Author: Thomas Guterbock

At our Freshman Assembly in Woolsey Hall, held at the end of that frenetic first week of moving in, buying used furniture, getting new books, and meeting scores of new people, we gathered to hear Kingman Brewster address us as Yale men for the first time.  Among other things, he observed: “You’ll notice something unusual about this place: About half the students walk around as if they own the place. The other half walk around,…

This is a slight break from the main subjects we’ve addressed so far — politics, family, work/career, wealth, and health.  Today, we’ll report results from some of the lighter (dogs or cats?) or more random questions we asked (attempted suicide?).

We are only a couple weeks away from the mid-term elections — consequential elections being held during a time of extreme partisanship and vitriol. Reasonable minds can debate whether 1968 or 2018 represents the worst case of division within the country in our lifetimes. That said, now seems like a great time to report to you what the Class Survey said about our political opinions in 1969 and today.

Work, career, volunteering, entrepreneurship — what did the broad sweep of our productive years entail?  What are we doing now?  How well, financially speaking, did we do?  That’s the subject of this installment of these “reports From The Class Survey.” When we first graduated, before settling into a serious career, we had to deal with the draft, taking time away, going to graduate school, serving in the Peace Corps (5% of us served in the…

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a multi-part series reporting on the results of the Class Survey taken last winter.

Any shrink will tell you that the three taboo areas people don’t like to talk about are sex, money and their relationship with God.  Our Class Survey asked about all three.  And we are going to share results in that order: Today’s report is Sex and Health, including reports on how fat we are, pot use, prosthetics, smoking, sexual activity (and aids) and other measures of our health.

Good news: the Reunion Committee has authorized the release of the survey results in advance of the reunion!

This is a report on the first of 9 sections of the Class Survey — this one about who took the survey, marriages, children, grandchildren and miscellaneous other data points. Future reports will cover other sections of the survey.