Bill Stanisich, a lifelong San Fransisco artist and educator, has had one of his paintings chosen for exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The painting is entitled Massacre Orlando Pulse Bar. It commemorates the 2016 hate crime in which 49 souls were killed and 58 wounded, the deadliest single mass shooting to…
On October 28th at 1:30 pm Eastern, Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar will present trenchant observations about the Executive Branch and his recent research into the Vice Presidency and the Constitution. With a possible electoral crisis in November, having his views and live Q&A may be especially salient.
Join us on the 28th and see why Professor Amar won the DeVane Medal for teaching as well as the Sterling chair for scholarship. Register in advance now.
“The main thing I learned at Yale,” I heard more than one classmate say at the reunion, “is how to learn.” Other key features mentioned were the breadth of delicious subjects we had no clue about and a commitment to lifelong learning. “Commencement is not the end,” Kingman said at our graduation. “It’s the beginning,…
Professor Markovits’ provocative bestseller, The Meritocracy Trap, compellingly argues that the Meritocracy system, which began with our generation and governs the period of our own Yale Admissions, has become a system with unintended negative societal consequences.
This Class Colloquium will be our first with a speaker from the Yale Faculty. He will challenge bedrock meritocratic assumptions, and he promises to include some “two-way dialogue.”
Register in advance for the event; details will be emailed to you.
Now that COVID constrains travel and large social events, your Class Council and Class leaders today announce some exciting new features supporting onlne sharing among classmates:
* New Home Page. Check it out!
* Newsletter. More frequent and simplified.
* Class Colloquia. These have been very popular; three more are coming in the Fall.
This is the first step in evolving this Yale1969.org website from a “magazine” format (mostly articles), to more of a “community center” where sub-groups of our Class can connect and extend/maintain […]
I fear I have been blinded for a period of years by my institutional affection and great memories from noticing what appear to be some disturbing long-term trends at Yale. The much-publicized recent campus culture issue involving hate speech vs. freedom of speech and similar matters of a quasi-political nature are only marginally related, if…
A highly successful second Class Colloquium featured John Yarmuth reporting on the current situation in our Congress … and then fielding questions from classmates on a broad variety of issues.
On a Wednesday afternoon in June, John presented some prepared remarks on the Congress’s failure to address some long-term issues he is concerned about: AI (especially automation unemployment), climate […]
Our own Harold Mancusi-Ungaro (’69 MC, ’73 MD) has been elected as a YAA delegate at large for 3 years beginning July 1, 2020. This is in addition to the representative for the Class of 1969, Ken Brown.
Harold is no stranger to the alumni governing body. He served as our Class of 1969 delegate to the AYA (predecessor of the YAA) from 2014-18.
He’s also been active for many years in the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine.
Recently I’ve attended a handful of organizational Zoom meetings for some “Shared Interest Groups” (SIGs). Each of these SIGs needed an easy way to communicate within the group. The answer is a group email address.
Concurrently other groups of classmates needed group email, too — the Class Council, a senior society … even my roommate and some of our friends. 🙂
Yale1969.org email now supports group email. Any group of classmates can have a group email account on Yale1969.org. Want one?
On Wednesday, March 18, I was scheduled for a regular follow up appointment with my Primary Care Provider. On the Monday or Tuesday prior to my appointment, her office called and asked how I was feeling. “Fine,” I said, “a mild sore throat, a little throat congestion, but I feel fine.” When I went to…
Especially in the wake of the “stay-at-home” orders in Spring 2020, many classmates are discovering how to use their computers, smartphones or tablets to join online meetings. Several Yale 1969 groups are using Zoom conferencing now. As the Editor of Yale1969.org, I introduced many of these groups to Zoom, and I can tell you that, despite initial fears of dealing with a new technology, almost everyone finds it very easy and much better than the old, telephone-only conference calls. Here’s how YOU can join.
Yale has launched a new newsletter for the broader Yale community. It has interesting, concise stories on faculty research, profiles of alums, interviews with prominent Yalies, media mentions, pictures of what’s happening in today’s Yale and other items of interest. Check it out! A sample is shown below. Click this link to see this week’s issue of “Yale Today.” Subscribe at the bottom to get weekly email summaries of the most important stories.
As we recover from the post-partum depression induced by the passing of our 50th Reunion, we find that there are loose ends to tidy up, including the disposition of leftover ClassBooks and Class Reunion Watches (gentleman’s and lady’s versions) . What to do? We don’t have the heart to release these items into the environment. …
Tom Emmons is our Class Treasurer, and he is retiring from that role at the end of this month after many years of service. Thank you, Tom!
This is a copy of his “annual reminder” to our Class. If you haven’t paid your dues yet, please do so with your tax-deductible dollars using this link or the mailing instructions in this article.
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.
Editor’s Note: We ran out of time at the end of the Reunion, so we didn’t have our quintennial “Class Meeting” with all members of the class. Our Class Co-Secretaries invite all of those who have an interest in guiding Class action as part of the Class Council to raise your hand!
