One Difference Between Yale and MIT
When I went to Yale, there was one Department of Engineering & Applied Science. When I went to MIT for graduate school, there was one Department of Humanities.
Bridge
Once a year, Davenport College had a duplicate bridge tournament, with about 30 pairs competing. Although I was later to run this game, when I arrived at Yale I had never played a session of duplicate. I decided to enter, partnered with one of my Farnam entrymates and fellow duplicate-virgin, Greg Thomas. One of the…
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…
Great Name Choice
While not a Calhoun College alumnus, I do appreciate that a name change is jarring for some. However, I want to say that I am delighted with the choice of Grace Murray Hopper. I met her once, near the end of her life, when she spoke to a computer group in the Boston area. She…
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…
New Class Website
Wayne Willis, Harry Forsdick, and their website team are doing an outstanding job of work creating our new class website. Thank you all. What a team!