Senior Reunion - Senior Class

Friday 5/31/19

• Our Yale Experience: The Distant Past

  May 31

  2:00PM – 3:00PM

  Whitney Humanities Center | Room: Auditorium — 53 Wall Street

  What expectations did you have entering Yale and how did your experience meet/not meet /surprise / surpass those expectations? Please feel free to include parental and cultural expectations in your discussion

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  What expectations did you have entering Yale and how did your experience meet/not meet /surprise / surpass those expectations? Please feel free to include parental and cultural expectations in your discussion

  Whitney Humanities Center | Room: Auditorium — 53 Wall Street

• Class of 1979 TED Talks meets NPR's The Moth

  May 31

  2:00PM – 4:00PM

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

  For our class panels this year we are having 13 classmates share stories and experience in a TED-talk meets NPR's The Moth format. The topics are varied and are intended to encourage conversations throughout the weekend. Come and meet some new classmates and/or support the ones you know!

  SPEAKER SCHEDULE

  Friday, 2 pm: Phil Bernstein, Siobhan McNally, Ted Jaroscewicz

  Friday, 3 pm: Maritza Hernandez, Lori Kornblum, Michael Kosnett

   

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  For our class panels this year we are having 13 classmates share stories and experience in a TED-talk meets NPR's The Moth format. The topics are varied and are intended to encourage conversations throughout the weekend. Come and meet some new classmates and/or support the ones you know!

  SPEAKER SCHEDULE

  Friday, 2 pm: Phil Bernstein, Siobhan McNally, Ted Jaroscewicz

  Friday, 3 pm: Maritza Hernandez, Lori Kornblum, Michael Kosnett

   

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

• Weekend Warm Up

  May 31

  3:00PM – 6:00PM

  Loria Center | Room: Roof Patio — 190 York St.

  After a decade away, we’re all coming back together where it all began. For many of us, this will be the first time we’ve seen each other in years. Expect plentiful smiles and hugs, plus coffee, teas, juices, and more.

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  After a decade away, we’re all coming back together where it all began. For many of us, this will be the first time we’ve seen each other in years. Expect plentiful smiles and hugs, plus coffee, teas, juices, and more.

  Loria Center | Room: Roof Patio — 190 York St.

• Our Yale Experience: The Nearer Past

  May 31

  3:15PM – 4:15PM

  Whitney Humanities Center | Room: Auditorium — 53 Wall Street

  How did your Yale experience shape/not shape the paths you took immediately following Yale and how did those work out? Did you feel you were able to control what you could control or were you more frustrated by what you could not?

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  How did your Yale experience shape/not shape the paths you took immediately following Yale and how did those work out? Did you feel you were able to control what you could control or were you more frustrated by what you could not?

  Whitney Humanities Center | Room: Auditorium — 53 Wall Street

• 1964 | Conversation Groups B

  May 31

  3:15PM – 4:30PM

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall — 63 High Street

  In this second session of group dialogues, coordinated by Al Rossiter and Don Edwards, topics will include:

  Personal Issues
  Living with grief: losing a spouse or child – Joe Wishcamper
  Family dynamics of addiction – Bob Bulkeley
  What is creativity and how do you use it in your life? – Mimi McBride & Mike Mazer
  What gets you out of bed in the morning – John Hanold
  The challenge of memory loss – Bill Drennan
  Better with age: Is this the best time of life? – Don Edwards
  Have you heard about green burials? – Margie Lee

  Civic Issues
  The future of intercollgiate athletics – Jim Duderstadt
  Stopping climate change is hopeless. Let's do it. – Sue Damour
  Gun Violence – Peter Bradford
  Wealth inequities – Bruce Driver
  The erosion of ethics in the 21st century – Chuck Mokriski
  Feasible and desirable electoral reforms – Tom Rowe
  Free speech on college campuses – Terry Holcombe

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  In this second session of group dialogues, coordinated by Al Rossiter and Don Edwards, topics will include:

  Personal Issues
  Living with grief: losing a spouse or child – Joe Wishcamper
  Family dynamics of addiction – Bob Bulkeley
  What is creativity and how do you use it in your life? – Mimi McBride & Mike Mazer
  What gets you out of bed in the morning – John Hanold
  The challenge of memory loss – Bill Drennan
  Better with age: Is this the best time of life? – Don Edwards
  Have you heard about green burials? – Margie Lee

  Civic Issues
  The future of intercollgiate athletics – Jim Duderstadt
  Stopping climate change is hopeless. Let's do it. – Sue Damour
  Gun Violence – Peter Bradford
  Wealth inequities – Bruce Driver
  The erosion of ethics in the 21st century – Chuck Mokriski
  Feasible and desirable electoral reforms – Tom Rowe
  Free speech on college campuses – Terry Holcombe

  Linsly-Chittenden Hall — 63 High Street

• 1969 | U.S. Politics Since 1969

  May 31

  3:45PM – 5:15PM

  Sprague Hall | Room: Concert Hall — 470 College Street

  Beverly Gage is Professor of American History and, since 2017, Director of Yale's Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. She is a frequent public observer of, and commentator on, the roots and antecedents of contemporary American culture and politics. She will offer a perspective on (and a chance to discuss) whether the current political “moment” in American is as unique – and portentous – as public discourse usually presumes.

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  Beverly Gage is Professor of American History and, since 2017, Director of Yale's Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. She is a frequent public observer of, and commentator on, the roots and antecedents of contemporary American culture and politics. She will offer a perspective on (and a chance to discuss) whether the current political “moment” in American is as unique – and portentous – as public discourse usually presumes.

  Sprague Hall | Room: Concert Hall — 470 College Street

• University Welcome Reception

  May 31

  4:30PM – 6:30PM

  Cross Campus — On College between Elm & Wall

  All classes are invited to a festive wine and cheese reception on Cross Campus. Bring your friends and enjoy a wide sampling of labels from a variety of small vineyards.

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  All classes are invited to a festive wine and cheese reception on Cross Campus. Bring your friends and enjoy a wide sampling of labels from a variety of small vineyards.

  Cross Campus — On College between Elm & Wall

• 1964 | Memorial Service

  May 31

  5:30PM – 6:30PM

  St. Thomas More - Golden Center — 268 Park St.

  Steve Klingelhofer will lead us in a remembrance of the sixty or so classmates who have passed away in the last five years.

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  Steve Klingelhofer will lead us in a remembrance of the sixty or so classmates who have passed away in the last five years.

  St. Thomas More - Golden Center — 268 Park St.

• 1969 | Cocktails on the Old Campus

  May 31

  6:00PM – 7:00PM

  Old Campus

  Tonight we will gather in the 10th Reunion's tent, while they travel to Davenport. President Salovey and Marta Moret will join us for cocktails and dinner.

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  Tonight we will gather in the 10th Reunion's tent, while they travel to Davenport. President Salovey and Marta Moret will join us for cocktails and dinner.