Survey: 2. Sex and Health

Survey: 2. Sex and Health

ByThomas Guterbock

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a multi-part series reporting on the results of the Class Survey taken last winter.

Any shrink will tell you that the three taboo areas people don’t like to talk about are sex, money and their relationship with God.  Our Class Survey asked about all three.  And we are going to share results in that order: Today’s report is Sex and Health, including reports on how fat we are, pot use, prosthetics, smoking, sexual activity (and aids) and other measures of our health.

Whole Earth’s 50th Anniversary

Whole Earth’s 50th Anniversary

ByRobert Horvitz

The first Whole Earth Catalog was published 50 years ago, in autumn 1968. As you probably remember, it catalyzed and shaped a range of psychosocial changes, especially among our generation, and it spawned groundbreaking publications like CoEvolution Quarterly, Space Colonies, the Whole Earth Software Review, etc.

From 1977 to 1990 I was the art editor of CoEvolution Quarterly and Whole Earth Review. Now I’m helping Stewart Brand and his wife organize Whole Earth’s 50th-anniversary reunion and celebration at …

The Story Behind “The Class of 1969 Memorial Scholarship Fund”

The Story Behind “The Class of 1969 Memorial Scholarship Fund”

ByWayne Willis

In May, you may recall that our website published Meet The New “Class of 1969 Scholar” – Maddie Hoffman.  Well, the editors were curious: They had not heard of a “Class of 1969 Scholarship Fund,” so they decided to investigate.  What was it?  Who started it?  How is it used?  How much is in it?  There were lots of unusual turns in the story and …

Report From the 1968 Reunion

Report From the 1968 Reunion

ByBill Newman

Reunion co-chair Bill Newman reports from the 1968 reunion and some of their remarkable events: 1) a “Quaker Meeting” where people talked about their Viet Nam experiences, often in emotional terms (check them out; what are YOUR stories?), 2) several remarkable, and mostly unknown, career paths/accomplishments by 68ers, 3) a historian talking about the Brewster/Coffin/Inky-Clark era (with pictures!), and 4) an intimate conversation with George W. Bush. See what happened in the ’68 reunion and the implications for our reunion!

Seen In A Mall in Budapest

Seen In A Mall in Budapest

ByWayne Willis

My last day in Budapest, walking through this Mall, I was taken aback to see J. Press. It now sells athletic wear.  Having heard they recently closed their York Street store, I wondered what happened to them.  Was this store in Hungary related to “our” J. Press? Well, with Wikipedia to the rescue, I learned: J. Press was started “on Yale’s campus” by a Latvian immigrant, Jacobi Press.  That probably refers to the York Street location we…

Upcoming Yale-Harvard Weekend Proves Popular

Upcoming Yale-Harvard Weekend Proves Popular

ByWayne Willis

Over half the 100 tickets that Lang Wheeler secured for us are now sold. And a waiting list is forming for more tickets once the “max 2 per Classmate” restriction is lifted on 9/15/2018. If you are thinking about coming to The Game, I’d urge you to move quickly. November 17 seems like a long way away, but those three months will go fast, and tickets won’t last. There are some interesting patterns to the early ticket-buyers …

Woodward Report at 50: Free Speech At Yale

Woodward Report at 50: Free Speech At Yale

ByThomas Hood

Like many alums, I was mortified by the 2015 screamfest involving Nicholas Christakis, a respected professor at Yale, as memorialized on YouTube.  Professor Christakis was forced to defend the public expression of an opinion by his spouse, herself a respected Yale professor, to the effect that the Yale administration had perhaps been too paternalistic in circulating a pre-Halloween memo warning against culturally-insensitive costumes. That and similar recent events on campus have offended both conservatives (many of whom believe conservative views are largely not welcome at Yale) and liberals (who support freedom of speech broadly). 

1947: Where Now Begins
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1947: Where Now Begins

ByJeff Horton

For most of us 1947 is a very important year.  After all we were born during those 12 months.  (For those of you born a year or two before or after, this is still relevant.)  The approximately 70 years of life we are currently reflecting on started in that year.  So maybe we wonder what else was born in that year, what else started in 1947.  The Swedish historian Elizabeth Asbrink has an answer to that question in her recent book 1947: Where Now Begins. Asbrink doesn’t know us and didn’t write this about us, but she does suggest in this book that major events shaping our world today began in 1947.

Sheldon Y. Carnes, March 26, 2018

Sheldon Y. Carnes, March 26, 2018

ByAdmin

From the Albany Times Union, March 31, 2018: Carnes, Sheldon (Troy, NY). After a joyful celebration of his life with family and friends, Sheldon “Rusty” Carnes paddled peacefully to the Pearly Gates around 3:30 a.m. on March 26, 2018. He left behind his sisters, Katy, Roxy, and Sandy; brother Terry; multiple masks, puppets and flutes; and a wide diversified circle of loving friends. In 2012, AlbanyPoets.com reports that Sheldon Carnes made a rare appearance (with…

Philip Kuekes, November 29, 2010

Philip Kuekes, November 29, 2010

ByAdmin

(Philip Kuekes died on November 29, 2010. This memorial appeared in the November, 2018 Class Notes.) “Your scribe has just learned of the death of Philip Kuekes, from glioblastoma, on November 29, 2010. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Fairfield, Conn.  He was a physics major at Yale. He moved to the Bay Area in 1969, owned his own computer consulting business and worked for TRW in Mountain View. He later worked…

Review: Adam Van Doren’s The Stones of Yale
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Review: Adam Van Doren’s The Stones of Yale

ByArnold Welles

As luck would have it, on a recent visit to the Yale Art Gallery, I happened upon Adam Van Doren, an accomplished artist / teacher / Fellow in Yale College and learned about his new book, The Stones of Yale. Thirty buildings, thirty short chapters, with paintings and watercolors created by the artist to accompany the descriptions, history, functions and feelings of living and working in these spaces. It’s a wonderful work, and I review the book for your possible additional interest.

Class Notes Jul/Aug 2018

Class Notes Jul/Aug 2018

ByDaniel Seiver

The Mother of all Reunions is set for May 30-June 2, 2019.  That is less than a year away! The latest news about our program and attendees will be posted on the Class Website at yale1969.org. It is time to mark your calendar. Your scribe looks forward to seeing all of you. The Reunion Committee is also planning an event during the Yale-Harvard football weekend this November in Cambridge. More news on this to follow!…