When I graduated in 1969, I stayed in New Haven for a summer job, waiting to go into Navy OCS in the Fall. Needing some pocket money, I signed up to be a reunion clerk because it was easy, short-term, good money ($100/day!!) and a lot of fun. I was assigned to the Class of…
70% of the people who have signed up for the reunion are coming on Thursday, most in time for the Thursday afternoon events. That’s VERY smart. Here’s why. And here’s how you can modify your reservation if you were coming on Friday or Saturday and now want to come earlier.
You may recall that our very own Dr. James Porter (SM ‘69, Ph.D. ’73) was the Chief Scientific Advisor and a Principal Cast Member on Chasing Coral, a film which won an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Documentary. See “Jim Porter’s Film Wins Emmy.” Good news! If you want to watch it, it will be screened on a…
Editor’s Summary: The ONLY way to register for the reunion (and on-campus housing) is to go to the Registration Page and sign up. No smailmail is coming.
The Reunion Committee is delighted with the pace of reservations. According to the statistics from the Yale Alumni Association, we are running at or ahead of recent Yale Classes and their 50th Reunion attendance registrations.
“Yale decided that online registration …
I have assembled many materials and commentaries on the Halloween affair and debated about publishing it here. Although the “Halloween affair” is complicated and has three sides to the story,** there is no doubt that it is an ugly chapter in recent Yale history, a chapter that makes NO ONE proud.
But despite that depressing display of human nature, Professor Christakis has produced a work of both laudable scholarship and material accessible by the general reader. Relying on his expertise in social networks and evolutionary biology, he concludes …
Other Colleges Are Close Behind
Here’s an interim report on how YOUR college is doing in the contest to see which college will win a long weekend in St. Croix. (See “College With Best Attendance Will Win Long Weekend on St. Croix.”)
For many years, William Sacco, ’69, was a professional photographer working directly for Yale. He photographed all sorts of official and alumni events over the years.
These are some photos from his undergrad years. The Ingalls Rink meeting was the one where the future of ROTC was debated and voted upon (creating the famous tie vote.)
The Reunion Details page has a few new items. In brief:
Golf – The Yale Golf Course has reserved a block of tee times starting at 10:00 AM on Thursday for us. Eric Lenck (JE) is organizing things. Details outlined here. If you want to play, plan to arrive early enough to join the other linksmen on Thurs…
The right sidebar on the home page shows only the last five (5) comments. Responding to popular demand, here is a page that shows ALL comments, in reverse chronological order, 12 per page. (This page is always accessible from the link at the end of the five (5) comments in the sidebar.)
Like many others, Dr. Jim Porter (SM ‘69, Ph.D. ’73) assumed that “Scientists don’t win Emmys.” But this year he falsified that hypothesis when his film, Chasing Coral won an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Documentary. Previously, it had been recognized with an Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and had been conferred a 2017 Peabody…
“The most talented, driven Americans chased the American dream — and won it for themselves. Then, in a way unprecedented in history, they were able to consolidate their winnings, outsmart and co-opt the government that might have reined them in, and pull up the ladder so more could not share in their success or challenge their primacy.”
Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about our email discussion tool, the 1969 Listserv. It’s an easy way to talk with the class as a whole. How to join. How to use it. How to manage it — the whole works, all here.
A Report From Yale Harvard Weekend The whole weekend was fun, although The Game was disappointing. The Bulldogs defense in the second half collapsed, and the Cantabs won 45-27. But that didn’t stop the 100 Classmates (and their guests) from catching up, chatting, posing with a Handsome Dan mascot, drinking Fenway beers and enjoying the uncharacteristically nice…
When the Reunion Committee recruited me and Harry Forsdick to be webmasters of this site, it was because we brought some technical chops to the table. I had run some e-commerce businesses, and Harry is/was true engineering talent. Little did we know, but Harry has been exploring painting and watercolors … using his engineering talents, like Vermeer, to create images on an iPad good enough to warrant an Exhibit of his latest works.
Here is a late entry — the “Program” handed out by the Yale Record, including “Player Profiles” for teams from WYBC, The Daily News, Yale Scientific and others.
The Lunatic Fringe was one of several Yale rock bands that played the songs we could drink and dance to at our Saturday night mixers. The women bussed in from what we called the “girls’ schools” were always the main event of course, but the Fringe did their part to get everyone on the dance floor, playing the hits at juiced up tempos.
