Note: The tragedy in Afghanistan has prompted Jim Sleeper to re-issue, with new comments, a 2017 column for The Washington Monthly. He criticizes the “Grand Strategy” methodology of Yale faculty who sought to advance foreign-policymaking developed at the post-war Yale we’d attended and that persisted up through General Stanley McChrystal’s teaching stint at Yale from 2012-17.
Note: Harry reports his experience creating a free, walking tour app for his hometown, Lexington, MA. More importantly, he created an authoring system where YOU can create tours of your hometown … or other places of interest.
He’s looking for volunteers to create their own tours. He’ll provide tech support. Is this something you might want to do?
Richard Seltzer keeps up the torrid pace of publishing with the release of his latest novel, Shakespeare’s Twin Sister. He reports, “I had a LOT of fun with this one!”
The plot device is clever: Shakespeare’s twin sister Kate wakes up in the body of a 99-year-old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has […]
from the New Haven Register Yale University PhD student Matthew Amodio has become an eight-day returning champion on television quiz show, “Jeopardy!” earning $52,000 on Tuesday night’s episode, and defeated Christina Leone of East Hartford. In his winning streak, Amodio has won $362,400. Heading into the Final Jeopardy! round, Amodio’s earnings totaled $36,000 while Leone’s were…
from NH Register With over a dozen athletes heading to Tokyo, Yale remains a consistent college presence in the Olympics Maggie Vanoni July 16, 2021 With 16 athletes scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics that have Yale ties, and three more to potentially receive confirmation later this month, the university will continue its presence…
Class Colloqium 11, held July 14, 2021, featured Classmate Richard Breitman in a thought-provoking discussion of ‘Refugee and Immigrant Crises’, an area of his broad expertise. See the video below.
Professor Emeritus, after a 40-year career at American University, Richard commented based upon his knowledge of early 20th century German History, extensive Holocaust documentation and […]
Yale recognized for fast growth of lower-income student enrollment The American Talent Initiative, a national alliance that aims to increase the number of lower-income students enrolled in colleges and universities, has highlighted Yale as a leader in achieving this goal. Since 2015, the percentage of Yale students eligible for Pell Grants grew by 55%.
Guy Cooper writes, in what may be his first submission to the Class Notes, that “just wondering if any other member of the class of 1969 has survived a tornado? My wife Molly and I were at home on the night of October 20, 2019, half-asleep and half-watching the Dallas Cowboys on a Sunday night,…
from nytimes.com Yale Drama Goes Tuition-Free With $150 Million Gift From David Geffen By Michael Paulson|Jun. 30th, 2021 The $150 million gift will allow Yale School of Drama to stop charging tuition.Credit…Thomas McDonald for The New York Times June 30, 2021 The billionaire David Geffen is giving $150 million to Yale School of Drama, allowing one of…
We have an opportunity that I’d like you to consider: Representing the Class to the Yale Alumni Association (YAA), and vice-versa, as our “Delegate” to the YAA.
Formerly known as the AYA, the YAA coordinates all reunions, Class activities, and alumni programs. As our delegate, you’ll participate in the annual November “Assembly” (virtual this year).
Click thru to learn more. If interested, contact me at the email I provided in the article.
Along the way, they said, the university expects the campus to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, or “zero” emissions after offsets and other campus reductions in emissions are factored in.
Salovey and Strobel also shared an initial list of fossil fuel companies now ineligible for investment by the Yale endowment in accordance with recently adopted ethical investing principles. And they provided an update on the Planetary Solutions Project, an ambitious campus-wide initiative launched in December 2020 that is bringing the full weight of Yale’s expertise and resources to bear on pressing global crises.
A group of Yale University students and alumni is calling on the Yale Corporation, the university’s governing board, to reinstate a petition process through which aspiring trustees could become candidates for open board seats.
Three years after we graduated in 1969, classmate Frank Shorter would win the gold medal in the men’s marathon in the 1972 Summer Olympics. His book My Marathon, coauthored with John Brant, tells how Frank prepared for and won that race as well the fascinating story of his life before and after Munich. In the…
https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/yale-school-of-medicine-issues-statement-on-controversial-guest-speaker/2502573/
(from Boston Globe) Louis Casagrande, who made the Children’s Museum a go-to place for all of Boston, died at 74. A voice for ensuring that the Children’s Museum and similar institutions nationwide served children and families of all cultural and racial backgrounds, Mr. Casagrande died in the Seasons Hospice in […]
from bizjournals.com Yale University stirs dissent on campus, among alumni with abrupt change to board elections Jun. 3rd, 2021 Zoraya Hightower opened an email May 24 to disappointment: Her campaign to secure a seat on Yale University’s board of trustees as an alumni fellow had ended in defeat. “I am sorry to have to deliver this…
