On a surprisingly mild late November afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a miracle happened. After a decade of disappointment, Yale’s underdog Bulldogs played superbly on both sides of the ball and upset a potent Cantab team, 21–14. Your scribe enjoyed every minute of it, and will continue to savor sweet victory, undimmed “through mem’ry’s haze.” The white handkerchief came out, and vigorous waving shook off the years of dust and dreams denied. It even dabbed a…
While not a Calhoun College alumnus, I do appreciate that a name change is jarring for some. However, I want to say that I am delighted with the choice of Grace Murray Hopper. I met her once, near the end of her life, when she spoke to a computer group in the Boston area. She was an important pioneer in the field. President Salovey’s letter described some of her accomplishments but left out some. She…
Letter from President Peter Salovey, February 10, 2017
I didn’t have any real interaction with Brian during our Yale years. He was, of course, a star. I was a lowly hacker-type athlete, blessed with size enough to play in high school but not gifted enough for intercollegiate athletics. Happily, the intermural programs gave me an outlet for some play and for some exercise. So imagine my delight when, one day, we were playing in the 5th floor gym, and Brian played on the…
Does anyone remember Peachy Kuehn? I remember him from Fellows’ Dinners, where, slightly inebriated, he’d hold forth with shockingly liberal opinions — shocking to me because he was an “adult” and my other role models for adults (my parents, my HS teachers) were either conservative or centrist. Imagine my surprise when I got a note in January of Sophomore year that the dean wanted to see me. I dutifully showed up, sat opposite him at…
When Chris Argyris spoke to us Freshman year, he blew my mind. Never before had a businessman seemed to me to be so insightful into human nature. He was articulate, persuasive and funny. He could even be sacrilegious, once referring to my Catholic Church as “the marketing department of the Lord.” I never got to take any of the group dynamics classes he famously taught. But his “Organizational Behavior” wing of the Department was particularly…
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Yale School of Management During the summer between my junior and senior year in high school, my parents took me around to look at colleges. We stopped in New Haven in July. The campus was mostly deserted. I got a map and walked around, eventually walking into a building on Prospect Street (where the Becton Engineering building now is) that housed the Department of Industrial Administration. There I looked over the bulletin boards, agog at…
Sadly, this edition of Class Notes tells of 3 who have passed away … one mini-reunion of friends from JE.
From Rich’s wife Laurie (lauriemattas@yahoo.com): “In 1965, Rich graduated from Morton West High School in Berwyn, Illinois, where he was an outstanding scholar and athlete and a member of their undefeated football team. He continued to play football at Yale, capping his career with the infamous Yale-Harvard game of 1968. After graduating from Yale in 1969 with a BA in physics, he continued his education at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, where he earned an…
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(Published in Virginia Gazette on Nov. 16, 2016) WILLIAMSBURG – Neill P. Watson, III, 69, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The College of William and Mary and faculty member for 32 years, died on November 10th after a short illness. Respected as a teacher, colleague and administrator, Neill focused on clinical psychology in dozens of scholarly papers and convention presentations that he wrote and co-authored. His research explored Rogerian theories of psychotherapy and ways to measure discrepancies…
Harold Mancusi reports from the AYA Assembly and Tom Emmons is looking for volunteers. Len Hill, RIP.
Several classmates from JE gathered in Half Moon Bay, partly to celebrate the life of Randy Straff, who recently passed away, and partly to have fun.
A new website inspired by our upcoming 50th Reunion but covering all aspects of our time at Yale and our lives after Yale has been launched.
Bob Bucholz passed away at home in Dallas, Texas, on May 20. This memorial was submitted by Marybeth Ezaki ’73 (Marybeth.ezaki@gmail.com), Richard Tedlow, Terry Light, Phil Gans(pgans@pgans.com), Derry Allen, and Wil Lam: “Bob was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. At Yale, Bob was summa cum laude with a BA in economics. He graduated from Yale Medical School in 1973, and completed a surgical internship at the University of Colorado, then returned to Yale for his…
