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Music
Revised: Classmates in Concert: 1:30 pm, June 1, Sprague Hall
ByJohn O'Leary April 21, 2019April 22, 2023
Come to Sprague Hall just after lunch on Saturday to experience a great concert put on by some of the professional musicians in our Class: The Real Stormin’ Norman Zamcheck (ES), Rick Drost (BR), and host John O’Leary (SM), accompanied by Mat Kastner (SY).
Between them, they have played national venues such as NY’s The Bitter End and Carnegie Hall, LA’s Hollywood Bowl and Troubadour, and Cambridge’s Passim. They will perform their own songs as well as several 60s classics, including the song YOU chose in our survey as your favorite song.
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Around The Web
13 tenured professors withdraw from Yale’s Ethnicity, Race, & Migration program
ByAdmin April 12, 2019April 22, 2023
from: New Haven Register 13 Yale professors withdraw from ethnic studies program By Meghan Friedmann | March 31, 2019 Photo: Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media File Photo Students walk into Yale University’s Old Campus in New Haven last October. NEW HAVEN — Wandering around the Yale University campus, visitors might notice a sign that reads “-41 ETHNIC STUDIES FACULTY” and “$50 MILLION FOR WHAT?” pasted alongside pie charts that break down the demographics of Yale’s…
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Archives
Dave Henderson, Yale 1943, was Becoming an Embarrassment
ByHarry Forsdick April 12, 2019April 22, 2023
…. When I mention this to my Peets Coffee drinking buddy, a Dartmouth grad who has a terrific sense of humor, he mentioned an article in Smithsonian Magazine about a secretly invented Yale grad from the Class of 1943 … whose exploits were published in the YAM 1943 Class Notes. He sent me the article and the obit of the perpetrator of the faux exploits …
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Memories
Looking Back
ByMichael Folz April 10, 2019April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: Because many of you won’t be able to read the entire 50th Reunion book cover to cover, Michael Folz has helpfully condensed all of the submissions into one short, generic, personal essay. 😉
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Around The Web
US Senators Call On DoJ to Defund Yale Law School
ByAdmin April 10, 2019April 22, 2023
foxnews.com Hawley suggests Trump admin strip Yale of federal funding if ‘targeting’ of religious students continues By Gregg Re | Apr. 9th, 2019 Missouri GOP Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter early Tuesday to Attorney General William Barr calling for the Justice Department to closely monitor Yale University — and to cut off the institution’s federal funding if its law school continues to “target religious students for special disfavor.” The fiery two-page missive, exclusively obtained by Fox News, comes days after Texas Republican…
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Memories
Bribing admission to college for your kids
ByMacon Cowles April 8, 2019April 22, 2023
Gents, my good wife Regina turned me on to this literate, fabulous commentary in the Atlantic on the college admissions scandal. It is by Caitlin Flanagan. She has a BA and MA in Art History from UVa. She writes it from the point of view of a woman who taught English for 4 years (her best job ever) and then was a college counselor (worst job ever) at the “Harvard-Westlake School” in Los Angeles. This…
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Yale Repeats as National Quiz Bowl Champ
ByAdmin April 8, 2019April 22, 2023
Yale wins National Quiz Bowl competition By: Hector Ramirez NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Congrats are in order to some Yale students! Yale University took home the nation’s top spot at this weekend’s NAQT Quiz Bowl tournament. Quiz Bowl is one of the most difficult academic tournaments that tests students knowledge, ranging from sports, pop culture, literature, and biology. This is the second year in a row that Yale has won.
