A very Happy New Year to all!

REMINDER - I hope to see you at our evening in Munich next week on Climate Radicals with Yale BA'05 Cameron Abadie, the deputy editor at Foreign Policy and cohost of FP's Ones and Tooze podcast. Abadie will discuss his latest book with us - a very original guide to climate politics, comparing Biden's United States and climate-friendly Germany. He points to the dilemma that "democracy works by incremental progress, while the process of climate change... seems not to allow for it... Many of the people most committed to addressing climate change are acting as if democracy, in its current form is not necessarily a path to a solution."

With a new administration coming in the United States on January 20th and snap elections in Germany on February 23rd, we can also call on Abadie's deep knowledge of the political situation and risks in both countries. An evening not to be missed!

This event will be hybrid. Join us in-person in Munich or live online. The livestream will be available after the event on the Amerikahaus/Munich Dialogues on Democracy YouTube channel.

CLIMATE RADICALS:

WHY OUR ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS IS NOT WORKING

January 16, 2025

7pm CET

In-person and online

REGISTRATION OPEN

We have a full schedule of inspiring speakers for 2025 - make sure to watch the Yale Club website as well as the Munich Dialogues on Democracy website so as not to miss any!

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INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED?

WE NEED YOU!

We'd love to have more people organizing gatherings in more cities around Germany - it doesn't have to be any more formal than offering to make a reservation at a beer garden/pub/pizzeria and allowing us to get the word out. 

In addition, we two board positions that will be opening up next year.

Our Alumni Schools Committee (ASC) Coordinator is the fabulous Frankfurt-based Rebecca Haltzel-Haas. She writes, " my youngest son has evidenced an interest in applying to Yale - he graduates in 2026, so I can continue as ASC Director this cycle, but if there’s any chance he’ll apply I need to step down. (And I’ve been doing this since Fall 2011, so this is my 14th year).  I have a 2 page Overview for Directors from the ASC Portal that I can provide. The job really only exists between November and April and then is dormant until the next year (give how large our geographic region is, we rarely do recruiting events and the few applicants who get in are invited to a Stammtisch or local gathering near them - but we don’t have a big enough pool to be sponsoring yield events anyway)." The job is basically to coordinate the interviews of the applicants to Yale within Germany.

Our Treasurer is the equally fabulous Berlin-based Hans-Christian Siller, who would like to step down after over a decade of being in the post. He describes the requirements as being an EU national (no US citizen as account holder - complicates things), handling club payments in Google sheet (tracking donations, refunding expenses, saving all receipts in Google Drive), giving brief financial report at annual meetings, issuing donation receipts for larger donations (using  template, getting pdf), submitting a super simple bare bones tax receipt every three years (contains simple gewinn/verlustrechnung, plus kassenstände zum Jahresende).

If you think you might be able to help out with either of these positions or have questions, please contact me for more information (email president@yaleclub.de)

Boola Boola from Munich,

Bartley

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Interviews

The Yale Club is always looking for alumni to interview local high-school students who are applying to Yale College. If you would like to help out or learn more, please contact our ASC director, Rebecca Haltzel-Haas.

Yale Book Award

If you interested in presenting the Yale Book Award at a high school in your area, please contact the club board.

Contributions

The Club does not assess dues, but asks its members to make an modest annual contribution (€20 suggested, but any amount is welcome) to help fund Club activities such as the Yale Book Award.

To contribute, please arrange a bank transfer (Überweisung) to the following account and be sure to include your email address so we can send you your tax-deductible donation receipt:

Bank (Kreditinstitut des Begünstigten): n26 Bank
Payee (Begünstigter): Hans Christian Siller
IBAN: DE76 1001 1001 2621 3219 84
BIC (SWIFT): NTSBDEB1XXX

For any question regarding contributions, please contact our Treasurer, Hans Christian Siller.

Club Officers

PRESIDENT

Bartley Grosserichter (Yale College ’88)
Munich
bgrosserichter@aya.yale.edu

TREASURER

Hans Christian Siller (GSAS ’12)
Berlin
chris.siller@aya.yale.edu

SECRETARY

Alexander Schmitt Glaeser (LLM ’89)
Munich
aschmittgl@aol.com

ALUMNI SCHOOLS COMMITTEE

Rebecca Haltzel-Haas (Yale College ’90)
haltzel-haas@aya.yale.edu

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

Jana Striezel (LLM ’02)
Wolfsburg
jana.corinna.striezel1@volkswagen.de