The Oil and Gas Council honored our Howard Newman with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its North American dinner on October 22, 2019. The Council is an international organization of executives, investors, policy makers and other leaders in the global energy business, and they describe the award thusly:
from the New York Times By Tina Rosenberg Ms. Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. Last week in the studio where he tapes the “Albasheer Show,” Ahmed Albasheer put on a dark presidential hat and a jacket covered in an absurd amount of medals…
In this remembrance essay about Martin Hoffmeister, some might feel that I get too far off the subject—Martin—at some points. But I have written this essay in this way for three main reasons, relating to: 1) Similarities; 2) Circularities; and 3) Uncertainties.
I climbed the 150 or so steps to Harkness Tower’s bell chamber for a reunion weekend recital. I’m a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs advisory board so I’ve gotten to play the bells often over the years, but this time it was special: I played a Bach duet with the Guild’s outgoing chair, Joy…
When a 52-year-old retired Navy SEAL enrolled at Yale University, becoming the oldest member of the class of 2023, he was apprehensive about joining the “liberal snowflakes” in their “safe spaces.”
James Hatch, who was wounded during a 2009 mission to find US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, said in a Medium post that he found his first class of the semester “absolutely terrifying” and …
John Meyer, JE ’69, passed away peacefully in the early hours of December 11th, after a long battle with frontotemporal dementia, his wife Jo Frances by his side. Born in New York City, and later graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, John enjoyed a distinguished career as an architect …
