Over 30 alumni from Yale and Harvard gathered at Claddagh’s Pub to watch this year’s riveting edition of The Game. While Yale took an early lead, Harvard tried to come back in the fourth quarter. Yale’s final touchdown to cement their lead nipped that in the bud, securing a victory for the Elis. To those who came out this year, it was great to see you!

On Saturday, August 18th, 30 Yalies gathered to tour the NS Savannah, one of the last remaining pieces of evidence of President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace project. This project sought to show people that nuclear power could be used for more than war. As a result, the beautiful NS Savannah toured the world and gave people a chance to get up close and personal with peaceful applications of nuclear technology. We were some of the latest people to benefit from these efforts. A huge thank you to the NS Savannah staff and volunteers who made this tour possible, and to all of you for joining us!

This past Saturday, May 11th, four Yale alumni and one alumni daughter – Jeff Gray, Rene Parent (a veteran of the legendary 2018 tree-planting DoS beside Herring Run), Lisa Spadone, Shannon Marshall, and her daughter Eleanor – turned out to assist the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy (GVC) in planting a mixed collection of trees – oaks, sycamores, maples, dogwoods, and redbuds, among others – along a now-retired jumping run at Tranquility Manor Farms, a few miles northeast of Jacksonville in Baltimore County.  Working briskly with the assistance of Team Leader Matthew from GVC, our group planted at least 26 trees in a three-hour session – proving that even small numbers can make a big difference.  Boola boola!

Alumna Lynne Durbin hosted over a dozen admitted students and their families this past week. We did our best to convey what attending Yale and meeting amazing other Yalies has meant to us. A huge thanks to Lynne for hosting, and good luck to all those potential students facing big decisions!

We were lucky enough to have a visit from the Baker’s Dozen last week, as one of their freshman members is a local! As if a performance by the oldest Yale a cappella group wasn’t enough reason to celebrate, they also had a special guest performance by the Gilman School a cappella group. A huge thank you to Rachel Warschawski for organizing and hosting.

Yalies from both Maryland and DC seized the opportunity to see an ancient Greek tragedy, The Oresteia, in its final performance by The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. This rare opportunity to see The Oresteia was also a moment of deja vu for many in the audience who had read The Oresteia during Directed Studies many years before. For those of us who were a bit more STEM-oriented, this adaptation of The Oresteia was both accessible and strikingly relevant as we look at the cycles of violence in our world that are alternately called justice and vengeance. This performance also marked a wonderful collaboration between the Yale Alumni Association of Maryland and the Yale Club of DC, with nearly 30 attendees between the two groups.

More than 25 Yalies with class years spanning 5 decades gathered at the beautiful Engineer’s club for a night of food, drinks and, most importantly, camaraderie. We had an excellent showing from both undergraduate and graduate alumni, and we loved seeing both familiar and new faces!

In January 2024, members of the Yale Alumni Association of Maryland (YAAM) joined fellow Ivy League alumni for a convivial meet-up at Baltimore’s Union Craft Brewing. YAAM looks forward to more multi-school events in the future!

Scalia/Ginsburg at OperaDelaware
Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 2pm
Friday, May 3 at 7:30pm
at The Grand Opera House, 818 N. Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801

The Yale Club of Philadelphia invites YAAM members to join them in Wilmington, DE on Sunday, April 28, 2019 to attend the following event:

Scalia/Ginsburg, the American comic opera by Yale School of Music alumnus Derrick Wang about the unlikely friendship of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, receives a new production by OperaDelaware in its law-themed 2019 Festival. 

The Los Angeles Times wrote: “Could we please make it a constitutional requirement that no one can be sworn into office in the White House or Congress without first having seen Scalia/Ginsburg?”

This production marks the first-ever pairing of Scalia/Ginsburg with Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic one-act courtroom farce Trial by Jury.

It also marks the first production with full orchestra of the revised version of Scalia/Ginsburg, which was updated after Justice Scalia’s passing in 2016, performed at The Glimmerglass Festival in 2017, and hailed as “a perfect…jewel”.

For tickets and more information:

• Online: Visit the OperaDelaware website:
  • For the Sunday, April 28 performance, enter the code YALEPHILA for a 10% discount.
• Phone: Contact the OperaDelaware Box Office at 302-442-7807 (M–F 9am–5pm ET).
  • For the Sunday, April 28 performance, give the code YALEPHILA for a 10% discount.
• Email: For inquiries via email, contact boxoffice@operade.org.