Class of 1962 60th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1962

Welcome to our 60th Reunion! Your first stop when arriving in New Haven is Timothy Dwight College, our home for the weekend. YAA staff and students at the Class Help Desk in the TD 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

Professor Matthew J. Kotchen will speak informally and answer questions about the role that the Yale School of the Environment now plays at Yale, New Haven and in the world. He is a professor of economics with his primary appointment at the School of the Environment and secondary appointments in the Yale School of Management and the Department of Economics. Phil Moriarty will introduce Prof. Kotchen.

Mingle with friends old and new as you enjoy cocktails under the TD tent before dinner. 

Our welcome dinner, and all subsequent meals, will be held in the Timothy Dwight courtyard.  For tonight's dinner, you will enjoy the American Favorites Buffet. Following dinner, enjoy casual conversation or an evening on own as there is no scheduled entertainment this evening. The bar tonight will close at 10:30pm.

Start your weekend off with a Welcome Breakfast Buffet under the tent before a morning of YAA Faculty Lectures and Tours. 

Classmate Writer's and Artist's are invited to display their work in the TD Common Room throughout Reunion Weekend. If interested in participating, please bring your desired item(s) to our 60th Reunion to display on the table for all to enjoy! Please kindly note that participation is voluntary and that this table will not be staffed by the YAA or security. Classmates contributing to the Writer's and Artist's Table are required to pickup their item(s) prior to departure. 

If you are arriving today, your first stop is Timothy Dwight 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.

Valerie Hansen, Stanley Woodward Professor of History

China’s long history as a powerful agrarian state has distracted many from its very real engagement with the ocean. Its contacts with South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa date back to the year 1000 and even before. Drawing on information from shipwrecks, maps, and descriptions of voyages and foreign lands, this talk traces China’s long engagement with its maritime neighbors, a topic of particular importance given China's recent expansion into the South China Sea.

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.