert Bolin, chairman of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, and Lester Brown, founder and president of the
Worldwatch Institute.
5) From: "David Davis" <david.davis@yale.edu>
To: "yaleclub
tokyo" <yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com>
Subject:
Hello
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:55:01 -0400
Hello,
My name is David
Davis, I'm a student attending Yale University in my junior year. I have
studied Japanese through elementary level and I am very interested in Japanese
culture. I'm currently on the board of the Japan Association of Yale, an
organization that caters to students interested in the culture of Japan. I
would be interested in being able to visit Japan, but the price of housing in
Japan is worrisome. Are there any alumni that you know of living in Japan that
might be interested in hosting a Yale student? Thank you very much.
David
Davis
6)From: Ian Robertson <irob21@yahoo.com>
To: yaleclubjapan@hotmail.com
Subject:
A letter from a recent graduate
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:24:44 -0700
(PDT)
Mr. Brook,
My name is Ian Robertson and I am a recent graduate of
Yale (DC '02) with a major in East Asian Studies, Japan concentration. I am
going to be in Japan from January 15 to April 15 and need to find a place to
stay and a way to make some money. My primary reason for coming to Japan is to
keep my Japanese language skills up, but I can only stay for three months so I
am looking to find temporary employment teaching, tending bar, and/or
tutoring. I was hoping that you may be able to give me information as to what
my options are for a stay like this. I have been to Japan a few time before,
but was always lucky enough to have a place to stay set up for me. I appreciate
your help. - Ian
7) FCCJ 2002 CONCERT EVENING
ENJOY A SOPHISTICATED
EVENING
WITH: The Princeton Tigertones
7:00p.m. Wednesday October 30,
2002
Join us for a dinner concert by the Princeton Tigertones, an
all-male
a cappella singing group founded in 1946 at Princeton
University.
This talented group is on a flying visit to Japan and will
entertain
us at a dinner show on Wednesday, October 30. We'll have a
Halloween-
inspired 3-course menu. This splendid entertainment and dinner
is
only 3,500 yen plus tax.
The group, presently consisting of fifteen
undergraduate students,
has performed in concert halls, embassies, and music
festivals
throughout the world, including New York's Carnegie Hall;
the
Barbican Centre in London; the American Museum in Bath; U.S.
Embassies
in Vienna, Paris, Florence, and Edinburgh; and aboard
Cunard's flagship, the
Queen Elizabeth 2. Over the past fifteen years,
the Tigertones have performed
in all corners of the United States as
well as in Great Britain, France,
Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany,
Austria, Israel, Russia, and
Jamaica.
Recently the Tigertones formed an alliance with Broadway
Cares/Equity
Fights AIDS, America's leading industry-based, non-profit
AIDS
fundraising organization, and in November of 2001, the
Tigertones
performed at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City
as
part of a benefit to raise money for AIDS-related causes across
the
United States.
The Tigertones' repertoire draws from a rich
musical tradition
spanning six decades, including favorites by artists such
as Cole
Porter, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison, and the
Beatles.
They are Princeton's signature all-male a cappella group, and after
56
years they continue to thrive, sharing with audiences of all ages
the
harmony and brotherhood that have become the
Tigertones'
trademark.
Doors open 6:30 p.m. Dinner from 7:00 p.m.
First performance 8:00 p.m.
Show over at 9:15 p.m. Reservations at the front
desk (3211-3161) or
online, please. Tickets: 3,675 yen (including tax 175
yen)
Reservations cancelled less than 48 hours prior to the event will
be
charged in full.
EMTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE IN COOPERATION WITH THE
MUSIC COMMITTEE
AND WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE PRINCETON CLUB OF
JAPAN
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