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Memories

Recollections of Yale, across the decades. Send your own memories to be considered for posting to yam@yale.edu, with subject line “For Memories.”

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  • A Fasching party at HGS

    In February 1958, when we were grad students living in the Hall of Graduate Studies, Charlie Neff ’61PhD and I wistfully shared our memories of the German “fifth... Read on
    Charles B. Teske ’62PhD | June 11 2015 11:04am

  • Booking the big one (Summer 1999)

    For the last three years I have watched other Yalies graduate. From an outsider’s perspective, Commencement looked like a happy weekend that... Read on
    Sandy Christopher ’99 | July 1 1999 08:09am

  • If you want to learn it, teach it (Dec. 1997)

    Expectant eyes focused on me, deciding whether I was friend or prey. None of my notes or preparation had readied me for this test. My director had told me... Read on
    Loren Goldman ’00 | December 1 1997 01:24pm

  • Learning to love the East (Feb. 96)

    On a clear, brisk day late this November, a Californian friend of mine walked outside wearing shorts. He’s a freshman. I put a gloved hand on... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | February 1 1996 01:11pm

  • The café campus (Mar. 1996)

    The word “coffeehouse” brings to mind Parisian street corners, crowded rooms where visionaries brandished cigarettes in earnest defense... Read on
    Michelle Chihara ’96 | March 1 1996 11:59am

  • The recruiters are coming (Mar. 1995)

    For three years, they waxed rhapsodic about the virtues of a liberal arts education, shunned classes that carried so much as a whiff of... Read on
    Annie Murphy Paul ’95 | March 1 1995 07:47am

  • New Haven in the “off-season” (Oct. 1995)

    The three city blocks separating Pierson College from the house I shared this summer may seem a short distance geographically, but in every other way... Read on
    Noah Kotch ’97 | October 1 1995 08:07am