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,…

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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…

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…

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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…