Stephen Schwarzman given honorary British knighthood.
Blackstone founder named among US recipients alongside Mark Milley, former chairman of joint chiefs of staff.
Billionaire US private equity executive Stephen Schwarzman is to receive an honorary British knighthood for services to philanthropy. The award was announced by the British embassy in Washington, and confirmed …
from Legacy.com: William Francis Streicker, 76, passed away on March 1, 2024. He departed the world peacefully at his home in Richmond, Virginia, surrounded by family. Will was born on June 3, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, attended medical school at New York University and completed his…
Ken Brown submitted this obituary for his college roommate Richard L. Farren, who died suddenly at his home on December 3, 2023: “Richard matriculated with the Yale Class of 1969 but graduated in three years with the Class of 1968. He attended most of the Class of 1969 reunions but could not resist going to…
You may recall the extensive class survey that most of our classmates took in 2019. It covered LOTs — health/sex, demographics, work/career, politics, lifestyle, relationship with Yale, and religion/spirituality.
This 2024 survey updates that information with how things may have changed since our 50th reunion five years ago. The questionnaire is fun and …
If you haven’t taken the survey yet, start here.
The Council of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) has voted to award Eugene Linden The Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for his 11th book, Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. A previous work on climate change, Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civllizations, won the Grantham Prize’s Award of Special Merit.
A former senior writer for TIME Magazine, where he wrote about nature, science, and …
Since October 2020, the Yale and Slavery Research Project has conducted intensive research to provide a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the university’s past involvement with slavery.
In a major announcement on Feb. 16, Yale announced the publication of results in a book, a free pdf and an incredible interactive website that I strongly recommend you visit. Unlike Georgetown and Brown, Yale didn’t own slaves directly, but many of its early leaders and benefactors did.
Last, the university issued a Statement acknowledging some of its institutional failings re: slavery and announcing some constructive programs, especially for New Haven.
One of the many interesting things about our 50th Reunion was the Class Survey. The response (both statistical and emotional) was so strong that we’re doing it again! The same team that created the 50th survey is about to launch a shorter but just as incisive questionnaire focused on what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what’s new, as we totter into the second half of our 70s.
Look for the email with the survey, coming soon.
Editor’s Note: This is a comprehensive summary of what’s coming for our reunion. Everyone should read it and nail down his plans to attend. For those staying in hotels, see the links and other information to help you BOOK NOW when the “reunion rates” go live next Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Jeff Horton is dealing with a twist of fate in his life and wants to hear from other classmates who are raising their grandchildren. He writes: “After my 33 year old son died in 2022, his two children came to live with me in Palmdale CA, north of Los Angeles. As you all can imagine, it is exhausting, but it is also invigorating.
I’d love to hear from any other grandparents acting as parents from our class at [email and phone in the full story].
We are working on two ideas to add a little music to our reunion. Eliot Norman suggests:
1. Putting “Street” Pianos at the two ends of the tent in the courtyard at TD. Folks can just play a bit as they feel like it, while walking by, whether to entertain friends, jam or just communicate their thoughts.
2. Organizing a “pop-up” band and sing-along participation fun event after dinner on Saturday.
For further information, read more or contact Eliot (email).
As we have profiled before, Chris Hoffman has published four books of poetry and a bedrock book called The Hoop and the Tree, which went through a second edition with some revised and updated materials in 2021. He explained the image and the metaphors of hoop and tree in an article published recently on the Climate Psychology Alliance website. For you audiophiles, Chris also explained the model in a Zoom at Noon presentation hosted on YouTube.
Dick Williams sends this news about Mark Klugheit which he gleaned from the Yale Law Report: “Mark Klugheit continues his second (third?) career as director for Next Stage Theatre Southwest in Tucson, AZ, with very successful 2022 productions of David Ives’s Venus in Fur and Halley Feiffer’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City.
Michael Folz and wife Maureen have been working and re-working some of their songs using some of the newer recording and engineering technology. And it’s mind-blowing … well, more ear-blowing. Compare, for example “Right Through My Heart” from 2015 vs. the revision of the same song they created a couple months ago, The 2015 version…
Matt Flynn’s newest book differs from his series on Bernie Weber, math genius. His new thriller is set closer to home, namely, Matt’s experience as a court clerk on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He hastens to add that the scenes in the book about cheating with an attractive Asian co-clerk are pure fiction. 😉
Plot Summary: In The Court of Last Resort, Federal Judge Adam Willow, a former Marine commando, demands perfect justice. Some defendants …
UPDATED comments, posted 4/8/24 Remembering Donald P. Ferguson, ’69 Mark Alden Branch’s “Old Yale” article, “The Stories Behind the Names,”, in Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2023, focuses on five of the 35 Yale alumni killed in the Vietnam War. One of them, Donald Ferguson, ’69, is also part of another group of five men killed…
Note: In this essay, Jim Sleeper reports on Death of a Yale Man, a memoir from Malcolm Ross, Yale 1919. Ross, a son of an “old stock,” prosperous family, who graduated Yale in 1919, sold bonds briefly and then turned to years of body-wracking labor alongside miners and oil drillers and became a New Deal official with the National Labor Relations Board.
