Classmates, do any of you remember or have information about a small anti-draft demonstration on Beinecke Plaza one wintry morning in early 1968, our junior year? Three seniors handed their draft cards to Bill Coffin in an act of civil-disobedience, stating that they would refuse conscription into the Vietnam War. I came across the gathering on my way to a class, and I’ve described what I remember in a few paragraphs, beginning in the fourth…
Archives at Yale, a new software tool launched in early September, allows students, faculty, and other researchers to search more precisely across and within more than 5,000 collections held by 10 Yale libraries and museums. The new tool is based on a widely used open-source web application — which means that Yale’s investment in developing it will benefit other libraries and museums around the world. “Yale’s collections are unusually large and diverse, with unique information…
U.S. Education and Justice Departments are investigating. University says its practices are legal. https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/09/27/us-reveals-investigation-alleged-anti-asian-bias-yale By Scott Jaschik September 27, 2018 The U.S. Departments of Education and Justice revealed Wednesday that they are conducting an investigation into whether Yale University discriminates against Asian American applicants. The investigation comes as a lawsuit making similar claims against Harvard University — and backed by the Justice Department — is about to go to trial. Yale, in a statement sent to students and faculty members,…
According to the Class Survey, 49 percent of us have published a book or an article in a scholarly journal. So, to showcase our work, Yale1969.org hosts are section called Books By Classmates, a searchable and sortable library showing ALL the books we’ve authored or edited. Check it out!
Send us information about YOUR books by using the contact form or emailing support@Yale1969.org Send only the ISBN or ASIN number OR links to the books on any website, and we will …
By Eren Orbey September 25, 2018 Last week, after Christine Blasey Ford went public with an allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a party in high school, the Yale Daily News published an old photograph that directed scrutiny to the Supreme Court nominee’s college years. In the black-and-white image, two brothers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity march across Yale’s campus in an initiation rite, one of them carrying a flag fashioned…
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…