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Announcements
Mini-Reunion In Florida … “Friendships Formed Thru Yale”
ByHal Valeche April 8, 2019April 22, 2023
Although some of us were virtual strangers, the group gelled incredibly well, and we had a great series of discussions over dinner, which lasted from 6 until just after 10. I think we all felt we had made some new friends (yes, it is certainly possible at our age) and were enthused about reconnecting with each other and all our other friends in New Haven …
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Announcements
College With Best Attendance Will Win Long Weekend on St. Croix
ByJohn Nelson April 7, 2019April 22, 2023
The Reunion Committee is happy to announce our equivalent of a challenge grant: The college with the largest number of attendees (as a percent of its total) will be able to spend a very long weekend in St. Croix, with free accommodation at this spectacular, private, seaside villa! Check out the pictures and details … then call your college-mates and urge them to attend.
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Around The Web
Yale Gets A New SCHOOL: Jackson School of Global Affairs
ByAdmin April 6, 2019April 22, 2023
New Haven Register Yale moves forward with transforming Jackson Institute By Tara O’Neill | Apr. 6th, 2019 NEW HAVEN — Yale University’s Board of Trustees has approved the transformation of the university’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs into a school. The trustees are hoping to open the new school in the fall of 2022. But in order for that to happen, an additional $200 million has to be raised for its endowment. The announcement came…
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News
Reunion: For God, For Country And For the Planet
ByDerry Allen and Tom Emmons April 5, 2019April 22, 2023
Class Discussion at Reunion: Time for your input! One of the defining issues of the last half-century has been the challenging relationship between people and the planet. Everyone is affected. Many of our classmates have been directly involved. Because of the strong interest expressed by members of the reunion program committee and others, we’ll talk about this subject on Friday afternoon at our reunion. We have agreed to facilitate a class discussion on the broad…
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Potpourri
… and he blew that room away!
ByStephen Herseth April 4, 2019April 22, 2023
Stephen Herseth and his wife, Mary Jo, hosted a “mini-reunion” in February, and this one had an unusual twist. Steve showcased an impressive collection of trumpets, collected by his late father, who for 54 years was First Trumpet at the Chicago Symphony orchestra. The current Second Trumpet from the CSO attended and played excerpts from some of the better-known trumpet repertoire of the CSO. (Steve plans to donate the collection to Yale for use by current students.)
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In Memoriam
Yale Crewmates Honor One of Their Own
ByDerry Allen April 4, 2019April 22, 2023
An earlier post reported that our classmate Bruce Plyer recently died. Today, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery: Capt. Bruce Plyer, USN, received full military honors, including horse-drawn caisson, escort, band, firing party and bugler. Four classmates — Wil Lam, Dick Livingston, Derry Allen and Len Richards — are pictured here after the ceremony. They rowed with Bruce on the Yale Heavyweight Crew.
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Announcements
Reunion: Thursday afternoon will make sense of it all
ByMike Baum April 3, 2019April 22, 2023
What were we like 50 years ago? What’s happened to us since? What’s it all meant? And where are we going from here? Those and other Big Questions will be addressed — and maybe even answered — at the Reunion opening sessions starting at 2:15 on Thursday afternoon, setting the stage for this uniquely special weekend. Classmates Tom Guterbock and Mike Baum will present and analyze the findings of the Class Survey – from the…
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Memories
Spin Training Shouldn’t Be Optional
ByStephen Bemis April 3, 2019April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note from Harry Forsdick: There are moments in each of our lives where we have learned a lesson we will never forget. Sometimes these lessons get recorded in a form that can benefit others — whether it be a book, a photograph, a magazine article, or a radio interview. Steve Bemis had one such incident in his life when he was learning to fly a small plane. Steve writes: Gentlemen – I saw the invitation…
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Potpourri
Classbook Arrives, Kudos Ensue
ByAdmin April 3, 2019April 22, 2023
Classmates received their copy of the 50th Reunion ClassBook, with most books arriving the first week of April. And the response received by the reunion committee and ClassBook leadership has been overwhelmingly positive: Macon Cowles submitted a “Memories and Observations” post, saying “To our publisher, Art Klebanoff, and to all of you who worked hard, designed well, wrote well and shared photographs: Thank you so very much. We are grateful beyond measure for this terrific community of sharing.”…
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