Yale's lead spokesperson to leave
Helaine Klasky, Yale’s chief spokesperson and director of public affairs, will leave the University in July to join her husband in Washington, D.C.
Klasky and her husband, William Wechsler, were married while colleagues at the Treasury Department in 2000. The next year, Klasky came to work at Yale and her husband followed her to Connecticut. Now, as Klasky put it in an e-mail to friends and colleagues, it is her “turn to follow him.”
Wechsler recently began work as the deputy assistant secretary for counternarcotics and global threats at the Department of Defense; Klasky...
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By anon
7:38p.m. on May 23, 2009
End of an era! We'll miss you Helaine! OMG.
Best wishes to Helaine, she's done a great job.
Now, Oh, Chiefs of these hallowed halls: How about taking the opportunity to get consolidate all the "communications" people and departments sprouting up around campus? The waste, redundancy and ineffectiveness at internal communication just keeps mounting with each new hire--please, stop the madness. It is becoming a well-known joke around campus, and not a "ha, ha" kind of a joke either. No one has much sense of humor left about fiscal waste in the face of layoffs.