Oct. 31 NYC Walking Tour Commemorates Great Crashes of 1929 and 1987
Our loyal correspondent, historian Jim Kaplan, sends this press release:
Help relive the Great Crash of 1929 on its 86TH anniversary. The annual guided walking tour of Lower Manhattan, presented by the Museum of American Finance, will be held on Saturday, October 31, 2105 at 1 pm (no tour in inclement weather). This is the 28th anniversary of this unique tour, the only regularly-scheduled event that commemorates the Great Crash of 1929, the Panic of 1907 and the 1987 stock market collapse. It delves into the political, financial, real estate and architectural history of Wall Street and New York City. The tour contrasts the 1987 market panic and its aftermath with today’s troubled financial situation 28 years later and discusses where some of the major players are today. It also compares those periods with such historically-significant events as America’s first panic started by Alexander Hamilton’s colleague, the periodic panics of the 19th and 20th centuries, the 1920 Wall Street explosion, the Crash of 1929 and the 2008 crash. The tour illustrates the resilience and revitalization of New York and Wall Street, as they have always recovered their position as the world’s financial capital.
The three-hour tour, which starts at the Museum, located in an historic bank building at 48 Wall Street (northeast corner of William Street), tells the story of such notable New York figures as Alexander Hamilton, Michael Milken, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Commodore Vanderbilt.
Starting with the discovery of New York by Henry Hudson and the vast importance of New York’s Dutch origins, the tour leaders explain the parallels between today’s headlines and such crucial events as Alexander Hamilton’s successful rescue of the nascent American securities market in the Panic of 1792, the opening of the Erie Canal and J.P. Morgan’s safeguarding the banking system and the stock exchange in 1907. Also, learn about a sea change in Wall Street’s real estate: why so many of the Wall Street citadels of finance are being converted into apartments; and how foreign capital has shaped and continues to reshape Wall Street real estate.
Discover little-known facts about the area’s rich history, such as the story of how the Collector of the Port of New York, fired for incompetence and graft, only three years later became President of the United States; the tragic tale of the model for “America” at the Old Customs House; the peripatetic statue of Abraham DePeyster, a prominent colonial mayor; and the failed Wall Street lawyer who became President and led the country out of the Depression. James S. Kaplan, an attorney and political historian, and Richard M. Warshauer, a commercial real estate executive and Wall Street aficionado, will conduct the tour under the auspices of the Museum of American Finance. Messrs. Kaplan and Warshauer have presented this walking tour since 1988.
Tickets are $15 each. To purchase tickets online: www.moaf.org/events.
For further information:
Kristin Aguilera, Museum of American Finance, (212) 908-4695
James S. Kaplan, (646) 383-3688
Richard M. Warshauer, (212) 716-3767
Reunion Schedule for Classes of 1971, 1972, 1973 - October 1-3, 2015
If you haven't registered yet ($250 per person) -- or would like to register just for the Friday evening events ($150 per person) -- please email Stacey O’Donnell for a registration form: stacey.odonnell@yale.edu. We'll see you there!
This schedule is current as of September 18, and subject to change without notice.
Thursday, October 1
Morning – – check in at Rose Alumni House – relax over coffee, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House
12:30 pm Welcome Lunch at Q Club (informal)
Speaker: Sam Chauncey, author of May Day at Yale 1970: Recollections May Day and its impact on campus. Kai Erikson, John Wilkinson, and Betty Trachtenberg plan to be at the welcome lunch.
1:30 – 2:00 pm Barry Scheck ’71 will speak about spring 1970 events. (Q Club)
2:00 – 2:30 pm View multimedia exhibit of Yale Daily News stories, photos and videos from our time at Yale, paired with current Yale images; prepared by Pat Pinnell ’71 who will monitor and answer questions. Sam Chauncey, Bob Thompson, and John Wilkinson will join us. (Q Club)
3:00 – 5:30 pm Program I: 3:00 – 4:00 pm - Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall (Susan Gibbons, Librarian to speak) (seating is limited to 120), followed by tour of Yale University Art Gallery from 4:15 – 5:15 pm (Laurence Canter, Chief Curator and Curator of European Art, to introduce; tour led by Gallery Guides to follow)
5:30 – 7:30 pm Cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres at Kelly’s
Dinner on one’s own
9:00 – 11:00 pm Open reception at Mory’s (Main Dining Room; free hors d’oeuvres and cash bar)
and/or
Literary reading hosted in the Davenport Master’s House by Richard Schottenfeld; Jonas Zdanys will MC.
Friday, October 2
8:00 – 11:00 am Coffee service, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House
9:30 – 10:45 am Tour IIa: Residential College renovations – visit Davenport and Morse Colleges; Richard Schottenfeld ‘71 (Professor of Psychiatry and master of Davenport College) and Steve Kieran ‘73 as guides
OR
Tour IIb: Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) (with Vince Wilczynski, Director and Deputy Dean, CEID)..Learn about this exciting new center enjoyed by undergraduate and graduate students alike!
