Book Award
March 2005

Club Presidents:

It is that time of year when I know many of you look forward to the Yale Book Award and how you can use it to best recruit the brightest students in your community to Yale. This program is especially effective as it helps us to:

. Keep or place Yale's name in the minds of outstanding high school
students
. Create a Yale presence within both the high school and the community
. Offer an opportunity for direct communication between alumni and Yale
Book Award recipients
. Add the names of top high school juniors to the Yale Office of
Undergraduate
Admission's file of potential applicants
. Emphasize Yale's academic excellence

Last year, through the Yale Book Award Program, over seventy Clubs and Associations continued the tradition of recognizing outstanding juniors in secondary schools by presenting over 600 books. We hope that you will participate in this program this year and help provide important exposure for Yale College within your community.

I have to start with the bad news... The Yale Shakespeare is once again out of print. Barnes & Noble is considering whether to reprint the book, and I expect to have more information later this spring as to whether it might be available for next year. We are offering a new selection of books this year: City, by Douglas Rae; Why Not? by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres; Doctor Dolittle's Delusion by Stephen Anderson; Leave No Child Behind by James Comer; and Red Sky at Morning by James Gustav Speth.

The Book Award pages in the Club Officer's Toolbox (http://www.aya.yale.edu/clubofficers/ or
http://www.aya.yale.edu/clubofficers/book_award/) have been updated, and you can place your orders on-line. On this website you will find full descriptions of each of the books, as well as pricing. If you are not the primary contact in your Club for the Book Award, please forward this email to the appropriate person. ASC Directors are copied on this email.

As always, if you have a question or concern for me, please do not hit "reply" to this email, but please send me a message at nory.babbitt@yale.edu. With thanks to you all for all of your hard work.