Ever been tempted by those luscious Yale Travel brochures? Exotic places. Magnificient faculty bringing it alive? In the Spring, join our very own Professor Gene Moore (PC) on a tour of Holland & Belgium via river boat. (And act before December 15th, while tix are available only to us.)
Today we launch an entirely new section of the website — everything you’ll need to know about the 50th reunion. Surprise! there are some long-lead-time items that need your attention NOW!
In 2016, a Yale student wrote a 25-page paper for History 134 (“Yale and America”) on Charles Apel (JE ’69). Apel was an “early adopter” of LSD, marijuana, etc., before dropping out in ’67. Cameos by Timothy Leary, Janis Joplin, … and the campus police.
The key to a great experience on this site is great content. And the key to great content is finding great stories. It might be “News” like Matt Flynn’s run for Governor of Wisconsin or it might be “Potpourri” like Tom McNamee’s work protecting Grizzly Bears. We need “stringers” in each college to spot great stories like these.
How will you know when Classmates add content to the website? Well, for new posts, you’ll now get this “summary” of all recent posts in an emailed newsletter. Read more to see all the controls and filters available at the bottom of your “edit profile” page.
Making Every Vote Count (MEVC) — a new, national group co-founded by our own Reed Hundt and dedicated to reforming the Electoral College — got significant support for its key arguments from a new research published today.
The lifelong mineral collector and Yale alumnus donated $4 million for David Friend Hall, which opened last fall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
JE has a small endowment of its own, and one of the benefits of that endowment is having season tickets to one box seat very close to the stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. You can apply to get tickets and the Master’s office distributes them. Once, I “won” the ticket, took the…
I was introduced to Yale intermural volleyball before I even was admitted. Touring Yale as a HS senior in the Fall of ’64, my guide, Dan Bender (Stiles, 67) was showing me around, and he invited me to come with him to his volleyball game. Since I was wearing sneakers, they allowed me to play…
Letter from President Peter Salovey, February 10, 2017
I didn’t have any real interaction with Brian during our Yale years. He was, of course, a star. I was a lowly hacker-type athlete, blessed with size enough to play in high school but not gifted enough for intercollegiate athletics. Happily, the intermural programs gave me an outlet for some play and for some exercise….
Does anyone remember Peachy Kuehn? I remember him from Fellows’ Dinners, where, slightly inebriated, he’d hold forth with shockingly liberal opinions — shocking to me because he was an “adult” and my other role models for adults (my parents, my HS teachers) were either conservative or centrist. Imagine my surprise when I got a note…
When Chris Argyris spoke to us Freshman year, he blew my mind. Never before had a businessman seemed to me to be so insightful into human nature. He was articulate, persuasive and funny. He could even be sacrilegious, once referring to my Catholic Church as “the marketing department of the Lord.” I never got…
Yale School of Management During the summer between my junior and senior year in high school, my parents took me around to look at colleges. We stopped in New Haven in July. The campus was mostly deserted. I got a map and walked around, eventually walking into a building on Prospect Street (where the Becton…
Several classmates from JE gathered in Half Moon Bay, partly to celebrate the life of Randy Straff, who recently passed away, and partly to have fun.
