Yale Class of 1969 – Page 33 – Class of 1969

Class Notes
You CAN Go Home Again!
ByDaniel Seiver July 1, 2019April 22, 2023
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.
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News
Where should this website go next? Your thoughts?
ByWayne Willis July 1, 2019April 22, 2023
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.
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News
Pix From the Reunion – Montermoso
ByJuan Montermoso June 30, 2019April 22, 2023
Here are some photos from the reunion:
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Potpourri
So What’s All This We Hear About the Schwarzman Center?
ByJP Jordan June 30, 2019April 22, 2023
In the course of our 50th Reunion activities, we were reminded in casual but animated conversation during our Class Dinner, that University Commons is being completely renovated into a campus-wide student center, including its traditional role as the principal dining hall for the university. First, some history. University Commons (1902) is part of the Yale Bicentennial buildings that include Commons Dining Hall, where we were required to take most of our meals as lonely freshmen…
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News
Pix From Reunion – Tufaro
ByDavid Tufaro June 29, 2019April 22, 2023
Thanks go to David Tufaro, who was the first classmate to respond to the request to send in pictures or videos from the reunion. Please send in any you have and share with the rest of the Class! (Use the contact form or email us directly.)
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Memories
Reflections on Charlie Reich and Reunion Weekend
ByBruce Volpe June 28, 2019April 22, 2023
The recent passing of Charles Reich and an experience in Claudia Rankine’s poetry seminar during our 50th Reunion a few weeks ago prompt these thoughts.
The Charlie Reich seminar of which I speak actually occurred in the law school, but undergraduates had the run of the campus, and it was widely attended by them.
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Archives
WYBC ’69ers Create Another Program — This Time For The Reunion!
ByKevin McKeown June 18, 2019April 22, 2023
When our class of ’69 arrived at WYBC, the big attraction for many of us was hosting rock and soul shows on WYBC 640 AM, closed circuit to the Yale campus. Over the spring break of our freshman year, though, we who heeled WYBC helped build a new state of the art stereo FM studio for what had been an educational, show tunes, and classical station. The inevitable happened. By summer of 1968, a small…
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Around The Web
Charles Reich dead at 91
ByAdmin June 18, 2019April 22, 2023
Charles A. Reich, who as a 42-year-old Yale Law School professor swapped button-down Brooks Brothers shirts for hippie beads and vaulted to intellectual celebrity by venerating the counterculture in his manifesto, “The Greening of America,” died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 91.
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Announcements
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR THE PLANET: Ten Classmates Lead Reunion Discussion
ByDerry Allen and Tom Emmons June 17, 2019April 22, 2023
Had any of us been thinking 50 years ahead as we graduated, we probably would not have guessed that one of the defining issues of the next half century would be the challenging relationship between people and the planet. It turned out that 1969 marked the beginning of what is commonly thought of as the modern environmental era. Since then, many of our classmates have been directly involved in addressing environmental issues in a variety…
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Memories
Yale ’68 Black Power Salute – Call for Information
ByBruce Bolnick June 13, 2019April 22, 2023
Several discussions at our 50th Reunion touched on two memorable themes from our senior year: the Black Power movement and the football team. These themes intersected in historic fashion at the Dartmouth game at Yale Bowl on November 2, 2018, when our two black cheerleaders stood at the front of the cheerleading squad during the national anthem with heads bowed and arms raised in a black power salute. See also the brief discussion about this…
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Announcements
Classbook Errata and Mea Culpas
ByWayne Willis June 13, 2019April 22, 2023
The ClassBook was a big hit, with the accent on big! Over 800 pages, 8 pounds, 530 personal essays, obituaries, and 12 longer essays offering broader, deeper looks at our experiences over the past 50 years. Yet, sadly mistakes were made.
John Waldman was one of the first classmates to submit his essay online, and yet, …
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News
Calling All Reunion Attendees!
ByWayne Willis June 12, 2019April 22, 2023
Everyone Contributes – Let’s Document What Just Happened.
We need to document what happened at the reunion, mainly for the many classmates who could not attend for medical or other good reasons. Volunteers are writing up reports on events like Classmates In Concert and the Class Survey presentation. But we need MORE of you to volunteer and help document the …
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Potpourri
Silliman Wins the St. Croix Trip
ByAdmin June 11, 2019April 22, 2023
The final numbers are in from the YAA, and Silliman outpaced everyone, holding off late surges by Morse and Branford. Final results (classmates attending divided by living classmates per college):
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Memories
What Is This Place?
ByDoug Colton June 10, 2019April 22, 2023
My contact with a broad swath of Yale ‘69 preparatory to our 50th revealed widespread unease with what Yale now appears to “be.” This disaffection was repeatedly invoked as the source of decisions not to attend the Reunion – prompting our Reunion Committee to assert that the Reunion would be about renewing connections between classmates, not an expression of loyalty to our alma mater. This estrangement has little to do with how much we loved,…
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Reunion Reflections
Our Newest “Commencement”
ByBill Newman June 9, 2019April 22, 2023
Editor’s Note: Bill Newman was one of the reunion co-chairs. For so many classmates who attended our reunion, the event was a beginning for us and even more so a celebration of that beginning. We collectively kicked off a new phase for the Class, one where there are new friends, and we rekindled old relationships. It was an opportunity to catch up with people we may have seen relatively recently, say, over the past 25…
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Around The Web
Yale Elects First-Ever Black Student Body President
ByAdmin June 6, 2019April 22, 2023
YALE UNIVERSITY has elected its first-ever black student body president.
Kahlil Greene is the first black person appointed to the role in the prestigious university’s 318-year history.
As the president of the student body, Greene will be responsible for addressing issues faced by undergraduates on campus.
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