Editor’s Note: This is a book review in the LA Review of Books, where classmate Jeff Wheelwright reviews a book about “mystery illnesses.” Given his recent battle with his own mystery illness (see “Patient, Heal Thyself“) and his background as a medical journalist, Jeff’s review of these famous cases was especially poignant.
Your scribe is saddened to report that Bobby Haas passed away in September. I discovered his aerial photography long after Yale; my copy of Through the Eyes of the Vikings (National Geographic, 2010) has had a prominent place in our living room for a decade. The photographs are truly stunning. (National Geo reminds readers that…
Yale University is pushing back the start of the spring 2022 semester and modifying the semester schedule due to a surge in COVID-19 cases around the world.
from Martha’s Vineyard Times By Eunki Seonwoo | December 20, 2021 Clinical trials have not been done, but it does hold promise. Researchers from Yale University have developed a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine against “Borrelia burgdorferi,” commonly known as Lyme disease, according to Yale Daily News. The vaccine has been tested on guinea pigs…
from NBC Connecticut Published December 19, 2021 • Updated on December 20, 2021 at 6:56 am Yale University officials are encouraging students to leave early for the fall semester as final exams will be online amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The university said they haven’t directly experienced an increase in cases like other universities have, but they want to…
It’s the holidays and once again I’m arguing with classmates and friends about the latest Beatles’ release! Plus ça change. This time, it’s about Peter Jackson’s 8-hour miniseries on Disney+, studying the Fab Fours’ creation of the Let It Be album.
Back in our school days, The Beatles seemed to dominate our Decembers, beginning in freshman year when Rubber Soul could […]
This weekend I’m thinking about Watergate, the scandal that began when some operatives burgled a Democratic office and got caught. That happened in the run-up to the 1972 election, which Nixon won hugely, in June I believe. I was fishing then, off New England, chasing offshore lobster in Lydonia Canyon out on the edge of…
from Yale News By Susan Gonzalez | December 10, 2021 Two Yale seniors and two alumni with an interest in fostering peaceful and prosperous relations with China are among the 151 individuals selected as 2023 Schwarzman Scholars for graduate study in China. Seniors Jasper Boers and Sharmaine Koh Mingli and alumni Liam Arnade-Colwill ’19 and…
One Man’s Informed Attempt to
Navigate the Medical System
Editor’s Note: Our writer classmate Jeff has worked mainly as a science/medical journalist. He’s also the son of a doctor (Yale ’44). Following a recent health scare, Jeff offers some thoughts about the costs and pitfalls of our “sickcare” system. The bottom line: Have your wits fully about you if you want to survive.
from Yale Daily News Four Yale seniors will cross the Atlantic next fall for graduate studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholarship. JORDAN FITZGERALD NOV 28, 2021 Mary Orsak ’22 hid in the Pierson College seminar room on Nov. 20, shielding herself from the Yale-Harvard game festivities while she…
Today we hosted a Class Colloquium addressing Alzheimer’s, dementia and other degenerative diseases for the Yale Boom group (Yale Classes of 1967-73). Drs. Art Segal and Ken Davis guided the discussion led by the two experts from the staff of Mount Sinai. See the original announcement for background on the speakers and program.
Below is the video of the event, with the transcript. Several suggestions and interesting ideas are included in the Comments area below the post.
News from Bruce Mazo, Brad Gascoigne, Felice Pace, Chris Hoffman, and Richard Seltzer and comments from your Class Scribe.
Yale and Columbia played the first intetcollegiate golf match. Recently, they had a rematch to celebrate the 125th anniversary.
Interview in The New Yorker, by Jane Mayer (Yale ’77):
It was too early in the afternoon for Representative John Yarmuth, of Kentucky, to open the bottle of Larceny bourbon that he keeps in his Capitol Hill office, but the situation he described might drive anyone to drink. Yarmuth, who turns seventy-four next week, is one of a dozen House Democrats who have announced their intention to retire or seek other offices. The rush to the exits has triggered speculation …
Editor’s Note: I’m still looking for News and other items ABOUT classmates. Given gaps, though, I’m sharing stories, poems, essays, and other works FROM you. This one’s a Christmas-time adventure story. See also Michael’s memoir about 1965, 1966, 1967.
Back in the 1950’s, when I was a skinny little kid with a preternatural love of geography, I used to spend long half-hours staring at the maps of the world and imagining myself somewhere out there. … One of my favorite romantic places to imagine myself being was on the Pan American Highway, that thin red line on […]
Something on the order of half of us will deal with dementia — either our own or our spouse’s. Class Secretary Dr. Art Segal and Class Council member Dr. Ken Davis have arranged for two experts to join us for a close look at the disease, what can be done to forestall or attenuate it and what else we should know. Their presentation will be followed by your questions and candid conversation.
