What follows is a large (245mb, 453 page) document holding the scanned copies of Class Notes columns for the Class of 1969 which have appeared in the Yale Alumni Magazine between the 1969 and 1994. Depending on your browser, either click or right-click and open a local copy of the .pdf file. Use page-search (control-F / command-F) to find the text you are interested in. Be patient: It might take a minute or two to…
As I think back fifty years since our graduation from Yale, I’m fortunate to have one significant artifact to help jog my memory. That artifact is a thin, worn, paperback volume on my bookshelf entitled Black Studies in the University: A Symposium edited by my fellow students, Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster, and Donald H. Ogilvie, published fifty years ago by the Yale University Press. Sadly, Armstead and Don of the Yale Class of…
Editor’s Note: Lee Bachman submitted photos from the Creativity Lab at the Becton Engineering center. Also some general pictures from the reunion.
The Creativity Lab in the Becton Engineering Building is open to any Yale student …
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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 in New Haven, Connecticut, 2010. For decades, Yale University’s art history survey course, covering the evolution of art from 1300…
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 publicly, as in the photo above, taken at last year’s Yale-Harvard football game. See also: The Race To Cut Carbon,…
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 …
