Class of 1960 60th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1960

Welcome to our 60th Reunion! Your first stop when arriving in New Haven is Jonathan Edwards, our home for the weekend. YAA staff and students at the Class Help Desk in the JE Common Room will be ready to check you in and provide nametags, reunion souvenirs, and campus housing keys if you are staying in the college. Staff and students will be on hand to answer your questions throughout the weekend.

Class Help Desk Hours: Thursday: 1 pm - midnight | Friday: 8 am - midnight | Saturday: 8 am - midnight | Sunday: 8 am - 1 pm

Free time to explore Yale University’s campus, world-class museums, legendary libraries and all your favorite spots around New Haven. Interested in joining your classmates at the Yale Golf Course for a round, contact Richard Sigal at richardlsigal@gmail.com.

Earth’s climate has always changed. But this time, it’s different. Given the complexity of the issue, however, it isn’t surprising that people have very different ways of thinking about and responding to the problem. By surveying over 50,000 Americans during the past decade and the global public more recently, the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC) has identified six distinct audiences who perceive climate change, its seriousness and its solutions in very different ways. Understanding these differences and why they exist can help us have constructive conversations about the issue and to find common ground. 

Jennifer Marlon is a Research Scientist at Yale’s School of the Environment (YSE) and leads the Data Science team at the YPCCC. She designed the interactive Yale Climate Opinion Maps, the SASSY (Six Americas) segmentation tool and quiz, the Climate Opinion Factsheets, the CCAM Explorer, and other tools for the YPCCC. Jenn co-teaches Environmental Data Visualization & Communication at YSE, and Climate Change to Yale undergraduates as part of Biology, the World, and Us. She holds a PhD and MS in Geography from the University of Oregon, and a BS from the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Our cocktails and welcome dinner, and all subsequent meals, will be held in the Jonathan Edwards courtyard.  The Local Favorites Buffet dinner stations will feature herb roasted chicken, cedar plank salmon, stuffed piquante, polenta bar, and an assortment of sides and sweets.

Cocktails starting at 5:30 pm with dinner served at 6:30 pm.

Stay with us for a nightcap and conversation. The bar this evening closes at 11 pm.

Our 1960 Welcome Breakfast will include: an assortment of baked goods, fresh fruit, farm fresh hard boiled eggs, cereals, granola, yogurt, fair trade coffee, teas, coffee and fruit juices.

If you are arriving today, your first stop is Jonathan Edwards College, our home for the weekend. YAA staff and students at the Class Help Desk in the Common Room will be ready to check you in and provide reunion materials, including campus housing keys if you are staying on campus.

Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History

On 27 September 1938, as European leaders pursued negotiations in Munich surrounding Adolf Hitler's demand to annex the Sudetenland, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain addressed the British people. "How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing," he said. In 2014 the Donbas became that faraway place. This lecture will address the uses and disadvantages of historical analogies, and explore how the fate of the world is now being decided in Ukraine.

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; repeated at 10:30 AM.