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Editor’s Note: In 2020, we’d like to keep up the “Books By Classmates” section. This article profiles two recent Best Sellers, but we want to list ALL books authored by classmates. If you have a book that is not listed in Books By Classmates, please contact us.
I’m gonna pre-empt sharing Tom Reed’s reunion photos to share a video I shot of his name tag, It’s an “ambigram” — his name, but watch what happens in this 10 second video!
Here’s a great trip sponsored by Yale Travel, featuring our very own Professor Gene Moore, who has been a professor of literature in Amsterdam for three decades. You’ll get a cabin aboard the Magnifique III, a luxury river “barge” sporting only 18 cabins. You’ll start in Amsterdam and cruise to Bruges, with stops and time…
The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation has announced the 2019 inductees to its International Hall of Fame, including our very own Jim Grew. The induction ceremony took place in conjunction with the 2019 Water Ski World Championships at the Putrajaya International Convention Center on Aug. 16 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
The reunion is over, but this website will go on. What does that mean for you? For the Class? For this website? Answer: The website will morph from a “magazine format” with occasional contributions from classmates to a “community website” with occasional articles of general interest. At inception, your class leaders asked for a website with…
When I graduated in 1969, I stayed in New Haven for a summer job, waiting to go into Navy OCS in the Fall. I signed up to be a reunion clerk because it was VERY good money ($100/day!!) and a lot of fun.
I was assigned to the Class of 1909, which was celebrating its 60th reunion in JE. While I was bartending, under the tent, an old man came up to me and asked, “So, you’re a student, just graduated, right?”
In the Spring of 2018, Head of Silliman College, Dr. Laurie Santos, offered Psych 157a, Psychology and the Good Life. It was the most popular course ever taught at Yale, necessitating it being moved to Battell Hall and having Dr. Santos scramble for another couple dozen grad students to serve as section leaders! The course is available free on Coursera … and in now available as a limited series of podcasts.
Yale’s 50th Anniversary of The Superwomen In April 1969, five months after Yale University announced it was becoming coeducational, its first female undergrads got stuck with a nickname they would never quite shake. The university announced in late 1968 that it would accept women as undergraduate students starting the next academic year, and the following…
I had fully expected to “retire” as webmaster after the reunion. Yeah, yeah … the Reunion Committee said they wanted the site to continue, but I didn’t think there was enough “news” to sustain a community website. Then an odd thing happened: Many, many people approached me during the reunion, saying they hoped the site would continue in some form. Please read on and leave, in the comments below, YOUR thoughts about what we should do here, what the site should be or do.
The ClassBook was a big hit, with the accent on big! Over 800 pages, 8 pounds, 530 personal essays, obituaries, and 12 longer essays offering broader, deeper looks at our experiences over the past 50 years. Yet, sadly mistakes were made.
John Waldman was one of the first classmates to submit his essay online, and yet, …
Everyone Contributes – Let’s Document What Just Happened.
We need to document what happened at the reunion, mainly for the many classmates who could not attend for medical or other good reasons. Volunteers are writing up reports on events like Classmates In Concert and the Class Survey presentation. But we need MORE of you to volunteer and help document the …
The Reunion Committee wants you to have the latest/greatest info on transportation, housing, weather, an updated copy of the program, etc.: Connecticut Limousine, RIP. For those of you planning on using Connecticut Limousine (vans) to get from NYC airports to New Haven, you’ll have to make other plans. They just went out of business. Here…
The bridge carrying US 1 across I-95 at Exit 9 of the Connecticut Turnpike, in Stamford, will be replaced this coming weekend, causing all traffic on I-95 to be diverted. (Google map of the affected interchange is here.) Here is how traffic will be diverted from 11 PM Friday night thru 5 AM Monday morning:…
Here are four downloadable versions of the Schedule, full or summary, .doc or .pdf. Click or right-click and “save target as” to get your copy of the program.
* Detailed Version (title, time, place, teacher and blurb) – in .doc and .pdf formats.
* Summary Version (same as above, but no blurb) – in .doc and .pdf formats.
Wayne George Willis wayne@willisdomain.com 650-428-1395 Spouse(s): Stephanie Kittredge (1971–1979); Deborah (Debi) Linhardt (1984) Child(ren): Caleb Kittredge Willis (1974), Molly MacFarlane Willis Wilson (1976), Tyler Harrison Willis (1986) Grandchild(ren): Madison McKinley Willis (2005), Macy Jamieson Willis (2007), Blythe MacFarlane Wilson (2015), Evelyn Hayes Wilson (2016) Education: Yale, BS 1969; Yale, MA 1974; Yale Law School, JD…
