A long-overdue update on Paul Severtson: “I became interested in music because “my mother was quite an accomplished cellist in her youth. She made sure that all five of her kids learned an instrument. Somehow she managed our musical training in such a way that she got a string quartet out of the first four. The youngest rebelled. He took up the oboe.” Paul majored in music theory and composition at Yale, and then received…
Per his 50th Reunion Essay, Marty Cohen retired in 2015 with six goals, two of which were to publish works in process and create new ones.
He’s made good on at least one of those goals by publishing Stone Seeds, which Amazon describes thusly: “Stone Seeds is about paying attention to the connections between people and places, poetry and birds, songs and silence, spirituality and the material world.
Marty has been publishing poetry and essays on literature and the arts in periodicals and anthologies since 1970. Stone Seeds brings together the best of his work since A Traveller’s Alphabet (1979).
In this post, Marty makes a generous offer to classmates and shares some personal news, too – read more.
Editor’s Note: Those who attended the Reunion last summer had an opportunity to get a private tour of the newly renovated Peabody Museum, including the expanded exhibits of dinosaurs and replicas of other prehistoric flora and fauna. We also got to see the work being completed on the David Friend Hall, a section of the Peabody dedicated to the mineral collection donated by David Friend, ’69 Calhoun.
This story is reprinted from this month’s Roskin Gem News Report, a leading journal focused on the natural gemstone industry. It reports on the formal debut of the completed exhibition, well documented with some stunning pictures.
Eliot Norman recruited Mary Langston, a well-regarded soprano, to sing “Over the Rainbow” as part of a musical program he put together for Dr. Will Streicker a few weeks before he passed away last Spring. Rob Riehle and his wife Byah joined others at Will’s home, where he was confined to home hospice. Owing to his immunocompromised state, Will (who Eliot and others knew as Bill) had to keep his distance, listening from an easy chair at the top of the stairs.
This performance was captured on an iPhone and is embedded here:
“Professor Priest was a distinguished scholar, revered teacher, and fierce mentor,” said Dean Heather K. Gerken, Yale Law School. “A scholarly pioneer, George left a legion of ideas in his wake. He was also a beloved member of our community, someone who managed to be an intellectual giant with great warmth, humor, and modesty. He made us think, and he made us laugh. And we all mourn his loss.”
Priest joined Yale Law School in 1981 and was named the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics in 1986…
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Calhoun roommates in ’68-’69, Scott Howard and Bob Brush have a lot in common: They sang together in the 1966-68 Baker’s Dozen and were founding members of the Roll and Pin Society (along with Bob Wheeler, James Hallet, Wayne Henderson, Charlie Peck, Brad Davenport and Bo Riehle).
Recently, they decided to collaborate in the creation of a first novel, with Bob as the author and Scott as the illustrator.
Bob is an Emmy-award winning writer and executive producer of The Wonder Years and recipient of other awards. Scott is a retired banker now deep into painting, non-profit work, and family. “Read More” to see more about the novel, The Piazza: Stories from Piazza Santa Caterina
Editor’s Note: This is an essay recently published in Medium. It has a unique take on The Game in 1968 as a metaphor for how we experience The End.
When my memory plays tricks on me, often the issue relates to time — the order of events and their duration. My perception of time varies with my emotional involvement in what is happening, as well as with my age. Time drags for a child and races ahead for someone as old as me. The final moments of a sporting event can remind us of the variability of time.
Because of rules that stop the clock, the last two minutes of a football game or a basketball game can go on and on, with reversal after reversal. I particularly remember the Harvard-Yale game of 1968….
Those of you, like me, who enjoyed the cutting edge of music in the late 60’s — what was called “progressive rock” — will enjoy this.
Our classmate at WYBC, Kevin McKeown, went into professional radio, then into sound and film production in California, and eventually served as the mayor of Santa Monica. He compiled this amazing three-hour playlist of songs we used to play “back in the day.”
Magical! I hadn’t heard “8:05” by Moby Grape in over 50 years. Here is the songlist … and the titles:
Paul Franklyn Lozier, 77, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, husband of Janet, entered into eternal rest, Friday August 23, 2024. Paul’s life was a testament to his unwavering dedication to those he loved and the causes he championed.
Our presenter, Wayne Willis, called on his experience as a tech entrepreneur and a leader with Citizens’ Climate Lobby to offer a solution to climate change. His thesis, called “The EcoTech Synthesis,” observes:
* Reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 requires CleanTech to replace DirtyTech.
* That happens when the “Green Premium” gets to or below zero.
* There are two paths to reducing the Green Premium ….
Editor’s Note: Our Robert Horvitz interviewed Artist Andres Serrano at an exhibition in Prague, and it was recently published in Trebuchet, the London-based magazine dedicated to contemporary art criticism. See the entire interview online, or reprinted in full here. It is an intelligent, in-depth interview, with high-quality reproductions of artworks from Serrano.
From Ted Snow: “There are a few benefits of having a stroke, which I did several years ago – like good parking spaces and getting special treatment at the airport – but I don’t recommend it. But a few good things came out of it: Time to copy and organize a lifetime’s worth of photos, and writing a book: The Sixth Element: How Carbon Shapes Our World. Before my poor health forced retirement, I was…
Here is an obituary crafted by some of Victor’s academic colleagues and published in Centre for Economic Policy Research earlier this month. See other tributes on X and other platforms. Victor Danielsen Norman passed away on 20 September after a long battle with cancer. For almost 50 years he was a leading figure in the field of international economics, not only for his own research, but also for his leadership in several research projects in…
Editor’s Note: Yale1969.org is not a bulletin board for proselytizing one’s opinions, but we do want to highlight when classmates’ positions enter the public discussion. In this post, Jim Sleeper comments on an article in the Financial Times inquiring why certain US billionaires are strongly supporting President Trump … and featuring our own Steve Schwarzman.
Jim writes, “You might well think that I’ve had my say about Steve Schwarzman by now, and I do wish that someone else would take up the torch of remonstrance and dissent. Financial Times writer and American editor Edward Luce has done that today (October 23, 2024) in ‘What Croesus Wants from Trump.’”
The central chapter of Wayne’s forthcoming book is a framework outlining HOW a climate crisis can be avoided … and what YOU can do today to make a huge difference. This Zoom meeting will share that model and highlight why NOW is a critical time: You see, regardless of the election outcome, there is a time window in November and December to pass one law (ready for a vote now!) and another window in 2025 to enact a different one (that is being developed)!
Tom Guterbock was wondering why the new license plates that he ordered for his car had not been sent to him. So, he inquired. Today he got the reply:
(Click thru to see the one-page letter from the DMV with the surprising explanation.)
