How do we top the unalloyed joy of a magnificent upset of the Cantabs in 2016? How about a brilliant 2017 season (9-1) capped with an Ivy Championship, and a delightful drubbing of our hapless nemesis from up north? Your scribe’s white hankie waved with many others in the Bowl, as our long trek through the desert of defeat faded into “mem’ry’s haze.” The Bulldogs are BACK! Here now the news: David Lawrence, via our…
Here’s a very fast way to see how many folks live on campus, what the student-teacher ratios are, financial aid statistics, the diversity of the student body, where graduates of Yale College go after graduation and other interesting stats about Yale College in a one-page flyer recently published by Yale. It’s a must-read for anyone handling Alumni interviews, and a quick, fun read for everyone else.
Here’s a large copy of the Senior Picture for TD, contributed to the Archives Project (gathering pictures, documents, flyers, audio tapes, posters, 8mm movies, publications, etc., etc. — generally, memorabilia that will bring a smile of recollection to a Classmate). Do you have a senior picture from YOUR College? There’s also a cool “crowdsourcing” element, asking TD’ers to add names of Classmates in the Legend below the picture.
Here’s another contribution to the Archives Project — A reminder that the Yale Bulldogs were Ivy League champs our senior year, despite a 29-29 TIE. Even better, we have the full film — the documentary produced by some Harvard alums upon the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of That Game. Watch it here. Comments welcome!
We are looking for pictures (especially!), document, flyers, audio tapes, posters, publications, etc., etc.– memorabilia, generally. We want to digitize them and use them in the ClassBook and on the website. So NOW is the time to dig out old scrapbooks, shoeboxes or other stored materials from Back In The Day … and get it to us for preservation, use and return to you (if you want the item/hard copy back).
Derry Allen and Tom Emmons, both of Silliman College, were members of the organizing group of the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS), held on campus Nov. 3-4, 2017. The Summit brought together several hundred alumni, faculty, students and non-Yale people to discuss issues such as population growth, food, farming, EV, renewable energy, climate change, impact investing, etc. They are interviewed by Philip Garvin (MC).
Gay or straight, do you have thoughts to share? The 50th Reunion ClassBook will have our “Personal Essays”, but it will also host some “Invited Essays” on topics of broad interest. One of these has a working title, Being Gay At Yale [in the 60s]. Two classmates, artist Bill Stanisich and educator Jeff Horton have agreed to author/edit the essay. They have their own views, and that of people they know from Yale 1969 personally. But they…
Michael Medved, our very own College Bowl champ and now a conservative talk show host in Seattle, has just launched a new podcast series, Great Minds with Michael Medved. Check out the first two episodes in Season One and learn how to subscribe for more.
Tom Guterbock, Ph.D. (SM ’69 and Director of UVa’s Center for Survey Research) gave the reunion committee an interim report on the Class Survey. Feedback is overwhelmingly positive. Sadly, some people are incapacitated and can’t take it. Participation is good so far, but Tom hopes everyone can take the survey before the February 26th cut-off date. Read Tom’s bullet list of what’s he’s seeing so far.
Calvin Hill, one of our best known classmates, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the 2016 commencement in New Haven. You undoubtedly remember his heroics at Yale Bowl, and you likely knew about his spectacular success in the NFL. But how about his trailblazing work to help those struggling with addiction and his service to Yale … from supporting the employees strike in our senior year to the Calvin Hill Daycare center?
Shortly after leaving Yale and completing graduate work at MIT, Harry Forsdick (PC) joined the engineering firm creating the hardware, software and communication protocols for ARPANET, the predecessor and testbed for the Internet. In semi-retirement, he now has a business that scans pictures and converts films, videos and audio tapes — and is busily converting items from our undergrad years into digital form for us to share and enjoy in the new ARCHIVES section of the website.
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.
