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

Friday 5/27/22

• Tour of the Yale Schwarzman Center

  May 27

  10:00AM – 11:00AM

  Woolsey Hall | Room: Rotunda — 500 College Street

  Four years in the making. Five traditional spaces made new. Five new spaces for making traditions. One hundred and twenty years of history stand behind Yale Schwarzman Center, and we’re excited to open our doors to you. At YSC, new and restored spaces are designed to be focal points of university life. Spaces for meetings, dining, and relaxing provide a host of ways to connect, create, and collaborate within and beyond campus. The YSC Team would like to extend an invitation for you to tour the Center – your Center. During your visit, you’ll be led through the various YSC spaces by a tour guide while you explore our tour mobile website which features original research, archival images, and alumni interviews. Tours will begin at 10:00 and 10:30 am; expect the entire visit will last around 75 minutes. Meet in the Woolsey Rotunda.

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  Four years in the making. Five traditional spaces made new. Five new spaces for making traditions. One hundred and twenty years of history stand behind Yale Schwarzman Center, and we’re excited to open our doors to you. At YSC, new and restored spaces are designed to be focal points of university life. Spaces for meetings, dining, and relaxing provide a host of ways to connect, create, and collaborate within and beyond campus. The YSC Team would like to extend an invitation for you to tour the Center – your Center. During your visit, you’ll be led through the various YSC spaces by a tour guide while you explore our tour mobile website which features original research, archival images, and alumni interviews. Tours will begin at 10:00 and 10:30 am; expect the entire visit will last around 75 minutes. Meet in the Woolsey Rotunda.

  Woolsey Hall | Room: Rotunda — 500 College Street

• 0Y2 Class/Multi-Class Service Project

  May 27

  10:00AM – 4:00PM

  Dwight Hall | Room: Chapel — 67 High Street

  1992 and 2002 are joining forces to partake in a reunion service project! Visit Dwight Hall between 10am - 4pm on Friday to help put together personal care kits for those in need.
   

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  1992 and 2002 are joining forces to partake in a reunion service project! Visit Dwight Hall between 10am - 4pm on Friday to help put together personal care kits for those in need.
   

  Dwight Hall | Room: Chapel — 67 High Street

• Class of 1992 Community Service Project

  May 27

  10:00AM – 4:00PM

  Dwight Hall | Room: Lounge — 67 High Street

  Drop in when you can to help prepare personal care kits for people who are homeless in New Haven (supplies will be provided). With the Class of 2002 joining us, we have a goal of putting together 120 kits with personal notes. 

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  Drop in when you can to help prepare personal care kits for people who are homeless in New Haven (supplies will be provided). With the Class of 2002 joining us, we have a goal of putting together 120 kits with personal notes. 

  Dwight Hall | Room: Lounge — 67 High Street

• America's Constitution: How It Arose and How to Preserve It

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Levinson Auditorium — 127 Wall Street

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

  In this lecture, based on his most recent book, The Words That Made Us: American's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, Professor Amar will offer his audience an overview of the grand project of American constitutionalism, past, present, and future, with particular emphasis on the importance of free expression and on America's special place in the world.

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

  In this lecture, based on his most recent book, The Words That Made Us: American's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840, Professor Amar will offer his audience an overview of the grand project of American constitutionalism, past, present, and future, with particular emphasis on the importance of free expression and on America's special place in the world.

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Levinson Auditorium — 127 Wall Street

• Brava! Women Make American Theater

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 119 — 100 Wall Street

  Melissa Barton '02, Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
  “Brava! Women Make American Theater" showcases, through archival materials, the ways in which women in the United States engaged in the production and reception of stage performance over its long history. Brava! highlights how stage performance often mirrored, but also frequently challenged and changed, understandings of women’s roles and of women’s rights in larger U.S. society. Drawing principally on materials in the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, the exhibit explores how theater served as a site of women’s entry into public audiences, an entrée into the arts as professions, and a locus of calls for diversity in the arts.

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  Melissa Barton '02, Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  
  “Brava! Women Make American Theater" showcases, through archival materials, the ways in which women in the United States engaged in the production and reception of stage performance over its long history. Brava! highlights how stage performance often mirrored, but also frequently challenged and changed, understandings of women’s roles and of women’s rights in larger U.S. society. Drawing principally on materials in the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, the exhibit explores how theater served as a site of women’s entry into public audiences, an entrée into the arts as professions, and a locus of calls for diversity in the arts.

  William L. Harkness Hall | Room: 119 — 100 Wall Street

• Constance Baker Motley, Lady of the Law

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Lillian Goldman Law Library — 127 Wall Street

  Join the Lillian Goldman Law Library staff for a guided tour of the “Constance Baker Motley: Lady of the Law” exhibit. Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and from her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge. Meet at the front entrance to the Law School. This tour is limited to 25 people.

  Add to Calendar 2022-05-27T10:30:00 2022-05-27T11:30:00 America/New_York Constance Baker Motley, Lady of the Law

  Join the Lillian Goldman Law Library staff for a guided tour of the “Constance Baker Motley: Lady of the Law” exhibit. Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and from her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge. Meet at the front entrance to the Law School. This tour is limited to 25 people.

  Sterling Law Buildings | Room: Lillian Goldman Law Library — 127 Wall Street

• Mapping the Invisible Universe

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

  Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics

  In this talk, Professor Natarajan will discuss two radical ideas in cosmology that involve invisible entities – dark matter and black holes. The history of the discovery of dark matter and black holes, as well as their current status – including recent leaps in understanding of the nature of dark matter obtained from mapping it via light bending; the discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and peering close to the event horizon of supermassive black holes  – will be presented.

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  Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor of Astronomy and Physics

  In this talk, Professor Natarajan will discuss two radical ideas in cosmology that involve invisible entities – dark matter and black holes. The history of the discovery of dark matter and black holes, as well as their current status – including recent leaps in understanding of the nature of dark matter obtained from mapping it via light bending; the discovery of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and peering close to the event horizon of supermassive black holes  – will be presented.

  Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall | Room: 114 — 1 Prospect Street

• Yale and America

  May 27

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

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

  Jay Gitlin, ’71, ’74 MusM, ’02 PhD, Lecturer in History; Associate Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders

  Professor Gitlin will give a brief description of his popular seminar, "Yale and America," and will then be joined by three students giving short talks based on their research.

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  Jay Gitlin, ’71, ’74 MusM, ’02 PhD, Lecturer in History; Associate Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders

  Professor Gitlin will give a brief description of his popular seminar, "Yale and America," and will then be joined by three students giving short talks based on their research.

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

• 1952 | Bistro Lunch Buffet

  May 27

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

  Jonathan Edwards College | Room: Courtyard — 68 High Street

  With the Class of 1957, enjoy delicious soups, sandwiches, and salads in the JE courtyard.  Don't forget to leave room for dessert with organic coffee and assorted teas.  

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  With the Class of 1957, enjoy delicious soups, sandwiches, and salads in the JE courtyard.  Don't forget to leave room for dessert with organic coffee and assorted teas.  

  Jonathan Edwards College | Room: Courtyard — 68 High Street