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Center for Teaching & Learning Gets Major Gift
ByAdmin November 26, 2018April 22, 2023
A major gift from the Poorvu family will establish a permanent endowment for the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, covering the center’s operational costs and supporting its future programming, the University announced on Nov. 19.
The center will now be called the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning in recognition of the gift from William Poorvu ’56 and his wife, Lia Poorvu, and their children Alison Poorvu Jaffe ’81 and Jonathan Poorvu ’84.
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In Memoriam
Bruce Plyer, Deceased, November 15, 2018
ByDaniel Seiver November 22, 2018April 22, 2023
Classmates, Your scribe has learned from Barbara Plyer that her husband Bruce Plyer died in November, 2018. 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 drew the cover for the Whiffenpoofs’ album….
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Memories
29-29: A Confession and a Question
ByDavid Lupher November 22, 2018April 22, 2023
Now that we are about to move past the semicentennial of the Yale-Harvard game of 1968, maybe it is safe for me to emerge from the shadows and make a confession and pose a question. First, the confession. Like many of my classmates, I journeyed from New Haven to Cambridge on November 23, 1968. But while my car-mates were on their way to watch the game, I was not. The first semester of my freshman…
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News
A Good Time Was Had By All
ByWayne Willis November 19, 2018April 22, 2023
A Report From Yale Harvard Weekend The whole weekend was fun, although The Game was disappointing. The Bulldogs defense in the second half collapsed, and the Cantabs won 45-27. But that didn’t stop the 100 Classmates (and their guests) from catching up, chatting, posing with a Handsome Dan mascot, drinking Fenway beers and enjoying the uncharacteristically nice weather. Attendees: Alan Hurwitz (PC) Bill Newman (JE) Carney Mimms (JE) Eliot Norman (DC) Eric Lenck (JE) Frank Aronson (JE)…
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Yale English Faculty “Decolonizes” Curriculum
ByAdmin November 19, 2018April 22, 2023
This is also an older controversy, having started with a student petition in 2016 and resulting in a faculty vote to make the change in graduation requirements in Spring, 2017. Liberals see it as reform and adding flexibility in course requirements for an English major, allowing more diversity and not forcing a canon of Chaucer, Shakespeare and other “Major English Poets” on students. Conservatives see it as another example of Faculty and Administration caving into…
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3 Yalies Win Rhodes Scholarships
ByAdmin November 19, 2018April 22, 2023
Three Yale seniors were among the 32 recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships this year. Yale, Duke and Princeton each had three winners. (Full list). This years’ group also set a record for the most women (21) and, for the first time ever, a DACA recipient. The news office at Yale reported: Yale seniors Rayan Alsemeiry, Eren Orbey, and Riley S. Tillitt will head to Oxford University following graduation as Rhodes Scholars representing the United…
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In Memoriam
Frank Northam – Deceased August 25, 2018
ByAdmin November 16, 2018April 22, 2023
Frank passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018. Frank was a resident of Alexandria, Virginia at the time of passing. Please send any information you may have to support@Yale1969.org. See also https://www.martindale.com/washington/district-of-columbia/frank-m-northam-377480-a/ [in_memoriam_closing]
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Class Notes
Class Notes, Nov/Dec 2018
ByDaniel Seiver November 15, 2018April 22, 2023
Michael Emery Smith died April 23, 2018, at home with his family by his side after a short, but hard fought battle with pancreatic cancer. Here is what we know: “Michael’s career was mostly in commercial banking. Michael was an involved member of his community as part of the MDI Lions Club and served on boards of various local charitable organizations including the Southwest Harbor-Tremont Ambulance Service, the Tremont Historical Society, the Acadia Family Center,…
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Potpourri
That 29-29 Game
ByThomas J. Reed November 9, 2018April 22, 2023
Ah distinctly I recall,
50 years ago this fall,
just when we thought we’d won it all,
in the Game that turned to lore.
All the years have not erased,
not removed, not effaced
the memories of what took place:
that outcome and that score!
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News
John Yarmuth Is Likely New Chairman of House Budget Committee
ByAdmin November 7, 2018April 22, 2023
Rep. John Yarmuth of Kentucky, the panel’s top Democrat, is considered the frontrunner to become its next chairman. Mr. Yarmuth, 71 years old, is currently in his sixth term in the House. A former Senate aide, Mr. Yarmuth also worked for years in the media, writing columns for a Louisville weekly newspaper he founded and debating politics on television. Currently the only Democrat in the Kentucky congressional …
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Books
Review: The Game
Harvard, Yale, and America in 1968
ByDavid Bundy November 7, 2018April 22, 2023
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.
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Memories
Can we move our country to a better place?
ByMacon Cowles November 7, 2018April 22, 2023
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…
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Survey
Survey: 5. Lifestyle
ByThomas Guterbock November 6, 2018April 22, 2023
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?).
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Yale faculty donate overwhelmingly to Democrats
ByAdmin November 6, 2018April 22, 2023
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…
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Potpourri
“Daily Themes,” Decoded
ByMichael Medved November 5, 2018April 22, 2023
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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The 50 Most Beautiful Colleges in America [Spoiler: Yale is #1!]
ByAdmin November 5, 2018April 22, 2023
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,…
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