General News
Ron Kell on 29-29
Andy Sherman's daughter spotted a San Francisco Chronicle article on the new documentary "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" by Kevin Rafferty, who saw The Game as a Harvard student in 1968. The article profiles four players including our classmate Ron Kell: "Ron Kell didn't remember anything specific about…
March 10, 2009
Calvin Hill Feb 09 newsletter
The early-spring 2009 edition of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center newsletter is especially moving as the kids and their teachers respond to Martin Luther King Jr. Day and President Obama's inauguration. Click on the link below to read this issue of the newsletter in PDF format.---KH Calvin Hilltop…
February 19, 2009
On History: Daniel Walker Howe in Denver March 12
Chris Citron writes (Feb. 4, 2009): You're invited! to an evening talk in Denver, CO by prize-winning historian Daniel Walker Howe on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7 pm. Daniel Walker Howe, an emeritus professor at UCLA and Oxford who taught at Yale earlier in his career, will give a presentation on…
February 12, 2009
Harry Klebanoff: ‘Pause’
Harry Klebanoff writes (Feb. 9, 2009): Just published a book –-- PAUSE. My work as a clinical psychologist and organizational consultant has helped clients manage crisis, explore who they are, learn what matters most, and then create a life or organization that inspires passion. My goal in writing…
February 9, 2009
Calvin Hill Day Care Center Dec 08 newsletter
From Bill Porter, the latest Calvin Hill Day Care Center newsletter---click on the following link for the Winter 2008 edition: ch_newsletter_winter_20081
February 9, 2009
Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s ‘Feminist Engagements’
Harry Levitt writes (Jan. 19, 2009): Shelley Fisher Fishkin has a new book coming out in March: Feminist Engagements: Forays into American Literature and Culture, published by Palgrave/Macmillan. Parts of the book discuss aspects of being in the first Yale College class to include women. From the…
February 5, 2009
Feb. 4 East Asia Event in NYC
Katherine Hyde writes (Feb. 1, 2009): Should be a good program at Japan Society in New York this coming Wed. evening Feb. 4. To log on for the live webcast at 6:30 pm Feb. 4, click here ---or visit www.japansociety.org for tickets to the event in NYC, or to view the archived video after the event.……
February 1, 2009
Rubin Reviews: Du Maurier
From The Washington Times, Sunday, January 18, 2009-- BOOKS: A popular writer gets her due DON'T LOOK NOW: SELECTED STORIES OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER By Daphne du Maurier, Edited and with an introduction by Patrick McGrath New York Review of Books, $15.95, 384 pages (paper) By Martin Rubin Daphne du…
January 18, 2009
Ivy Football Association Dinner Jan. 22
71ers AND THEIR GUESTS ARE INVITED to the 2009 Ivy Football Association Dinner, January 22 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. NOTE: The dinner will be preceded by a Yale reception in the Waldorf's Louis XVI room to introduce new Head Coach Tom Williams, Stanford '93. To view the official…
January 12, 2009
Walt Mintkeski holiday letter
Walt Mintkeski writes (12/19/08): Dear Friends, This certainly has been a year of changes for me personally, our family, and the word. I ended last year looking for employment opportunities to use my engineering skills in areas of sustainability, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Well,…
January 8, 2009