[Note: please let us know if you wish to take this tour; the construction for the new residential colleges is across the street]
11:15 – 12:15 pm Lecture: Teaching at Yale (Omni Hotel)
Jennifer Frederick (Executive Director, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning)
Come and hear about the outstanding opportunities for teaching and learning at Yale and the innovative learning processes being used by Yale’s outstanding faculty. Evidence-based approaches to learning are now an integral part of Yale courses. Teachers in every division are actively engaging students in this learning process! The CTL is making teaching more public and part of the community conversation, and online education has influenced residential courses.
12:30 – 1:45 pm Lunch (Omni Hotel)
Speaker: Mike Morand (Deputy Chief Communications Officer)
After hearing from Mike Morand, enjoy a conversation about what is going on at Yale from the students' perspective with current Yale students who are active on campus in a variety of settings. There will be two students sitting at your table during lunch; then they will move and another two Yale students will join you for further conversation.
2:00 – 3:00 pm Entrepreneurship at Yale: panel/program (Omni Hotel)
Yale Entrepreneurial Society and Managing Director James G. Boyle; Kyle Jensen, SOM – both will talk about the exciting entrepreneurial activities at Yale (venture creation; innovation fund, etc.); hear also from Yale student entrepreneurs about their entrepreneurial ventures.
3:30 – 4:30 pm Voices from our generation in the public sphere: Frances Beinecke, Steven Brill, and Howard Dean (Omni Hotel)
6:00 – 7:00 pm Women’s Reception, Presidents Room
6:00 – 7:00 pm Reception (general) at Commons
7:00 pm Dinner at Commons (buffet dinner with open bar)
Speaker - Kurt Schmoke (beginning at dessert)
9:00 – 11:30 pm Jay Gitlin to play (Commons) (Gitlin-Bales band)
Saturday, October 3
8:00 – 9:30 am Coffee service, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House
9:30 – 11:00 am Yale Today Panel: Art Gallery Lecture Hall
Current administrators will talk about the role of the residential colleges, contemporary student life issues and challenges, Yale police on campus, undergraduate admissions. Joseph Gordon, Deputy Dean Yale College; Marvin Chun, Master Berkeley College, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology, Professor of Neurobiology; Mia Genoni, Dean, Berkeley College, Lecturer Specialist Program in Humanities; Jasmina Besirevic, Dean, Trumbull College; Lecturer Ethnicity and Migration and Sociology; Melanie Boyd, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Lecturer Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies; Mark Dunn, Associate Director Undergraduate Admissions—director of outreach and recruitment. (Note: Mark’s father was in the YC class of 1971!)
11:30 am Lunch at Roia (College Street)
REUNION OFFICIALLY ENDS
Bob Bruner Returns to Teaching
Bob Bruner writes:
“In August
, I stepped down as Dean of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and returned to the faculty. At UVA’s graduation in May, I was honored by the invitation to give the commencement address (see this). While fellow Yalies have touted to me the virtues of retirement, I continue to have an appetite for teaching and writing. I’ll spend the year ahead sketching out my next projects. As Teddy Roosevelt said, “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.””
Bob writes a fascinating blog at http://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/brunerblog/ and here is his impressive list of scholarly publications.
Save the dates! October 1-3, 2015, New Haven
Join us for Yale College's first-ever multi-year alumni class event- Come back to New Haven while school is in session -- and discover all the things you don't know about Yale today
- Meet and reconnect with members of the classes of 1971, 1972, and 1973 -- the first three coed classes at Yale College
- Meet current undergraduates
- Revisit the tumultuous and historic times our classes experienced together
- Share life experiences at this significant transitional moment in our lives
- A full program of activities is being planned by a committee of representatives from all three classes
REGISTRATION, AGENDA, AND HOTEL INFORMATION TO BE SENT THIS SPRING
Alumni Assembly 2014: The Entrepreneurial Spirit at Yale
Recently I attended Yale’s 2014 Assembly, along with Class Secretary Andy Kaufman and Glenn Murphy. This is an annual gathering in New Haven of more than 500 representatives from Yale College classes, professional schools, clubs, and Special Interest Groups.
This year's theme was The Entrepreneurial Spirit at Yale, and a most impressive show it was. There were two days of plenary sessions, small breakout discussions and panels, and competitive “shark tank” presentations in which innovative and worthwhile new ventures in information technology, health care, and other industries were showcased.
The creativity was unbridled, the excitement palpable. Most eye-opening for me was seeing presentations by current undergrads who have started and are running businesses – one of whom had to go directly from the podium to her next class.
This initiative has the full support of President Peter Salovey and the University, and many of its schools are involved (though my other alma mater, the School of Management, seemed to play a leading role.)
We had beautiful weather, and I managed to catch a few photos between sessions (including the one of Commons on our front page.)
