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Here’s a special treat for the auteurs, cineastes, and plain old flic-hounds amongst us: the Reunion Committee is pleased to present “Reunion Saturday Night at the Movies,” curated by Yale’s own Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies.

Prof. Andrew will screen Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), a collaborative film by famed director Alain Tanner and novelist John Berger, and he lead a discussion afterward.

So now that we have the results from our 60s music survey, we’re excited to announce that the winning song will be performed on our reunion weekend by … (wait for it) … YOU! We’re presenting a Classmates in Concert performance which will include a rousing singalong of “Like a Rolling Stone.” And because we…

Biarritz. I am sure all you smart and worldly classmates know that this is an elegant seaside resort located somewhere in France. I suspect, however, that only a select few of you will know the secondary meaning of the word. It is also used to describe a putting green that features a deep gully or…

The Reunion Details page has a few new items. In brief:
Golf – The Yale Golf Course has reserved a block of tee times starting at 10:00 AM on Thursday for us.  Eric Lenck (JE) is organizing things.  Details outlined here.   If you want to play, plan to arrive early enough to join the other linksmen on Thurs…

Like many others, Dr. Jim Porter (SM ‘69, Ph.D. ’73) assumed that “Scientists don’t win Emmys.”  But this year he falsified that hypothesis when his film, Chasing Coral won an Emmy for Outstanding Nature Documentary. Previously, it had been recognized with an Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and had been conferred a 2017 Peabody…

A Report From  Yale Harvard Weekend The whole weekend was fun, although The Game was disappointing.  The Bulldogs defense in the second half collapsed, and the Cantabs won 45-27.  But that didn’t stop the 100 Classmates (and their guests) from catching up, chatting, posing with a Handsome Dan mascot, drinking Fenway beers and enjoying the uncharacteristically nice…

Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky, the panel’s top Democrat, is considered the frontrunner to become its next chairman. Mr. Yarmuth, 71 years old, is currently in his sixth term in the House. A former Senate aide, Mr. Yarmuth also worked for years in the media, writing columns for a Louisville weekly newspaper he founded and debating politics on television. Currently the only Democrat in the Kentucky congressional …

Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of private equity giant Blackstone, is donating $350 million to a new $1 billion college for the study of artificial intelligence at MIT. In most universities, the study of artificial intelligence is centered in engineering and computer science departments. The new MIT school will seek to cultivate AI scholarship across disciplines, including the sciences and the humanities.

Editor’s Note:  Not technically News from our Class, Nordhaus was on the faculty from 1967 on.  If you studied under him, please leave comments below. (Source: New York Times, Oct. 8, 2018)
WASHINGTON — The 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to a pair of American economists, William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, for their work highlighting the importance of government policy in fostering sustainable economic growth. Mr. Nordhaus was honored for pioneering the assessment of the economic impact of climate change, including his advocacy for governments to tax carbon emissions.

Tickets to the Yale-Harvard Game in Boston on Saturday, Nov. 17th, are over 90% sold out.  We’re now happy to confirm the details for the Friday evening festivities, which are composed of a dinner at Henrietta’s Table, a superb Cambridge restaurant that is a short walk from where the Yale-Harvard Glee Club concert will be held. Note: Limited ticket availability. It should be a fun evening!

Confirmed: The 2019 Whiffenpoofs will serenade us during the brunch before The Game in Fenway Park, Boston, on November 17th.  This continues a multi-decade tradition of the Whiffs or Whim’n’Rhythm singing at the biennial brunch in our Cambridge home on those years when The Game is played at Harvard. The brunch will be held at The Hawthorne,…

Reunion co-chair Bill Newman reports from the 1968 reunion and some of their remarkable events: 1) a “Quaker Meeting” where people talked about their Viet Nam experiences, often in emotional terms (check them out; what are YOUR stories?), 2) several remarkable, and mostly unknown, career paths/accomplishments by 68ers, 3) a historian talking about the Brewster/Coffin/Inky-Clark era (with pictures!), and 4) an intimate conversation with George W. Bush. See what happened in the ’68 reunion and the implications for our reunion!

Bobby Haas (ES ’69) opened a new chapter in his life when he turned 64.  He didn’t hum along with Ringo’s When I’m 64; rather, he started riding motorcycles for the first time and then, three years later at the age of 67, he began collecting vintage and one-of-a-kind motorcycles. Now four years later […]

Fresh off its Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championship June 2, where they knocked off the west coast powerhouse Washington Huskies for the second year in a row, the Yale heavyweight men’s crew bested Harvard in the 153rd edition of the Harvard-Yale Regatta June 9.   National athletic championships have been few and far between for Yale.  To win two in one week, as well as defeating traditional rowing powerhouse Harvard a week later, marks a truly significant span in Yale athletics.  (See video of the win.)

After 47 years, Yale has ended the NCAA Divison I men’s lacrosse season as the best team in the country. I don’t remember much about our lacrosse team.  Were we much of a contender? (Leave comments to answer.)

We set a record!   All of the follow-up efforts by the College Captains, the newsletter, the U.Va survey management team, and the Reunion Committee paid off.  Here are the results: 494 unique entries from Classmates 128 remembrances about deceased Classmates 622 TOTAL This handily beats our 25th Reunion ClassBook … which only had 418 essays. Many Classmates used the…