General News
Three Big Reasons to Attend the Yale ’71 Reunion
Bob Bruner writes: Two years ago, Lupi Robinson and I agreed to co-chair the 50th reunion of our class. We wanted to give something back to classmates who had made our time at Yale so rich, to honor our shared experience, and to discover who we all are today. The value of such ends seems obvious…
Kaplan Strikes Again
Check out Jim's new video on YouTube describing his efforts to get July 4th celebrated properly in Lower Manhattan (33 minutes):
News from Richard Skolnick
Richard Skolnick writes: Richard and Sophia Skolnik live in White Rock, NM, the sister town of Los Alamos. Richard continues to guest teach several times a year at Yale and is formally advising Yale grad students in public health. He also maintains his massive online course for Yale/Coursera,…
On Breaking the Gender Barrier at Yale—50 Years Later
Reprinted from MS. by kind permission of the publisher. 10/1/2019 by SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN I entered Yale College in September 1969, one of the first group of women who transformed Yale from the all-male institution it had been for the previous 268 years. When I returned to New Haven in…
Commemorating Morse classmate Danny Horowitz
Ruth Jarmul writes: "Amity Horowitz has given permission to share this Caring Bridge announcement of this very sad news about her husband Danny Horowitz; they were both Morse 1971. "The below memorial notice appeared in today's (August 15, 2019) Washington Post. As Jesse (their son) mentioned, at…
A Celebration of Darryle Pollock’s Life
Alice Young writes: I wanted to share some photos taken at Darryle Pollock’s celebration of life last week [late August] in LA, a few days before what would have been her 70th birthday. Jean Brenner, Priscilla Lundin, Deborah Rothman, Scott Carde and I from ‘71 and Mary Carde and Tom Shortall from…
Rothman to Royal Society
From the June/July 2019 issue of Medicine@Yale: "James Rothman, PhD, chair and Sterling Professor Cell Biology, and professor of chemistry [in addition to being Yale College 1971 BR], has been named to the Royal Society. a fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists, and the oldest…