My perspective on Co-Ed Week comes from being a “stringer” for LIFE Magazine, hired to cover this raucous and marvelously in-your-face celebration of true change. These are my photographs and reflections on the event, and on its meaning to our class and to Yale.
Editor’s Note: A poem from our own Jamie Woolery.
Some kids and older wastrels hung around.
The least those utter darlings could’ve done
was wait quietly. For something. Rain will come, …
For many years, William Sacco, ’69, was a professional photographer working directly for Yale. He photographed all sorts of official and alumni events over the years.
These are some photos from his undergrad years. The Ingalls Rink meeting was the one where the future of ROTC was debated and voted upon (creating the famous tie vote.)
wsj.com The Yale Dad Who Set Off the College-Admissions Scandal By Jennifer Levitz and Melissa Korn Updated March 14, 2019 4:32 p.m. ET The tipster who led federal authorities to the biggest college-admissions scam they have ever prosecuted was Morrie Tobin, a Los Angeles financial executive who was being investigated in a securities fraud case, according to a person familiar with the investigation. Mr. Tobin was being questioned in an alleged pump-and-dump investment scheme—in which people conspire…
Editor’s Note: This is a re-issue of a post published earlier, along with a reminder that the “due date” on the survey for First Wives is April 30th. Brian has had a few interesting responses already, and he promises to write up a report summarizing what he learns. So, if you know any “first wives,” please urge them to participate. Details inside!
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 winner will be announced at the Class Dinner on Friday night at the reunion.** [You must be present to win!]…
I’m a Class of 1968 Yale College graduate. Prior to attending our 50th reunion this past year, I re-looked at some Berkeley College sporadic newspapers that I had edited when an undergrad. I noted that the March 11, 1966 edition of the High Street Herald contained an editorial about Will Rhodes, a Class of 1969 freshman who had died of cancer. I thought that you — especially those in Berkeley College — would enjoy this…
Editor’s Note: You can now register online for the reunion events, meals, and on-campus housing by going directly to the Registration Page hosted by the Yale Alumni Association.
If you plan to attend, register now. If you want to learn more about the reunion fees, program details, meals, accessibility, accommodations, financial aid or more, read this post and/or look at the Reunion Details page on Yale1969.org.
nytimes.com Opinion | A ‘Disgusting’ Yale Professor Moves On How a target of students’ ire came to write a book about humanity’s transcendent goodness. By Frank Bruni, March 19, 2019 An intellectual rock star, Nicholas Christakis has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard and, since 2013, Yale. He has done trailblazing work — distilled in a TED talk, of course — on how our social networks shape us. All of the most esteemed academies that validate…
At 3:45 PM on Friday, your Reunion Committee is delighted to have arranged a ‘69-only session with Beverly Gage, Professor of American History and, since 2017, Director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. She is a bright star of the Yale faculty, not only advancing scholarship in American Studies and History, and running the prestigious Grand Strategy program, but also a winner of Yale’s Ribicoff Award for excellence in teaching. Professor Gage has an…
Here’s a special treat for the auteurs, cineastes, and plain old flic-hounds amongst us: the Reunion Committee is pleased to present “Reunion Saturday Night at the Movies,” curated by Yale’s own Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of Film Studies.
Prof. Andrew will screen Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976), a collaborative film by famed director Alain Tanner and novelist John Berger, and he lead a discussion afterward.
from dwighthall.org Sam Slie, emeritus Dwight Hall at Yale board member, Dies at 93 A service celebrating the life of The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nathaniel Slie will be held Saturday, March 23, at 12:30pm, in Battell Chapel, in New Haven, where for decades he served as Associate Pastor of The Church of Christ in Yale University. A much beloved pastor, a friend to thousands, and a beacon for interfaith cooperative ministry, Sam died peacefully at…
This is a quiet, thoughtful conversation about what’s happening to higher education. I was interviewed by Prof. Matthew Frye Jacobson, an historian who was the chair of Yale’s American Studies Department until recently and is the director of Historian’s Eye Project (historianseye.org). This interview was conducted at Yale well before the current bribery scandal at selective colleges, including Yale. It pretty much predicted the whole thing but put it in necessary perspective.
from washingtonpost.com FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme by Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosky | March 12 The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into big-name colleges and universities. The alleged crimes included cheating on entrance exams, as well as bribing college officials to say…
from washingtonpost.com Opinion by Mitch Daniels | Mar. 11th, 2019 Students walk on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., in November 2015. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana. A growing staple on the menu of most colleges and universities is the opportunity to study abroad, through which a student earns credits by traveling to a foreign land for coursework…
So now that we have the results from our 60s music survey, we’re excited to announce that the winning song will be performed on our reunion weekend by … (wait for it) … YOU! We’re presenting a Classmates in Concert performance which will include a rousing singalong of “Like a Rolling Stone.” And because we know you’ll be in that audience, your voice shall be heard! Ok, I hope you’re sitting down for this. We’re…
