Eric was a practicing nephrologist and professor of medicine at Arizona State University in Tucson, where he served since 1978. You can get more details from his reunion essays (linked on his profile page), where you can learn about the loss of his first wife (and Yale prom date) in 1992, the twists and turns…
from The Wall Street Journal, 11/8/2019 Higher Education’s Enemy Within An army of nonfaculty staff push for action and social justice at the expense of free inquiry. By José A. Cabranes Nov. 8, 2019 5:25 pm ET Editor’s Note: Judge Cabranes serves on the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was Yale’s first general…
I counted about 160 books, written by our classmates, listed on the class website. Alas, only 48 submitted books for the Library display. Many classmates have written multiple books, as there are many professional writers in our class. And George Effinger seems to have …
Martin Hoffmeister, an American architect, has died, but we don’t have a specific date. Your scribe, in spite of much searching, has not found much about his life. Here is what we have from prabook.com: Martin was born on August 27, 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to Vaclav Rohlik and Milena (Hoffmeister) Klikova. He came to…
Dear Classmates, Am I the only member of our class who is expecting a baby? I don’t know anyone my age who is about to become a father; but I do know that it’s very important for people our age to have a future, and to help shape and preserve that future. Our baby girl…
As we recover from the post-partum depression induced by the passing of our 50th Reunion, we find that there are loose ends to tidy up, including the disposition of leftover ClassBooks and Class Reunion Watches (gentleman’s and lady’s versions) . What to do? We don’t have the heart to release these items into the environment. …
Classmate Matthew Collins has been found! And guess what? His home address is the one he had when he came to New Haven in 1965, Hurricane Katrina notwithstanding. Please check out his profile page and, if he hasn’t entered anything yet, send him an email. Prodding from classmates is very effective.
Martin Hoffmeister, an American architect, died several years ago. Your scribe, in spite of much searching, has not found much about his life. Here is what we have from prabook.com: Martin was born on August 27, 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to Vaclav Rohlik and Milena (Hoffmeister) Klikova. He came to the United States in 1966….
from NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/upshot/yale-first-women-discrimination.html by: Claire Cain Miller, 10/30 A new survey and book show that for organizations to diversify, it’s not enough to let new people in. The institutions have to change, too. When the first undergraduate women to be admitted to Yale arrived on campus 50 years ago this fall, they were outnumbered seven…
Editor’s Note: The “Invited Essays” in the ClassBook were released in a blizzard 3 days before the reunion and many people missed them. So, I’m gonna re-release them, one at a time. This one addresses a silent reality of our years .. what it was like to be gay at a pre-Stonewall Yale.
From Time, Inc. She Was in a Secret Society at Yale. Her Latest Novel Explores the Dark and Mysterious World of the Ivy League by Annabel Gutterman October 8, 2019 Leigh Bardugo has built new and unrecognizable worlds full of evil, darkness and monsters in her best-selling young adult novels. But in her adult debut,…
“Diversity” is the most powerful word in higher education today. No other has so much authority. Older words, like “excellence” and “originality,” remain in circulation, but even they have been redefined in terms of diversity.
Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit Nov. 1-2, 2019 If you enjoyed our reunion discussion on environment – “For God, for Country and for the Planet” – you should participate in the third biennial Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit (YESS), to be held at Yale on Friday-Saturday, November 1-2, 2019. Register here. The speakers and participants will represent…
The reunion is over, but this website will go on. What does that mean for you? For the Class? For this website? Answer: The website will morph from a “magazine format” with occasional contributions from classmates to a “community website” with occasional articles of general interest. At inception, your class leaders asked for a website with…
When I graduated in 1969, I stayed in New Haven for a summer job, waiting to go into Navy OCS in the Fall. I signed up to be a reunion clerk because it was VERY good money ($100/day!!) and a lot of fun.
I was assigned to the Class of 1909, which was celebrating its 60th reunion in JE. While I was bartending, under the tent, an old man came up to me and asked, “So, you’re a student, just graduated, right?”
Tom Emmons is our Class Treasurer, and he is retiring from that role at the end of this month after many years of service. Thank you, Tom!
This is a copy of his “annual reminder” to our Class. If you haven’t paid your dues yet, please do so with your tax-deductible dollars using this link or the mailing instructions in this article.
