Yale affiliates will be among the featured guests when individuals throughout the New Haven area open their homes on Thursday, Feb. 23, for dinner parties with renowned performers, authors, scholars, business leaders and community activists to raise funds in support of LEAP (Leadership, Athletics and Education in Partnership).

Created in 1992, LEAP hires, trains and guides 80 college, high school and middle school counselors to work with 250 young children in year-round after-school and summer programs. The LEAP dinners are the organization's biggest fundraising event, and the goal for this benefit is $100,000.

The Feb. 23 fundraiser begins with a cocktail reception 5:30-7 p.m. in the Bank of America Community Room, overlooking the New Haven Green, where guest authors will be signing their recent books. This will be followed by dinners at more than 30 homes in the area from Madison to Orange to Bethany. Reservations can be made for just the cocktail reception, a dinner or both. For those unable to attend on Feb. 23, there will be two dinners on Wednesday, March 1. For further information and reservations, call (203) 773-0770.

The featured guests will include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano, actor Elliot Gould, Chanel president Maureen Chiquet and Christie's International vice-president Betsy Ray, among other notable individuals. The following Yale affiliates will be among the featured guests:

* Akhil Reed Amar, the Southmayd Professor of Law and professor of political science, who will discuss the Supreme Court and other constitutional issues;

* Dudley Andrew, professor of comparative literature and director of graduate studies in the Film Studies Program, who will examine the world of cinema;

* Rabbi Herbert Brockman of The Congregation Mishkan Israel in Hamden, a William Sloan-Coffin-Joan Forsberg Fellow at the Divinity School, who will consider issues of church and state;

* Dr. Thomas Duffy, professor of internal medicine and director of the Program for the Humanities in Medicine, who will talk about the connections between music and the brain;

* John Lewis Gaddis and Toni Dorfman, respectively the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History and director of undergraduate theater studies, who will discuss their respective fields;

* Beverly Gage, assistant professor of history, who will explore the history of terrorism and violent conflict in the United States;

* Michael Graetz, the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law and a former senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department, who will consider the debate over the estate tax;

* Jacob Hacker, the Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science, who will talk about politics and health care reform (March 1);

* Theodore Marmor, professor at the School of Management and in political science, who will tackle issues of the day, from medical care reform to Social Security and welfare;

* Novelist Richard Price, a lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences college seminars, who will read from his newest novel;

* Aron and Stacey Rose, the former an associate clinical professor of ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and the latter a renowned pianist, who will share his work on blindness prevention around the world and her music (March 1);

* James Gustave Speth, dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, who will speak about the relationship between global warming and natural disasters;

* Kate Stith, the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, who will speak about the complex interaction of public policy and constitutional law; and

* Sheila Wellington, former University secretary, who will discuss her current work as president of Catalyst, a non-profit research and advisory organization on women's private sector leadership.

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