Class of 1977 45th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1977

Friday 6/3/22

• Tour of the Yale Schwarzman Center

  Jun 3

  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.

  Add to Calendar 2022-06-03T10:00:00 2022-06-03T11:00:00 America/New_York Tour of the Yale Schwarzman Center

  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

• Biomedical Engineering, Medicines of the Future, and Pivoting During a Pandemic

  Jun 3

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

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

  W. Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environemntal Engeineering & Physiology

  In this talk, Professor Saltzman will describe the role of engineering in creation of medicines of the future. Over the past two years, for example, we have seen the introduction of nanoparticle vaccines that were rapidly developed from concept to testing to deployment. But even more is on the horizon, such as nanoparticle-based treatments for brain tumors, targeted correction of genetic diseases, transplants that are invisible to the immune system, long-lasting, safe prevention of UV-mediated DNA damage in skin, and inhalable vaccines.

  Add to Calendar 2022-06-03T10:30:00 2022-06-03T11:30:00 America/New_York Biomedical Engineering, Medicines of the Future, and Pivoting During a Pandemic

  W. Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environemntal Engeineering & Physiology

  In this talk, Professor Saltzman will describe the role of engineering in creation of medicines of the future. Over the past two years, for example, we have seen the introduction of nanoparticle vaccines that were rapidly developed from concept to testing to deployment. But even more is on the horizon, such as nanoparticle-based treatments for brain tumors, targeted correction of genetic diseases, transplants that are invisible to the immune system, long-lasting, safe prevention of UV-mediated DNA damage in skin, and inhalable vaccines.

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

• Constance Baker Motley, Lady of the Law

  Jun 3

  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 2022-06-03T10:30:00 2022-06-03T11:30:00 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

• What is American Cuisine?

  Jun 3

  10:30AM – 11:30AM

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

  Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

  Professor Freedman, author of American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, looks at the question, "What is American Cuisine?" The distinctive things about American food are its regional traditions, their erosion by processed food which dominated the twentieth century,and a love of variety. Choice and options (twelve different Rice-a-Roni flavors) compensate for the blandness of factory-made food. Now the popularity of industrially-made food has waned, gradually supplanted if not completely replaced by a return to primary tastes, freshness, and to some degree seasonal and local dining. This talk identifies the 1970s as a turning point.

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  Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History

  Professor Freedman, author of American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, looks at the question, "What is American Cuisine?" The distinctive things about American food are its regional traditions, their erosion by processed food which dominated the twentieth century,and a love of variety. Choice and options (twelve different Rice-a-Roni flavors) compensate for the blandness of factory-made food. Now the popularity of industrially-made food has waned, gradually supplanted if not completely replaced by a return to primary tastes, freshness, and to some degree seasonal and local dining. This talk identifies the 1970s as a turning point.

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

• Yale and America

  Jun 3

  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 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 students giving short talks based on their research.

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

• 1977 | American Picnic Lunch Buffet

  Jun 3

  12:00PM – 1:30PM

  Timothy Dwight College — 345 Temple Street

  Join your classmates for a casual picnic featuring fried chicken, grass-finished hamburgers and cheeseburgers, gourmet grilled cheese, savory house-made lentil burgers, and an assortment of sides, salads and sweets!

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  Join your classmates for a casual picnic featuring fried chicken, grass-finished hamburgers and cheeseburgers, gourmet grilled cheese, savory house-made lentil burgers, and an assortment of sides, salads and sweets!

  Timothy Dwight College — 345 Temple Street

• 1977 | Roundtable Discussions under the TD tent

  Jun 3

  1:30PM – 3:30PM

  Timothy Dwight College | Room: Courtyard — 345 Temple Street

  This new reunion format will involve informal conversations facilitated by classmates. Discussion facilitators and topics include Melinda Beck (Retirement/What’s Next?), Matt Gelfand (Free Speech & Diversity: Yale & Beyond), Randy Bock (overturning Zika), Susan Block (Peace, Love, Bonobos), Brian Trotier (Homelessness), and Eleanor LeCain (Saving our Democracy). We could also devote some tables to a Q&A format in which classmates “ask the experts” about topics of interest. Please contact one of the reunion organizers if you wish to facilitate discussion or share your expertise on a topic of your choice.

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  This new reunion format will involve informal conversations facilitated by classmates. Discussion facilitators and topics include Melinda Beck (Retirement/What’s Next?), Matt Gelfand (Free Speech & Diversity: Yale & Beyond), Randy Bock (overturning Zika), Susan Block (Peace, Love, Bonobos), Brian Trotier (Homelessness), and Eleanor LeCain (Saving our Democracy). We could also devote some tables to a Q&A format in which classmates “ask the experts” about topics of interest. Please contact one of the reunion organizers if you wish to facilitate discussion or share your expertise on a topic of your choice.

  Timothy Dwight College | Room: Courtyard — 345 Temple Street

• Cocktail Hour

  Jun 3

  6:30PM – 7:30PM

  Timothy Dwight College | Room: Courtyard — 345 Temple Street

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• 1977 | American Favorites Buffet Dinner in the Courtyard

  Jun 3

  7:30PM – 9:30PM

  Timothy Dwight College — 345 Temple Street

  The American Favorites Buffet dinner stations will feature cabernet braised beef short ribs, gulf shrimp and stone ground grits, southern etoufee, a bolognese bar, Korean style chicken, and an assortment of sides and sweets.  

  Add to Calendar 2022-06-03T19:30:00 2022-06-03T21:30:00 America/New_York 1977 | American Favorites Buffet Dinner in the Courtyard

  The American Favorites Buffet dinner stations will feature cabernet braised beef short ribs, gulf shrimp and stone ground grits, southern etoufee, a bolognese bar, Korean style chicken, and an assortment of sides and sweets.  

  Timothy Dwight College — 345 Temple Street