From the Lincoln County News, June 11, 2019 Morrison McKelvy Bonpasse: November 22, 1947 – June 7, 2019 Morrison McKelvy Bonpasse died in the Special Care Unit at Maine Medical Center on Friday, June 7, 2019. He was born the third child and first son of Frances and Morrison Bump on Nov. 22, 1947, the day of the Harvard-Yale football game. Morrison had an idyllic childhood growing up in Duxbury, Mass., with his many Kelley…
From the North Andover, MA Eagle-Tribune: Haverhill – Gregory P. Karampalas, 73, of Haverhill, passed away Tuesday, May 26, at Carney Hospital in Dorchester. He was born in Haverhill on March 20, 1947, the son of the late Peter and Chrystine (Costarides) Karampalas. Gregory attended the Haverhill Public School System and was a graduate of Haverhill High School with the class of 1965. He went on to Yale University, where was given a special award…
Professor Markovits’ provocative bestseller, The Meritocracy Trap, compellingly argues that the Meritocracy system, which began with our generation and governs the period of our own Yale Admissions, has become a system with unintended negative societal consequences.
This Class Colloquium will be our first with a speaker from the Yale Faculty. He will challenge bedrock meritocratic assumptions, and he promises to include some “two-way dialogue.”
Register in advance for the event; details will be emailed to you.
Turmoil on campuses, Yale included, is not just a student phenomenon. Yale Alumni are challenging the nomination process for the “Alumni Fellow” seat on the governing board of trustees (aka “the Yale Corporation”).
There are two ways to get on the ballot; Nominating Committee or Petition. The next three weeks are critical – will these two Petition drives work? What’s at stake is nothing less than the transparency of the nominating process itself. Learn more; maybe sign a petition?
Mike Medved does a three hour talk-radio show EVERY DAY, and recently he’s been broadcasting from his home in Washington State. After he was done for the day and took a half hour break, he joined over 100 interested classmates for the fourth in our series of Class Colloquia, this one being “A View from the Right, a conservative looks at the current state of politics.”
Here is a recording of Michael’s presentation and some Q&A.
Our class now has its own Class Colloquia on ZOOM! All classmates are welcome to attend the presentation, Q&A, and breakout sessions afterward. Our first presenter was Ken Davis, who gave us a full update on Covid-19 from Mt. Sinai Hospital. Our second presenter was John Yarmuth, (D-KY), who gave us his views on politics in Washington and the upcoming elections. Next up was Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman, who will talk about the “Future…
from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family eternally grateful for his presence in their lives. Indeed, he lived with eternity in his heart, and entered his heavenly…
There have been 12 really influencial books in my life: The Magus by John Fowles. I relate to it because Nicholas Urfe, the protagonist, became an English teacher abroad when he couldn’t think of anything else to do – just like me. It’s essentially a lesson in learning to love and this is one of the most important lessons one can learn. Voices of the Old Sea by Normal Lewis. Three successive summers on the…
David Harrison Idol II died Saturday, August 22, 2020 at his home on Hillcrest Dr. in High Point. He was 74 years old. David was born May 20, 1946 in High Point to Percy Cornelius Idol and Lillian Small Idol. He was educated at Woodberry Forest School, King’s College, Taunton, and Yale University, and he received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He began his law career…
I was recently introduced to the concept of a “Quake book” — a book (or other work of art) that profoundly changed the way you look at things. “Occasionally I stumble across something really wild. Gray matter lurches and heaves. Neural pathways are destroyed and rebuilt. When the tremors finally stop, nothing looks the same.”
What were YOUR quake books? List yours here. See what books “shook” your classmates … and why. Who knows, you might see something you’ve been meaning to read!
Editor’s Note: In the Comment below the article, classmate Jim Sleeper announces his retirement from the Yale faculty, highlighting the times he’s criticized the University’s corporatism (and, in this Op-Ed from the New Republic, reminding us why he protested Steve Schwarzman’s speech at the Reunion).
When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts [,,,]
from USA Today FDA approves COVID-19 saliva test developed at Yale in partnership with the NBA, NBPA Jeff Zillgitt USA TODAY A saliva-based COVID-19 test developed by researchers at Yale in partnership and funding from the NBA and National Basketball Players Association was approved on Saturday for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Called SalivaDirect, the test uses saliva samples to detect COVID-19. SalivaDirect is non-invasive and requires just a small sample, reducing…
My wife of many years, whom I will call Alice in this piece, died when I was 69.
At the age of 70, I began dating for the first time since I was at Yale. Dating at 70 is different from dating when you’re young, and a number of friends who have long been married are curious about what this experience is like. A couple of them asked about that, and I thought some of my Yale classmates might share that curiosity. So I’ve written this account of what it was like.
from the New York Times Justice Dept. Accuses Yale of Discrimination in Application Process The Trump administration said the university discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants. Yale defended its practices and vowed to maintain them. by Anemona Hartocollis, Aug. 13, 2020 The Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of violating federal civil rights law by discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants, an escalation of the Trump administration’s moves against race-based admissions policies at elite…
from Campus Reform by Ben Zeisloft Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent on Aug 06, 2020 at 10:30 AM EDT One-fifth of Yale and Harvard students will not enroll for the fall semester. Universities across the United States are anticipating drops in enrollment. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 20 percent of Harvard and Yale University students will not re-enroll at the Ivy League schools this fall. An email sent to Harvard students from Dean of the Faculty of Arts…
OK, you are part of a group of Yalies, and you want to help them stay in touch. The group might be composed of your roommates and neighbors from “back in the day.” It might be your spook. Or your sports team or another extracurricular activity. It could even be a “shared interest group” of classmates that you’d like to organize now, like Doug Leonard recently did. Your goal: to have an easy way for…
