Dear members of the Yale family in Germany,

It's that time of year again. As we are an official "eingetragene Verein" with non-profit status, we are required by German law to have an Annual General Meeting. This year, in the interest of having as many of you from all over Germany join, we will be meeting online. We'll try to respect everyone's schedule and keep it to an hour, and - even though it sounds dry - it is really nice to "meet" cool Yalie's from all over the country and hear about what they are up to. 

If you are so inclined, we are looking for a new Treasurer and ASC Director, see below, and in general it would be fantastic to have point people in Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne/Düsseldorf (or wherever you might be) who would be willing to organize a Stammtisch or gathering once a year. 

Join us for more information on volunteering options, all not very time-consuming, and to hear what we have planned for the upcoming year. RSVP to president@yaleclub.de for the Zoom link.

Einladung zur Mitgliederversammlung 2024

des Yale Club e.V.

am 15. März  2025, 16 Uhr (per Videokonferenz)

Hiermit werden Sie herzlichst eingeladen zur ordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung 2025 des Yale Club e.V. (Vereinsregisternummer 73 VR 8395, Steuernummer 47 250 9300 9 - XV/17).

Die Mitgliederversammlung findet am 15. März  2025 ab 16 Uhr online per Videokonferenz statt.

Wir bitten um Anmeldung Ihrer Teilnahme per eMail an president@yaleclub.de - die nötigen Zugangsdaten (Zoom-Link und das Meeting-Passwort) erhalten Sie dann im Anschluss per eMail.

Es wird folgende Tagesordnung vorgeschlagen:

  1. Eröffnung und Begrüßung
  2. Wahl eines Protokollführers
  3. Feststellung der form- und fristgerechten Einladung, der anwesenden Stimmen und der Beschlussfähigkeit
  4. Feststellung der Tagesordnung
  5. Genehmigung des Protokolls der Mitgliederversammlung vom 21. April  2024
  6.  Berichte:

• der Vorsitzenden

• der stellvertretenden Vorsitzenden

• des Kassenwarts

• des ASC-Komitees (Interviews von Schülern/Bewerbern)

  1. Wahl des Vorstandes
  2. Beschlussfassung über die Verwendung von Geldern (Bildung und Verwendung von Rücklagen)
  3. Beschlussfassung über eingereichte Anträge
  4. Entlassung des Vorstandes
  5. Verschiedenes
  6. Schließung der Sitzung

 Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Bartley Großerichter, Vorsitzende 

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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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The Yale Club of Germany e.V.

• http://www.yaleclub.de

• For up-to-date event information, join our Facebook group.

If you have event ideas, would like to get involved in club activites, let us know!

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