from Yale News By Mike Cummings July 30, 2019 Yale Daily News coverage of Coeducation Week, an event in November 1968 during which more than 750 women from 22 colleges visited campus to attend classes and live in the residential colleges. (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti) On Dec. 22, 1783, Yale President Ezra Stiles interviewed…
from Inquisitr Elected Officials Don’t Care About The Opinions Of Their Constituents At All, Yale University Study Finds Study surveyed more than 2,300 state legislators, finding that party loyalty was much more important to them than the views of their constituents. When asked how he expects to pass some of his proposed, sweeping legislation such…
from https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/marie-borroff/121410 Marie Borroff Tue, 07/16/2019 – 8:45am Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar, poet, translator and teacher of English literature, and one of the pioneering women at Yale University, died at her Branford, Connecticut, home on July 5. She was 95. A long-time summer resident of Boothbay Harbor, this is the first summer in 70-some years…
Editor’s Note: If “singing is an athletic activity, plain and simple,” then our Whiffenpoofs are Olympic class athletes. They really nailed it during reunion weekend.
Just give a listen to this 30-second clip of them singing!
You can go home again!
Your scribe and nearly 400 classmates, with 300 spouses and family members, returned to Yale for a fabulous 50th. My limited word allowance cannot do justice to the rediscoveries of old friends, and, yet again, the making of new ones. Add in nonstop intellectual stimulation, animated conversations day and night, a steady supply of libations and tasty comestibles, all topped with two servings from our gentlemen songsters, the superb 1969 Whiffenpoofs.
I had fully expected to “retire” as webmaster after the reunion. Yeah, yeah … the Reunion Committee said they wanted the site to continue, but I didn’t think there was enough “news” to sustain a community website. Then an odd thing happened: Many, many people approached me during the reunion, saying they hoped the site would continue in some form. Please read on and leave, in the comments below, YOUR thoughts about what we should do here, what the site should be or do.
