YAANW News

The YAANW is pleased to introduce the 2006 Community Service Summer Fellows.

Karin Lee, ’08 ES, will help the Minnesota League of Conservation Voters coordinate its legislative endorsement process. Karin, who is majoring in Political Science and International Relations, will have a first hand opportunity to see how our state's electoral system works. She has been active in environmental and health-related community service work at home near Chicago and in New Haven. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and has worked with several cultural exchange programs in Taiwan and China.

Heather Stoller, ’09 SY, went to Bloomington Jefferson and will be our second Fellow at the Council on Crime and Justice. She'll be part of the Call to Action Project, which will distill the past four years of the Council's work on the state criminal justice system. In addition to her freshman course work, Heather has worked with the Roosevelt Institute, an undergraduate think tank, and has enjoyed performing with her singing group, Magavet.

We encourage all alums to reach out to our Fellows in any way this summer. Heather can be reached at 612-348-7874 from now until July 15. Karin's number is 612-767-2444 from June 15 - August 15. Please join us for a reception to welcome them. We would also like to thank John (’76 Law) and Judith Borger for graciously offering to be Karin's host family. This is a very important part of our program. If anyone would consider being a host in upcoming years, please let us know.

The YAANW extends its thanks to all who have helped make this program a resounding success. Since 1994 we have placed 22 Yale students at 14 local non-profit organizations. George Pillsbury has endowed one fellowship every year, and the club has raised the money for the others. It's been a wonderful collaborative project, and we'd encourage anyone who'd like to be part of it in any way to contact us.
Bob Sidenberg ’69 CC 612-339-8925
The YAANW Summer 2005 Newsletter is here.
Two Yale undergraduates are spending the summer 2005 working at Twin Cities non-profit organizations.
Allison Spitzer ’07 is at Project for Pride in Living, an organization that creates opportunities for low-income families throughout the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota metro area.
Jennifer Goldman ’07 is at the Council on Crime and Justice, an independent organization "integrating research, demonstration projects and advocacy... to bring just solutions to the causes and consequences of crime."
The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's, produced by TPT's Gerald Richman, spouse of YAANW president Kate Sandweiss ’78, won a prime-time Emmy Award for best nonfiction special. (9/19/2004)
Two Yale undergraduates are spending the summer 2004 working at Twin Cities non-profit organizations. Chris Lange, Trumbull College ’06, is working for the Step-Up program of Achieve!Minneapolis. Elyse Schneiderman, Pierson ’05, is working at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Furthermore, recent Yale graduate Jennifer Nou '02 will spend her summer, before entering Yale Law School, at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

Since 1994 the Yale Alumni Association of the Northwest has sponsored eighteen (including this year's group!) Yale students through the Community Service Summer Fellowship.

If you'd like to participate in this program in any way (i.e., summer outing, ideas for future Fellowship sites, hosting opportunities, etc.) contact Bob Sidenberg, Jr. at 612-339-8925 or silkmountainbob@hotmail.com

Thanks again to Bob Sidenberg ’69, and Jennifer Prestholdt ’89 at MAAHR.
(7/1/2004)
Dave Hage ’77 has written a new book, Reforming Welfare by Rewarding Work. (3/31/2004)
Kent Stephens ’74 has a new play, Orson Welles Rehearses Moby Dick, at the Jungle Theater in Minneapolis.
Dr. John Gall ’49 has published several fascinating books. Check 'em out at his web site: www.generalsystemantics.com.
Pakou Hang ’99 is one of the first recipients of the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
YAANW is again funding two Community Service Summer Fellows in 2003. Blake Landro ’05 will intern at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Lindsay Page ’05 will intern at Minnesota International Health Volunteers. Thanks again to Bob Sidenberg ’69, and to Diana Dubois at MIHV, and Jennifer Prestholdt ’89 at MAAHR.
Irv Lerner ’58 writes about 35 years of treating cancer patients in the Pioneer Press.
Chesa Boudin ’03 was one of 32 Americans awarded Rhodes Scholarships in 2002 for future study at Oxford University. He plans to study international affairs. Chesa was our AYA Summer Intern in 2000, when he worked at the Resource Center for the Americas.
Jessica Cohen ’03 has an article entitled "Grade A: The Marketplace for a Yale Woman's Eggs" appearing in the December 2002 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Jessica is a St. Paul Academy graduate. She is now majoring in history and living in Timothy Dwight.
The Yale Glee Club and the Alumni Chorus have new CDs from recent tours. Buy them at the Glee Club website here. Also, the Alumni Chorus offers multimedia CDs. Send an Email to Mark Dollhopf '77 at mdollhopf@aol.com.
Yale President Richard Levin visited Minneapolis November 4, 2002. See a few pictures here.
Your webmaster Nick Johnson ’74 has newborn, premature twin girls. See 'em here. Read Lori's blog about them here.
Ten YAANW-area Students Enter Yale College Class of 2006
Yale, Stanford and Oxford are sponsoring an Alliance for Lifelong Learning offering on-line courses. Courses start October 7th and classes fill quickly.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota elected Peter McNerney ’72 to its board of trustees.
Jennifer Nou '02 of Eden Prairie, Minnesota has been named a Marshall Scholar. She also won the Roosevelt L. Thompson Prize for public service. And there's more: Nou received one of the top scholastic awards, the Arthur Twining Hadley Prize.

