55th Reunion Reflections
Kudos to the Reunion Committee (Bill Newman, Derry Allen) for putting together an excellent, interesting and informative array of “Class Only” events. For those of you who could not attend, here are some materials and related items from each of the Class Only lectures: Yale Class of 1969 Survey Redux: New Information About the Class as It Turns 55 Our classmates Tom Guterbock and Mike Baum, who presented the main survey results in 2019, will…
Carlos Nicholas MacKechnie Hawkin, May 22, 2023
Nicholas (aka Nick) Hawkin was a bit older than the rest of us, and he carried himself with a grace and wit that were truly enviable. His father was an Oxford grad and a British diplomat assigned to various offices in Mexico and South America. His mother was Peruvian, and Nick was educated in South America and at boarding schools in England: Elston Hall School, Nottinghamshire, England, and Ampleforth College, Ampleforth, England; Universite d’Aix-en-Provence, Jan.,…
Eliot Norman, Chopin and The Joy of Music
On May 16th, Classmate Eliot Norman shared his journey, moving from ‘one form of practice (law) to another (piano)‘ as his primary retirement activity. Organizing his remarks around Chopin’s astonishing Prelude No. 24, “Of Blood. Of Earthly Pleasure … of Death,” Eliot wove together Chopin’s personal journey and Eliot’s own. In truth, Eliot has played piano since early childhood, rendering it not only a lifelong avocation but an ongoing central theme to his life. Piano…
Class Website Gets Major Makeover
This website was started in 2016 to give the Class an online home in the runup to the 50th Reunion. It proved to be popular and found renewed purpose after celebrating the 50th when the pandemic drove us all indoors and online, including to the wonderful series of Class Colloquia. But several issues and problems arose recently. First, the “old site” was designed with a number of complex features that were difficult to maintain and…
Campus Miscellaneous — Beyond Core Reunion Events
Check out these additional activities happening during the May 30 – June 2 weekend! Here’s a Table of Contents for everything below: SPORTS FOR ALUMNI & GUESTS SPECIAL EVENTS FAMILY FRIENDLY EXHIBITIONS RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES SPORTS FOR ALUMNI & GUESTS Payne Whitney Gym Access Enjoy the Adrian C. Israel Fitness Center and other activities in Payne Whitney Gym. Visitors must wear their wristband, show their reunion nametag, and complete a release form at…
Yale Council works on free speech recommendations for president
Yale University’s presidential advisory body is reportedly giving feedback to President Peter Salovey on free speech issues on campus.
The news comes against a backdrop of free speech problems at the school, including the disruption of an event last …
Class Notes, May-Jun 2023
From the Erie (PA) Times-News: “The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family eternally grateful for his presence in their lives. Indeed, he lived with eternity in his heart, and entered his…
James Vincent Minor III, April 1, 2023
James Vincent Minor III of Wilton CT died unexpectedly on April 1, 2023 in Norwalk Hospital at the age of 75. Jim was born to Betty and Dr. James Vincent Minor II in Norwalk CT. He is survived by his wife Andrea Byrne Minor and his three children James Vincent Minor IV, Sister Mary Hannah (Emily), Andrew Minor, and his beloved granddaughters Zoe and Holly. An accomplished academic, he studied at Portsmouth Abbey, then Yale,…
Class Colloquium 17: The “Joy of Music” after Retirement
In 2019 Eliot Norman (Dvenport ’69) swapped one type of practice (law) for another (piano).
On May16th at 2 PM EDT, he will share his “trials and terrors” of learning and performing Chopin’s astonishing Prelude No. 24: “Of Blood, Of Earthly Pleasure, Of Death.”
Be sure to register now.
Another Selzer Novel: We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?
Richard Selzer continues his prolific run with his latest novel, We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?
It is available on Amazon, Booklocker, Target and GoodReads. Here is the “blurb” about the book:
Elle and Oz, strangers ready to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark abandoned house. They soon sense that …
Bernie Weber, Math Genius Rides Again
Matt Flynn (Stiles ’69) announced the release of China Code, the second in his series of novels about Bernie Weber, a math genius at the University of Wisconsin. (The first, Milwaukee Jihad was reviewed here last year.)
From the blurb:
A team of Chinese Communist assassins comes to America to kill a young Math genius and …
Yale Glee Club and Trains
Reprinted from an email thread from Jim Sleeper.
“Someone just sent me this. I hadn’t seen it before now. (‘Spirit of youth, alive, unchanging, under whose feet the years are cast…’) I was in the Glee Club in another century — 1966-68.
We once tried to do an impromptu concert in Grand Central Station, but we were shooed out of there by railroad police. But check out what happens now.”
UPDATE: Caribbean Coral Reef Book Published
Classmate Bill Sacco’s The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat debuts this month with over 200 pages and hundreds of stunning images.
A simpler 48-page book aimed at middle & high school students now needs a publisher or other distribution partner. Do you know anyone who might help?
Click thru to see samples, context, some luscious underwater images and even a downloadable pdf-gift for you!
Paul Francis Malamud, October 26, 2022
Editor’s Note: See Paul’s published works per Amazon Paul Francis Malamud, class of 1969, passed away from complications in heart surgery on October 26, 2022. Born in New York City in 1947, he moved with his parents, Ann and Bernard Malamud, to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1949. Though he would go on to live in Vermont, in Cambridge, and eventually in Washington, D.C., thoughts of Corvallis inspired wistfulness in him until the end of his life….
