Note: This is a guest editorial published in the New York Times. Tom McNamee, Silliman ’69, is the author of nearly a dozen books, including two about wolves in the greater Yellowstone region of the West.
Time and change shall naught avail To break the friendships formed at Yale. We learned a lot in class, for sure, and in the books we read—both those we were assigned and those we found on our own. In our research, a discovery narrowly sought led us down dim corridors toward unimagined illuminations. We learned that learning is a labyrinth, and our teachers taught us, offering themselves in example, the exhilaration of exploring it. That…
Thomas McNamee 2383 Bush St. San Francisco, CA 94115 t_mc@comcast.net 415-722-4479 Spouse(s): Louise Rossett McNamee, (1970–1993); Elizabeth Yates McNamee (1996– ) Education: Yale B.A. 1969 Career: CBS Records, talent scout, record producer, advertising writer, 1969-1976; independent writer, 1976–present Activities & Honors: Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Board of Directors (1986–1992) & Chairman (1987–1990); RARE, Board (1998-2004); Lava Lake Science and Conservation Advisory Board (2005–2010); Center for Education about Sustainable Agriculture, Board (2006–2009) Interests: nature conservation, particularly Greater…
Reading through the bios in the class book alphabetically, I was stunned by more than a few revelations. One that really brought me up short came near the end, at V, namely Hal Valeché, who dropped this bomb: “The conceit that ‘I’m not not old’ goes straight out the window when you sit down to put something in a 50th reunion book. Just imagine how we felt about the 50th reunion class when we were…
CHARLES THOMAS McNAMEE, III (Tom). Born July 31, 1947, in Memphis, Tennessee, son of Charles Thomas McNamee, Jr., and Gladys Runyan McNamee. Attended Whitehaven High School, Memphis, Tennessee. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Intensive English major; Scholar of the House; Peter Wallace Memorial Prize in Fiction Writing. 1968; Academy of American Poets prize in Poetry, 1968; Dean’s List, 1966-67 (spring term). Resident: Silliman. Fence Club, 1967-69. Roommates: Malcolm McDougal Brown, Robert Lyons Danly, Richard Booth Platt,…
