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Thursday, January 11,
2007
Museum
of American Heritage (MOAH) Reception
351 Homer Avenue, Palo Alto
6 pm to 8 pm
The Yale Club
of Silicon Valley kicks off its 2007 year with a free reception
at the Museum of American Heritage (http://www.moah.org/)
in Palo Alto. MOAH is an interesting museum that integrates history,
technology and design through its exhibits and educational programs.
It is located on Homer Avenue across from Heritage Park in the historic
Williams House, which will be celebrating its 100 year anniversary
as a Palo Alto landmark.
Come to MOAH
to meet fellow Yalies and guests from the Commonwealth Club Silicon
Valley and MOAH, to visit the Williams House and gardens, to see
the exhibits for children of all ages:
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Timeless
and Classic Toys. Toys that have stood the test of
time. |
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LEGO
Model Trains. The museum's Learning Center is filled
with LEGO trains operated by the Bay Area LEGO Users Group.
Last year over 4000 people came to see the trains and to learn
about the educational programs: |
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Math
and Science Summer Camps. This past year students learned
about DNA extraction from Dr. Richard Myers, Director of the
Human Genome Project at Stanford, forensic testing and crime
scene investigation courtesy of the Palo Alto Police Department,
and biotechnology from scientists at Applied Biosystems. |
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Designing
for Superheroes. This is a new course taught by Jeff
Risberg, one of our alumni and VP of Engineering at Serus Corporation.
Jeff will be at the reception and available to talk about the
education program. |
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Other
Classes. Crystal radios, magnetism and electrostatics,
integrated circuits, and machine anatomy are just a few of the
classes. |
Children are
welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
Please reply to yaleclubofsiliconvalley@gmail.com
if you plan to attend
and indicate how many will be in your party.
Note about parking:
The museum has only handicap parking at the end of its driveway.
Parking is on the street or at any of the lots in Palo Alto. The
Civic Center parking lot is one block away on Forest Ave.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Meet
Your Yale Trustees
6 pm to 8 pm
Michaels at Shoreline
2960 Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View
We are fortunate
to have three Yale trustees, Len Baker, Gerhard Casper, and Donna
Dubinsky, living in Silicon Valley, and they have found time in
their busy schedules to spend an evening with us to talk about Yale.
Linda Lorimer, the Vice President and Secretary of Yale, will also
join us to answer questions about Yale. This is a unique opportunity
to meet four of Yale's dynamic leaders who help make Yale what it
is today.
Bios for Linda
Lorimer and the trustees are included below. Background information
about the organization of Yale Corporation can be found on the University
Leadership link, http://www.yale.edu/about/leadership.html,
on Yale's website.
Join us at Michaels
to meet and socialize with other Yalies and to learn more about
Yale.
Date:
Monday, February 12, 2007
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 pm Reception with hors
d'oeuvres and cash bar
 7:00 –
8:00 pm Presentation and Q&A
Location:
Michaels at Shoreline (http://www.michaelsatshoreline.com/)
2960 Shoreline
Blvd, Mountain View 94043
650-962-1014
Cost: Members: $10
prepaid by February 5th for 2007 paid members of
the Yale Club of Silicon Valley and one guest $20
at the door
Non-members: $25 prepaid
by February 5th
$35 at the
door
Check: Make payable to
Yale Club of Silicon Valley and bring
to the MOAH reception or mail to:
Yale
Club of Silicon Valley
PO Box 757
Palo Alto CA
94302-0757
At the door: Checks
and cash only accepted at the door
Directions:
Michaels is the clubhouse for Shoreline Golf Links. The gate to the golf course
is about 1 mile north on Shoreline Blvd. from the
exit at 101. Continue on the road that winds around the golf course
for another mile to get to Michaels.
Biographies:
Linda
Koch Lorimer, B.A., J.D.
