I went to the Harvard game often as an elementary student. We lived in Boston, but were a Yale family. At Dexter, the boys’ school I attended, all my classmates’ fathers were Harvard graduates (no one mentioned where, or whether, his mother had gone to college). So I was the odd member of the class, sufficient cause to be bullied at recess.
I have been meaning to write this for some time. I read with interest the post about the class of 1968, and how their reunion seemed to be backwardly focused, with a major reunion event being a panel with George Bush. All eyes need to be forward looking now, as we have—not just Yale 1969 people—pretty much run our country into the ditch. The passengers have all gotten out of the car, and are yelling…
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?).
From The Yale Daily News by Karena Zhao Data from Federal Election Commission filings demonstrate that a vast majority of 2018 campaign contributions made by Yale faculty members went to Democratic campaigns and political action committees. The News analyzed this year’s donations from University employees who are listed as professors, lecturers and instructors based on public data from the FEC. Since Jan. 1, Yale professors, lecturers and instructors have donated $302,943 to political candidates, political…
When we recollect the most cherished aspects of our “bright college years”, I suspect that few of us will focus on memories of course work and classrooms. The exception for me comes from the only class at Yale I loved so passionately that I insisted on repeating it: with two semesters in sophomore year, followed by two more as a junior. I secured special permission to do the class twice, and I probably would have taken it a third time if they had let me. English 77, universally known as “Daily Themes”, …
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Editor’s Note: This just in from Architectural Digest … the list of the 50 “most beautiful” colleges in America. Yale is number one. We are deleting the others to save space and download time, but you can see the also-rans and read the whole article here. ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN The 50 Most Beautiful Colleges in America Did your alma mater make the list? by STEFANIE WALDEK Posted November 5, 2018 With their vast collections of buildings,…
When the Reunion Committee recruited me and Harry Forsdick to be webmasters of this site, it was because we brought some technical chops to the table. I had run some e-commerce businesses, and Harry is/was true engineering talent. Little did we know, but Harry has been exploring painting and watercolors … using his engineering talents, like Vermeer, to create images on an iPad good enough to warrant an Exhibit of his latest works.
Derek Huntington (1947 – 2011) was a singer/songwriter/musician/producer—and cabinet-builder who launched a successful boutique carpentry business in Manhattan. In the 1970s he was Stormin’ Norman & Suzy’s first record producer and a first-rate recording artist himself, as you will hear.
Editor’s Note: Doug reviews this book, just published, in time for our celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Game in Boston, Nov. 16-17
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This book relates the experience of Harvard and Yale football players of privileged campus life, Ivy football and the campus and national turmoil triggered by THE WAR. As a forever thankful, albeit passive, participant in the Yale 1968 football miracle, I must admit being more than slightly off-put by the near-exclusive focus on Harvard for the first two chapters. However, Chapter III (“God Plays Quarterback for Yale”) brought back …
Here is a late entry — the “Program” handed out by the Yale Record, including “Player Profiles” for teams from WYBC, The Daily News, Yale Scientific and others.
Editors Note: This is an oldie, but one that has been suggested several times since it was published. Now that we have “Yale, Around The Web” department, we now have a place to publish it. from washingtonpost.com by George Will Aug. 30th, 2017 A doorway carving at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., campus depicted a Puritan settler, right, with a musket. The musket has been covered with removable stone. (Yale University via Associated Press) Summer…
In June of 1968, when students were leaving the Yale campus for summer vacation, about a dozen of us decided to stick around New Haven and keep WYBC-FM on the air 24×7 until our classmates returned in September.
This was the first time in WYBC’s history that the station would be on the air non-stop instead of signing off when the school year ended, as many college radio stations did.
If you weren’t part of WYBC or the radio biz, this might not seem like a big deal. But it was. Many forces were at work that affected us personally, culturally, politically, and artistically. These forces led us to do what we did at WYBC in the Summer of ’68 in a way that totally changed our lives and changed radio as we knew it.
Almost immediately upon arrival at Yale, in fall of my freshman year, it became a nightly ritual for the four rooms on my floor of Welch Hall to come together and play the nightly contest on WYBC’s “Stardust.”
The hope of winning a Naples pizza was part of it, as was the amazement over what radio could do if not bound by the FCC. The contests were often obscene, or at least the winning answers usually were, and WYBC-AM, “closed circuit to the Yale campus,” played some politically incorrect singles. That unrestrained radio and a little alcohol made for a dorm party almost every night.
It was in some ways a foregone conclusion that I would heel WYBC. My brother Walt (TD ’66) was the Program Director of the station when I was a freshman.
I was naturally blessed with the gift of gab, a resonant voice, and a love of radio. That deal was sealed the night in January 1966: The WYBC Freshman News Reading Contest!
I learned the next day that I had WON the free pizza. My brother took no end of grief about his younger brother acing the competition.
Just about everything good that’s happened in my adult life is a direct result of my experience at WYBC.
When I got to Yale, I had no clue as to what I wanted to do post-Yale. My plans or lack of them didn’t include going into radio. In fact, I had no idea that college radio even existed.
[… Then] I heard what sounded like a couple of people my age broadcasting play-by-play of a Yale football game. I was astounded. College kids on radio?
Like most of us of that time I think, commercial radio (rock and roll) was an important part of my life. I came from NYC (albeit its weird outlying borough, Staten Island) where we had WABC and WMCA and some other big-time AM “top 40″ radio stations to listen to. Transistor radios were ubiquitous. My mother had taught me to love classical music. Folk music was the tune my generation was marching to, and rock and roll was what made the blood pulse in your veins.
