Editor’s Note: Jan 30: See also Wall Street Journal editorial on the same subject. from Artnet news Yale Is Eliminating Its Art History Survey Course Over Complaints That It Prioritizes a White, Western Canon Over Other Narratives The news has caused an uproar among conservatives online. Taylor Dafoe, January 27, 2020 Yale University Art Gallery…
Shortly after he watched White House Counsel Pat Cipollone tell the Senate on Saturday that “the president did absolutely nothing wrong,” a friend sent me an archived copy of Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr.’s 1969 baccalaureate address. Somewhat surprisingly, Brewster’s response —and Yale’s — to the crisis of that time is as urgently needed now as it was then.
from dailykos.com Renewable Tuesday: Decarbonizing the Yale Campus Yale came late to the environmental movement, but has since taken a leadership position, greening the campus, adding environmental courses and research programs, and creating the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The issue of divesting the vast Yale endowment from fossil fuels has recently been raised very…
On Saturday afternoon of Reunion Weekend, in Sprague Hall, several of us from the Class of 1969 regaled an audience of appreciative classmates, significant others, and passing bystanders with a program of original songs and classics from the 60s. If “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” then let me not expound in text, but take you right to the goods:
Normally, on the Sunday morning of Reunion Weekend, classmates interested in guiding our Class activities for the next 5 years determine membership on our “Class Council.” That Council then selects the leaders for the upcoming year(s). Last summer that did not happen. So, in September, Ken Brown and I called for volunteers to step forward…
Editor’s Note: In 2020, we’d like to keep up the “Books By Classmates” section. This article profiles two recent Best Sellers, but we want to list ALL books authored by classmates. If you have a book that is not listed in Books By Classmates, please contact us.
Ralph Swanson reports: “It is with a great deal of sadness that I inform you of the passing today (9/26/2019) of our good friend and classmate, Eric Prosnitz. I just learned this from his long-time girlfriend, Kathi Willis. As you know, Eric was being treated for cancer, but he was very upbeat about the prognosis…
The Oil and Gas Council honored our Howard Newman with its Lifetime Achievement Award at its North American dinner on October 22, 2019. The Council is an international organization of executives, investors, policy makers and other leaders in the global energy business, and they describe the award thusly:
from the New York Times By Tina Rosenberg Ms. Rosenberg is a co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which supports rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. Last week in the studio where he tapes the “Albasheer Show,” Ahmed Albasheer put on a dark presidential hat and a jacket covered in an absurd amount of medals…
In this remembrance essay about Martin Hoffmeister, some might feel that I get too far off the subject—Martin—at some points. But I have written this essay in this way for three main reasons, relating to: 1) Similarities; 2) Circularities; and 3) Uncertainties.
I climbed the 150 or so steps to Harkness Tower’s bell chamber for a reunion weekend recital. I’m a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs advisory board so I’ve gotten to play the bells often over the years, but this time it was special: I played a Bach duet with the Guild’s outgoing chair, Joy…
When a 52-year-old retired Navy SEAL enrolled at Yale University, becoming the oldest member of the class of 2023, he was apprehensive about joining the “liberal snowflakes” in their “safe spaces.”
James Hatch, who was wounded during a 2009 mission to find US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan, said in a Medium post that he found his first class of the semester “absolutely terrifying” and …
John Meyer, JE ’69, passed away peacefully in the early hours of December 11th, after a long battle with frontotemporal dementia, his wife Jo Frances by his side. Born in New York City, and later graduated from Yale University, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, John enjoyed a distinguished career as an architect …
from NY Times See also pro and con articles on Vox and Wall Street Journal Climate Change Protesters Disrupt Yale-Harvard Football Game By Britton O’Daly, Nov. 23, 2019 NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Climate change activists stormed the field at the Yale-Harvard football game on Saturday afternoon, disrupting the game at halftime in a protest…
from The New Haven Independent Yale To Move, Replace Historic Building by Thomas Breen | Nov 21, 2019 Yale plans to move an historic two-story Trumbull Street building a few hundred feet down the block — and then build in its stead a new four-story building for the university’s Economics Department. Yale Senior Program Planner…
I’m gonna pre-empt sharing Tom Reed’s reunion photos to share a video I shot of his name tag, It’s an “ambigram” — his name, but watch what happens in this 10 second video!
