Dear Classmates and Friends,
It is hard to believe another five years have passed, but our 55th Yale Reunion is approaching. Our Reunion will begin on Thursday, June 1, and concludes after breakfast on Sunday, June 4. So, mark your calendars now and plan to attend!!
Thursday: John Mauceri ’67 will give an immersive lecture, interspersed with the playing of movie soundtracks and other musical works, based on his book, “The War on Music - Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.” A similar lecture to the Class of 1967 produced a standing ovation.
Mr. Mauceri, a Tony, Grammy, and three-time Emmy winner, served on the Yale faculty for fifteen years, beginning in 1968, and built the Yale Symphony Orchestra into one of the most respected student orchestras in the world. He has also appeared as a conductor with most of our leading orchestras and opera companies and is the founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Most recently, he was also the musical advisor to the Oscar-nominated film Tár.
Cocktails and dinner will follow in the Timothy Dwight courtyard. Yale tells us that we expect most Reunion attendees to arrive Thursday afternoon, so feel free to plan for that.
Friday: Dean of Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan ’03 will talk about the tough controversies and challenges for Yale in maintaining its record of excellence, fairness, diversity, and (yes) legacy admissions, when more than 50,000 applications come in for only 1,500 places. This is a must-attend session, and we are lucky that Dean Quinlan will speak and answer questions.
Saturday: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s expanding power, upheavals in the Middle East, climate change and fresh energy security challenges--all have turned the world order inside out only in the last couple years. We are lucky to have Pulitzer Prize winning classmate Daniel Yergin and his wife, renowned Russia expert Angela Stent, speak to the class about their research and experiences with these issues, focusing on the perils that lie ahead. Dan’s latest best-selling book is The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations. He is one of America’s leading experts on the economics of energy, security, and climate change. Angela is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, former national intelligence officer and director emerita of Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Her two recent prize-winning books are The Limits of Partnership: US-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century and Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest. Dan and Angela are also media stars and have attended numerous meetings with President Vladimir Putin of Russia over many years-- before the war.
Social Activities: We have also planned many social activities, including an elegant class dinner on Friday evening and a dance band on Saturday. A memorial service for our classmates who have died since our last reunion is scheduled for Friday afternoon.
University-Wide Activities: In addition to our class-specific activities, Yale will have on Friday and Saturday mornings its usual broad array of interesting faculty lectures, and on Saturday afternoon, President Salovey will provide his University Update.
Housing and Registration: The ability to sign up for the discounted block of reunion hotel rooms and on campus housing opened in late January. While most of the discounted hotels are sold out, rooms may become available later as cancellations are received. There are also a number of non-discounted hotels in and near New Haven that can be found through the normal search channels, and on campus housing remains available.
Financial aid: Visit the Fees & Financial Aid link on the left. Assistance will be available on an anonymous basis for classmates who need it.
Websites: There are two places to go for 55th Reunion information:
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Your principal point of contact for our Reunion, including information and links to hotels, on campus housing, financial aid, important reunion deadlines, shuttle/parking information, and more is this Yale Reunion Website. Use the menu of links on the left to find the info you need.
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For information about the activities of our classmates, including a list of those who have passed away, you can go to our Class of 1968 website. We will also post updated reunion information and links to Yale’s Reunion Website on our Class website.
As we get older, it is even more important to see old friends again. Our class is special. We have often beaten reunion attendance records. Let’s do it again.
Reunion Co-Chairs, Bill Baker and Rick Sperry
Reunion Planning Committee:
Steve Weisman, Jim Latimer, Mike Riley, Neil Berkson, and Frank Gallinelli