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…
Another classmate becomes a published author, this time at the ripe old age of 75! Check out Daniel Duke’s Man Camp, available directly from Amazon or other sources.
“Society today is obsessed with identity–gender, race, religion, political persuasion, and so on. So what does it mean, in this charged atmosphere, to be a man?”
Will someone write a review? If so, just add it in the comments!
Viva Sicilia, a series of 30 new paintings from Sicily by Cleveland Morris, will be on display in Cleveland’s studio gallery in Staunton, VA, starting on December 2.
This is the first in a series I’m calling “Second Acts” — reports on a classmates’ journeys from a highly accomplished first act to try something a bit, um, different and challenging.
On Nov. 30th, Dr. Robert Riehle walked classmates through the maze of choices we face during this “open enrollment” time of year. Should you choose traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage? Here is the recording of his talk, the survey results, and his slides.
November saw the release of Richard Seltzer’s newest book, Grandad Jokes: 3000 Jokes on Trump and Other Nonsense.
Available online for only $3 as a PDF book, you can download your copy right now!
It has a few that probably qualify as simple “dad jokes” (aka, groaners): What did Zorro and the Lone Ranger have […]
Summary from Wired Magazine: Charles Apel’s resume: drops out of Yale in 1967 to become a hippie and get high with Jim Morrison. Lives in the jungles of Colombia to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Eventually pardoned by Jimmy Carter. Fathers seven children. Returns to school and earns a BA in 1999 and a chemistry PhD in 2003. Now works in the Astrochemistry Lab in the Space Science Division at NASA researching the origins of cellular life. Associate editor of Biosystems.
Yale’s president said a Washington Post story about suicidal students being forced to withdraw ‘misrepresents our efforts,’ but promised improved mental health services and other possible changes By William Wan November 17, 2022 Yale University President Peter Salovey wrote a letter to school alumni Wednesday defending the university’s mental health services and the way it treats…
from NYTimes Staughton Lynd, Historian and Activist Turned Labor Lawyer, Dies at 92 After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest. By Clay Risen Nov. 18, 2022 Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for…
Citing flaws in the way the ratings are determined, the schools said they will stop participating, breaking away from the rankings industry. By Anemona Hartocollis Nov. 16, 2022 In perhaps the biggest challenge yet to the school rankings industry, both Yale and Harvard announced Wednesday that they were withdrawing from the influential U.S. News & World…
