Class History: 1969 to 2018
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Class History: 1969 to 2018

[Editors Note:  Originally published on 26 May 2019;  This is fifth in a series of re-published Essays from the 50th Reunion ClassBook.]   Back again, your whilom class historian here reviews our half-century of adulthood by examining the world and American culture at the milestones of our graduation in 1969, the 25th reunion in 1994, and…

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Yale and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy, Then and Now

[Originally published on 26 May 2019;  This is fourth in a series of re-published Essays from the 50th Reunion ClassBook.] Even if most of us weren’t thinking of getting into foreign-policy as we entered Yale in September, 1965, foreign policy would get into us, and the consequences would rattle Yalies not only on campus but also in State, Defense,…

Responding To Salovey’s George Floyd Letter

Responding To Salovey’s George Floyd Letter

Editor’s Note: President Salovey sent a letter to the Yale community on Sunday May 31, 2020.  The full text of the letter is here.  Classmates responded with a broad range of reactions.

Fred Morris (JE) sent a letter, reprinted here in full.  Anyone else sending a letter to President Salovey can contact us; we’ll add it below and republish this post as “updated.” Comments welcome.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Where Do We Go From Here?

The reunion is over, but this website will go on. What does that mean for you?  For the Class?   For this website?   Answer: The website will morph from a “magazine format” with occasional contributions from classmates to a “community website” with occasional articles of general interest. At inception, your class leaders asked for a website with…

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Notes to Self

The 1969 Class Survey included the following question: “If you could write a note to your 1969 self, what would it say? (50 words or less, please)” Herewith is a small sampling of your advice to your 1969 selves… For a small-town boy from the Texas Panhandle, you did all right, in large part because…

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High School Harry; West Coast; Negro; “Achieved Success at Yale”

How Yale enabled a confident naif to game “success.” Above descriptions proposed as applying to me were suggested to merit a class essay of broader scope. This being somewhat a soapbox—irresistible to a Yalie, no?—, here goes. If nothing else, material to guide one into the precious (love mine!) late afternoon nap. First, from perspective…

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Fifty Years of Change in Book Publishing

When we graduated in 1969: We had spent four years with assigned reading from books available only in printed form. We probably bought those books at the Yale Co-op, an independent store owned by the University. New Haven had few other bookstores we would frequent and no chain bookstores. The immense resources of Sterling Library…