Save the date! April 28th, 2:00 PM (ET). Better yet, register now!
We are excited to announce the 10th Class Colloquium in our popular ongoing series.
For our guest, Classmate Frank Shorter, the number 10 surely conjures thoughts of the 10,000 meters, an event he ran to train for The Marathon. No, not the marathon of questions we’ll pose to him, but the Olympic Marathon which he ran and won, in Munich on September 10, 1972.
Here’s a great way to socialize … and exercise your brain: Learn Bridge and take it to solid, intermediate levels in just 10 weekly lessons!
Classmate David Howorth, certified by the American Contract Bridge League for both face-to-face and online teaching, is offering bridge lessons to any classmates who are interested.
Sign up here before March 28st.
Editor’s Note: Classmates Bill Sacco, a professional photographer, and Jim Porter, a Ph.D. scientist, have been working hard to bring Bill’s stunningly beautiful coffee-table book, A Photographic Guide to the Caribbean Coral Reef, to a bookstore near you.
When this book is printed, its 200+ pages and more than 500 color photographs will drive the cover price quite high. But Bill has generously offered all classmates early-bird access to a high-resolution pdf of the final draft for FREE!
Read on and download your copy at the end of this post.
. from consumer.healthday.com Stem Cell Injections Show Early Promise Against Spinal Cord Injuries Mar. 1st, 2021 These improvements may occur within days or weeks of receiving the stem cell therapy, and can last at least six months, according to the small study. “This is exciting because there are really limited treatment options for patients with spinal cord injury,” said Dr. Griffin Baum, a spine surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not…
. from pionline.com 3 take Harry M. Markowitz Award for insight into machine learning By Rob Kozlowski|Mar. 1st, 2021 Ronen Israel, Bryan Kelly and Tobias Moskowitz were named winners of the $10,000 Harry M. Markowitz Award for their paper, “Can Machines ‘Learn’ Finance?” The award was announced Feb. 25 by the Journal of Investment Management and New Frontier Advisors, co-sponsors of the award, in a joint statement. The paper explores how asset management provides a unique…
Tom Walsh died on September 22, 2020 of pancreatic cancer. A full obituary, with pictures and a memorial by Tom Hine, appears online on the class website, yale1969.org. Here is an excerpt from that memorial: “When he called one day last summer, his voice was as always, soft and even. ‘It looks as if you will be the last of us left,’ he said. I knew he was referring to the four of us who…
The Dynamic Duo teamed up again. They shared observations and stories from their Yale days, their days as professional football players and their perspectives on The Student-Athlete, then and now — all to the delight of those who attended.
But don’t take my word for it: See for yourself in the video recording:
. news.yale.edu The Love Proof: A story set at Yale By Susan Gonzalez|Feb. 18th, 2021 Madeleine Henry ’14 wrote two novels while she was an undergraduate at Yale, neither of which were ever published. But her persistence in bringing her narrative voice to the world eventually paid off. The Yale alumna has since published two books: “Breathe In, Cash Out” (2019), about an investment banker who wants to be a yogi, and the newly released “The Love Proof” (Atria…
Stoll Berne attorney Rob Shlachter as well as his wife Mara Shlachter will be honored with Classroom Law Project’s 2021 Legal Citizen of the Year Award. The event will be held virtually on April 15, 2021 in Portland, OR.
Classroom Law Project is the premier Oregon non-profit focused on educating students about the law and legal systems. Among other things, […]
from CNBC . Facebook will debunk myths about climate change, stepping further into ‘arbiter of truth’ role By Salvador Rodriguez|Feb. 18th, 2021 Send to Kindle A polar bear in Repulse Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Facebook announced Thursday it will now debunk common myths about climate change, further leaning into the “arbiter of truth” role that the company once renounced. The social media giant said it is adding a section to its climate change information hub that will features facts…
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On December 21, 2020, Ed Mitchell, who began his Yale career with our class, passed away at his home in San Francisco, after a long battle with liver cancer. He died peacefully in his bed, set up with a view out his bay window to a distant Golden Gate Bridge, as his longtime partner, Alan Montelibano, held his hand, breaking the hearts, it seems, of every person who ever knew him. During the weeks of…
from fox61.com Yale and New Haven mourn as police investigate shooting death of graduate student NEW HAVEN, Conn. — New Haven Police are investigating a deadly shooting in the area of Nash Street and Lawrence Street that left a Yale University student dead. The shooting happened in the Elm City’s East Rock neighborhood. Just after 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, New Haven Police and Fire Departments responded to multiple 9-1-1 calls of gunfire and a person…
The Class Notes published prior to 1995 were never digitized by YAM. We wanted them available to you, so I drove down to the Reference Library at Sterling with my scanner and physically scanned back issues of YAM, from 1969 to 1995.
I then ran those scans through an optical character recognition (OCR) program to convert the images to searchable text. And then I converted all those pages to one, very large PDF file, available below!
Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — based on the 1970 book by George McNamee — received five nominations, including nods for best film, drama; best director; best screenplay; best supporting actor; and best song. See Yale1969.org’s original story on the re-release of the book and the movie.
The Justice Dept. drops a lawsuit accusing Yale of discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale University’s campus in New Haven, Conn.Credit…Sasha Rudensky for The New York Times The Justice Department on Wednesday withdrew a lawsuit against Yale that charged the university with discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants for admission, another reversal by the new administration of a Trump-era policy. The move is a major step against Asian-American complaints of racial discrimination in college…
