from Washington Post They’ve got spirit, yes they do. Mascots have a long history of rallying fans. Jun. 15th, 2020 Now that school’s out, let’s see how smart you are. What do Tony the Tiger, Mickey Mouse, Smokey Bear and Screech the eagle have in common? Think about it. We’ll wait. Okay. If you said “they’re all mascots,” give yourself an A-plus. June 17 is National Mascot Day, which celebrates the fun, sometimes feathery or furry creatures…
n times of unexpected uncertainty, such as the sudden appearance of a global pandemic, people may be more prone to paranoia, Yale University researchers suggest in a new study published in the journal eLife.
“When our world changes unexpectedly, we want to blame that volatility on somebody, to make sense of it, and perhaps neutralize it,’’ said Yale’s Philip Corlett, associate professor of psychiatry and senior author of the study. “Historically in times of upheaval, such as the great fire of ancient Rome in 64 C.E. or the 9/11 terrorist attacks, paranoia and conspiratorial thinking increased.”
from theridgefieldpress.com Globalization really started 1,000 years ago by Valerie Hansen, Yale University, Jun. 11th, 2020 For the first time, the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean were connected. When the Vikings landed, the indigenous people immediately started to trade with them. The Vikings describe this initial encounter in “Eirik’s Saga,” an oral epic written down after 1264 about the Norse voyages across the North Atlantic from Greenland to today’s Canada. The locals brought animal pelts…
In the second of our series of Class Colloquia, classmate John Yarmuth will talk with us privately about what is going on in Congress … and of the rapidly evolving political and policy demands arising from the pandemic, the economy and the upcoming elections. Because this Zoom meeting is a closed briefing, you must sign up in advance. Only registered attendees will be admitted to the teleconference.
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Forget the ‘Coat and Tie’ rule, or the change from numerical grades to a pass/fail system! This will be as impactful as the splendid color/graphic 50th reunion Classbook. The Class of ’69 offers its newest innovation: Class Colloquia. Class Colloquia are scheduled videoconferences led by classmates, members of the Yale Faculty, or speakers from the broader Yale community The subject will address a topic of widespread contemporary interest, in a format adjusted to suit the…
Our own Harold Mancusi-Ungaro (’69 MC, ’73 MD) has been elected as a YAA delegate at large for 3 years beginning July 1, 2020. This is in addition to the representative for the Class of 1969, Ken Brown.
Harold is no stranger to the alumni governing body. He served as our Class of 1969 delegate to the AYA (predecessor of the YAA) from 2014-18.
He’s also been active for many years in the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine.
Editor’s Note: President Salovey sent a letter to the Yale community on Sunday May 31, 2020. The full text of the letter is here. Classmates responded with a broad range of reactions.
Fred Morris (JE) sent a letter, reprinted here in full. Anyone else sending a letter to President Salovey can contact us; we’ll add it below and republish this post as “updated.” Comments welcome.
A number of us classmates were in New Haven on the weekend of May 1, 1970, be it for grad school, working, finishing our undergrad work or just visiting. The rest of us read about it.
It was definitely a scary time — three weeks before, violent protests erupted at Harvard and major destruction followed. The Weather Underground promised to destroy Yale, and the announcement of a […]
Editor’s Note: This set of remembrances was compiled by Dick Mackay’s colleagues at Mt. Sinai.
I asked people to share their thoughts and memories with me last night. We live in a world where we often get the message that you have to be assertive and boisterous, sometimes to the point where being self-serving seems to be encouraged. Richard Mackay proves that even in a place like New York City and in a field like […]
In October 1856, Herman Melville left the tinted hills of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for a lengthy excursion to Europe and the Holy Land. Just thirty-seven years old, Melville was a half-broken man. He suffered from headaches, sciatica, eyestrain, crushed hopes — in a word, burnout. His epic Moby-Dick had failed to catch on in 1851, and his next novel, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, was head-scratching at best, a laughing stock at worst. Subsequent […]
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.
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….
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.
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?
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…
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 […]
