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 a dual purpose: to coordinate all aspects of the Reunion (survey, ClassBook, reunion attendance, etc.), and to enable and build…
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.
In the Spring of 2018, Head of Silliman College, Dr. Laurie Santos, offered Psych 157a, Psychology and the Good Life. It was the most popular course ever taught at Yale, necessitating it being moved to Battell Hall and having Dr. Santos scramble for another couple dozen grad students to serve as section leaders! The course is available free on Coursera … and in now available as a limited series of podcasts.
Yale’s 50th Anniversary of The Superwomen In April 1969, five months after Yale University announced it was becoming coeducational, its first female undergrads got stuck with a nickname they would never quite shake. The university announced in late 1968 that it would accept women as undergraduate students starting the next academic year, and the following spring, The New York Times Magazine published a feature by a Yale student about the selection process for Yale’s first…
I have finally found and scanned a selection of the photos I took in the fall of 1968 as one of four Silliman students assigned to cover Coed Week for Life magazine. Two of them appeared in Life’s article.
For me, Coed Week was the start of a life’s career in photography. I cut all my classes to photograph the week’s events; I was hooked.
Editor’s Note: We ran out of time at the end of the Reunion, so we didn’t have our quintennial “Class Meeting” with all members of the class. Our Class Co-Secretaries invite all of those who have an interest in guiding Class action as part of the Class Council to raise your hand!
Perhaps the most remarkable book I have read in recent years is the one that is the main subject of this superb review by Yale’s own David Gelernter (one of my heroes). Below is an excerpt but, (as they say) read the whole thing. I wish Clement Markert were still here to discuss this. The last conversation I had with him (at his place in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in 1997) was on new…
Edward Jay Ferraro died on January 3, 2019. Terence Lenahan writes: Ed was my oldest friend. We met in the summer of 1962 at the end of ninth grade. We went the same way, so we often walked home together talking though his trip was much longer, all the way to Yankee Stadium, about four miles or more. After that we were debate teammates for three years and traveled all over the country together competing….
When I graduated from Yale with a BS in Physics, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do after that. Period. Grad school in physics? Not likely, wasn’t smart enough, didn’t want to teach, not a good job market, etc. So, I got a job as an engineer programming a computer to design acoustic lenses using ray tracing. It was not a bad job: congenial co-workers, definite applications to oceanography, and I could easily make use of computer programming …
from Yale News By Mike Cummings July 30, 2019 Yale Daily News coverage of Coeducation Week, an event in November 1968 during which more than 750 women from 22 colleges visited campus to attend classes and live in the residential colleges. (Photo credit: Dan Renzetti) On Dec. 22, 1783, Yale President Ezra Stiles interviewed Lucinda Foote, the 12-year-old daughter of an alumnus. Her intellect and knowledge impressed him. Stiles confided to his diary that…
from Inquisitr Elected Officials Don’t Care About The Opinions Of Their Constituents At All, Yale University Study Finds Study surveyed more than 2,300 state legislators, finding that party loyalty was much more important to them than the views of their constituents. When asked how he expects to pass some of his proposed, sweeping legislation such as his “Medicare for All” and “free college tuition” proposals, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders often responds that he intends to…
from https://www.wiscassetnewspaper.com/article/marie-borroff/121410 Marie Borroff Tue, 07/16/2019 – 8:45am Marie Borroff, distinguished scholar, poet, translator and teacher of English literature, and one of the pioneering women at Yale University, died at her Branford, Connecticut, home on July 5. She was 95. A long-time summer resident of Boothbay Harbor, this is the first summer in 70-some years she was not able to view the scene she loved so well, across Bottle Cove to Indiantown Island, Ebenecook, and…
Editor’s Note: If “singing is an athletic activity, plain and simple,” then our Whiffenpoofs are Olympic class athletes. They really nailed it during reunion weekend.
Just give a listen to this 30-second clip of them singing!
You can go home again!
Your scribe and nearly 400 classmates, with 300 spouses and family members, returned to Yale for a fabulous 50th. My limited word allowance cannot do justice to the rediscoveries of old friends, and, yet again, the making of new ones. Add in nonstop intellectual stimulation, animated conversations day and night, a steady supply of libations and tasty comestibles, all topped with two servings from our gentlemen songsters, the superb 1969 Whiffenpoofs.
I had fully expected to “retire” as webmaster after the reunion. Yeah, yeah … the Reunion Committee said they wanted the site to continue, but I didn’t think there was enough “news” to sustain a community website. Then an odd thing happened: Many, many people approached me during the reunion, saying they hoped the site would continue in some form. Please read on and leave, in the comments below, YOUR thoughts about what we should do here, what the site should be or do.
