“Group Email” now available to any ’69 Group. Want one?

“Group Email” now available to any ’69 Group. Want one?

ByWayne Willis

Recently I’ve attended a handful of organizational Zoom meetings for some “Shared Interest Groups” (SIGs).  Each of these SIGs needed an easy way to communicate within the group.  The answer is a group email address.

Concurrently other groups of classmates needed group email, too — the Class Council, a senior society … even my roommate and some of our friends.  🙂
Yale1969.org email now supports group email.  Any group of classmates can have a group email account on Yale1969.org. Want one?

Yale historian Grandin wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction

Yale historian Grandin wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction

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from news.yale.edu May. 4th, 2020 Greg Grandin ’99 Ph.D., professor of history in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has won a Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for his book “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” (Metropolitan Books). Grandin’s book was one…

Fair Sustainable Society SIG Holds First Meeting; Plans Next One

Fair Sustainable Society SIG Holds First Meeting; Plans Next One

ByDoug Leonard

In early April, I announced an interest in assembling some classmates to try to create a fair, sustainable society. See Yalies for a Fair, Sustainable Society.
We met by Zoom on April 15th. The group of attendees had broad interests and the kind of depth that reminds you how much talent was around us as undergrads … often without our appreciation. At the meeting, we […]

Yale study: Selfish people misremember their own past selfishness, thus like selves

Yale study: Selfish people misremember their own past selfishness, thus like selves

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from fastcompany.com Yale study: Selfish people misremember their own past selfishness, thus like selves By Arianne Cohe Selfish assholes do not remember their own selfish behavior, according to a new study out of Yale University that helpfully answers your pivotal question: How can he live with himself? He can quite easily, due to a self-protective trick of memory: Selfish…

Dial It Back Or Die

Dial It Back Or Die

ByMichael Folz

Editor’s Note: This report describes a podcast series created by a classmate.
I’ve been listening to this podcast for a few months now. I’ll do a full review next month, but I can tell you already that it is very rich, deeply researched and seriously worth your time, especially if you enjoy new integrations of history and science toward a theory that explains both the current dysfunctions and a promising path ahead. Click through to read a more complete description.

Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19

Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19

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As testing for the novel coronavirus continues to scale up, a new study finds that saliva samples are a “preferable” indicator for infection than the deep nasal swabs now widely used.
The study led by the Yale School of Public Health — and conducted at Yale New Haven Hospital with 44 inpatients and 98 health care workers — found that saliva samples taken from just inside the mouth provided greater detection sensitivity and consistency throughout the course of an infection than the broadly recommended nasopharyngeal (NP) approach. The study also concluded that there was less variability in results with the self-sample collection of saliva.

Do you podcast?

Do you podcast?

ByWayne Willis

I love podcasts.  I listen to them when walking.  I listened to them when driving, before being grounded by stay-at-home orders, that is.
I’m curious, though: What’s YOUR experience with podcasts?  Are you a frequent listener?  A podcaster?
 Are podcasts moving into the mainstream far enough to reach educated Boomers like us?

To that end, please answer the following 2-minute survey.  I’ll “close” the survey and […]

The Meaning of Yale for the Class of 1969—One Man’s View

The Meaning of Yale for the Class of 1969—One Man’s View

ByRichard Tedlow

Why is it that the four years from our arrival at Yale early in September 1965, to our graduation on June 9, 1969, have proven so important to so many of us? Most of us will be seventy-two years old in 2019, the year of our fiftieth reunion. Those four years we spent in college constitute a mere one-eighteenth of our lives. Why so important? Why is it that today you can initiate a conversation with a classmate with whom you may not have spoken in a half-century, and it will be as easy to talk to him as it was when we were undergraduates together?

Richard Earle MacKay, March 26, 2020

Richard Earle MacKay, March 26, 2020

ByDavid Roe

… In the first ten years of his career, he worked with the National Indian Health Service treating hantavirus on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and measles outbreaks in remote tribal areas near the Arctic Circle. He then transferred to the Peace Corps and served for ten years as a Chief Medical Officer in a number of countries in Africa. He was the first medical person to reach the US Embassy in Kenya after […]

Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients

Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients

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  from news.yale.edu Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients By Brita Belli | Apr. 23rd, 2020 Yale researchers will begin a clinical trial at Yale New Haven Hospital to test the effectiveness of a drug called ibudilast (MN-166) for treating acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a life-threatening lung condition developed by…

First ’69 Classwide Zoom Meeting: Ken Davis

First ’69 Classwide Zoom Meeting: Ken Davis

ByWayne Willis

Over 120 classmates signed up to hear our classmate Ken Davis, CEO of Mt. Sinai Health System, give a short report from the front lines of COVID-19, followed by some Q&As. It was our first classwide Zoom meeting, and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Here is a recording of that session and some feedback from classmates who attended.

Make sure all Americans have access to telehealth

Make sure all Americans have access to telehealth

ByReed Hundt

Editor’s Note: This is an Op-Ed published on April 19th in the Washington Post.

As the covid-19 pandemic tears through the country, weaknesses in our communications and health-care systems have been laid bare. Approximately 25 percent of Americans do not have a primary care doctor, in many cases because of geographic, financial, …

Short Film: Lipstick (Ascending) On Caterpillar Tracks

Short Film: Lipstick (Ascending) On Caterpillar Tracks

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The Yale Archives just added this short film about the fabrication and installation of the Claus Oldenburg (Yale ’50) artwork that appeared in front of Commons in May of our Senior Year.   As you watch this 15-minute film, you’ll recognize a number of faces — Coffin, Scully, Brewster, and some patrician representing the Yale Corporation – Sam Chauncey?  There are many student faces in the crowd, too — perhaps yours?