Class of 1990 30th Reunion - Program & Schedule - 1990

Welcome to your Reunion Headquarters in Davenport College, where you may check in, obtain your campus housing keys, and catch up with friends.  Yale Security will be present in reunion headquarters throughout each night.

Plan to meet your friends at Mory’s, the place to be Thursday night as the doors are thrown open to all returning alumni! Complimentary food, cash bar, impromptu singing and camaraderie from 9 pm to midnight.

Reunion Headquarters opens in Davenport College.

Debra Fischer, Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Dr. Fischer will highlight a new instrument built by her team that is changing the field of exoplanets by enabling the detection of small rocky planets like Earth, orbiting nearby stars.

Friday morning, we will feature several of Yale's distinguished faculty members, as well as some special tours around campus and children's activities at Yale's Museums.

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas '90, Professor in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; Professor of American Studies and Anthropology; Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

In this presentation, Professor Ramos-Zayas will examine the parenting practices and subjectivities of the Brazilian and Puerto Rican upper classes, as they alter urban landscapes; provide moral justifications for segregation, surveillance, and foreign interventions; and recast idioms of crisis, corruption, and austerity according to the dictums of US empire. My comparative ethnography focuses on the everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality as they become entrenched in child-centered sociabilities.

Buffet picnic lunch featuring chicken, burgers (beef or veggie), salads, sides and dessert.  Plus wine, beer, soda, coffee and teas.

Leo Villareal will describe his journey from making sculptures in Hammond Hall as a Yale undergraduate art major to presenting some of the largest public artworks in the world. Villareal forges software and light into unique forms that extend the work of artists like James Turrell and Robert Irwin. Over the last 20 years he has shown his work at galleries and museums around the world and launched two monumental public artworks, The Bay Lights in San Francisco and the Illuminated River in London, which will transform 15 bridges across the Thames into a light sculpture.