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Time to take an intellectual and spiritual trip down memory lane with three of the most extraordinary figures of our undergraduate years: the great art historian Vincent Scully, the unforgettable University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin, and Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom, who passed away on October 14. Links to lectures by all three of them are present on our Faculty Videos page. Click here for some of Professor Scully’s most memorable lectures, including talks on Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, Maya Lin, and modern architecture. Click here for some of Reverend Coffin’s most memorable sermons at New York’s historic Riverside Church, where he served for more than ten years as Senior Minister after his time at Yale. And click here to view Professor Bloom’s lectures. We’re still looking for videos of historian John Morton Blum and philosopher Paul Weiss. We’ll let you know as soon as we find them. Please tell us if there are any other professors you’d like us to search for. FIND MORE on our Faculty videos page. Classmate Publications
We have news of books by classmate authors Stephen Dahl, Karl Marlantes, John Mauceri, Mike Kail, Dave Richards, Jack Finnell, Bill Betsch and Joe Czarnecki.
Our next regular meeting will be held on the second Wednesday of the month at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Ave. We gather around 12:30pm, but latecomers are always welcome. You need not be a member of the Club to attend this lunch (but bring some cash to reimburse a classmate member who will sign for your meal). The conversation and topics are unrestrained, including lies about your golf score! For more information, please contact Dave Richards. March/April 2021 By Marty Snapp Happy belated birthday to Victor Ashe, who turned 76 on New Year’s Day, and therein lies quite a tale. After graduating from Yale, Victor returned to his hometown, Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was elected in 1968 to the first of three terms in the state House of Representatives. In 1974 he decided to move up to the State Senate, but he was sued by one of his rivals, who claimed he didn’t meet the minimum age requirement of 30. The hitch was that Victor would turn 30 on January 1, 1975, nine days the swearing-in date, but he would still be only 29 on election day, November 7, 1974. The case went all the way up to the state Supreme Court, which ruled against him ordered his name removed from the ballot. Victor wasn’t going to walk off the field without a fight, and his mother, Martha Ashe, agreed. “It’s not your fault!” she said. “Your father and I are responsible for the date of your birthday. If we had known about this, we would have gotten it started earlier!” (“This was the most risqué thing I ever heard my mother say,” Victor comments.)… READ MORE
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UPDATE: As of this writing, Victor has collected 6,948 signatures on his nominating petition, way more than the 4,394 required to qualify for the ballot in next year’s Yale Corporation election. The other insurgent candidate, Maggie Thomas FES ’15, has also passed the signature threshold, which means both of them will be challenging whoever the Corporation anoints as its candidate or candidates. In this year’s Corporation election only 18,135 alumni out of a total of about 146,000 eligible voters actually cast ballots, so there’s a great unmined pool of potential voters for Victor to tap. Earlier update: Victor has been endorsed by George Will! The Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, well respected on both sides of the political aisle, gave Victor’s campaign his blessing in the August 26 edition of The Washington Post. You can read it on the Post’s website here. Or, if you run up against the Post’s paywall, you can read it here by clicking this link. If you want to find out more about Victor or sign his nominating petition, please visit his website at AsheForYale.com. See more on Victor’s candidacy on his updates page right here on our class website. Victor has had two more debates (actually, more like friendly discussions) with his fellow insurgent candidate for the Yale Corporation, Maggie Thomas, FES ’15. The first, a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Yale Club of Southwest Florida, was held on June 18, but you can watch it anytime you want by clicking on this link. The second, a virtual town hall sponsored by the Yale Club of Fort Worth, was held July 16, and you can view it by clicking on this link. Earlier News: Victor took part in a candidates forum on May 7, which was recorded. We can all view the video here. While the rest of us are wondering who to vote for in this year’s Yale Corporation election, our classmate Victor Ashe is already running for a seat in next year’s election. And he’s taking the rare step of seeking nomination by petition instead of waiting for the Corporation to anoint him. The only time this has ever been successfully done was during our sophomore year in 1965, when William Horowitz was elected. But the rules are a lot less friendly for such candidacies now. When Horowitz ran, he only had to get 250 signatures. Now they’re making Victor get 4,396, and he has only four months to get them – from this May 18 to October 1. Click here to be taken to Victor’s website to find out more about him, including his faithful service to both George W. Bush and Barack Obama as America’s ambassador to Poland (how Yale of him, don’t you think?) and how you can sign his petition, if you like. Social Distancing ’67-Style
Here’s Don Metzger modeling the memorabilia prototype for our next reunion in 2022, with tongue placed firmly in cheek: So here’s Peter Petkas modeling an alternative souvenir of his own invention, which seems to meet Randy’s requirements:
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Retirement Hobby” When Dave retired in 2003 from a 30-year career in management consulting with McKinsey & Company, the first item on his bucket list was to learn about “the mysteries of the universe, from the largest scales (astrophysics and cosmology) to the smallest (quantum theory).” This was the delayed fulfillment of a childhood dream Dave had as a boy growing up near Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dave started by consuming dozens of nontechnical books on the history of physics, astrophysics and cosmology, but soon decided to hire a post-doc to tutor him in physics, while collecting and reading first editions… READ MORE Helpful Resources
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