Calling All Packrats
What Do You Have In YOUR Attic?
The Class is gathering artifacts from those bright college years and needs YOUR contributions.
We want to get your pictures (especially), documents, flyers, audio tapes, posters, 8mm movies, publications, etc., etc. — generally, memorabilia that will bring a smile of recollection to a Classmate.
So NOW is the time to dig out old scrapbooks, shoeboxes or other stored materials from Back In The Day … and get it to us for preservation, use and return to you (if you want the original back). Happily we have the services of Harry Forsdick. (See Internet Pioneer Now Digitizing Our College Years.)
The digital replicas of these pictures and other memorabilia will be used two places: the “Archives Library” of this website and the soon-to-be-published 50th Reunion ClassBook.
As Reunion Co-chair, Doug Colton, says, “In addition to the 3 color pictures you get as part of your Personal Essay, we also want to print images evocative of our shared times at Yale: group shots and reminders of events, places, and objects that still resonate. These images may warrant a section of their own in the ClassBook, or they may show up in the ClassBook as layout needs, thoughtful planning and whimsy dictate. Please submit images as digital files, with a brief caption for each image.” Feel free to add contextual information so editors know more about the picture or other item.
Action items:
- If the picture or other item of memorabilia is already digital, email it to us at support@Yale1969.org.
- If you are willing to send it to Harry for professional conversion to digital format, email us or contact us on the website for instructions. We’ll coodinate with you from there.
- If you aren’t willing to part with the item (e.g., a picture, flyer or other simple item), you can use your phone to create a digital image of it. Using Harry’s service will be better, but if you want to DIY, please do so and email us the result.
The Archives Library on this website is already getting a good start: It has digital versions of;
- the Old Campus,
- the Banner,
- the 25th Reunion ClassBook, and
- two items from the Admissions Office:
- Kingman’s letter outlining what makes a Yale Man and the
- To Be A Man film.
See other items at Archives Library. Also, note that new items are being digitized and will be displayed soon — the New Journal, Bulltales, some items from Co-education Week and some surprises. Soooo ….
Don’t sit back and wait!
Grab that old box of “stuff” and see what would potentially be of interest to classmates. A picture of you and your spookmates? A copy of the Commencement program? You and the troupe of the Living Theatre?
When in doubt, offer it to us for the Archives Library or the ClassBook, OK? Your wife will love that you are winnowing down that stuff you’ve saved (and maybe moved) for so long!