Here is a scanned copy of a May ’68 issue of an “underground” journal that frankly I had forgotten about: the alternative. This issue drilled into the “Crisis At Columbia,” as reported by a ’67 Yalie who was a grad student at Columbia at the time. Re-reading this now was eerie — partly because it was more complex than I remember, and the threat of violence was …
Branford College’s Rick Drost has been a lifelong singer but in recent years has become a much-sought-after singer/songwriter/guitarist. With the release of his solo album, Turning the World, he has begun performing in national venues such as Passim in Cambridge, MA.
Work, career, volunteering, entrepreneurship — what did the broad sweep of our productive years entail? What are we doing now? How well, financially speaking, did we do? That’s the subject of this installment of these “reports From The Class Survey.” When we first graduated, before settling into a serious career, we had to deal with the draft, taking time away, going to graduate school, serving in the Peace Corps (5% of us served in the…
Tickets to the Yale-Harvard Game in Boston on Saturday, Nov. 17th, are over 90% sold out. We’re now happy to confirm the details for the Friday evening festivities, which are composed of a dinner at Henrietta’s Table, a superb Cambridge restaurant that is a short walk from where the Yale-Harvard Glee Club concert will be held. Note: Limited ticket availability. It should be a fun evening!
This little gizmo came in the mail last month to some of our more active Classmates. The main reaction was puzzlement. What was it? About 3″ x 2″, with a peel-off backer that exposed some adhesive, it caused a stir. The Listserv lit up: Macon Cowles started with the basic question: “OK, dear classmates …
By Jim Shelton September 5, 2018 Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. The findings appear online Sept. 5 in the journal Nature. The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature of quantum mechanics that has previously been used to transmit unknown quantum states between two parties without…
Editor’s Note: The Plastic Visitation (comprising some of our Classmates) has played at several of our reunions. They will play at our 50th Reunion as well. This history of the group will give you the backstory.
The Prehistory: At Yale in the fall of 1966, four upperclassmen put a band together. Tom Picton (Trumbull ’69) sang, Mike …
(By David Gelernter. Mr. Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Dittach LLC.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/ten-things-they-didnt-tell-you-at-freshman-orientation-1536010557 Learn how to be a good American, challenge your teachers, study a language, and tackle hard subjects. By David Gelernter Sept. 3, 2018 5:35 p.m. ET Welcome to Yale. Please disregard what you’ve been told so far, and follow these instructions. 1. Understand that you’re here to learn how to be good citizens of the…
Confirmed: The 2019 Whiffenpoofs will serenade us during the brunch before The Game in Fenway Park, Boston, on November 17th. This continues a multi-decade tradition of the Whiffs or Whim’n’Rhythm singing at the biennial brunch in our Cambridge home on those years when The Game is played at Harvard. The brunch will be held at The Hawthorne, an upscale bar/restaurant that we have rented for a “private event” prior to the Yale-Harvard Game. The food is being…
Some news about 50th Reunion activities, reports from Harold Ozer’s life, and a request from Barney Brawer regarding an intergenerational sharing of perspectives, possibly to be held with other classes at our reunion.
This time, character matters as much as ideology. I’m very sorry to have to open up a controversy on our class website, but some classmates’ obviously well-intentioned support for Jamie Kirchick’s write-in candidacy to become a trustee of Yale deserves a substantive response. Exercising my freedom of speech (Remember the Woodward Report?!), I’ll unload a bit here, because I happen to know how dramatically unsuited Kirchick is for membership on Yale Corporation. I was a…
The New Journal began in 1967, the brainchild of Yale Daily News expatriates Pete Yeager and Dan Yergin, both ’68. It was student-run and free — one of the first serious, college publications that didn’t require a subscription.
A few of us ’69ers joined that first year: Paul Malamud, Howard Newman, Jean-Pierre Jordan. (Any others? if so, leave a comment.) The next year more people got involved: According to the Yale Banner a total of 12 of our classmates were involved: John Adams, Milton Anderson, Paul …
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.
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 …
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 …
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!
