Author: Wayne Willis

“Yale teaches you how to learn,” we were fond of saying about our undergraduate experience.  “Yes, I learned a lot about _____, but mostly I learned how to read and think critically, express myself competently and learn new things.”

Commencement … a funny word for the end of college.  Yet, it really was the beginning of the LIFELONG LEARNING, a project we continue even today.  And Yale is still there, helping with a wonderful smörgåsbord of educational opportunities for alumni.  See the full menu at YAA’s Learn Online page.  Here is a summary:

Here’s a great way to socialize … and exercise your brain: Learn Bridge and take it to solid, intermediate levels in just 10 weekly lessons!

Classmate David Howorth, certified by the American Contract Bridge League for both face-to-face and online teaching, is offering bridge lessons to any classmates who are interested.

Sign up here before March 28^st.

Bill Stanisich, a lifelong San Fransisco artist and educator, has had one of his paintings chosen for exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.  The painting is entitled Massacre Orlando Pulse Bar.  It commemorates the 2016 hate crime in which 49 souls were killed and 58 wounded, the deadliest single mass shooting to that point in US history. “I chose a line from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” explained Stanisich, ”to…