from Wall Street Journal Opinion Cold Welcome for Veterans on Campus Students at elite colleges seek to undermine the values that service members signed up to defend. By Rob Henderson November 10, 2019 ‘But don’t you ever feel like a sucker for serving?” A fellow military veteran asked me this question a couple of years ago, when I was a senior at Yale. Like me, he had recently completed his service and was studying at…
from News12, Connecticut One-day class teaches women with passion for politics The Women’s Campaign School at Yale University offered a one-day class for women with a passion for politics in Danbury. The class is sponsored by Fairfield County’s Community Foundation which focuses on advancing economic security of women and girls in Fairfield County. A boot camp for women was held Saturday to learn the next steps to make the decision to launch their political careers….
The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation has announced the 2019 inductees to its International Hall of Fame, including our very own Jim Grew. The induction ceremony took place in conjunction with the 2019 Water Ski World Championships at the Putrajaya International Convention Center on Aug. 16 in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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 of early career and post-Yale study, and great humor and insight expressed in the 50th reunion essay. From Tucson.com/The Arizona…
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 counsel, and later served as a trustee of Yale, Columbia and Colgate universities. This is adapted from remarks delivered Oct….
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 the United States in 1966. After getting his Yale BA in 1969, he earned a Master of Architecture from Yale…
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 will grow up in a Dutch city speaking English with her father and Hungarian with her mother. The modern world!…
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. We would rather distribute them to needy classmates who could make perfectly good use of them, in particular to classmates…
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. After getting his Yale BA in 1969, he earned a Master of Architecture from Yale in 1972. He did postgraduate…
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 to one. To prepare, Yale installed full-length mirrors in the women’s dorm rooms and, to the dismay of many men,…
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, she presents a more frightening premise — a bone-chilling story that brings dark magic to our own world. Ninth House,…
“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 all parts of the university (alumni, faculty and students from the college and graduate schools), as well as all generations…
