General News
Gitlin Celebrates Ivy Champs
Jay Gitlin writes:
I'm teaching my "Yale and America" seminar this semester -- which includes three students on the Ivy champion women's hockey team.
March 14, 2023
Class Notes for May-June 2023
Class Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: Jeff Harris finished a Masters degree in Songwriting from Berklee College of Music/Boston Conservatory late last year. “I promise this is my last degree (MD and Masters in Public Health, MBA, undergrad degree in Interdisciplinary Music Studies from Berklee as…
March 14, 2023
Class Notes for March-April 2023
Class Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: Bil (“Snake”) Johnson reports that he and Carol connected with Don Oldenburg and Ann over lunch in Greenwich, CT, during the holidays. Don and Ann couldn't attend our Reunion last June because they were in Italy (Ann has a teaching gig there through Georgetown).…
March 14, 2023
Class Dues Request…and Some Good News
Bill Primps writes: Dear Classmates, As our annual dues mailing has been delayed, I am emailing you today with some news and a request. Since my last letter, we have enjoyed an immensely successful class reunion, and the University has reopened for a fall term featuring full in-person instruction…
January 16, 2023
Class Notes for January-February 2023
Greetings for the New Year. I hope that your holiday season was a safe and happy one. Unfortunately, I begin this column with the sad news of the passing of two of our classmates. Priscilla Lundin sent word that her close friend and Trumbull classmate J. Brian Sheehan died on September 4,…
January 16, 2023
Yale Radio Alumni Group Invites You…
A few ’71ers and members of adjacent classes who were student broadcasters at WYBC have reconnected to reminisce about our WYBC experiences, to hear how the station has evolved since our time, and to learn more about the current state of radio. We’ve organized several Zoom sessions already. One…
September 30, 2022
Class Notes for November-December 2022
Our Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: Dori Zaleznik, co-editor of our Class of ‘71 much acclaimed 50th Reunion classbook, is launching a new project to tell the stories of the historic beginning of coeducation at Yale College. The full story of that interesting time has not yet been told.…
September 30, 2022
Class Notes for September-October 2022
Our Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: With our terrific “50th + 1” Reunion behind us, and with almost four years remaining until our 55th, we can take a breather -- at least temporarily -- from Reunion planning. In the meantime, I’ll return this column to reporting more traditional news from and about…
September 30, 2022
“American Justice on Trial” Screens at 50th Reunion
Yale '71ers Lise Pearlman (Producer/Creator) and John Lissauer (Music) were on hand in Sprague Hall to discuss and answer questions about their new film American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton. An excerpt from the press kit follows: American Justice on Trial World Premiere SFFILM Festival,…
July 14, 2022
Class Notes for July-August 2022
Secretary Andy Kaufman writes: By the time you read this column, which I am writing in mid-May, our on-campus “50+1” Reunion weekend will have come and gone. Given the YAM publication deadlines, there was not time to include a report on our Reunion in this edition, but I will include the Reunion…
June 6, 2022