Your scribe has learned from Barbara Plyer that her husband Bruce Plyer died on November 15, 2018. In an email to your scribe, she reports that “He had just finished lifting weights and came upstairs. His death was a sudden catastrophic event and took only minutes. He loved his time at Yale. He was a member of the Dramat; he rowed for four years; he was an architecture major.” “Bruce was also a talented artist who…
Paul G. Abrams 2125 1st Avenue, #1501 Seattle, WA 98121 Email: pabrams2001@gmail.com Phone(s): 206-310-6685 Spouse/Partner(s): Marguerite Lindstrom Johnstone, Yale M.Phil. (1977- 1999) Education: Yale School of Medicine, MD, 1976. Yale Law School, JD, 1976 Career: Oncology Research, NCI; CEO/Chair/Executive Director of 3 Biotechs, 1 Med Device Company (1985 – ) Activities: Travel, Film, Scuba, Politics, Human Rights Residential College: Ezra Stiles The Trumpet Summons Us Again Although punctuated by inevitable ups-and-downs, I had felt…
Many Americans want a new national story: How about this one? by Jim Sleeper, salon.com | Feb. 25th, 2019 The 18 Yale students who crowded into a seminar room one September morning in 1999 for a course entitled “New Conceptions of American National Identity” didn’t know what they were in for. Nor did I, their instructor. Nor did most Americans know what the nation itself was in for, as we know now, 20 years later.Or…
Biarritz. I am sure all you smart and worldly classmates know that this is an elegant seaside resort located somewhere in France. I suspect, however, that only a select few of you will know the secondary meaning of the word. It is also used to describe a putting green that features a deep gully or swale which bisects the putting surface. One of the most notable biarritz holes in the world is the ninth hole…
nypost.com Inside the training program that helped launch Gillibrand’s political career By Frank Ryan | Feb. 23rd, 2019 In 2005 an ambitious young lawyer attended a five-day intensive training program at Yale University. The short but grueling schedule at the Women’s Campaign School was packed with workshops on polling, fundraising, public speaking, handling the press — and makeup. Eighteen months later, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was serving in the House of Representatives, her first step in…
The Reunion Details page has a few new items. In brief:
Golf – The Yale Golf Course has reserved a block of tee times starting at 10:00 AM on Thursday for us. Eric Lenck (JE) is organizing things. Details outlined here. If you want to play, plan to arrive early enough to join the other linksmen on Thurs…
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Connecticut, comes as universities across the country have been trying to crack down on bad behavior by fraternities, from binge drinking and sexual harassment to abusive hazing rituals that have led to several deaths. Aware that their image has been tarnished, fraternities have often been partners with universities in trying to change party culture.
Our website editor approached me with a question: Given our level of retirement savings, how would I advise us 69ers (given my career in Wealth Management) about investing at this age? What sort of practical tips would I pass along?
from washingtonpost.com It took 109 years, but Yale’s storied a cappella group just got its first female singer By Julie Zauzmer – Feb. 8th, 2019 When Sofia Campoamor was a ninth-grader at Washington’s Sidwell Friends School, a special-guest group dropped by her chorus class: the Whiffenpoofs, the oldest college a cappella group in the country. The members of the singing group told Campoamor and her friends about their astounding opportunity — a one-year trip around the…
The Morning was a Yale folk-rock band, birthed in the campus basements in the winter of ’67. Within six months it was playing the major coffeehouses in Greenwich Village and within 18 months it was sharing stages with Joni Mitchell, The Grateful Dead, Cream, Sly & the Family Stone, Jackson Browne, The Smothers Brothers, and Muddy Waters at the top nightclubs and concert venues on both coasts.
The right sidebar on the home page shows only the last five (5) comments. Responding to popular demand, here is a page that shows ALL comments, in reverse chronological order, 12 per page. (This page is always accessible from the link at the end of the five (5) comments in the sidebar.)
In this addition to the Yale 1969 Archives, I have scanned, processed and now re-published a Supplement to the Yale Daily News, which was originally published on May 14, 1969. I suspect that, owing to its being published so close to our graduation date, many people in our class may have never seen it before. Believe me, it’s worth reading!
from USA Today Nathan Chen balances Yale studies with third U.S. figure skating championship By Christine Brennan | Jan. 27th, 2019 DETROIT — This was going to be a year of transition for reigning world champion and Olympic team bronze medalist Nathan Chen. At 19, he was heading across the country to college. Southern California was behind him. Yale beckoned. This was going to be a grand experiment: he was trying to be a full-time…
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/01/24/texas-endowment-surpasses-yales/ Texas endowment surpasses Yale’s By Lorenzo Arvanitis – Jan. 24th, 2019 Yale no longer has the second largest endowment among institutions of higher education. The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company announced last month that the joint endowment it manages for two schools — University of Texas and Texas A&M University — surged to $30.9 billion, surpassing Yale’s $29.4 billion endowment during the 2018 fiscal year which ended on June 30. Texas’ high returns were largely…
As we take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them, we also have to laugh occasionally at our current political scene. I’ve done this by publishing two satirical novels about contemporary politics, PRYME KNUMBER, and a sequel, BERNIE WEBER AND THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS. They are set in Washington, Milwaukee, and Yale. Some of our classmates appear as characters.
In both novels, Bernie Weber, a young, Milwaukee-based math genius of humble background, is chased by villains trying to force him to reveal his solutions to two unsolved problems in Mathematics, which could be used fo …
from Yale News Yale, other schools file amicus brief on ‘unlawful presence’ visa change January 17, 2019 Yale University has joined with more than 60 other institutions of higher education in filing an amicus (friend of the court) brief in a case before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina about the Department of Homeland Security’s new policy regarding the calculation of “unlawful presence” for international students. Under the new policy,…
