As members of the first group of “Fivers,” Tim Weiskel and Mark McCormick are reaching out to any Yalie in the 5-Year B.A. program — or who took a “gap year” of their own design — and inviting them to a Zoom meeting with kindred souls on Thursday, 26 September 2024 at 4 PM Eastern Time.
Read the article for details and/or how to stay in touch with the group even if you can’t make the Zoom meeting.
I wanted to share a short “In Memorium” note for one of the professors who taught us while we were at Yale. His name is Prosser Gifford. He went to Hotchkiss School and then Yale and then to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Then, after a stint at Harvard Law School, he returned to finish a PHD in history at Yale and start teaching African History as an Assistant Professor. The reason why he was…
Timothy C. Weiskel College: Berkeley
TIMOTHY C. WEISKEL (Tim). Born April 25, 1946 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, son of Frank M. Weiskel and Harriet Kleckner Weiskel. Attended Newton High School, Newtonville, Massachusetts. Entered Yale Sept., 1964. Absent from Yale Sept., 1966 to Sept., 1967, Yale 5-Year B.A. Program, West Africa. Member of the Class of 1968 from Sept., 1964 to Sept., 1967. Scholar of the House in African History and Anthropology; Van Sinderen Book Collecting Competition Prize, 1966; Robert C. Bates…
