Feb Club for old people

Yale has a couple of fun traditions, stuffy reputation notwithstanding. One of these is Feb Club, which was started in the 70s as a way to make that coldest and most miserable of months a little more tolerable. Every night for the month of February, a party is held in a different location on campus. I actually made it to all of them one year, and while it was great fun, I certainly do not recommend it as a way to improve one's academic standing.

This year, some people from the class of '87 have started a Feb Club Emeritus, with parties in different cities every night. I went to the one in Soho last night, and I have to say that trudging through the snow on my way to an evening of drinks had a very fun, and somehow still quite familiar, feel to it. The party itself was a good time, although I didn't run into many old friends, primarily since there was a serious lack of people who graduated in the 1990s. I think that the organizers really spread the word well through their classes, and the Facebook page got a bunch of graduates from the past couple of years in the loop. Judging from the success of the parties to date, there will more of these "Feb Clubs for old people" in future years. We'll have to get the classes of '95 and '96 to represent in 2009!