Reunion Schedule for Classes of 1971, 1972, 1973 - October 1-3, 2015

If you haven’t registered yet ($250 per person) — or would like to register just for the Friday evening events ($150 per person) — please email Stacey O’Donnell for a registration form: stacey.odonnell@yale.edu.  We’ll see you there!

This schedule is current as of September 18, and subject to change without notice.  

Thursday, October 1

Morning – – check in at Rose Alumni House – relax over coffee, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House

12:30 pm      Welcome Lunch at Q Club (informal)

Speaker: Sam Chauncey, author of May Day at Yale 1970: Recollections May Day and its impact on campus.  Kai Erikson, John Wilkinson, and Betty Trachtenberg plan to be at the welcome lunch.

1:30 – 2:00 pm          Barry Scheck ’71 will speak about spring 1970 events.  (Q Club)

2:00 – 2:30 pm          View multimedia exhibit of Yale Daily News stories, photos and videos from our time at Yale, paired with current Yale images; prepared by Pat Pinnell ’71 who will monitor and answer questions.  Sam Chauncey, Bob Thompson, and John Wilkinson will join us. (Q Club)

3:00 – 5:30 pm          Program I: 3:00 – 4:00 pm – Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall  (Susan Gibbons, Librarian to speak) (seating is limited to 120), followed by tour of Yale University Art Gallery from 4:15 – 5:15 pm (Laurence Canter, Chief Curator and Curator of European Art, to introduce; tour led by Gallery Guides to follow)

5:30 – 7:30 pm          Cocktails and passed hors d’oeuvres at Kelly’s

Dinner on one’s own

9:00 – 11:00 pm        Open reception at Mory’s (Main Dining Room; free hors d’oeuvres and cash bar)

and/or

Literary reading hosted in the Davenport Master’s House by Richard Schottenfeld; Jonas Zdanys will MC.

Friday, October 2

8:00 – 11:00 am        Coffee service, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House

9:30 – 10:45 am        Tour IIa: Residential College renovations – visit Davenport and Morse Colleges; Richard Schottenfeld ‘71 (Professor of Psychiatry and master of Davenport College) and Steve Kieran ‘73 as guides

OR

Tour IIb: Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) (with Vince Wilczynski, Director and Deputy Dean, CEID)..Learn about this exciting new center enjoyed by undergraduate and graduate students alike!

 [Note: please let us know if you wish to take this tour; the construction for the new residential colleges is across the street]

11:15 – 12:15 pm      Lecture: Teaching at Yale    (Omni Hotel)

Jennifer Frederick (Executive Director, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning)

Come and hear about the outstanding opportunities for teaching and learning at Yale and the innovative learning processes being used by Yale’s outstanding faculty. Evidence-based approaches to learning are now an integral part of Yale courses. Teachers in every division are actively engaging students in this learning process! The CTL is making teaching more public and part of the community conversation, and online education has influenced residential courses.

12:30 – 1:45 pm        Lunch (Omni Hotel)

Speaker: Mike Morand (Deputy Chief Communications Officer)

After hearing from Mike Morand, enjoy a conversation about what is going on at Yale from the students’ perspective with current Yale students who are active on campus in a variety of settings. There will be two students sitting at your table during lunch; then they will move and another two Yale students will join you for further conversation.

2:00 – 3:00 pm          Entrepreneurship at Yale: panel/program (Omni Hotel)

Yale Entrepreneurial Society and Managing Director James G. Boyle; Kyle Jensen, SOM – both will talk about the exciting entrepreneurial activities at Yale (venture creation; innovation fund, etc.); hear also from Yale student entrepreneurs about their entrepreneurial ventures.

3:30 – 4:30 pm          Voices from our generation in the public sphere:  Frances Beinecke, Steven Brill, and Howard Dean (Omni Hotel)

6:00 – 7:00 pm          Women’s Reception, Presidents Room

6:00 – 7:00 pm          Reception (general) at Commons

7:00 pm                     Dinner at Commons  (buffet dinner with open bar)

Speaker – Kurt Schmoke (beginning at dessert)

9:00 – 11:30 pm        Jay Gitlin to play (Commons) (Gitlin-Bales band)

Saturday, October 3

8:00 – 9:30 am          Coffee service, juice, muffins at Rose Alumni House

9:30 – 11:00 am        Yale Today Panel: Art Gallery Lecture Hall

Current administrators will talk about the role of the residential colleges, contemporary student life issues and challenges, Yale police on campus, undergraduate admissions.  Joseph Gordon, Deputy Dean Yale College; Marvin Chun, Master Berkeley College, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology, Professor of Neurobiology; Mia Genoni, Dean, Berkeley College, Lecturer Specialist Program in Humanities; Jasmina Besirevic, Dean, Trumbull College; Lecturer Ethnicity and Migration and Sociology; Melanie Boyd, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Lecturer Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies; Mark Dunn, Associate Director Undergraduate Admissions—director of outreach and recruitment.  (Note: Mark’s father was in the YC class of 1971!)

11:30 am                    Lunch at Roia (College Street)

REUNION OFFICIALLY ENDS