New: Key Reunion Class Events
The schedule for our Class of ‘69 programs covers four days, Thursday through Sunday, May 30 through June 2, 2019. Each day contains some stimulating, entertaining events presented only to our class members and our spouses and guests.
The events organized by the Yale Alumni Association for all of the reunion classes will be held on the Friday and Saturday mornings. Reunion-wide programs, such as President Salovey’s address and the Yale music program, take place on Saturday late afternoon and evening.
Class Dinner
Our class dinner is on Friday evening and will take place on the Old Campus. Cocktails begin at 6:00. The class dinner is a served, sit-down meal with a short program. The dinner is for classmates, their spouses and their other Reunion guests. Yale’s renowned cuisine at its best will be served. This is the weekend’s peak event. Please be sure to join us for the dinner.
All other meals will be served in the courtyard of Davenport College, our home base for the Reunion.
“I am already registered for Friday. How do I modify my reservation to include Thursday? Or Sunday?
Easy! Just can email reunions@yale.edu and ask to add Thursday dinner and/or Thursday housing (if applicable). They will adjust your registration and work out any of the fee implications.
Starts on Thursday; Come Then
Our Reunion opens on Thursday afternoon, May 30, beginning at 2:00 pm. The weekend concludes on Sunday, June 2, with a Class of 1969 Memorial Service that begins at 10:00 and ends approximately an hour later.
List of Key Events
Note: The actual times may vary slightly from the times below, and the locations will be announced. The likely venue for all events (other than Dudley Andrew’s movie session and the Memorial Service) is Sprague Hall. Sprague Hall is on College Street, between Elm and Wall Streets.
| Date | Time | Title | Description |
| Thursday, May 30 | 2:15 PM | The Class of 1969–by the data | Tom Guterbock and Mike Baum present the most compelling findings from our Class Survey–some obvious and some more subtle. Come find out what our answers say about us as a group. |
| Thursday, May 30 | 4:00 PM | Class Survey Results–The Why’s and Wherefore’ s | Reed Hundt and Richard Tedlow look at selected findings from our Class survey through the lens of history, adding new dimensions to the quantitative results and provoking thoughtful discussion of the place of our Class in history |
| Friday, May 31 | 1:30 PM | The Challenges of Our Times: Environmental Sustainability | Derry Allen and Tom Emmons, with decades of expertise in regulation and finance relating to environmental sustainability, begin by offering their own views of the current situation and then lead a wide-ranging discussion with classmates who also have deep area expertise. Topics will include renewable energy, green buildings, climate engineering, fresh water, farming and electric vehicles. This presentation will be both informative and stimulating. |
| Friday, May 31 | 3:45 PM | Professor Beverly Gage | Professor Gage, the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy, helps us understand the changes in the U.S. during the past 50 years and the current political “moment” in our country from both an historical and strategic perspective. |
| Friday, May 31 | 6:00 PM | Cocktails/Class Dinner | The greatest get-together of Yale’s greatest class-the Class of ‘69. Food and drink abound. Not to be missed. |
| Saturday, June 1 | 1:30 PM | Classmates in Concert | This event features three singer/songwriter/recording artists from the Class of 1969, who have played top national venues from Carnegie Hall to The Hollywood Bowl to Passim in Cambridge. The Real Stormin’ Norman Zamcheck, Rick Drost, and host John O’Leary will perform original songs and a few of your favorite 60s classics. |
| Saturday, June 1 | 3:00 PM | Life: The Final Exam | Classmates Lang Wheeler and Dan Seiver are back by popular demand with their program that inevitably leads to interesting and candid points of view. |
| Saturday, June 1 | 4:30 PM | President Salovey’s Address | President Salovey addresses the Reunion Classes. |
| Saturday, June 1 | 8:00 PM | Dance to the Plastic Visitation | Following cocktails and dinner on Saturday evening, relive the 60’s while listening live to the music that got us up off our feet. |
| Saturday, June 1 | 8:00 PM | The Class of 1969 Goes to the Movies | Professor Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature and internationally recognized Film Studies scholar, will screen a film he’s chosen as particularly meaningful for our class and will lead a discussion afterwards. |
| Sunday, June 2 | 10:00 AM | Memorial Service | We come together to remember and respect those of our classmates who are deceased. Our service will be led by classmate The Reverend J. Douglas Ousley, Rector of the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan, and include a stirring musical presentation by classmate Dick Williams. |