The Board of the YAANW is pleased to announce that the Community Service Summer Fellowships have been selected.

Magni Hamso, Calhoun College Class of 2005, will work with the Somali Health Care Initiative at the Minnesota International Health Volunteers, helping improve health care education and awareness in the local Somali community.
Jeffrey Goldberg, Davenport College Class of 2004, will assist with the Refugee and Asylum Project at the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, helping improve legal services for asylum seekers in Minnesota.

Both students will be in the Twin Cities during June and July. We are looking for Yale Alumni(ae) to host our summer fellows. Host families in the past have found it to be a wonderful experience to share their homes with an active, independent Yale student for eight weeks, and a great opportunity to re-connect with Yale. Please call Bob Sidenberg 612-339-8925 with questions or suggestions.

Sue Patton has revitalized the Book Award Program.
The controversial Yale Corporation election 2002 is over. Find out more from the AYA here, or the /Yale Daily News here.
Yale students will be riding into town Thursday, June 27 - Saturday, June 29 on their cross-country bike trip to raise money for the New Haven Habitat for Humanity. The Twin Cities is their half-way point, typically their first day off in weeks, and one of the few major cities they visit.
Can you help set up their visit? All it takes is making a few phone calls and writing follow-up thank you letters to the generous organizations who've help in the past, as well as meeting and orienting the students when they come to town. You'll be helping Habitat for Humanity, and have the fun of getting first-hand stories of the students cross-country adventures. We also look for cyclists who want to accompany them into or out of town.
The leader of this year's group is Adam Nyborg, Davenport College, '03 adam.nyborg@yale.edu. If you can help please e-mail Kate Sandweiss, k.sandweiss@att.net.
Local photographer George Slade '83 has edited a book for the Minneosota Historical Society titled Minnesota in Our Time: A Photographic Portrait.
Jessica F. Cohen '03 has just won the Atlantic Monthly 1st prize for student journalism for an article she wrote for the New Journal, a Yale publication. The article is about egg donors, and was published fall 2001.
YAANW Newsletter Jan 2002. Lost your copy?
15 YAANW-area Students Enter Yale College Class of 2005
General Mills Chief Financial Officer Jim Lawrence '74 won a 2001 CFO Excellence Award from CFO Magazine and Arthur Andersen. Read their glowing writeup here.
YAANW President Rick Luis ’67 represented the University of Minnesota at the Tercentennial Convocation October 5. Rick has a J.D. from the U Law School, which apparently qualifies him to march in with the presidents of various Ivy League Universities. I'm sure he was resplendent in maroon-and-gold. More at Yale's Tercentennial site. See eyewitness reports of the finale by The Yale Daily News.
Dave Griffith ’63 reports on the AYA Tercentennial "Convocation". More on Assembly LVIII here.
YAANW Newsletter May 2001. A classic.
YAANW is sponsoring Nadia Sussman ’03 and Janey Lewis ’02 as our AYA summer fellows for 2001. Nadia will teach for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Janey will work for Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Thanks to Bob Sidenberg ’69 for setting this up, and to Donna and Palmer Rogers ’50 for housing them. The two Fellows can be reached at 612.377.4554. Both Janey’s and Nadia’s internships run from June 11 through August 15.
Having two interns for the first time (in my memory) means the YAANW needs additional financial support. Your tax-deductible donation can help. Call Bob Sidenberg 612.339.8925 or silkmountainbob@hotmail.com.
Rick Luis ’67 reports on the Tercentennial AYA Assembly. More on Assembly LVIII here.
The IRS just ruled that the YAANW is a tax-exempt charity under §501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This means that contributions to the Association are deductible. The ruling is retroactive to December 28, 1995, so you can deduct any contributions (including dues) paid during 2000. Thanks to Will Goetz '77 Ph.D for shepherding our application through the IRS.
Missed the reception for 3M CEO James McNerney Jr. '71? Click here.
James McNerney Jr. '71 is the new CEO of 3M.
Dave Griffith ’63 reports on the AYA Assembly LVII. More on the LVII Assembly here.
YAANW Newsletter November 2000. Another classic.
The menu for the YAANW's annual dinner a hundred years ago appeared in the Star Tribune
See what great YAANW happenings you missed at the the Archive of Prior Events.
Yale students bicycled through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota for Habitat for Humanity.
Conley Brooks, Jr. ’68 was elected to the AYA Board of Governors at the AYA Assembly LVI.
Take the YAANW Survey.
Chesa Boudin ’03 was our AYA summer fellow for 2000, working at the Resource Center of the Americas.
We need volunteers for the Yale Book Award Program, which gives books to promising juniors at Minnesota high schools. Contact Jack Rosholt '65. It's fun. Really.
Would you like to interview to prospective Yale students? The Alumni Schools Committee needs you.
Dave Griffith ’63 goes to the AYA Assembly LIV. More on the LIV Assembly here.
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Always check the Calendar.

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