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Memories
A Misbegotten Candidacy for the Yale Corporation
ByJim Sleeper August 27, 2018April 22, 2023
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…
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Archives
Remember The New Journal? Here’s Its First Year!
ByHarry Forsdick August 26, 2018April 22, 2023
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 …
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Survey
Survey: 2. Sex and Health
ByThomas Guterbock August 23, 2018April 22, 2023
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.
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Potpourri
Whole Earth’s 50th Anniversary
ByRobert Horvitz August 22, 2018April 22, 2023
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 …
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Announcements
The Story Behind “The Class of 1969 Memorial Scholarship Fund”
ByWayne Willis August 21, 2018April 22, 2023
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 …
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News
Report From the 1968 Reunion
ByBill Newman August 16, 2018April 22, 2023
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!
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Potpourri
Seen In A Mall in Budapest
ByWayne Willis August 14, 2018April 22, 2023
My last day in Budapest, walking through this Mall, I was taken aback to see J. Press. It now sells athletic wear. Having heard they recently closed their York Street store, I wondered what happened to them. Was this store in Hungary related to “our” J. Press? Well, with Wikipedia to the rescue, I learned: J. Press was started “on Yale’s campus” by a Latvian immigrant, Jacobi Press. That probably refers to the York Street location we…
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Announcements
Upcoming Yale-Harvard Weekend Proves Popular
ByWayne Willis August 13, 2018April 22, 2023
Over half the 100 tickets that Lang Wheeler secured for us are now sold. And a waiting list is forming for more tickets once the “max 2 per Classmate” restriction is lifted on 9/15/2018. If you are thinking about coming to The Game, I’d urge you to move quickly. November 17 seems like a long way away, but those three months will go fast, and tickets won’t last. There are some interesting patterns to the early ticket-buyers …
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Music
The Real Stormin’ Norman: Norman Zamcheck
ByJohn O'Leary August 11, 2018April 22, 2023
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.
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Memories
Woodward Report at 50: Free Speech At Yale
ByThomas Hood August 5, 2018April 22, 2023
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).
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Books | Memories
1947: Where Now Begins
ByJeff Horton August 4, 2018April 22, 2023
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.
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Survey
Class Survey Results Now Available
ByThomas Guterbock August 3, 2018April 22, 2023
Good news: the Reunion Committee has authorized the release of the survey results in advance of the reunion!
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Survey
Survey: 1. Who Are We?
ByThomas Guterbock August 3, 2018March 16, 2024
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.
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In Memoriam
Sheldon Y. Carnes, March 26, 2018
ByAdmin July 23, 2018April 22, 2023
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…
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In Memoriam
Philip Kuekes, November 29, 2010
ByAdmin July 23, 2018April 22, 2023
(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…
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News
Bobby Haas Launches New Motorcycle Museum
ByWayne Willis July 8, 2018April 22, 2023
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 […]
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