As with many business gatherings these days, the Assembly was videoed and tweeted to a deep level of detail. Michael Morand, Yale’s Deputy Chief of Communications Officer, told me that his office’s goal had been to give people who were not in attendance so much of the experience that they wouldn’t feel they had missed much of substance.
I think they’ve succeeded. Here’s a link to a digest of videos and articles (many of which contain embedded video clips) covering all the major happenings: http://news.yale.edu/2014/11/17/entrepreneurship-and-excellence-alumni-engagement-showcased-annual-assembly
Kevin Ryan’s keynote is especially “must-see”, but all of the presentations have much to offer. These will give you a good flavor of the Alumni Assembly, and of the exciting things going on at Yale these days.
You may even get some investment ideas.
Happy Holidays,
Tim Powell
December 2014
Conversation with Jim Rothman
What does it take to win a Nobel Prize? Hear our classmate and Yale professor Jim Rothman discuss this and other trends in science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b03l-qI0xJ8
Interview conducted by Tim Powell for his thought leadership series "IntelliJAM". (With thanks to Susan Yecies for the idea!)
Yale Day of Service - Saturday May 10
There's still time to register to help your community on Yale's annual Day of Service (May 10), and meet other Yale alums in the process.
Come to Our 40th Reunion - New Haven, June 2-5
Dear Classmates and Friends:
Our 40th Reunion – June 2-5, 2011, in Branford College – is fast approaching. Soon we’ll gather once again in New Haven to celebrate our history, our present, and our future. Join us to reminisce, to rekindle old friendships and make new ones, or just to have a good time at a place which in so many different ways (communal and personal, shared and individual) so significantly influenced and shaped our lives.
We encourage you to register as soon as possible (and also so that we can better anticipate and manage the overwhelming tidal wave of attendance that we are certain is coming)! Note – you still have to register “officially” even if you pre-registered on the AYA Website. For more information and registration, click here.
Your Reunion Committee has put together an outstanding group of events, including:
- Traditional Class Dinner Friday Night
- Class Dinner Dance Saturday Night with our own Bales-Gitlin Band and a special appearance by the Whiffenpoofs
- Women’s Breakfast Saturday Morning (new event this year)
- Extraordinary Class Panels Friday and Saturday afternoons addressing major issues in our lives: Healthcare, Politics and Transitioning to Retirement
- Special recognition of our Class’ long-standing support of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center
Of course, all this supplements the full plate of events presented by the University.
Please see below for information regarding housing, financial aid, reunion memorabilia, reunion website, and on-line class book input.
We look forward to seeing you at Yale in June.
Your Reunion Co-Chairs,
Andy Kaufman and Ruth Lansner
andrew (dot) kaufman (at) kirkland (dot) com
ruth (dot) lansner (at) hklaw (dot) com
HOUSING - By the time you see this, it is unlikely there will be rooms available in the downtown hotels for those of you wishing off-campus accommodations. There may still be room at La Quinta Inn on Long Wharf. The greater New Haven Convention and Visitors’ Bureau (www.newhavencvb.org or 800 332-7829) has a list of hotels, bed and breakfasts and inns within 10-15 minutes of the Yale campus. To get to our reunion by car, simply park at Pierson-Sage parking garage (directions in the Reunion Booklet) and take the AYA reunion shuttle.
FINANCIAL AID - Financial aid is available to enable you and your spouse/partner to attend our reunion if resources are tight. It can include the full or partial cost of the registration fee and on campus housing. Requests for financial aid will be on a completely confidential basis, and should be directed to Jennifer Julier at AYA at 203 436-8014 or jennifer (dot) julier (at) yale (dot) edu.
WHO’S COMING - A link on the AYA reunion website will update regularly the names of classmates who are planning to attend our reunion. Please add your name to the list so your friends will be encouraged to come too.
SURVIVING SPOUSES/PARTNERS - Surviving spouses and surviving partners of classmates are encouraged to attend the reunion as our guests. Fees and the cost of campus housing are waived.
REUNION MEMORABILIA - Each attendee will receive a windbreaker embroidered with our class logo.
REUNION WEBSITE AND ON-LINE CLASSBOOK INPUT - Please check our Class' link on the AYA reunion website for updated reunion information. A separate committee is organizing a website for an electronic class book, and information regarding that will also be posted to our Class' link on the AYA reunion website.
Our server has moved
Effective Thursday March 26, the server that hosts Y71.org has been moved. In the short term, this means that links and passwords you've bookmarked previously may not work. Please re-enter them.
In the longer term, it means newer and better technology running under the hood of our web site. We thank our technical managers at the AYA and Yale71.org for making this transition a smooth one.
We apologize for the late notice, and will do our best to let you know in advance if something like this happens again.
Next NYC '71 Class Lunch September 12
The next Robert I. Shapiro Memorial Lunch will be held at the New York City Yale Club on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Further instructions will follow.
No Class lunch in August. See you in September!