General News

VIDEO: Whiffenpoofs at Reunion – Friday night, June 3, 2011

Nostalgia and Harmony, June 3, 2011: Don McDaniel sent a link to his wife's terrific video of the Whiffenpoofs singing at our 40th reunion: Watch for more photos coming soon from our brilliant reunion!


Class of 71 Women’s Scholarship Awarded to Mary Liu ’12

Congratulations to Meng (Mary) Liu of the class of 2012, winner of a scholarship award from the Class of 71 Women's Scholarship Fund for the 2010-2011 academic year. Mary is an economics major who transferred to Yale from the University of Florida, where she founded The Dynamo, a student think…


Martin Rubin on ‘Forties Fashion’

Martin Rubin reviews Jonathan Walford's book Forties Fashion in the May 13, 2011 Washington Times: Jonathan Walford, "Forties Fashion: From Siren Suits to the New Look.” New York: Thames & Hudson. 208pp $29.95.  Illustrated. By Martin Rubin One of the best things about the way historiography…


Roz Milstein Meyer Wins Elm Award

Roz Milstein Meyer received an Elm Award at a recent ceremony honoring members of the New Haven and Yale communities for their efforts to sustain and strengthen the two communities. As noted in an online article in the Yale Daily Bulletin: "Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven…


YaleWomen Lunch May 10 at NYC Yale Club

Joan O'Meara Winant '73 and Nancy Stratford '77 send this invitation by way of our class secretary Harry Levitt: We are pleased to invite you to our second quarterly YaleWomen NYC Back to the Women's Table Luncheon for interesting conversations and fellowship. Date:             Tuesday May 10th…


Martin Rubin on Anne Roiphe’s ‘Art and Madness’

THE WASHINGTON TIMES. MONDAY APRIL 4 2011 Anne Roiphe, “Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason.” New York: Doubleday. 220pp. $24.95. By Martin Rubin. Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived in a series of privileged cocoons: the Upper East Side of Manhattan, private school,…


Jim Kaplan Walking Tours

Jim Kaplan writes (March 25, 2011): 1. HELL'S KITCHEN---The audio of my March 12 tour, Hell's Kitchen: A Political History of the New York Irish, can now be heard in its entirety on the Culturenow.org website. I and several others who took the tour (approximately 60 people) consider it to be one of…


Richard Lieberman & Class Notes

Harry Levitt sends heartfelt apologies for misspelling Richard Lieberman's name in a Class Notes item in the Mar./April 2011 issue of Yale Alumni Magazine. The corrected item is below: Richard Lieberman wrote:  “In a recent issue of this magazine, Chris Conty raised the question of whether he was…


Update from Alan Levin

Alan Levin writes: After completing my “six-year Yale BA program” which started with the Class of 1969, and included a sojourn in the US Army and a stint in (fortunately) Korea before returning as a junior and graduating with the Class of 1971, I became a lawyer. I graduated from the University of…


YaleWomen Initiative

Nancy Stratford '77 sent some details about a new organization for Yale alumnae: YaleWomen is a new initiative for all Yale alumnae. This alumnae organization is inclusive of all women graduates of the college and graduate and professional schools. YaleWomen began in response to the very successful…