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Marvin Philip Wexler 30 The Esplanade New Rochelle, NY 10804 marvinwex@gmail.com 914-632-8110 Spouse(s): Candice Stone Child(ren): Matthew Wexler (1977); Laura Wexler (1980) Grandchild(ren): Hannah Wexler (2011); Sofia Padro (2016) Education: Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY, 1965; Yale College, BA, 1969; London School of Economics, MS, 1970; Yale Law School, JD, 1973 National Service: Anti-War Movement 1965–1975, Anti-War Movement, 2003–present Career: Litigator, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison; Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP; Duane Morris…
When I graduated in 1969, I stayed in New Haven for a summer job, waiting to go into Navy OCS in the Fall. Needing some pocket money, I signed up to be a reunion clerk because it was easy, short-term, good money ($100/day!!) and a lot of fun. I was assigned to the Class of 1909, which was celebrating its 60th reunion in JE. While I was bartending, an old man came up to me…
70% of the people who have signed up for the reunion are coming on Thursday, most in time for the Thursday afternoon events. That’s VERY smart. Here’s why. And here’s how you can modify your reservation if you were coming on Friday or Saturday and now want to come earlier.
Editor’s Summary: The ONLY way to register for the reunion (and on-campus housing) is to go to the Registration Page and sign up. No smailmail is coming.
The Reunion Committee is delighted with the pace of reservations. According to the statistics from the Yale Alumni Association, we are running at or ahead of recent Yale Classes and their 50th Reunion attendance registrations.
“Yale decided that online registration …
Stephen Herseth and his wife, Mary Jo, hosted a “mini-reunion” in February, and this one had an unusual twist. Steve showcased an impressive collection of trumpets, collected by his late father, who for 54 years was First Trumpet at the Chicago Symphony orchestra. The current Second Trumpet from the CSO attended and played excerpts from some of the better-known trumpet repertoire of the CSO. (Steve plans to donate the collection to Yale for use by current students.)
Attending were John Darrow and Jill Kirk, Terry Light and …
Classmates received their copy of the 50th Reunion ClassBook, with most books arriving the first week of April. And the response received by the reunion committee and ClassBook leadership has been overwhelmingly positive: Macon Cowles submitted a “Memories and Observations” post, saying “To our publisher, Art Klebanoff, and to all of you who worked hard, designed well, wrote well and shared photographs: Thank you so very much. We are grateful beyond measure for this terrific community of sharing.”…
My perspective on Co-Ed Week comes from being a “stringer” for LIFE Magazine, hired to cover this raucous and marvelously in-your-face celebration of true change. These are my photographs and reflections on the event, and on its meaning to our class and to Yale.
Our website editor approached me with a question: Given our level of retirement savings, how would I advise us 69ers (given my career in Wealth Management) about investing at this age? What sort of practical tips would I pass along?
When someone decides to run for Governor of Wisconsin almost fifty years after graduating from college, a decent respect to the opinions of my friends requires that I explain my motivation. Many of my classmates were generous in supporting my candidacy, and I thank all of you for that. I had served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin long ago, in the early eighties, and have been a candidate for office in Wisconsin…
Ah distinctly I recall,
50 years ago this fall,
just when we thought we’d won it all,
in the Game that turned to lore.
All the years have not erased,
not removed, not effaced
the memories of what took place:
that outcome and that score!
When we recollect the most cherished aspects of our “bright college years”, I suspect that few of us will focus on memories of course work and classrooms. The exception for me comes from the only class at Yale I loved so passionately that I insisted on repeating it: with two semesters in sophomore year, followed by two more as a junior. I secured special permission to do the class twice, and I probably would have taken it a third time if they had let me. English 77, universally known as “Daily Themes”, …
In June of 1968, when students were leaving the Yale campus for summer vacation, about a dozen of us decided to stick around New Haven and keep WYBC-FM on the air 24×7 until our classmates returned in September.
This was the first time in WYBC’s history that the station would be on the air non-stop instead of signing off when the school year ended, as many college radio stations did.
If you weren’t part of WYBC or the radio biz, this might not seem like a big deal. But it was. Many forces were at work that affected us personally, culturally, politically, and artistically. These forces led us to do what we did at WYBC in the Summer of ’68 in a way that totally changed our lives and changed radio as we knew it.
Almost immediately upon arrival at Yale, in fall of my freshman year, it became a nightly ritual for the four rooms on my floor of Welch Hall to come together and play the nightly contest on WYBC’s “Stardust.”
The hope of winning a Naples pizza was part of it, as was the amazement over what radio could do if not bound by the FCC. The contests were often obscene, or at least the winning answers usually were, and WYBC-AM, “closed circuit to the Yale campus,” played some politically incorrect singles. That unrestrained radio and a little alcohol made for a dorm party almost every night.
It was in some ways a foregone conclusion that I would heel WYBC. My brother Walt (TD ’66) was the Program Director of the station when I was a freshman.
I was naturally blessed with the gift of gab, a resonant voice, and a love of radio. That deal was sealed the night in January 1966: The WYBC Freshman News Reading Contest!
I learned the next day that I had WON the free pizza. My brother took no end of grief about his younger brother acing the competition.
Just about everything good that’s happened in my adult life is a direct result of my experience at WYBC.
When I got to Yale, I had no clue as to what I wanted to do post-Yale. My plans or lack of them didn’t include going into radio. In fact, I had no idea that college radio even existed.
[… Then] I heard what sounded like a couple of people my age broadcasting play-by-play of a Yale football game. I was astounded. College kids on radio?
