Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 6:56 p.m.

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Slifka director to take leave

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, November 20, 2008

Starting Dec. 1, Joseph Slifka Center Executive Director Amy Aaland will take an indefinite sick leave, the center announced Wednesday.

Aaland, who has worked at Slifka for 12 of its 13 years on campus, will take time away from the center to battle breast cancer, she wrote in an e-mail to the Slifka community yesterday. Although management of the center has been shared among other administrators, her absence will nonetheless be felt both at Slifka and in the wider Jewish community at Yale, students and Slifka administrators said after the announcement.

“Despite my husband...

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