Vice President and Secretary
Linda Koch Lorimer, Vice President of the University,
has been the University’s Secretary since 1993 and is the
officer responsible for an array of institutional functions, ranging
from corporate governance to public relations, alumni affairs, security,
and licensing. She also directs the new Office of International
Affairs at Yale. She served as a member of the Yale Corporation,
the University’s governing board, before being tapped to come
back to Yale. Ms. Lorimer held a series of administrative appointments
at Yale from 1978 to 1986, including service as the youngest Associate
Provost in the University’s history. She practiced law in
New York City at Davis Polk & Wardwell. From 1986 to 1993, Ms.
Lorimer was President of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. She
was President of the Board of the American Association of Colleges
and Universities, which represents over 600 universities and colleges.
She has served as the Vice Chair of the Board of the Center for
Creative Leadership and as a director for more than twenty regional
or national nonprofit organizations. Ms. Lorimer is currently the
Lead Director of the McGraw-Hill Companies and serves as a director
of Sprint Corporation.
G.
Leonard Baker, Jr. ’64 B.A.
Palo Alto, California
Named Successor Fellow in 2000, G. Leonard Baker,
Jr., is managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures of Palo Alto,
California, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in start-ups
and early-stage companies, most often in information technology
and health care. After earning an M.B.A. from Stanford University
in 1966, he worked for Cummins Engine Company until joining Sutter
Hill Ventures in 1973. Mr. Baker is a director of a number of public
and private companies. His service to Yale has included memberships
on the advisory board of the School of Management, the Development
Board, the Yale Investment Committee, and the AYA Board of Governors.
Gerhard
Casper ’62 LL.M., ’00 LL.D.
Atherton, California
After stepping down from the presidency of Stanford
University in 2000, Gerhard Casper returned to teaching there as
Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education and as
a professor of law. He is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He studied law
at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg before receiving his
law degree from Yale, then returned to Freiburg, where he earned
his Ph.D. After an initial teaching position at the University of
California at Berkeley, Mr. Casper was recruited two years later
by the University of Chicago, where he spent twenty-six years, served
as dean of the law school, and rose to become provost before being
appointed Stanford’s president in 1992. Yale awarded him an
honorary degree in 2000, and he was appointed Successor Fellow in
September 2000.
Donna
L. Dubinsky ’77 B.A.
Portola Valley, California
Donna Dubinsky is co-founder and chief executive officer
of Numenta, Inc., a technology development firm that is creating
a new computer memory system modeled on the human brain’s
neocortex. After graduating from Yale and earning an M.B.A. from
Harvard Business School, she worked at Apple Computer and then as
a founder of Claris Corporation. In 1992 she joined Jeff Hawkins
at Palm Computing, serving as president and chief executive officer.
The handheld computer, the PalmPilot, introduced four years later,
became the fastest-selling computer and consumer electronics product
in history at the time. In 1998 Ms. Dubinsky and Mr. Hawkins founded
Handspring, Inc.; it merged with Palm’s hardware group in
2003 to create a new company, Palm, Inc., where Ms. Dubinsky serves
as a director. She and Mr. Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005. Ms.
Dubinsky serves as a director of Intuit Corporation and is a trustee
of the Computer History Museum. She served as a member of the University
Council. Ms. Dubinsky was named Successor Fellow in 2006.
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Friday, October 27, 2006
About
the book:
In The Great Risk Shift, Yale political scientist Hacker documents
how two great pillars of economic security —the family and
the workplace—guarantee far less financial stability than
they once did. The final leg of economic support—the public
and private benefits that workers and families get when economic
disaster strikes—has dangerously eroded as political leaders
and corporations increasingly cut back protection of our health
care, our income security, and our retirement pensions. Hacker concludes
by advocating an "insurance and opportunity society" that
would safeguard economic security and expand economic opportunity,
ensuring that all Americans have the basic financial security they
need to reach for and achieve the American Dream.
The Assault
on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, Retirement
and How You Can Fight Back
by Jacob Hacker
Professor of Political Science
Friday October
27, 2006 7:30 pm
Kepler's
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park CA, 94025
650-324-4321
Reception for
Yale alumni and friends begins at 6:30 pm at Kepler's
Please reply to yaleclubofsiliconvalley@gmail.com
if you plan to attend the reception
Books must be
purchased at Kepler's to enter signing line
Monday, September 18, 2006
Commonwealth
Club Silicon Valley Presents:
"Digital
Health – What's in the Future"
Panelists:
Peter Neupert, Corporate
Vice President for Health Strategy, Microsoft
Ryan Phelan, founder & President, DNA Direct
Christine Paine, Sr. Vice President, Marketing and Internet Services,
Kaiser Permanente
Tara Griffin, Vice President of Enterprise Markets, Palm, Inc.
