If you catch a Yale-educated colleague sneaking an afternoon nap this month, he may have a worthy excuse: It’s February, and thousands of Yale alumni all over the world are reenacting a college tradition known as Feb Club.

In the college version, parties are staged every night of the month of February, in a different location each night, mostly around the campus.

The alumni version, called Feb Club Emeritus, is more ambitious in scale, with the parties taking place around the globe every night of the month (at least it’s the shortest month of the year). In its first week — with stops in Los Angeles, Paris, Aiken, S.C., Washington, Wilmington, Del., and Fort Worth, Texas — it has attracted alumni who graduated last year and those who graduated more than 60 years ago, before the Feb Club tradition even began. (Feb Club was launched in the 1970s, took a hiatus in the late 1990s, and returned in 2006.)

“People who go to Feb Club are fun,” the host of the first Feb Club Emeritus, also known as Feb Club for Old People, Kara Unterberg, said at her party, held at her home on the Upper West Side last Friday.

The man who first thought of the idea and has led its execution with the help of an international team, Timothy Harkness, also had a simple explanation for the phenomenon. “Feb Club isn’t stuffy. It’s informal and spontaneous,” Mr. Harkness, a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, said yesterday over the telephone.

In other words, it’s not a reunion anticipated for years, nor is it just another monthly “happy hour” for alumni.

Tonight’s party will be in Larchmont, N.Y., at the home of Paul Sarkozi, a partner at the law firm Hogan & Hartson. He is co-hosting with his wife, a Tulane graduate. They have decided to merge their college traditions by giving the party a Mardi Gras theme, with music provided by a Juilliard-trained jazz pianist, Jonathan Baptiste.

“We’re heavy on the Mardi Gras decorations,” Mr. Sarkozi’s wife, Jill, said as she scanned the Yale banners hanging on the mantels of Ms. Unterberg’s home.

“Oh, you can borrow all our Yale stuff,” Ms. Unterberg said.

The idea for Feb Club Emeritus, which has a Facebook group and its own Web site, where themed T-shirts are for sale, was hatched by Mr. Harkness and Ms. Unterberg and other members of the class of 1987 during a class lunch in the Tap Room of the Yale Club of New York City.

By word of mouth, the number of planners mushroomed. San Franciscans designed the T-shirt. A guy in California shelled out $1,000 to purchase a Feb Club Emeritus Mory’s Cup — a silver chalice, which, by tradition of a private club in New Haven, is filled with an alcoholic punch and passed around. It was a hit at the first Feb Club Emeritus.

The party is headed for Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, and, on the night of February 26, five continents simultaneously, with events in Shanghai, Tokyo, London, Barcelona, Sydney, Johannesburg, and Calgary.

The party moves to Tribeca on February 12 and Midtown on February 25. A full calendar — and RSVP system — can be found on at www.febclub.webs.com.

“We definitely have an infrastructure in place. It’s our intention to make it an annual event,” Mr. Harkness said.

Singing Shakespeare on Love

In advance of the tacky Valentine’s Day tributes to love, the civilized Glimmerglass Opera offered up their own in the form of a concert at the Morgan Library & Museum by sopranos Mara Bonde, Caitlin Lynch, and Brenda Rae, portraying, respectively, three Shakespearean women: Kate, Cleopatra, and Juliet. The program had the desired effect: to ignite longing for the opera company’s “Shakespeare on Love”- themed summer season opening July 5 in Cooperstown, N.Y., featuring new productions of Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” Wagner’s “Das Liebesverbot,” and Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi.”

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