Yale Club of Pittsburgh

Many thanks to our volunteers for the Yale Club of Pittsburgh All-Ivy-Plus volunteer event with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank in Wilkinsburg.

Pictured are Otto Chu, President of the Yale Club of Pittsburgh; Donald Bonk, President of the Penn Club of Western Pennsylvania; Vincent Johnson, President of the Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania.

This year's Yale Club of Pittsburgh Annual Dinner was great fun! Many thanks to Professor William Scherlis for speaking with us about artificial intelligence.

What a fun night seeing old friends and new at the Yale Club of Pittsburgh All-Ivy-Plus Party at the Mansions on Fifth last week!

SEEN: A league of their own The All Ivy Plus party hosted by the Yale Club of Pittsburgh gave nearly 200 alumni of Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown,...

Enclosed are some photographs from our Yale Club of Pittsburgh volunteer service event at the Frick Environmental Center with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy. The event was a great success, with about fifteen volunteers in attendance on a crisp, sunny day. We had a tremendous time together. We spent most of the time mulching a number of trees in Frick Park and learning about arboreal care.

Those in attendance at this event were:

Otto Chu (President, Yale Club of Pittsburgh, and leader of this volunteer service event)
Brandon McCracken (Restoration Landscaper for the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy)
Dale Hershey (YCOP board member)
Pamela Rollings (YCOP board member)
Richard (Dick) McLaughlin, Yale College alumnus
Lisa Sylvester (Georgetown alumna, and WPXI anchorwoman)
Lauren Rosenblum, M.D. (Yale College alumna)
Jack Bouer (Yale College alumnus)
Hatice Nur Eken, M.D. (Yale College alumna)
Tai-Sing Lee (Harvard alumnus and CMU professor)
Tomoko (Lee) (Tai-Sing's wife)
Harrison Lee (Tai-Sing's son)
Donald Bonk (Penn Club President)
Aaron Greenfield (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science alumnus)
Megan Greenfield (Aaron's daughter)

Yale Law professor Amy Chua was the speaker at the YCOP's 2022 Annual Dinner:
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Join the Yale Club of Pittsburgh for a Yale Day of Service event in partnership with the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. We will be helping the Food Bank distribute food to people in their vehicles.

Date: Saturday, June 25th
Time: 9:30 A.M. to 12:00 Noon
Location: Life Care Behavioral Health Hospital, in Wilkinsburg, at the corner of Penn and Trenton Avenues

For more information or to sign up, email us at [email protected].

Congratulations to Quincy Peterson, Yale Book Award winner at Allderdice High School

Meet one of the amazing young Yale applicants who were interviewed by YCOP members. The 4% of applicants who were admitted to Yale included 12 from the Pittsburgh area. We hope they all choose Yale!

How did Sean Russell become the great hope of Pittsburgh Public Schools? Sean Russell has been accepted to Yale, Harvard and Stanford. He’s one of only 300 students across the country to win a Gates Scholarship.

The Yale Club of Pittsburgh is delighted to invite you and your friends to a fascinating presentation on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, formerly known as “UFOs”) by Christopher Mellon, one of the nation’s leading experts on this subject, on Thursday evening, April 21.

This event will take place on the Main Floor of The Pittsburgh Golf Club, 5280 Northumberland Street, in Squirrel Hill. The phone number is (412) 621-4530, if you need directions.

5:30 P.M. to 6:30 P.M. – Cocktails (Cash bar)

6:30 P.M. – Otto H. Chu – Welcome and Introduction

6:33 P.M. – Christopher Mellon – Presentation on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Questions and Answers, immediately following Mr. Mellon’s presentation

R.S.V.P. by e-mail to Otto Chu, President of the Yale Club of Pittsburgh and the host of this event, at: [email protected] Please reserve early if you plan to attend, as we expect considerable interest, and we may well need to limit seating for this event.

This event is underwritten through a grant from Chu Financial Management Corporation, a leading investment management firm based in Pittsburgh.