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News
A Fireside Chat with Classmate and Congressman John Yarmuth,
June 17, 1:00 PM (EDT)
ByArthur Segal June 9, 2020April 22, 2023
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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Potpourri
’69 Blazes Another New Trail: Class Colloquia
ByAdmin June 6, 2020April 22, 2023
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…
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Announcements
1969 Gets TWO Delegates to YAA
ByWayne Willis June 5, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Reunion Reflections
Responding To Salovey’s George Floyd Letter
ByFred Morris June 2, 2020April 22, 2023
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.
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Archives
Mayday 1970
ByWayne Willis May 29, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Memories
Mt. Sinai Co-workers Remember Dr. Richard Mackay
ByAdmin May 22, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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Books
The Skeptical Pilgrim: Melville’s Clarel
ByJeff Wheelwright May 20, 2020April 22, 2023
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 […]
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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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