In the Spring of 2018, Head of Silliman College, Dr. Laurie Santos, offered Psych 157a, Psychology and the Good Life. It was the most popular course ever taught at Yale, necessitating it being moved to Battell Hall and having Dr. Santos scramble for another couple dozen grad students to serve as section leaders! The course is available free on Coursera … and in now available as a limited series of podcasts.
Yale’s 50th Anniversary of The Superwomen In April 1969, five months after Yale University announced it was becoming coeducational, its first female undergrads got stuck with a nickname they would never quite shake. The university announced in late 1968 that it would accept women as undergraduate students starting the next academic year, and the following…
I have finally found and scanned a selection of the photos I took in the fall of 1968 as one of four Silliman students assigned to cover Coed Week for Life magazine. Two of them appeared in Life’s article.
For me, Coed Week was the start of a life’s career in photography. I cut all my classes to photograph the week’s events; I was hooked.
Editor’s Note: We ran out of time at the end of the Reunion, so we didn’t have our quintennial “Class Meeting” with all members of the class. Our Class Co-Secretaries invite all of those who have an interest in guiding Class action as part of the Class Council to raise your hand!
Perhaps the most remarkable book I have read in recent years is the one that is the main subject of this superb review by Yale’s own David Gelernter (one of my heroes). Below is an excerpt but, (as they say) read the whole thing. I wish Clement Markert were still here to discuss this. The…
Edward Jay Ferraro died on January 3, 2019. Terence Lenahan writes: Ed was my oldest friend. We met in the summer of 1962 at the end of ninth grade. We went the same way, so we often walked home together talking though his trip was much longer, all the way to Yankee Stadium, about four…
