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Op-Ed
How to Keep Consumers’ Lights On: Send the Electric Bill to the Feds
ByHoward Newman May 16, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This reprint from Barron’s is another op-ed from a classmate, circulated for your consideration. Please send any recent op-eds by any classmate to support@Yale1969.org.
One economic reality is inescapable: The rents and bill payments of one American family are the income of another, and this circular flow has been broken. Circular flow needs to be re-established quickly and efficiently, or the loss will be magnified as liquidity issues are transmitted throughout the economy.
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Music
Richard Tedlow on Charisma, Steve Jobs & Donald Trump: (a podcast)
ByAdmin May 14, 2020April 22, 2023
Here is a podcast interview of our classmate Richard Tedlow, by Chris Yeh, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. Those of you who attended the 50th reunion may have seen Richard’s outstanding session on Thursday … demonstrating the “Socratic method” he perfected as an immensely popular HBS professor and later on the faculty at Apple University. Click below to listen to it here or subscribe to the Chris Yeh Podcast wherever you get your podcasts….
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Op-Ed
Reed Hundt on the “Pandemiconomy”
ByReed Hundt May 10, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an Opinion essay that Reed had published in the Detroit Free Press. If you have an essay, article, poem, abstract — anything — published, please let us know.
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Announcements
“Group Email” now available to any ’69 Group. Want one?
ByWayne Willis May 5, 2020April 22, 2023
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?
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Around The Web
Yale historian Grandin wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction
ByAdmin May 5, 2020April 22, 2023
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 of two to win in the general nonfiction category, which recognizes “an appropriately documented book of nonfiction by an American…
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Archives
Fair Sustainable Society SIG Holds First Meeting; Plans Next One
ByDoug Leonard May 2, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Class Notes
Class Notes – May/Jun 2020
ByDaniel Seiver May 1, 2020July 2, 2023
Ted Van Dyke remembers John Nelson: John Eric Nelson died of colorectal cancer on February 5, 2020. He fought it bravely, tenaciously and optimistically. When I last saw him on January 24, we parted with a long-held fist bump and his saying, “It’s not looking good, but I’m not giving up.” John was an excellent athlete, winning the class of 1969 intramural athlete of the year award and leading the JE Spiders football teams to…
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Around The Web
Yale study: Selfish people misremember their own past selfishness, thus like selves
ByAdmin April 29, 2020April 22, 2023
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 people recall themselves behaving more generously than they actually did. “When people behave in ways that fall short of their…
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Books
Dial It Back Or Die
ByMichael Folz April 27, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Around The Web
Saliva samples preferable to deep nasal swabs for testing COVID-19
ByAdmin April 27, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Potpourri
Do you podcast?
ByWayne Willis April 27, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Reunion Reflections
Reunion Pix from Doug Colton
ByDoug Colton April 26, 2020April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: Doug shot many pictures and was kind enough to select (and crop!) the headshots and other shots he thought would be of interest.
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Invited Essays
The Meaning of Yale for the Class of 1969—One Man’s View
ByRichard Tedlow April 25, 2020April 22, 2023
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?
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In Memoriam
Richard Earle MacKay, March 26, 2020
ByDavid Roe April 24, 2020April 22, 2023
… 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 […]
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Around The Web
Yale launches clinical trial for drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients
ByAdmin April 23, 2020April 22, 2023
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 some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients. The researchers are part of Yale’s Advanced Therapies Group, which was formed…
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Potpourri
Untimely death
ByTom Weber April 20, 2020April 22, 2023
Scourges fester;
A novel virus roams;
We sequester
In isolated homes—
Clinging to a shibboleth
Or staving off untimely death?
[…]
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