Michael Morand is Yale Alumni Magazine's Yalie of the Week

Every week, the Yale Alumni Magazine lists the Yalie of the Week.  This week, the Yalie of the Week, is our very own Michael Morand.  Here's what YAM had to say:

New Haven is full of Yalies Who Stayed: came here for college, liked the place, got a job, bought a home, settled down, got involved in local stuff. Michael Morand '87, '93MDiv, has taken that pattern to its extreme -- except, maybe, for the settling down part. An aficionado of all things Yale and all things New Haven, Morand is constantly on the move, from aplanned food co-op to a community theater performance to acity plan commission meeting to a photo op with Paul Giamatti '89, '94MFA. (Morand's Facebook posts this week included plugs for his dry cleaner, an environmentally themed New Haven high school, Easter brunch overlooking the Quinnipiac River, and the Yale Day of Service -- twice.)

So when Yale handed out its annual Seton Elm Ivy Awards this week -- Elm to members of the New Haven community, and Ivy to Yale students, faculty, and staff -- it had to give Morand a special Elm and Ivy Award. An associate vice president of the university, he recently shifted from his decade-long stint in theOffice of New Haven and State Affairs, where he served as Yale's public face (and hot pink socks) in New Haven's City Hall and its neighborhoods. From his student days as a member of the city council, he moved on to serve on (or chair) the boards of the Chamber of Commerce, New Haven Public Library, Arts Council, and a multitude of other local organizations.

Morand now divides his work time between Yale's Office of Public Affairs and Communications and the Association of Yale Alumni. He divides his play time between. . . everything else.

The last time a classmate was Yalie of the Week, Natasha Zupan was tapped for that honor:

It sounds like the plot of an Almodovar film: a house painter (in Spain, of course) confesses to his artist client that he has been having an affair with her cleaning lady. In the artist’s house. With the cleaning lady dressing up in the artist’s underwear.

What is our heroine to do? Laugh? Cry? Fire them both? Perhaps. But because she is Natasha Zupan ’87, she also made art from this tawdy-but-true story, as told to AOL News.Zupan’s exhibit “Flesh Fold,” a series of collages incorporating panties and bras—some hers, some donated—opens September 24 at the Alexander Salazar Fine Art gallery in San Diego.

While Zupan is not our first Yalie of the Week to make underwear-related art, she is almost certainly the first who collected 100 foundation garments from “a very large-breasted woman” and “turned it into a painting called Boobie Trap.” Who could top that?