50th Reunion Essays Now Online!

50th Reunion Essays Now Online!

Don’t pack that 8-pound ClassBook for the Reunion!  First, we’ll have some copies in the Davenport Common Room.  And second, all of the essays are now online.
If you want to read anything in the ClassBook, just whip out your phone/tablet/laptop, log in to Yale1969.org, type the name into the search bar at the top, and proceed. If you want to see your essay online, just go to your profile page.  It’s linked there under …

BTW: Reunion Details And Last Minute Travel/Hotel Deals

BTW: Reunion Details And Last Minute Travel/Hotel Deals

The Reunion Committee wants you to have the latest/greatest info on transportation, housing, weather, an updated copy of the program, etc.: Connecticut Limousine, RIP. For those of you planning on using Connecticut Limousine (vans) to get from NYC airports to New Haven, you’ll have to make other plans.  They just went out of business.  Here…

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Notes to Self

The 1969 Class Survey included the following question: “If you could write a note to your 1969 self, what would it say? (50 words or less, please)” Herewith is a small sampling of your advice to your 1969 selves… For a small-town boy from the Texas Panhandle, you did all right, in large part because…

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Fifty Years of Change in Book Publishing

When we graduated in 1969: We had spent four years with assigned reading from books available only in printed form. We probably bought those books at the Yale Co-op, an independent store owned by the University. New Haven had few other bookstores we would frequent and no chain bookstores. The immense resources of Sterling Library…

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High School Harry; West Coast; Negro; “Achieved Success at Yale”

How Yale enabled a confident naif to game “success.” Above descriptions proposed as applying to me were suggested to merit a class essay of broader scope. This being somewhat a soapbox—irresistible to a Yalie, no?—, here goes. If nothing else, material to guide one into the precious (love mine!) late afternoon nap. First, from perspective…

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Group Portrait in Broad Strokes: Results of the Class of 1969 50th Reunion Survey

Class surveys have been a regular feature of 50th reunions for years, and—as we have with so many traditions—Yale ‘69ers might well wonder what purposes this elaborate group ritual might serve. The reunion committee had several purposes clearly in mind: to gather information that would inform several invited essays planned for this volume; to activate…

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The Yale Daily News

excerpts with commentary Although freshman year could have been justifiably regarded as an oasis of calm, our subsequent undergraduate years (along with 1970) probably constituted the most tumultuous period at Yale (and many other American college campuses) since World War II. The controversial and escalating Vietnam War, the prospect of compulsory service in it following…

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Healthcare in America: One Physician’s Perspective

I practiced medicine for forty years before retiring in the spring of 2017. I had flourished in my work, enjoying the challenges even in the most demanding moments. I loved virtually every phase of my career and felt privileged to have the opportunity to care for patients. Beyond the long hours and perpetual sleeplessness, and…

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For Whom, for country, and for Yale? Religion and spirituality in the Class of 1969

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Proverbs 9:10 “Urim and thummim.” Yale seal (Hebrew script meaning either “lights and perfections” or “curses and blessings” depending on translation – see Exodus 28:30)   “Acquire the Holy Spirit, and a thousand around you will be saved.” St Seraphim of Sarov “Il faut imaginer…