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The Yale Club of Singapore is a member of the Distinguished Universities Alumni League (DUAL), a local umbrella organization comprising members from 17 university alumni clubs.  DUAL aims to encourage knowledge exchange, strengthen relationships and promote community service amongst its member clubs.

DUAL and its constituent clubs organises events which are open to Yale Club members, listed on its website at www.dual.org.sg

Along the lines of the Young Bulldogs, we are looking to start up the Relatively recent Graduates of the Yale Club of Singapore – a mouthful so let’s just call it RRG – to help the younger Yalies (or Yalies young at heart) keep in touch with each other.

• We are looking at 2-3 events a year for the RYG, with our first event in January or February 2008.
• Looking for “hosts” to come up with ideas and event manage, with help from other interested parties.
• The Club can provide some financial support for administrative costs. Details not finalised, but looking at $100 per event.
• Work off Facebook infrastructure to save time and energy (if you are not on Facebook, would you call yourself young at heart?)

Criteria for membership:

• Yalies 30 and below are automatically on our list (if we know your age)
• Other young-at-heart Yalies can asked to be included
• Facebook Account (to facilitate administration since we will post most of our events on Facebook)

Contact Info:

• http://yale.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7085769803
• Erina Lie: erina.lie@gmail.com
• Shawn Tan: yaleclubsingapore@gmail.com

Help required:

• Looking for Yalies interested in event organisation

More details soon.

Family friendly Yale get together, centered around family friendly timing.

It’s time for Thanksgiving cum year-end holiday celebration. Don’t miss this informal social event of the year….Come join us for a grand buffet east of good ole American-style roasted turkey plus all the trimmings. The following 10 alumni clubs will be jointly co-hosting this joyous occasion:

• Columbia
• MIT
• U of Chicago
• Cornell
• Princeton
• UPenn
• LBS
• Stanford
• Yale
• LSE

Here’s a peek of some items on the menu:

• Roasted Tom Turkey with Gravy and Cranberry Sauce
• Honey Baked Ham with Apple ¨C Cinnamon Compote
• Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
• Herbed Seasoned Stuffing
• Buttered Corn on the Cob
• Creamy Potato Salad
• Steamed Christmas Pudding with Brandy Custard
• Pumpkin Pie
• Free Flow of Soft Drinks

Does this remind you of your memorable U.S. days? Well, don’t miss this event and sign up now!

Date: Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Time: 7:00pm – 11:00pm
Venue: The American Club
Colonial Room, 3rd Level
10 Claymore Hill
Tel: 6737-3411
Dress Code: Casual
Free Seating

Cost: *Members:*
$40 – members/spouse, and kids of members 12 years old and above
$25 – kids of members 5-11 years old
Free – kids 4 years old & below

*Non-members:*
$55 – non-members/spouse and kids of non-members 12 years old and above
$25 – kids of non-members 5-11 years old
Free – kids 4 years old & below

Cash Bar available

Kids are very welcome. There is an adjacent room for the kids to hang out and play, color, watch DVD, etc.

In addition, we will be having a bit of fun raising funds for the DUAL-SMU Technology and World Change Competition. Prizes will be donated by the participating alumni clubs.

Seats are limited – we had a full house last year with a waiting list. So sign up early!!

No shows or cancellations within 24 hours of the event will still be charged.

From past experience, the event is good for family/friends and the food is actually quite good.  The Club is looking at putting together a table.  Please RSVP to Devin Kimble @ dok@menu.com.sg and cc jane@menu.com.sg  if you are interested. 

Another under the Life and Lifestyle series organised by Aun Koh with the national Museum, the Club organised an outing to the Beyond the Singapore Sling: Creating Cocktails with Local Herbs and Spices workshop at the National Museum, The Salon Level 1, on Thursday 11 October, 6:30 – 8pm.

Like the chocolate workshop, this was a blast because we got to taste what we learnt. We were taught the basics of how to infuse liqours with Asian herbs and spices, and use them as ingredients in our own concoctions.

The Young Bulldogs had a little get-together for its members at the American Club. Many thanks to the following for making the event possible: Ping & Liz for hosting the event; Terence for entertaining the kids with balloon twisting and juggling; Terence & Grace and Erina helping look after the kids; and Shawn and Erina for the logistics/support/general organisation.

