50th Reunion Page Is Live!
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!
Through Mem’ry’s Haze
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.
Will You Be A “Stringer”?
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.
Class Launches Newsletter
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.
3 Classmates Advance Bipartisan Electoral College Reform
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.
David Friend Hall Opens
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.
Ticket To The Opera
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…
Bitten By Bridge
[This is a “test post” to test a new function of the website called “Life After Yale”. Please ignore this post! It’s not true!] Click thru to see layout and read more, though.
Volleyball Was Fun
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…
Calhoun College Gets A New Name
Letter from President Peter Salovey, February 10, 2017
Illumai — the work I’m doing now
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Chasing Brian Dowling
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….
Peachy Kuehn
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…
Chris Argyris – My Hero
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…
Business School At Yale
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…
How To Add Material To This Section Of Your Profile
Your roommate and closest Yale friends may know all about you, but the 100 next closest people don’t. The “Family” and “Career” sections of your Profile are meant to give those folks a general overview of your life so far. But they won’t go into any depth. This section allows you to post material about…