“This the Yale Glee Club?” By chance I am answering phones that morning, although that isn’t in my job description as President of the Glee Club. It... Read on
I first met Rusty Lerner in the fall of 1983 in Wright Hall. We were both first-years in Saybrook. I lived in a quad suite on the fourth floor; he... Read on
Adam Shayne ’87 | August 20 2020 03:08pm | 3 comments
C-SPAN recently broadcast an event at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., celebrating “400 Years of Shakespeare.” People from all... Read on
It was May Day in 1970, and a crowd of nearly 20,000 packed the New Haven Green, eager for music and inspiration. National guardsmen ringed the perimeter... Read on
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
In the spring of 2014, I stood at our college reunion, in the Timothy Dwight courtyard, under a gigantic tent shielding us from the pounding rain. A friend... Read on
This is a story about philosemitism at Yale 60 years ago. At that time, Yale policy did not forbid either quotas for the admission of Jews or... Read on
N. Joel Ehrenkrantz ’45W, ’49MD | February 28 2005 10:50pm
The sculpture installed on the Cross Campus in October to honor the role of women at Yale set one recent alumna to thinking about some things she had taken... Read on
Before I left home for Yale, one of my friends was giving me a very hard time about having to go to school in New Haven. Now, after a year and a half... Read on
In an art history class I took during my freshman year, the professor displayed a slide of one of Michelangelo’s famous frescoes on the ceiling of... Read on