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Announcements
Campus Miscellaneous — Beyond Core Reunion Events
ByAdmin May 14, 2023January 6, 2025
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…
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Around The Web
Yale Council works on free speech recommendations for president
ByAdmin May 3, 2023May 24, 2023
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 …
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Class Notes
Class Notes, May-Jun 2023
ByDaniel Seiver May 1, 2023July 3, 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…
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In Memoriam
James Vincent Minor III, April 1, 2023
ByAdmin April 17, 2023April 26, 2024
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,…
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Announcements
Class Colloquium 17: The “Joy of Music” after Retirement
ByArthur Segal April 15, 2023April 22, 2023
In 2019 Eliot Norman (Dvenport ’69) swapped one type of practice (law) for another (piano).
On May16^th 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.
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Books
Another Selzer Novel: We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?
ByAdmin April 13, 2023April 22, 2023
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 …
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Books
Bernie Weber, Math Genius Rides Again
ByWayne Willis April 12, 2023April 22, 2023
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 …
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Potpourri
Yale Glee Club and Trains
ByJim Sleeper April 2, 2023April 22, 2023
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.”
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Books
UPDATE: Caribbean Coral Reef Book Published
ByWilliam Sacco April 1, 2023April 23, 2023
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!
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In Memoriam
Paul Francis Malamud, October 26, 2022
ByAdmin April 1, 2023April 26, 2024
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….
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News
Frank Shorter Profiled in Yale Alumni News
ByAdmin March 21, 2023May 23, 2023
Frank Shorter ’69 says he learned early in his time as an undergraduate student at Yale University that there was no point playing it safe in an environment where every student on campus was at least as accomplished as the next one.
Recalling the number of valedictorians in his class, he …
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Around The Web
ChatGPT on campus: Assessing its effects on college writing — and teaching
ByWayne Willis March 10, 2023April 22, 2023
from Yale News Yale’s Alfred Guy discusses the potential dangers and opportunities of the AI technology and how educators can utilize it to improve student writing. By Zoe Keller March 3, 2023 Since its public launch in November, the platform ChatGPT has generated a tsunami of news analyses and online discussions about how it and similar artificial intelligence (AI) technologies might upend the world as we know it. Given the app’s ability to quickly produce…
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Class Notes
Class Notes, Mar-Apr 2023
ByDaniel Seiver March 1, 2023July 2, 2023
David Click died on May 18, 2021. An edited report from nolo.com: “After Yale he received a J.D. from Yale Law in 1973, and a Master’s in Economics from Yale in 1974. David taught at the law schools of Western New England, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland, including property, trusts and estates, law and economics, constitutional law, jurisprudence, legal research and writing, and appellate advocacy. He returned home to Florida in 1984 with…
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Around The Web
Boycott from Law Schools, U.S. News & World Report Changes Ranking System
ByAdmin January 3, 2023April 22, 2023
from NYTimes The magazine, which has been rating top schools for decades, said in a letter to deans that it is altering its methods to address their concerns. By Ruth Graham Jan. 2, 2023 Under pressure amid a boycott by top law schools, U.S. News & World Report told law school deans on Monday that it will make several changes in the next edition of its influential ratings. In a letter to American law school deans…
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Class Notes
Class Notes, Jan-Feb 2023
ByDaniel Seiver January 1, 2023July 3, 2023
Your scribe has been stunned by the arrival of three obituaries of classmates who died within a nine-day period in September 2022. I have collected below their memorials gleaned from newspaper reports, which I have edited to meet my stringent space requirements. Much more, including pictures and more remembrances of classmates who knew them, can be found on our class website. Excerpts from the New Haven Register: “William Wickwire, of North Haven, passed away peacefully…
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Books
Another New Author: Daniel Duke, Man Camp
ByAdmin December 15, 2022April 22, 2023
Another classmate becomes a published author, this time at the ripe old age of 75! Check out Daniel Duke’s Man Camp, available directly from Amazon or other sources.
“Society today is obsessed with identity–gender, race, religion, political persuasion, and so on. So what does it mean, in this charged atmosphere, to be a man?”
Will someone write a review? If so, just add it in the comments!
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