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Editor’s Note: Those who attended the Reunion last summer had an opportunity to get a private tour of the newly renovated Peabody Museum, including the expanded exhibits of dinosaurs and replicas of other prehistoric flora and fauna. We also got to see the work being completed on the David Friend Hall, a section of the Peabody dedicated to the mineral collection donated by David Friend, ’69 Calhoun.

This story is reprinted from this month’s Roskin Gem News Report, a leading journal focused on the natural gemstone industry. It reports on the formal debut of the completed exhibition, well documented with some stunning pictures. 

Editor’s Note: Proving once again the value of persistence, Reed Hundt’s Coalition for Green Capital won a major commitment from the federal government. This effort started in 2009, when Reed tried to get funding for green banks enacted into law. Finally, in 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act set aside $27 billion for public-private investments in rooftop solar, energy efficiency upgrades for homes and other projects. It’s a major win — and could be a model to mobilize the huge amounts of capital necessary to fund the transition to clean energy.

This academic year is the first of six for Larry Franks as a Trustee of Clark University, Worcester, MA.   As the announcement of his appointment says, “After graduating from Clark with a master’s in government and international relations, Franks joined the Peace Corps and lived in Africa. Prior to retiring in 2007, he worked…

Every member of the Yale community knows that November in New Haven is filled with compelling and colorful events.  Whether Princeton or Harvard is the opponent, the campus is energized by championship football, the YAA Assembly, the Yale Medal Dinner, and the Blue Leadership Ball, all concentrated into a single long weekend. This year Harvard…

We all know we were born at the right time — our music was the greatest of the century, our football team was the most exciting since Yale joined the Ivy League, we came of age in an Age of Aquarius and our classmates were truly exceptional.   Yale just confirmed our preeminence by identifying six people for “lifetime leadership awards” — with two of the six from our class!

Earlier this month our own Harold Mancusi-Ungaro, M.D. (’69, ’73 MD) was honored by the Yale Medical School with the DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI SERVICE AWARD. The citation, reproduced below is very detailed and illuminates some impressive contributions to the Yale School of Medicine, and Yale more generally.

Frank Shorter ’69 says he learned early in his time as an undergraduate student at Yale University that there was no point playing it safe in an environment where every student on campus was at least as accomplished as the next one.

Recalling the number of valedictorians in his class, he …

Driving the news: “America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” Schwarzman says.

“It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries.”

The Boston business press proudly announced that “After dry spell, Boston has a new unicorn.”  (A “unicorn” is a startup valued at over a billion dollars.)  The profile is of David Friend, ’69, who founded his company – Wasabi Technologies — in 2017 and just closed a funding round of $250 million at a company…

In the summer of 2021, David Howorth hosted some online lessons to teach bridge to classmates — some who played earlier in their lives (and who wanted a refresher) and some newbies. Rave reviews followed.

Well, he’s offering the course again, starting in early October. Click thru to read more and sign up by September 25^th.

We recently learned that our own Dick MacKay, MD has been awarded the  2022 Humanitarian Award by the U.Va Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation.

George Chopivsky, Washington, D.C., is the founder and President of the Ukrainian Development Company. George has been a leader in the Ukrainian-American community for many years. He has been developing business opportunities in Ukraine since independence in 1991.

Interview in The New Yorker, by Jane Mayer (Yale ’77):
It was too early in the afternoon for Representative John Yarmuth, of Kentucky, to open the bottle of Larceny bourbon that he keeps in his Capitol Hill office, but the situation he described might drive anyone to drink. Yarmuth, who turns seventy-four next week, is one of a dozen House Democrats who have announced their intention to retire or seek other offices. The rush to the exits has triggered speculation …

from WaPo:   Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY), chairman of the House Budget Committee, announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2022, citing his desire to spend more time with his family.

Yarmuth has represented the Louisville-based 3rd District of Kentucky since 2007 and has led the powerful budget panel since 2019. He becomes the 10th House Democrat who will not seek reelection in 2022.