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[Class events not listed in the Alumni Weekend Brochure]

Class of 1957  

Friday: Yale Art Gallery; from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. a special guided tour for the Class of 1957 of the newly renovated Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street.

Saturday: “The Harvest of Wisdom, Creativity in Later Life”; 9:30 a.m. Rick Moody, Director of Academic Affairs, Chief Academic officer at AARP and an internationally recognized scholar on aging, in Room 120.

Saturday:  “Highs, Lows, and More of Their Last 50 years”; at 2:30 p.m. pre-selected classmates will tell us about 50 years after law school, in Room 120.

Class of 1967

Reminiscences: An informal gathering will be held in the Law School’s Faculty Lounge (Room 208) on Saturday from 3:30 - 5:00 pm.  Enjoy this relaxed time to catch up with friends.

Open to all

STREET FIGHT: (Academy Award-nominated film) will be shown from Friday 12:30 p.m. through Saturday 5:00 p.m. continuously in Room 110. The movie tells the story of the turbulent race for mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker ’97 and Sharpe James,the four-term incumbent. The race became so heated that the Federal government had to step in and watch for cheating and violence.  
          
Swing Space Tour: Preview the future dorms of the Yale Law School! Two brief tours (20 guest maximum) will be given on Saturday of the Swing Space.  Pre-registration is required as space is very limited.  Please sign up outside Room 122.  The tours will depart from the Grove Street doors at 3:25 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. respectively.

Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Open House: The collection houses Anglo-American court reports, digests, statutes, monographs, and trials pre-1860. The collection also includes early books from most European countries, and collections of Grotius and Pufendorf and Roman and Canon law. The Open House is on Friday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and on Saturday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. You can take a tour or browse on your own. The Rare Book Reading Room is located on the Lower Level 2.
      
Jane Bolin ‘31 LL.B. and Pauli Murray ‘65 LL.M. Display: Visit the displays featuring two remarkable women who graduated from Yale Law School. Jane Bolin was the first African American graduate of Williams College, the first black woman to receive a law degree from Yale, and the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States. Pauli Murray was the first African American woman Episcopal priest and the co-founder of NOW, the National Organization for Women. She was a civil rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, poet, and teacher. The displays can be viewed in the Alumni Reading Room, off the main hallway.

Book Discussion and Signing: Charlie Savage M.S.L. ‘03.  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage exposes the Bush administration’s unprecedented use of signing statements in “TAKEOVER: THE RETURN OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY AND THE SUBVERSION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.” Saturday from 4:00—5:00 p.m. at the Yale University Book Store, 77 Broadway at York Square. 

Yale Art Gallery Tours: participate in a guided tour of the newly renovated Yale Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT; (203 432-0600) Saturday at 11:30 a.m. or 3:30 p.m.