Tom Guterbock and Mike Baum updated the incredible survey they arranged for our 50th Reunion in 2019. The first item of business for our three days together was a presentation of the updated results. We think you’ll be interested in how we are evolving as a Class:
So, far so good — we have a solid group of “respondents” to our 2024 Update to the 50th Reunion Survey we did in 2019.
However, the deadline isMonday, April 8th!
If you haven’t responded, NOW is the time to do so. Take the Survey
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.
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.
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 […]
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of the Survey results, and it addresses Religion and Spirituality. Unlike our summary posts on Survey results in parts 1 – 6, this one is an in-depth analysis and report. It’s a copy of the essay that Mike Baum did for the 50th Reunion ClassBook … which you’ll see…
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…
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…
This is a slight break from the main subjects we’ve addressed so far — politics, family, work/career, wealth, and health. Today, we’ll report results from some of the lighter (dogs or cats?) or more random questions we asked (attempted suicide?).
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.
Work, career, volunteering, entrepreneurship — what did the broad sweep of our productive years entail? What are we doing now? How well, financially speaking, did we do? That’s the subject of this installment of these “reports From The Class Survey.” When we first graduated, before settling into a serious career, we had to deal with…
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.
Good news: the Reunion Committee has authorized the release of the survey results in advance of the reunion!
This is a report on the first of 9 sections of the Class Survey — this one about who took the survey, marriages, children, grandchildren and miscellaneous other data points. Future reports will cover other sections of the survey.
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!
You’ll get an invitation to the Class Survey shortly. Here’s the behind-the-scenes story about how the survey came into being and the thought that went into the survey design. Lucky enough, one of our Classmates is a leading expert in creating valid and reliable surveys!
