Yale Contact Information

Dear Families of Participants in Global Awareness in Action 2008,

We hope everyone is feeling ready for a very exciting summer!

From Saturday, June 28 to Saturday, July 5, please direct all communication with Putney Student Travel to the Global Action office at Yale, pstgaia@gmail.com or (203) 436-0557. Please ask for Global Action directors Diego Merino or Melissa Extein.

In this blog update we have included some information which you may find helpful going into the program this summer. All of the following details have been communicated to you in our spring mailings. However, we hope that you will use the blog as a one-stop resource for information during the summer.

Our group will be housed at the South Court of Berkeley College, 205 Elm Street, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Because Elm Street is very busy, the best place to enter the Global Action campus is on College Street in between Elm and Wall Streets at the entrance to Cross Campus. This is where students should be dropped off on July 3, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and picked up on August 3 between 9 a.m. and noon. This will also be the location of the picnic after the presentations at 7pm on August 2.

Yale has provided us with a user-friendly online map at http://business.yale.edu/map.

The presentations will be held at Davies Auditorium, at 50 Prospect St. Putney Student Travel staff and students will meet you there for the presentations. If you are attending presentations, please be a few minutes early so that we can keep to our tight schedule! The presentations are each approximately one hour long and will take place at the following times:

August 2:
9:00 am: El Salvador
10:30 am: Cambodia
1:00 pm: China
2:30 pm: Madagascar
4:00 pm: India

We’re looking forward to a great summer, and to meeting many of you at Yale!

Driving Directions to Berkeley College, New Haven, CT

From I-95: From either direction, connect to I-91 North in New Haven. Take Exit 3 (Trumbull Street). Follow directions below for I-91.

From I-91: Take I-91 to Exit 3 (Trumbull Street) in New Haven. Continue straight on Trumbull Street until it ends at the 4th traffic light at Prospect Street. Turn left onto Prospect. After Prospect turns into College Street at the first traffic light, continue 1.5 blocks, and the entrance to Berkeley College (Cross Campus) will be on your right. You will see signs directing you to Putney registration.

From the West (Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways):

From north: Take Exit 61. Drive south on Whitney Avenue for approximately 5 miles. Turn right on Sachem Street at the Peabody Museum traffic light. Continue to next traffic light and turn left on Prospect Street. Proceed for 2 blocks until Prospect becomes College Street. Continue another 1.5 blocks, and the entrance to Berkeley College (Cross Campus) will be on your right. You will see signs directing you to Putney registration.

From south: Take Exit 57. Drive east on Route 34 (Derby Ave.) for approximately 5 miles (past Yale athletic fields). Take a left on route 10 N, Ella T. Grasso Blvd. Proceed to the 5th traffic light and turn right onto Whalley Avenue. Continue straight for 1.3 miles. Whalley becomes Broadway, and Broadway becomes Elm Street. Make a left onto College Street, and the entrance to Berkeley College (Cross Campus) will be on your left.

Yale Area Hotel Suggestions
The following hotels are within walking distance from our campus:

Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale
155 Temple Street
(800) THE-OMNI
(203) 772-6664
www.omnihotels.com

Courtyard by Marriott at Yale
30 Whalley Avenue
(800) 321-2211
(203) 777-6221
www.courtyardmarriottyale.com

New Haven Hotel
229 George Street
(203) 498-3100
www.newhavenhotel.com

Welcome!

In order to keep parents updated on the progress of their child's Putney program, from time to time over the course of the program, the trip leaders will post an update on this blog. We hope that the occasional updates will keep you informed about the activities, projects and successes of the summer, as well as comfort the usual worries in sending a son or daughter to a far-away place.

You should expect leaders to post blogs no more than once per week during the program. We feel strongly that the leaders' first priority is the students and the program. The reasons for infrequent updates will be the very busy schedules of our program leaders as well as inconsistent internet access at Putney's various destinations throughout the world. Please know that any important issues on the program will be discussed and resolved with leaders and parents by phone, not through the blog.

We suggest that you subscribe to the blog during your first visit so that you will receive e-mail notifications at the end of the day whenever a new update is posted. To subscribe, enter your email address under 'Subscribe via e-mail' on the left-hand column of the blog.

Have a fantastic summer!

Best wishes from us all at the Putney Barn