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About the Young Bulldogs. The Young Bulldogs caters to Yalies with young kids. Its activities are family-centric/family-friendly and serves as a platform for Yalies and their kids to interact with each other. Families take turns to “host” the events, e.g. come up with the concepts/ideas for the events. Administrators (Shawn and Erina) are at hand to help the host families conceptualise and operationalise these ideas. To give the parents some space to chill out, we will also invite a small number of younger Yalies to join in and help look after the kids. Events are planned to be held once a month. The bowling event of 29 September 2007 was our inaugural event, with some 20 adults & children attending. Currently, we have 14 families on board – totaling 25 adults and 25 children. On average, we expect 6-8 families to attend each event.

Privacy. As we’d like to preserve the privacy of our members, we will only put up limited details of Young Bulldog events on the Club website for record and information purposes after the event. The blurb you see above is what you would expect when we share what we do.

Interested Parties. Families not already on the mailing list interested in participating can contact the administrators Erina Lie at erina.lie@aya.yale.edu or Shawn Tan at yaleclubsingapore@gmail.com for more information. We are also on the look out for younger Yalies keen to help out in logistics, in areas such as event planning, child care and child entertainment.

The Club had an Exco meeting on 26 September 2006 over pizza and beer at Brewerkz Indoor Stadium, followed by a Singapore Slingers basketball game at the Brewerkz box seats. Many thanks yet again to Devin & Brewerkz for keeping our stomachs satisfied and bringing us in for the game.

The meeting discussed the following:

• Progress of the Club’s house cleaning efforts. Most done save for Ops Manual (to be done by Chi Ho) and change of bank signatories.
• Discussion of future events. We talked about a Christmas event in December & about the Yale SOM trip to Singapore in January, which we will organise something for then.
• Update on Young Bulldogs initiative.
• Proposed Relatively Recent Graduates of the Yale Club of Singapore. Shawn shared with meeting that Erina had proposed this; and that both would be working to organise a more regular meeting to bring recent grads together.
  
• Funding for Young Bulldogs initiative and Relatively Recent Graduates of the Yale Club of Singapore. Shawn sought funding for the admin costs of running the YB and RRG groups. Estimated about $100 per event. Will provide more detailed proposal to next Exco for approval.

Meeting attended by:

• Henry Eng
• Devin Kimble
• Shawn Tan
• Kenneth Cheng
• Chi Ho Song
• Sibyl Eng
• Ong Nai Pew
• Peter Teravainen
• Mrs Eng

Strongly recommended by fellow Yalie & ChubbyHubby Aun Koh, the Club organised an outing to a chocolate tasting/education worksop “Know Your Chocolate” on Saturday 15 September, 3 – 4.30pm, at the National Museum (The Salon, Level 1).

The great thing about food workshops is that you get to taste what you learn. The key speaker was a pastry head for Valrhona in SEA (if I recall correctly). He walked us through at least six different types of chocolates and were provided a basic framework to understand the flavours in chocolate. Other stuff covered included the production and manufacture of chocolate, and basics of what makes a good pralineWe all went home with a box of Valrhona chocolates each. Yummy.

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Know Your Chocolate write-up

Can you tell the difference between a good chocolate and a great one? Does having a higher percentage f cocoa in a chocolate necessarily mean a superior taste experience?

This workshop traces the origins of our favourite deep, dark indulgence and teaches you how to tell the difference between different kinds of chocolates. As part of this sinfully rich course, participants will artake in a chocolate tasting session

The Yale Club stores its records in two areas: (a) online on our website under Shawn Tan’s charge; and (b) physical records at MENU Pte Ltd under the charge of Devin Kimble.

Since start 2007, the Club started updating our records online as well (in addition to our physical files) on our website. The records Members will be able to find online include:

• Report of Past Yale Club events;
• Summary of Upcoming Yale Cub events;
• Notes and supporting documents for Exco meetings / Annual General meetings, including documents for Registry of Society Filings (Notes of meeting, election results, Annual Financial Statements etc);
• Information on Ideas and Initiatives launched under the Yale Club Singapore umbrella; and
• Others.

Putting our records online serves multiple purposes, some of which include:

• creating greater accountability of the Exco on performance vis-a-vis activities and operations;
• facilitating Member’s queries about Club activities and operations; and
• facilitating Exco’s sharing of soft copies of notes of meetings, constitution and account statements for Club purposes.

That said, the online records are a focused subset, from an information on activities and transparency standpoint, of the overall records held in physical form at Menu Pte Ltd. Much of the information we hold as physical records are also very much operational in nature, e.g. forms regarding change of signatories for bank account each time we change Treasurers etc., which we would not want to innundate our members with. The physical records also serve as a backup just in case wordpress tries to do something funny.

Article by: Shawn Tan