This website was started in 2016 to give the Class an online home in the runup to the 50th Reunion. It proved to be popular and found renewed purpose after celebrating the 50th when the pandemic drove us all indoors and online, including to the wonderful series of Class Colloquia. But several issues and problems…
Check out these additional activities happening during the May 30 – June 2 weekend! Here’s a Table of Contents for everything below: SPORTS FOR ALUMNI & GUESTS SPECIAL EVENTS FAMILY FRIENDLY EXHIBITIONS RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES SPORTS FOR ALUMNI & GUESTS Payne Whitney Gym Access Enjoy the Adrian C. Israel Fitness Center and other activities…
Yale University’s presidential advisory body is reportedly giving feedback to President Peter Salovey on free speech issues on campus.
The news comes against a backdrop of free speech problems at the school, including the disruption of an event last …
From the Erie (PA) Times-News: “The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a…
James Vincent Minor III of Wilton CT died unexpectedly on April 1, 2023 in Norwalk Hospital at the age of 75. Jim was born to Betty and Dr. James Vincent Minor II in Norwalk CT. He is survived by his wife Andrea Byrne Minor and his three children James Vincent Minor IV, Sister Mary Hannah…
In 2019 Eliot Norman (Dvenport ’69) swapped one type of practice (law) for another (piano).
On May16th at 2 PM EDT, he will share his “trials and terrors” of learning and performing Chopin’s astonishing Prelude No. 24: “Of Blood, Of Earthly Pleasure, Of Death.”
Be sure to register now.
Richard Selzer continues his prolific run with his latest novel, We First Met in Ithaca, or Was It Eden?
It is available on Amazon, Booklocker, Target and GoodReads. Here is the “blurb” about the book:
Elle and Oz, strangers ready to restart their lives, meet by chance and flirtatiously swap stories in a dark abandoned house. They soon sense that …
Matt Flynn (Stiles ’69) announced the release of China Code, the second in his series of novels about Bernie Weber, a math genius at the University of Wisconsin. (The first, Milwaukee Jihad was reviewed here last year.)
From the blurb:
A team of Chinese Communist assassins comes to America to kill a young Math genius and …
Reprinted from an email thread from Jim Sleeper.
“Someone just sent me this. I hadn’t seen it before now. (‘Spirit of youth, alive, unchanging, under whose feet the years are cast…’) I was in the Glee Club in another century — 1966-68.
We once tried to do an impromptu concert in Grand Central Station, but we were shooed out of there by railroad police. But check out what happens now.”
Classmate Bill Sacco’s The Caribbean Coral Reef: A Record of an Ecosystem Under Threat debuts this month with over 200 pages and hundreds of stunning images.
A simpler 48-page book aimed at middle & high school students now needs a publisher or other distribution partner. Do you know anyone who might help?
Click thru to see samples, context, some luscious underwater images and even a downloadable pdf-gift for you!
Editor’s Note: See Paul’s published works per Amazon Paul Francis Malamud, class of 1969, passed away from complications in heart surgery on October 26, 2022. Born in New York City in 1947, he moved with his parents, Ann and Bernard Malamud, to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1949. Though he would go on to live in Vermont,…
Frank Shorter ’69 says he learned early in his time as an undergraduate student at Yale University that there was no point playing it safe in an environment where every student on campus was at least as accomplished as the next one.
Recalling the number of valedictorians in his class, he …
from Yale News Yale’s Alfred Guy discusses the potential dangers and opportunities of the AI technology and how educators can utilize it to improve student writing. By Zoe Keller March 3, 2023 Since its public launch in November, the platform ChatGPT has generated a tsunami of news analyses and online discussions about how it and…
David Click died on May 18, 2021. An edited report from nolo.com: “After Yale he received a J.D. from Yale Law in 1973, and a Master’s in Economics from Yale in 1974. David taught at the law schools of Western New England, Indiana University, and the University of Maryland, including property, trusts and estates, law…
from NYTimes The magazine, which has been rating top schools for decades, said in a letter to deans that it is altering its methods to address their concerns. By Ruth Graham Jan. 2, 2023 Under pressure amid a boycott by top law schools, U.S. News & World Report told law school deans on Monday that it…
Your scribe has been stunned by the arrival of three obituaries of classmates who died within a nine-day period in September 2022. I have collected below their memorials gleaned from newspaper reports, which I have edited to meet my stringent space requirements. Much more, including pictures and more remembrances of classmates who knew them, can…
