What Is This Place?

What Is This Place?

My contact with a broad swath of Yale ‘69 preparatory to our 50th revealed widespread unease with what Yale now appears to “be.”   This disaffection was repeatedly invoked as the source of decisions not to attend the Reunion – prompting our Reunion Committee to assert that the Reunion would be about renewing connections between classmates, not an expression of loyalty to our alma mater. This estrangement has little to do with how much we loved,…

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Douglas J. Colton – 50th Reunion Essay

Douglas J. Colton 4209 Linnean Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008-3808 (after 2/5/19) 531 Camino Tierra Alta Santa Fe, NM 87501 douglas.colton@gmail.com 202-244-0607; 202-680-0233 (C) Spouse(s): Roberta (1972) Child(ren): Evan Daniel (1983); Julia Michele (1988) Education: University of Texas, J.D. (1972) Career: Private law practice, Los Angeles and D.C.- various firms (1972-2005); Exec. Off. President/OMB, “White House Reorganization” manager (1977); U.S. DoJ Antitrust Div. Spec. Ass’t to AAG/ATD (1977-79); U.S. Postal Service, Off. of G.C. (2005-09);…

Reunion: U.S. Politics And Their Context

Reunion: U.S. Politics And Their Context

At 3:45 PM on Friday, your Reunion Committee is delighted to have arranged a ‘69-only session with Beverly Gage, Professor of American History and, since 2017, Director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.  She is a bright star of the Yale faculty, not only advancing scholarship in American Studies and History, and running the prestigious Grand Strategy program, but also a winner of Yale’s Ribicoff Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Gage has an…

Reunion: Saturday Night At The Movies

Reunion: Saturday Night At The Movies

Here’s a special treat for the auteurs, cineastes, and plain old flic-hounds amongst us: the Reunion Committee is pleased to present “Reunion Saturday Night at the Movies,” curated by Yale’s own Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies.

Prof. Andrew will screen Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), a collaborative film by famed director Alain Tanner and novelist John Berger, and he lead a discussion afterward.

Mini-Reunions Announced for Richmond and DC

Mini-Reunions Announced for Richmond and DC

Editors’ Note:  Doug Colton is one the three co-chairs of the Reunion Committee. Based on the success of regional  “mini-reunions” in Boston and New York, the Reunion Committee is organizing get-togethers in places where Classmates are clustered.  The first two of these have been announced.  If you are in or near either the greater DC area, or the Richmond, VA area, please attend!  We’d love to see you. “Mini-reunions” are casual gatherings meant for re-acquaintance, conversation, and convivial…

Letter Requesting 50th Reunion Essay

Letter Requesting 50th Reunion Essay

July 25, 2017 Class of 1969:In less than twenty-four months, we will gather to commemorate passage of fifty years since Yale declared us equipped for life as adults. Drawn by nostalgia, vestigial loyalties, and curiosity we will wander the campus, dip a toe in the deep waters of Yale learning, and seek reconnection with not-quite-forgotten names and faces. Whatever else we feel about Yale, we attend Reunions to re-unite with each other, to answer our…

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Banner Bio – Douglas Colton

DOUGLAS JAY COLTON (Doug). Born June 19, 1947 in Plainfield, New Jersey, son of Robert Alan Colton and Marilyn Levin Colton. Attended Memorial Senior High School, Houston, Texas. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Absent from Yale Feb., 1968-Sept., 1968. English major. Resident: Berkeley (Debate, 1965-69; Drama, 1967-69). Political Union, 1965-66; Biafran Relief Committee, 1968; Dwight Hall Tutoring Program, 1966-68. Future occupation: Undecided. Address: 11922 Broken Bough, Houston, Texas 77024.