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 to serve on a Class Council. We wrote, “Such a Council would be the core driver of Class of 1969…
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 (I spoke with him last in August). Apparently, he developed a fast-moving blood infection and there was nothing they could…
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 and gold braid, and sat at his desk in an office adorned with the seal of the president of the…
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 Chiu ’19. Fifty years may separate our classes, but at that moment we were both a tempo. Then, I…
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 to call attention to the universities to divest their investments in fossil fuels. A group of about 70 protesters took…
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 James Elmasry and Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs Lauren Zucker presented those construction and relocation plans Wednesday night…
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!
Here’s a great trip sponsored by Yale Travel, featuring our very own Professor Gene Moore, who has been a professor of literature in Amsterdam for three decades. You’ll get a cabin aboard the Magnifique III, a luxury river “barge” sporting only 18 cabins. You’ll start in Amsterdam and cruise to Bruges, with stops and time to explore in Kinderdijk, Antwerp, and Ghent; meals and excursions included. Yale Travel tells me that they are giving Yalies…
Yale student fights against his mom’s possible deportation By CLAUDIA TORRENS, Associated Press Published: November 15, 2019 NEW YORK — A Yale University graduate student is constantly watching his phone as he waits for news on his mother, who is detained and could be deported to Honduras, a country where he says she won’t get the medical treatment she needs as a survivor of stage-four cancer. Cristian Padilla Romero, a 24-year-old doctoral student, created an…
Esquire Magazine was doing an article on college students reading comic books and asked me to send some photos (as Marvel Comics published a letter of mine to Stan Lee when I was in high school). Paul Severtson shot a bunch of photos around campus with me reading Thor. Fun to pose …
