About twenty of our classmates and their spouses gathered at the Union Club in Boston recently for a small, intimate mini-reunion. “Read more” for pictures and a full report, including some provocative suggestions for our 50th Reunion.
Making Every Vote Count (MEVC) — a new, national group co-founded by our own Reed Hundt and dedicated to reforming the Electoral College — got significant support for its key arguments from a new research published today.
The lifelong mineral collector and Yale alumnus donated $4 million for David Friend Hall, which opened last fall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Chris Hoffman publishes a new book of poetry. Some delayed and sad news about Thom Graham, who died in a farming accident in 2012. And we highlight some recent recognition about our own Frank Shorter after the 40th anniversary of his win in Montreal Olympics.
The Reunion Committee is hosting a cocktail party on Tuesday, October 3, from 6pm to 8pm. Click here to register.
Download The Form Here is a copy of the “Objective Data” form in various formats. Left-click to download (or right-click and “Save target as” or “Save link as” depending on your browser): Microsoft Word version Apple Pages version RTF version (which works with most other word processing programs) What The Objective Data Form Covers: Here is a preview of what you’ll see in the form you download and use: NAME: CONTACT INFORMATION: Email: Phone(s): Address…
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” admin_preview_bg=”] Our model for how “Objective Data” may or may not appear in the 50th Reunion ClassBook is taken from the way the Class of ’67 used it. The table below show screenshots of how different people’s submissions looked. Some were “Name Only” — probably people who were missing. Some people only submitted contact information, nothing else. Some offered some family information, too. And some submitted everything. One…
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The easiest way to submit your essay is by filling out a form and attaching your essay (and pictures, if any). But if you want to mail or email your essay (and related materials), use this checklists: Prepare the file attachments: Objective Data. Download a copy of the Objective Data Form. Fill it out and save it as a file with filename = [Your Name]-data. Essay. Save your Essay as a file with filename =…
Over 9 months in the making, the new Class Website, Yale1969.org, is ready for use by the class. Access is limited to members of the Class of 1969 only. Here is a summary of key features: Classmates Functions Find a classmate – by college, by major, by extracurricular activity … or by using the search box in the masthead banner. Missing classmates – a list of Classmates for whom we have no email. (Can you help? If so, send…
July 25, 2017 Class of 1969:In less than twenty-four months, we will gather to commemorate passage of fifty years since Yale declared us equipped for life as adults. Drawn by nostalgia, vestigial loyalties, and curiosity we will wander the campus, dip a toe in the deep waters of Yale learning, and seek reconnection with not-quite-forgotten names and faces. Whatever else we feel about Yale, we attend Reunions to re-unite with each other, to answer our…
JE has a small endowment of its own, and one of the benefits of that endowment is having season tickets to one box seat very close to the stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. You can apply to get tickets and the Master’s office distributes them. Once, I “won” the ticket, took the train down to Grand Central and taxied over to Lincoln Center. I have no recollection of which opera I saw,…
On July 17, our own Tom McNamee appeared as a guest on On Point, with Tom Ashbrook. Our Tom and bear biologist Chris Servheen discussed whether removing the Grizzly Bear from the endangered species list in Yellowstone was premature. You can listen to the whole episode by clicking on the link at the top of the episode page. Tom has also authored a powerful argument published on July 14, 2017 as an Op-Ed in the…
When I went to Yale, there was one Department of Engineering & Applied Science. When I went to MIT for graduate school, there was one Department of Humanities.
From David H. Johnson: “My wife and I recently visited Mary Starnes, widow of former Dramat director Leland Starnes. Mary lives in Salisbury, Maryland. Lee was teaching and directing at Salisbury State College (now University) when he passed away in 1980. Mary’s as bright, pretty, and perceptive as she ever was. She remembers all the Dramat performances (and performers) of the late ’50s to the late ’60s. She has very precise memories of taking MFA…
Once a year, Davenport College had a duplicate bridge tournament, with about 30 pairs competing. Although I was later to run this game, when I arrived at Yale I had never played a session of duplicate. I decided to enter, partnered with one of my Farnam entrymates and fellow duplicate-virgin, Greg Thomas. One of the Farnam freshman counselors tried to give us tips on duplicate strategy, although in retrospect I realize he wasn’t much wiser…
