Survey Goes Live!  Time to take it!

Survey Goes Live! Time to take it!

You may recall the extensive class survey that most of our classmates took in 2019.  It covered LOTs — health/sex, demographics, work/career, politics, lifestyle, relationship with Yale, and religion/spirituality.

This 2024 survey updates that information with how things may have changed since our 50th reunion five years ago.  The questionnaire is fun and …

If you haven’t taken the survey yet, start here.

It’s survey time again!

It’s survey time again!

One of the many interesting things about our 50th Reunion was the Class Survey.  The response (both statistical and emotional) was so strong that we’re doing it again! The same team that created the 50th survey is about to launch a shorter but just as incisive questionnaire focused on what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what’s new, as we totter into the second half of our 70s.

Look for the email with the survey, coming soon.

Podcasts: Not Yet

Podcasts: Not Yet

Editor’s Note: This is a report from the survey about classmates “consuming” podcasts, including lists of the podcasts they listen to.
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Wow, was I wrong!  I love podcasts and spend more time listening than I do watching TV.  But of the 42 classmates responding to a “quick survey,” 12 had never listened to a podcast on a phone or tablet because they were […]

Boxers vs. Briefs?  Guess The Correct Answer And Win!

Boxers vs. Briefs? Guess The Correct Answer And Win!

You may recall a question on the Class Survey, “Boxers or Briefs?” Well, we are going to have a little fun with the answer.  Please GUESS the percentage of respondents who answered “briefs”.  Those getting closest to the correct percentage will win a $30 Duluth Trading Company gift certificate –enough for either boxers or briefs. The…

Survey: 6. Boola, Boola – Our Relationship With Yale

Survey: 6. Boola, Boola – Our Relationship With Yale

At our Freshman Assembly in Woolsey Hall, held at the end of that frenetic first week of moving in, buying used furniture, getting new books, and meeting scores of new people, we gathered to hear Kingman Brewster address us as Yale men for the first time.  Among other things, he observed: “You’ll notice something unusual…

Survey: 4. Politics Then and Now

Survey: 4. Politics Then and Now

We are only a couple weeks away from the mid-term elections — consequential elections being held during a time of extreme partisanship and vitriol. Reasonable minds can debate whether 1968 or 2018 represents the worst case of division within the country in our lifetimes. That said, now seems like a great time to report to you what the Class Survey said about our political opinions in 1969 and today.

Survey: 2.  Sex and Health

Survey: 2. Sex and Health

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a multi-part series reporting on the results of the Class Survey taken last winter.

Any shrink will tell you that the three taboo areas people don’t like to talk about are sex, money and their relationship with God.  Our Class Survey asked about all three.  And we are going to share results in that order: Today’s report is Sex and Health, including reports on how fat we are, pot use, prosthetics, smoking, sexual activity (and aids) and other measures of our health.

Take The Class Survey Now!
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Take The Class Survey Now!

I just finished taking the Class Survey — you know, the one for the 50th Reunion? It will show how we, as a group, have changed over the years.  More importantly, it will catalogue what we are doing NOW — and what plans and dreams lie ahead. I can report that the Survey itself is really excellent. It was simultaneously fun and thoughtful. And it’s now ready for YOU!