Norman Zamcheck has played piano professionally for most of his life—with Polydor, as part of recording artists “Stormin’ Norman & Suzy” and as “The Real Stormin’ Norman.” Check out one of his most requested ballads — and a couple of his music videos.
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).
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.
Good news: the Reunion Committee has authorized the release of the survey results in advance of the reunion!
This is a report on the first of 9 sections of the Class Survey — this one about who took the survey, marriages, children, grandchildren and miscellaneous other data points. Future reports will cover other sections of the survey.
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 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…
Bobby Haas (ES ’69) opened a new chapter in his life when he turned 64. He didn’t hum along with Ringo’s When I’m 64; rather, he started riding motorcycles for the first time and then, three years later at the age of 67, he began collecting vintage and one-of-a-kind motorcycles. Now four years later […]
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.
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!…
Has Wikipedia become the 21st-century version of Who’s Who, and if so, how many members of the Class are profiled there? What does having a Wikipedia biographical profile published mean anyway? Is it a fair indicator of “success?” Are classmates listed there representative of the broader Class? Curious, I investigated. Here’s the report.
Over the past month, with the help of a program, I sifted through articles in Wikipedia, looking for biographies of members of our class. The program returned 456 possible articles; manually checking that list, I found 50 biographies, linked below. Note: If you know of other Wikipedia articles referring to you or any classmate, please send me (harry@forsdick.com) the classmate’s name and the URL of the Wikipedia article. Thanks. Classmate’s Name Primary reason mentioned in…
This announcement opens up an entirely new section of the Class website — a Music section. The new Music Editor, John G. O’Leary, will be presenting works created by our Classmates, as well as offering some insightful commentary on our musical heritage. After all, Yale is/was a deeply musical place, with something like 60% of undergrads involved in singing groups, bands, orchestras, or other solo or group performances. And the 1960s produced the largest explosion of great music in the century. Welcome MUSIC section. (And get ready for Books, Visual Arts and more!)
Maureen and Michael have been together since 1983, although Michael has been writing songs since 1965. And it may be more of a lucky coincidence that her voice perfectly matches his material. Listen to their CD.
Our Whiffs recorded a CD on the occasion of our 35th reunion (2004), and they played some of these songs for us on Saturday night. I kept the CD and thought you all would like to hear it.
John O’Leary has been a musical performer since his Yale days as the drummer for The Morning. He has appeared on national television three times, played top clubs and concert halls on both coasts, fronted numerous bands as a singer/pianist, and played in acoustic guitar groups. These days he mostly plays solo in coffeehouses and concert halls. READ MORE
