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

Saturday 5/30/20

• Constitutional Issues in the Age of Trump

  May 30

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Akhil Reed Amar '80, '84 Law, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

  From George Washington forward, America’s presidents have occupied center stage in the nation’s public life; and the present moment is no exception. In this reunion session – more an open-ended conversation with alums than a highly structured lecture – Professor Amar will discuss several of the biggest constitutional questions in today’s headlines.

  Professor Amar is a Yale Alumni Association Howard R. Lamar Faculty Award recipient for 2017.

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  Akhil Reed Amar '80, '84 Law, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

  From George Washington forward, America’s presidents have occupied center stage in the nation’s public life; and the present moment is no exception. In this reunion session – more an open-ended conversation with alums than a highly structured lecture – Professor Amar will discuss several of the biggest constitutional questions in today’s headlines.

  Professor Amar is a Yale Alumni Association Howard R. Lamar Faculty Award recipient for 2017.

  

• Tour of Marsh Botanical Garden

  May 30

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 30 participants.

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  Marsh Botanical Garden is eight acres of plantings on Science Hill with six greenhouses for teaching and research. Enjoy a stroll with Associate Director Kunso Kim through the naturalistically designed beds, full of rare plants and plants of historical interest, and explore the glass houses with their special collections of desert plants, carnivorous plants, and edible tropical plants like chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Please note: This tour is limited to 30 participants.

  Marsh Botanical Garden | Room: Garden Tour — 227 Mansfield St.

  

• Why Song? Words, Music, and the Practice of Empathy

  May 30

  9:00AM – 10:00AM

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 201/Sudler — 100 Wall Street

  Paul Berry '99, '07 PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Yale School of Music

  Before broadly-marketed popular music diverged irrevocably from what we now call classical music, Franz Schubert composed songs that still define the genre today. For everyone from Brahms and Ravel to Aretha Franklin and Kendrick Lamar, song remains as Schubert conceived of it: poetry and music fused into emotional landscapes more distinctive and compelling than either words or tones could create alone. Through the emotional landscapes in these songs, we are drawn outside our own experience and encouraged to inhabit perspectives foreign to our own. This lecture uses several of Schubert's greatest songs to consider the varieties of empathetic experience that music offers to listeners and performers alike.

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  Paul Berry '99, '07 PhD, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Yale School of Music

  Before broadly-marketed popular music diverged irrevocably from what we now call classical music, Franz Schubert composed songs that still define the genre today. For everyone from Brahms and Ravel to Aretha Franklin and Kendrick Lamar, song remains as Schubert conceived of it: poetry and music fused into emotional landscapes more distinctive and compelling than either words or tones could create alone. Through the emotional landscapes in these songs, we are drawn outside our own experience and encouraged to inhabit perspectives foreign to our own. This lecture uses several of Schubert's greatest songs to consider the varieties of empathetic experience that music offers to listeners and performers alike.

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 201/Sudler — 100 Wall Street

  

• Tour of the New Residential Colleges

  May 30

  9:00AM – 11:15AM

  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours run continually to 11:15 am.

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  Current Yale students stand ready to guide you through the two new residential colleges – Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray – with their spectacular towers, elegant dining halls and fine stone carvings and gates. Tours run continually to 11:15 am.

  

• Morning at Yale

  May 30

  9:00AM – 11:30AM

  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.

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  Reunion attendees from all classes will have their choice of a number of stimulating faculty lectures; tours of the gym and the Newberry organ; a singing workshop; and children's activities at Yale's museums.

• 1970 50th Reunion Exhibit

  May 30

  10:00AM – 4:45PM

  Sterling Memorial Library | Room: Nave — 120 High Street

  See description for Thursday.

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  See description for Thursday.

  Sterling Memorial Library | Room: Nave — 120 High Street

• A Home in Hendrie Hall

  May 30

  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 30

  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.

   

  

• Frederick Douglass

  May 30

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History

  Professor Blight will discuss the subject of his definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.

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  David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History

  Professor Blight will discuss the subject of his definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.