I just finished taking the Class Survey — you know, the one for the 50th Reunion? It will show how we, as a group, have changed over the years. More importantly, it will catalogue what we are doing NOW — and what plans and dreams lie ahead. I can report that the Survey itself is really excellent. It was simultaneously fun and thoughtful. And it’s now ready for YOU!
Kingman wrote a letter to the Director of Admissions detailing what he was looking for in new Yale freshmen. See his articulate, well-written guidance addressing things like leadership, public vs. private school, morality, “legacy”, diversity, well-rounded-ness, athletics and the like. This letter was used by Admissions officers and in Alumni Schools Committee training for many decades.
Each year, Davenport published a booklet, Davenport Rogue’s Gallery, with candid shots of D’porters as commentary on life in the college that year. As part of our “digital archiving” project, this is the first Rogue’s Gallery to be scanned and presented on Yale1969.org.
Julian Fisher has returned to his first love, photojournalism, with an exhibit at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center (January 13 – June 6, 2018). The exhibit, Trapped in the Middle: Photographs by Julian Fisher, investigates, in photographs and interviews, how growing income inequality in the US affects the middle class, and how they increasingly feel stressed – and trapped. Get a preview of the show here!
An incredible legacy: the winningest coach in Ivy League history (which includes back when Yale won everything nationally); College Football Hall of Fame, 2004; 15 players (including our own Hill and Dowling) going to the NFL; 5 Rhodes scholars; only 7 of his 2000 players failed to graduate. Read Brian Dowling’s remembrance in the Comments section of this post.
News about the life of Ed Boyle, who blazed a brave and productive path to his end in 1999, leaving behind a lot of people who deeply respected and admired him.
Our class representative reports back from the annual AYA Assembly, held in November. This year the theme was “creating communities at Yale” — yes, communities, plural! Read Harold’s letter about what he learned, especially about how on-campus and off-campus housing is rapidly changing undergraduate life.
In 2018, Yannis Simonides (SM) channels Socrates in a one-man show touring the USA, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Italy and Russia — using ancient texts to challenge modern life.
Judge Myron Thompson first visited Yale Law School when he was 15 years old, invited by a YLS student-volunteer who taught Myron during a 1963 Freedom Summer enrichment program. Owing to Myron’s slow recovery from polio, that student carried Myron around to show him the colleges, encouraging him to apply. In a 37 year career as a federal district court judge, Myron ruled Roy Moore’s Ten Commandments monument unconstitutional and struck down Alabama’s restrictive abortion law, among other opinions. Now he receives Yale Law’s Award of Merit.
Vincent Scully spent virtually all his life in New Haven, as a star student at Hillhouse High School, Yale College, and Yale Grad School — teaching at Yale from 1947 until 2014. A major scholar and gifted teacher, Scully insired us. Read the comments that your Classmates left at the bottom of this remembrance … and leave some of your own.
You’ll get an invitation to the Class Survey shortly. Here’s the behind-the-scenes story about how the survey came into being and the thought that went into the survey design. Lucky enough, one of our Classmates is a leading expert in creating valid and reliable surveys!
Discover magazine asked our own Jeff Wheelwright to write about a UCLA study of the aging brain. Given that his own brain is aging, he enrolled in the study and offers a first-hand perspective.
The resulting article was published in the October issue of Discover. It weaves together a report on what is happening, generally, to all of us, and what, specifically, Jeff experienced.
Ever been tempted by those luscious Yale Travel brochures? Exotic places. Magnificient faculty bringing it alive? In the Spring, join our very own Professor Gene Moore (PC) on a tour of Holland & Belgium via river boat. (And act before December 15th, while tix are available only to us.)
Jonathan Mowry Steere, III, passed away on November 16, 2017 at Hock Hospice Center in Durham, NC after a prolonged illness. He was 71 years old. Jonathan was born on March 27, 1946 in Philadelphia, PA to Jonathan M. Steere, Jr. and Hilda Fletcher Steere. He graduated from Penn Charter High School in Philadelphia in…
Today we launch an entirely new section of the website — everything you’ll need to know about the 50th reunion. Surprise! there are some long-lead-time items that need your attention NOW!
Some reports & stories from Don Lewis and Sam Weisman. References to Joe Mohrman, Bob Horvitz, Reed Hundt and Roger Haile. RIP: Robert Struse. Read more: advanced golf, Jewish ancient wisdom texts and directing a play at regional theatre!