Moderator: Andy
Kessler, author of The End
of Medicine. How Silicon Valley (and naked mice) will Reboot your
Doctor.
How can new technologies
empower consumers to take more control of their health care? What
role will digital technology play as the healthcare industry strives
to reduce administrative and medical costs while improving patient
care? Our panel of experts will tackle some of these questions and
will share ways technology is already playing a positive role in
the healthcare field today
6:30
p.m. Check-in and Reception; 7 p.m. Program
Hahn
Auditorium
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View
Directions
$15
Members and Yale Alumni; $25 Non-Members
For
reservations visit
www.commonwealthclub.org/sv
.html or call 1-800-847-7730
Presenting
Sponsor: Microsoft Corporation
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Career Management Panel
We will
have a half hour panel discussion covering such topics as:
*
building a successful
career for Yale alumni in Silicon Valley,
* the most common career worries and how to address them, and
* competitive positioning to win your dream job.
The panel discussion
will be followed by a half hour question and answer session. Colby
Keith will be the moderator and will give priority to questions
submitted in advance via email to the YCSV by pre-paid attendees.
If time permits, questions will be taken from the audience.
Questions:
Send questions for the panel or about the event to
yaleclubofsiliconvalley@gmail.com
Biographies:
Jimmy Lu is a General Partner of iD Ventures
America (formerly Acer Technology Ventures), a venture capital firm
managing over $340 million in committed capital. Its funds focus
on advanced technology start-up companies in North America and Asia.
Jimmy was instrumental in establishing the Acer's Group's first
international venture capital fund, Fund 21 Limited, as well as
establishing and managing Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund
One. Jimmy has had a number of careers on his way to becoming a
venture capitalist. He has been a director of a community outreach
program to train socially and economically disadvantaged high school
students, a banker at J.P. Morgan, an attorney with the McCutchen,
Doyle law firm, and General Counsel of the Acer Group. Jimmy was
recently elected to the Board of Governors for the Association of
Yale Alumni. Jimmy graduated with a BA in sociology from Yale, an
MBA from Harvard, and a JD from Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley.
Joann S. Lublin is management news editor
for The Wall Street Journal. Joann works with reporters in the Journal's
domestic and foreign bureaus, conceptualizing and organizing coverage
of management and workplace issues. She has written extensively
about such issues as corporate governance, executive compensation,
recruiting and succession and continues to write her own management
stories. Joann shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting
with a team of WSJ reporters for a series of stories on corporate
scandals. Joann also helps to write and is contributing editor of
the Journal's annual special section on executive pay. She previously
oversaw the Career Journal pages appearing every Tuesday and was
responsible for coverage of career issues. You can read her Managing
Your Career columns at http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/manageyourcareer/index.html.
Joann earned a BS with distinction in journalism from Northwestern
and a master's degree in communications from Stanford.
Pulin
Sanghvi is a strategic career advisor for professionals
in competitive industries such as high tech, venture capital, management
consulting, investment banking, private equity and corporate management.
Pulin helps clients develop competitive positioning strategies to
advance their careers. Pulin has been a consultant with McKinsey
& Company in Palo Alto, where he helped lead firm-wide associate
recruiting at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also
been an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York, where
he helped lead firm-wide analyst recruiting at Yale University.
Pulin earned a BA summa cum laude in economics from Yale and an
MBA from Stanford.
Date:
Thursday, June 22nd
Time:
6:30 pm Check-in and pizza
7:00
pm Panel discussion and Q&A
8:00
pm Post panel networking
Location:
Pizz'a Chicago
4115
El Camino Real (1½ blocks north of Charleston)
http://www.pizzachicago.com/pa/
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