As part of The Pep Rally programming, join us on Yale Alumni LIVE with Basie Gitlin '10 to learn the history of Mory's and the role it plays in celebrations at Yale.
The Director of Development for Yale University Library since 2015, Basie graduated from Yale College in 2010, majoring in history. He also holds an M.Phil. in Early Modern History from Pembroke College, Cambridge. In his spare time, Basie serves on the boards of the Mory’s Association, the New Haven Museum, and the Grolier Club, and as Librarian of the Elizabethan Club and Co-Chair of Yale’s Adrian Van Sinderen Book Collecting Prize. A Fellow of Davenport College, he is both a College Advisor and a Personal Librarian to Davenport students. He has also served as a prospective student interviewer for the ASC; a board member of both the Yale Alumni Fund and the Yale Club of New Haven; and Co-Chair of his 5th Reunion Gift Committee. With his father, Jay Gitlin, who teaches history at Yale, he has written Mory's: A Brief History (2014) and an article on Elihu Yale, published in the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2012).
About Mory’s:
Mory’s is an iconic and unique Yale institution: the birthplace of the Whiffenpoofs, a spiritual home for both singing and athletics on campus, and a space suffused with generations of Yalies’ celebratory memories of The Game, reunions, or commencements. For me, it’s the Baker Soup and the Velvet Cups that I couldn’t live without!
