General News
Photo Galleries Now Open on This Site!
Tim Powell writes: Since we re-launched the class web site www.yale71.org in May 2007, response has been terrific. More than ten percent of our classmates are now registered users, which admits you to the restricted "class-only" areas of the site. There's no fee to register or use the site, and…
July 1, 2008
Martin Rubin Reviews ‘The Forger’s Spell’
BOOK REVIEW 'The Forger's Spell' by Edward Dolnick The tale of the Dutch painter who fooled the Nazis and most of the art world with his fake Vermeers. By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times June 24, 2008 When it comes to forgery and its ability to fascinate, the bigger the better, and the…
June 28, 2008
NYC Class Lunch Fri. July 11
The monthly class lunches in NYC have been named in honor of our classmate Bob Shapiro. Jim Kaplan and Bill Primps write: The Robert I. Shapiro Memorial Lunch of the Yale Class of 1971 at the Yale Club of New York will be held in the Tap Room on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 12:30 pm. Please contact…
June 28, 2008
Lots of Pictures! from 6/13 NY Class Table
[singlepic=47,256,192,,left]The June 13 class lunch at the Yale Club of NYC was a special occasion as we mourned the loss of Bob Shapiro, co-founder and prime mover of the '71 lunch table tradition here in New York, and shared our fond memories of happy times in his company. Thirteen people…
June 21, 2008
Rubin on ‘The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire’
Losing Hope, Glory and Assets By MARTIN RUBIN Wall Street Journal June 20, 2008 The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire By Peter Clarke (Bloomsbury, 559 pages, $35) "The sun did set on the British Empire, after all, roughly 60 years ago, when Britain gave up the Indian Raj and of its Mandate…
June 21, 2008
Jim Rothman to Chair Yale Department
Congratulations to Jim Rothman, who's just been named to head the Yale School of Medicine's department of cell biology. He'll also head the new Yale Center for High-Throughput Cell Biology, an interdisciplinary institute being established at the West Campus, the former Bayer site acquired by the…
June 7, 2008
Martin Rubin on ‘Austerity Britain: 1945-1951’
Revisiting the dark days of postwar Britain. By Martin Rubin, Special to The (L.A.) Times May 23, 2008 "In Austerity Britain: 1945-1951 [Walker & Co., 694pp, $45], British social historian David Kynaston tells the story of those drab, difficult postwar years so familiar to viewers of the…
June 4, 2008
Martin Rubin on British Food
When Britain went beyond the bland, found spice The Washington Times, Sunday, June 1, 2008 THE MULTICULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH FOOD By Panikos Panayi, The University of Chicago Press, $40, 288 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN "A couple of years ago, there was a certain amount of amusement…
June 4, 2008
The 1968 Game Remembered
Harry Levitt writes: I attended an event at the Yale Club of NY last month which featured a panel discussion about the 1968 Game. The panelists included Carm Cozza, Brian Dowling and Gary Trudeau. They passed out this description of the last few minutes of the game which I thought you would enjoy!…
June 4, 2008
NYC Class Table Fri. June 13
The Yale Class of 1971 monthly lunch at the Yale Club will be held in the Tap Room on Friday, June 13, 2008 at 12:30 pm. This month's lunch will be dedicated to our recently deceased classmate and founder of the lunch tradition, Robert I. Shapiro. To RSVP: Please contact Jim Kaplan or Bill…
June 4, 2008