Class of 1955 65th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1955

Saturday 5/23/20

• A Home in Hendrie Hall

  May 23

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Adams Center | Room: Rossi Glee Club Room — 165 Elm Street

  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of coed undergraduate singing, the Yale Glee Club Associates commissioned a short documentary and a three-part podcast about the transformation of the Glee Club and the University. After a screening of the film, A Home in Hendrie Hall, and a behind-the-scenes look at how the podcast Time and Change was put together, alumni who are featured in both will talk about the Glee Club's transition to an SATB ensemble. Hosted by podcast producer Naomi Lewin '74, with filmmaker Miriam Lewin '80.
  Access to Hendrie Hall and the Rossi Glee Club Room is through the entrance to the Adams Center at the rear of the building.

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  To celebrate the 50th anniversary of coed undergraduate singing, the Yale Glee Club Associates commissioned a short documentary and a three-part podcast about the transformation of the Glee Club and the University. After a screening of the film, A Home in Hendrie Hall, and a behind-the-scenes look at how the podcast Time and Change was put together, alumni who are featured in both will talk about the Glee Club's transition to an SATB ensemble. Hosted by podcast producer Naomi Lewin '74, with filmmaker Miriam Lewin '80.
  Access to Hendrie Hall and the Rossi Glee Club Room is through the entrance to the Adams Center at the rear of the building.

  Adams Center | Room: Rossi Glee Club Room — 165 Elm Street

  

• Emotional Intelligence: From Theory to Practice

  May 23

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Marc Brackett, Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Professor in the Child Study Center

  Emotions can either positively or negatively influence learning, decision making, relationships, health, creativity, and performance. In Professor Brackett’s presentation, he will (1) describe his Center’s large-scale studies on children’s and adults’ emotional lives, (2) share the model of emotional intelligence developed at Yale, (3) present the Center’s “RULER” approach to developing emotional intelligence which has reached over 1.5 million children and adults, and (4) teach tools to develop emotional intelligence from his new book, Permission To Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and our Society Thrive.

   

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  Marc Brackett, Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence; Professor in the Child Study Center

  Emotions can either positively or negatively influence learning, decision making, relationships, health, creativity, and performance. In Professor Brackett’s presentation, he will (1) describe his Center’s large-scale studies on children’s and adults’ emotional lives, (2) share the model of emotional intelligence developed at Yale, (3) present the Center’s “RULER” approach to developing emotional intelligence which has reached over 1.5 million children and adults, and (4) teach tools to develop emotional intelligence from his new book, Permission To Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help our Kids, Ourselves, and our Society Thrive.

   

  

• Knowledge and Leadership for a Sustainable Future

  May 23

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Indy Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology

  Environmental challenges today are more acute than ever, and not likely to decrease with the growing global need for resources to support human society. What is the role of a university in addressing these issues, how is that changing at this particular time in national history, and how is the Yale School of the Environment uniquely suited for bringing scholarship to solutions?

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  Indy Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale School of the Environment; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology

  Environmental challenges today are more acute than ever, and not likely to decrease with the growing global need for resources to support human society. What is the role of a university in addressing these issues, how is that changing at this particular time in national history, and how is the Yale School of the Environment uniquely suited for bringing scholarship to solutions?

  

• Managing Yale's Endowment

  May 23

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  David Swensen '80 PhD, Yale's Chief Investment Officer, oversees $27 billion in endowment assets and several hundreds of millions of dollars of other investment funds. Under his stewardship during the past 33 years the Yale endowment generated returns of 13.5 percent per annum, a record unequalled among institutional investors. Mr. Swensen leads a staff of 32, located near the University’s campus in downtown New Haven.

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  David Swensen '80 PhD, Yale's Chief Investment Officer, oversees $27 billion in endowment assets and several hundreds of millions of dollars of other investment funds. Under his stewardship during the past 33 years the Yale endowment generated returns of 13.5 percent per annum, a record unequalled among institutional investors. Mr. Swensen leads a staff of 32, located near the University’s campus in downtown New Haven.

  

• What is American Cuisine?

  May 23

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

  Professor Freedman, author of American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, looks at the question, "What is American  Cuisine?" The distinctive things about American food are its regional traditions, their erosion by processed food which dominated the twentieth century,and a love of variety. Choice and options (twelve different Rice-a-Roni flavors) compensate for the blandness of factory-made food. Now the popularity of  industrially-made food has waned, gradually supplanted if not completely replaced by a return to primary tastes, freshness, and to some degree seasonal and local dining. This talk identifies the 1970s as a turning point.

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  Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

  Professor Freedman, author of American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, looks at the question, "What is American  Cuisine?" The distinctive things about American food are its regional traditions, their erosion by processed food which dominated the twentieth century,and a love of variety. Choice and options (twelve different Rice-a-Roni flavors) compensate for the blandness of factory-made food. Now the popularity of  industrially-made food has waned, gradually supplanted if not completely replaced by a return to primary tastes, freshness, and to some degree seasonal and local dining. This talk identifies the 1970s as a turning point.

  

• 1955 | American Barbecue Lunch Buffet

  May 23

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

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• 1960 | American Picnic Lunch Buffet

  May 23

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

  Timothy Dwight College : Courtyard

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• American Picnic Lunch Buffet

  May 23

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

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  Enjoy picnic fried chicken, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, grilled cheese and lentil buger. A variety of sides, salads, and sweet treats.

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  Enjoy picnic fried chicken, hamburgers and cheeseburgers, grilled cheese and lentil buger. A variety of sides, salads, and sweet treats.

• BBQ Lunch

  May 23

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

  Old Campus — 67 High Street

  BBQ on Old Campus!

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  BBQ on Old Campus!

  Old Campus — 67 High Street