This little gizmo came in the mail last month to some of our more active Classmates. The main reaction was puzzlement. What was it? About 3″ x 2″, with a peel-off backer that exposed some adhesive, it caused a stir. The Listserv lit up: Macon Cowles started with the basic question: “OK, dear classmates …
The first Whole Earth Catalog was published 50 years ago, in autumn 1968. As you probably remember, it catalyzed and shaped a range of psychosocial changes, especially among our generation, and it spawned groundbreaking publications like CoEvolution Quarterly, Space Colonies, the Whole Earth Software Review, etc.
From 1977 to 1990 I was the art editor of CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Review. Now I’m helping Stewart Brand and his wife organize Whole Earth’s 50th-anniversary reunion and celebration at …
My last day in Budapest, walking through this Mall, I was taken aback to see J. Press. It now sells athletic wear. Having heard they recently closed their York Street store, I wondered what happened to them. Was this store in Hungary related to “our” J. Press? Well, with Wikipedia to the rescue, I learned: J. Press…
Has Wikipedia become the 21st-century version of Who’s Who, and if so, how many members of the Class are profiled there? What does having a Wikipedia biographical profile published mean anyway? Is it a fair indicator of “success?” Are classmates listed there representative of the broader Class? Curious, I investigated. Here’s the report.
Over the past month, with the help of a program, I sifted through articles in Wikipedia, looking for biographies of members of our class. The program returned 456 possible articles; manually checking that list, I found 50 biographies, linked below. Note: If you know of other Wikipedia articles referring to you or any classmate, please…
This is a first in a series of “mini-reunions” that we’ll hold over the next year. Stay tuned for events coming to YOUR city! And check out this report and the copious pictures of your Boston area Classmates!
Madeline Hoffman ’19 is our 1969 Scholarship beneficiary. Maddie is an intensive chemistry major, and she reports additional interests in chemical engineering and physics. She puts her engineering skills to work as lead of the earth science sub-team for the Yale Undergraduate Rover Association, and she also captains our club swimming team. Reflecting on her…
Dennis Drogseth (SY ’69) recently interviewed Melissa DelVecchio (Yale, M.Arch 1998), the partner in the architectural firm that designed Yale’s two newest residential colleges. He sought, and got, an inside look into some of the personal and professional challenges in creating two new colleges. The last time that happened was Eero Saarinen’s Morse and Stiles colleges…
Paintings and watercolors created by Ezra Stiles own Bill Stanisich will be featured at the prestigious Andra Norris Gallery in Burlingame, CA from March 21 thru May 12, 2018. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 7th from 6-8PM, and all Bay Area Yalies are welcome to attend. Admission is free. The exhibit will feature works…
A slideshow of 20 photographs showing the two new colleges.
Derry Allen and Tom Emmons, both of Silliman College, were members of the organizing group of the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS), held on campus Nov. 3-4, 2017. The Summit brought together several hundred alumni, faculty, students and non-Yale people to discuss issues such as population growth, food, farming, EV, renewable energy, climate change, impact investing, etc. They are interviewed by Philip Garvin (MC).
Shortly after leaving Yale and completing graduate work at MIT, Harry Forsdick (PC) joined the engineering firm creating the hardware, software and communication protocols for ARPANET, the predecessor and testbed for the Internet. In semi-retirement, he now has a business that scans pictures and converts films, videos and audio tapes — and is busily converting items from our undergrad years into digital form for us to share and enjoy in the new ARCHIVES section of the website.
In 2018, Yannis Simonides (SM) channels Socrates in a one-man show touring the USA, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Russia — using ancient texts to challenge modern life.
Discover magazine asked our own Jeff Wheelwright to write about a UCLA study of the aging brain. Given that his own brain is aging, he enrolled in the study and offers a first-hand perspective.
The resulting article was published in the October issue of Discover. It weaves together a report on what is happening, generally, to all of us, and what, specifically, Jeff experienced.
In 2016, a Yale student wrote a 25-page paper for History 134 (“Yale and America”) on Charles Apel (JE ’69). Apel was an “early adopter” of LSD, marijuana, etc., before dropping out in ’67. Cameos by Timothy Leary, Janis Joplin, … and the campus police.
Making Every Vote Count (MEVC) — a new, national group co-founded by our own Reed Hundt and dedicated to reforming the Electoral College — got significant support for its key arguments from a new research published today.
