Kent Bicknell’s Alcott Presentation Now on Zoom
Update: Bicknell recently presented his Alcott Family research to the Ticknor Society and the Grolier Club. Here is the link to the recording: of the Zoominar.
Reed Hundt’s Coalition For Green Capital Wins Major Victory
Editor’s Note: Proving once again the value of persistence, Reed Hundt’s Coalition for Green Capital won a major commitment from the federal government. This effort started in 2009, when Reed tried to get funding for green banks enacted into law. Finally, in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act set aside $27 billion for public-private investments in rooftop solar, energy efficiency upgrades for homes and other projects. It’s a major win — and could be a model to mobilize the huge amounts of capital necessary to fund the transition to clean energy.
Deadline for Survey … Monday!
So, far so good — we have a solid group of “respondents” to our 2024 Update to the 50th Reunion Survey we did in 2019.
However, the deadline isMonday, April 8th!
If you haven’t responded, NOW is the time to do so. Take the Survey
Yale breaks $90,000 level for next school year
Yale ($91k) joins Tufts ($96k), BU ($90k) and Wellesley ($92k) in having total costs for tuition, housing and other expenses exceed $90,000 for next school year.
Also, in another Admissions Office announcement, the number of applicants for the Class of 2028 established an all-time record, 57,465. There were 2,146 offers of admission sent for an overall admission rate of 3.73%.
Rainmaker: Superagent Hughes Norton and the Money-Grab Explosion of Golf
“Now, in Rainmaker, Norton draws back the curtain on his meteoric rise and abrupt fall. With never-before-told stories and exclusive insights, he discusses what it was like being Tiger Wood’s first agent, his time representing the narcissistic Greg Norman, and shining a bright light on his sudden—and controversial—ouster as the head of IMG’s Golf Division—a juggernaut he helped build. This is an engaging and unforgettable memoir that explores golf as never before.”
Bulldogs Beat No. 4 seed Auburn 78-76 to Advance in NCAA
Update: Sadly, the Bulldogs were eliminated by San Diego State in the second round.
SPOKANE, Wash. – Yale is moving on to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. John Poulakidas scored 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting from the field as the Bulldogs, the No. 13 seed in the East Region, stunned No. 4 Auburn 78-76. Yale advances to meet No. 5 seed San Diego State on Sunday.
Regret: Uses and Misuses
Update: The YouTube recording of this talk is now available.
ORIGINAL: Is regret ever a positive? Here’s another Zoominar offered to the “Yale Boom” Classes of 67-73. This one is sponsored by the Class of ’67, featuring Bob Leahy ’67, ’74 Ph.D., Director of the American Institute for Cognitive Therapy in New York. The author of 29 books, Dr. Leahy will talk about his latest book, “If Only” … all about REGRET. If interested, act fast. Register before the event, March 19th at 2:00pm ET.
Wentworth Earl Miller, Jr., March 17, 2024
Wentworth Earl Miller, Jr., fondly known as Earl by family, peacefully passed away on March 17, 2024, at the age of 76 following a long and courageous battle with cancer. He is survived by his beloved 99-year-old mother, two sisters, seven brothers, three children, and five grandchildren.
Went was a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, a Rhodes Scholar, and the creator of LEEWS (Legal Essay Exam Writing Seminar), a successful law preparation ….
Larry Franks Appointed to Clark University Board of Trustees
This academic year is the first of six for Larry Franks as a Trustee of Clark University, Worcester, MA. As the announcement of his appointment says, “After graduating from Clark with a master’s in government and international relations, Franks joined the Peace Corps and lived in Africa. Prior to retiring in 2007, he worked…
It’s “Sir Stephen Schwarzman” now!
Stephen Schwarzman given honorary British knighthood.
Blackstone founder named among US recipients alongside Mark Milley, former chairman of joint chiefs of staff.
Billionaire US private equity executive Stephen Schwarzman is to receive an honorary British knighthood for services to philanthropy. The award was announced by the British embassy in Washington, and confirmed …
William Francis Streicker, March 1, 2024
from Legacy.com: William Francis Streicker, 76, passed away on March 1, 2024. He departed the world peacefully at his home in Richmond, Virginia, surrounded by family. Will was born on June 3, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, attended medical school at New York University and completed his…
Survey Goes Live! Time to take it!
You may recall the extensive class survey that most of our classmates took in 2019. It covered LOTs — health/sex, demographics, work/career, politics, lifestyle, relationship with Yale, and religion/spirituality.
This 2024 survey updates that information with how things may have changed since our 50th reunion five years ago. The questionnaire is fun and …
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, start here.
Eugene Linden Wins Prestigious Book Award
The Council of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) has voted to award Eugene Linden The Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for his 11th book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. A previous work on climate change, Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civllizations, won the Grantham Prize’s Award of Special Merit.
A former senior writer for TIME Magazine, where he wrote about nature, science, and …
Re-releasing your music using new digital editing tools
Michael Folz and wife Maureen have been working and re-working some of their songs using some of the newer recording and engineering technology. And it’s mind-blowing … well, more ear-blowing. Compare, for example “Right Through My Heart” from 2015 vs. the revision of the same song they created a couple months ago, The 2015 version…
Donald Ferguson, December 13, 1968; Updated
UPDATED comments, posted 4/8/24 Remembering Donald P. Ferguson, ’69 Mark Alden Branch’s “Old Yale” article, “The Stories Behind the Names,”, in Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2023, focuses on five of the 35 Yale alumni killed in the Vietnam War. One of them, Donald Ferguson, ’69, is also part of another group of five men killed…
Richard Lavington Farren, December 3, 2023
Ken Brown, who roomed with Richard Sophomore and Junior years offered the following for the class notes.
Richard L. Farren of New York City, age 76, died suddenly at his home on December 3, 2023. Richard was a practicing attorney at the time of his death. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1965. He matriculated with the Yale Class of 1969 but graduated in three years …