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Here’s a great trip sponsored by Yale Travel, featuring our very own Professor Gene Moore, who has been a professor of literature in Amsterdam for three decades. You’ll get a cabin aboard the Magnifique III, a luxury river “barge” sporting only 18 cabins. You’ll start in Amsterdam and cruise to Bruges, with stops and time to explore in Kinderdijk, Antwerp, and Ghent; meals and excursions included. Yale Travel tells me that they are giving Yalies…

The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation has announced the 2019 inductees to its International Hall of Fame, including our very own Jim Grew.   The induction ceremony took place in conjunction with the 2019 Water Ski World Championships at the Putrajaya International Convention Center on Aug. 16 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit Nov. 1-2, 2019 If you enjoyed our reunion discussion on environment – “For God, for Country and for the Planet” – you should participate in the third biennial Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS), to be held at Yale on Friday-Saturday, November 1-2, 2019. Register here. The speakers and participants will represent all parts of the university (alumni, faculty and students from the college and graduate schools), as well as all generations…

I had fully expected to “retire” as webmaster after the reunion. Yeah, yeah … the Reunion Committee said they wanted the site to continue, but I didn’t think there was enough “news” to sustain a community website. Then an odd thing happened: Many, many people approached me during the reunion, saying they hoped the site would continue in some form. Please read on and leave, in the comments below, YOUR thoughts about what we should do here, what the site should be or do.

Here are some photos from the reunion:

Thanks go to David Tufaro, who was the first classmate to respond to the request to send in pictures or videos from the reunion.  Please send in any you have and share with the rest of the Class!  (Use the contact form or email us directly.)

Everyone Contributes – Let’s Document What Just Happened.
We need to document what happened at the reunion, mainly for the many classmates who could not attend for medical or other good reasons. Volunteers are writing up reports on events like Classmates In Concert and the Class Survey presentation. But we need MORE of you to volunteer and help document the …

Don’t pack that 8-pound ClassBook for the Reunion!  First, we’ll have some copies in the Davenport Common Room.  And second, all of the essays are now online.
If you want to read anything in the ClassBook, just whip out your phone/tablet/laptop, log in to Yale1969.org, type the name into the search bar at the top, and proceed. If you want to see your essay online, just go to your profile page.  It’s linked there under …

The Reunion Committee wants you to have the latest/greatest info on transportation, housing, weather, an updated copy of the program, etc.: Connecticut Limousine, RIP. For those of you planning on using Connecticut Limousine (vans) to get from NYC airports to New Haven, you’ll have to make other plans.  They just went out of business.  Here are some alternatives.  Leave a comment below with what alternatives you’ve found and cost.  Click on “follow comments” if you…

Use this list to browse through ALL of the 50th reunion essays.  Scroll down to your name — start there. Then click the next one and the next one and so on.  Each one will open in a separate window.  And after you’ve clicked on a link, it will turn a different color (indicating you’ve “visited” that link.)   Please let me know if you find any errors.  (See also, 50th Reunion ClassBook Now Online.) Enjoy! Paul…

The bridge carrying US 1 across I-95 at Exit 9 of the Connecticut Turnpike, in Stamford, will be replaced this coming weekend, causing all traffic on I-95 to be diverted.   (Google map of the affected interchange is here.) Here is how traffic will be diverted from 11 PM Friday night thru 5 AM Monday morning: I-95.  Those familiar with how congested I-95 can get on weekends know this will cause major delays.  One classmate, who…

The reunion committee tapped me to be “College Captain Manager,” a position that has let me learn, through our college captains, some reasons classmates give for not coming to the reunion. I want to address those. “Reason” No. 1: “I don’t like what Yale has become, and I don’t want to support it.” You’re not supporting Yale by attending the reunion. In the first place, you’re not supporting Yale financially.   Yale breaks even on reunions,…

The schedule for our Class of ‘69 programs covers four days, Thursday through Sunday, May 30 through June 2, 2019.  Each day contains some stimulating, entertaining events presented only to our class members and our spouses and guests. The events organized by the Yale Alumni Association for all of the reunion classes will be held on the Friday and Saturday mornings.  Reunion-wide programs, such as President Salovey’s address and the Yale music program, take place…

Class Discussion at Reunion: Time for your input! One of the defining issues of the last half-century has been the challenging relationship between people and the planet. Everyone is affected. Many of our classmates have been directly involved. Because of the strong interest expressed by members of the reunion program committee and others, we’ll talk about this subject on Friday afternoon at our reunion. We have agreed to facilitate a class discussion on the broad…

Editor’s Note:  You can now register online for the reunion events, meals, and on-campus housing by going directly to the Registration Page hosted by the Yale Alumni Association.

If you plan to attend, register now. If you want to learn more about the reunion fees, program details, meals, accessibility, accommodations, financial aid or more, read this post and/or look at the Reunion Details page on Yale1969.org.

At 3:45 PM on Friday, your Reunion Committee is delighted to have arranged a ‘69-only session with Beverly Gage, Professor of American History and, since 2017, Director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.  She is a bright star of the Yale faculty, not only advancing scholarship in American Studies and History, and running the prestigious Grand Strategy program, but also a winner of Yale’s Ribicoff Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Gage has an…