Basie Bales Gitlin

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By day, I oversee the intersection of alumni affairs and development with Yale's libraries and cultural heritage institutions. This portfolio makes for a very varied diet, from working on major gifts and grants that transform Yale's spaces, collections, and programs to programming around reunions or events around the country or the world that showcase our work. At Yale, I also serve as Librarian of the Elizabethan Club and Co-Chair of the Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prizes. In college, I was an active member of the Davenport community, serving as a first-year counselor, Mellon Forum co-chair, captain of our IM squash team, etc. At Cambridge, I took up rowing, which I still enjoy both recreationally and competitively. I have been a bibliophile since I was a kid and continue to collect books seriously, with a focus on different facets of book history and the history of Yale.

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Senior Director, Development and External Affairs, Yale University Library and Yale Collections