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Talkin’ Baseball
 Yale President Bart Giamatti ’60 beams as University Secretary John Wilkinson ’60 presents Smoky Joe with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree Click here or on the photo to view amazing photos of this baseball legend, and other gods of the diamond, too. Then return here to Marty Snapp’s Class Notes (below) to learn about how we came to be able to offer you these glimpses of baseball royalty. Looks like Bob Fairclough will have to put his retirement plans on hold for a while. Bob is a biophysical chemist at UC Davis, where he is professor emeritus in the Department of Neurology’s School of Medicine. At an age when most of us are retired, he has just been awarded a sizable grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the project that has been fascinating him for decades: developing an improved diagnostic test for myasthenia gravis, a chronic auto-immune disease that prevents the skeletal muscles – the ones that contract to allow your arms and legs to move and your lungs to breathe in and out – from receiving messages from your nervous system. Among the sufferers: David Niven, Aristotle Onassis, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Phil Silvers (aka Sgt. Bilko) and Sleepy the Dwarf, whom some sources say was modeled after a friend of Walt Disney’s who had myasthenia. And Bob thinks his research could eventually lead the way to a… READ THE ENTIRE COLUMN HERE Faculty Videos
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. 50th & 45th Reunion Videos
Fun Stuff
Classmate Publications
We have news of books by classmate authors Karl Marlantes, John Mauceri, Mike Kail, Dave Richards, Jack Finnell, Bill Betsch, Joe Czarnecki and Stephen Dahl.
The class’ monthly Yale Club of New York City luncheons have resumed their regular schedule, the second Monday of the month. All in the New York area and beyond, if you’re in town, are invited to drop by the Yale Club for good ’67 fellowship. Contact Dave Richards at drichards@steptoe.com for updates.
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Highlights from
our 55th Reunion Candid photo collections from Thursday night
Videos of the Class of ’67-sponsored events, including The Jackson School, Teaching and Learning at Yale, the Memorial Service, Class Dinner, Tom Gottshall’s Grove Street Cemetery Tour, Yale Admissions Today, and John Mauceri. YAM Notes: July/August 2022 by Marty Snapp – highlights and reflections on the reunion. Class of 1967 logo items for 55th Reunion souvenirs or year-round gifts. Hello, Kingman!
 No longer a puppy, Handsome Dan XIX, Kingman, is 2 years old! A generous soul, he shared his cake with his best friend, Officer Heidi.  Party on, birthday boy!  Celebrating with the team Yale has a new mascot! Say hello to Handsome Dan XIX, known to his intimates as Kingman. He succeeds Handsome Dan XVIII, aka Walter, who resigned when his caregiver moved to New York. Kingman lives in New Haven with Kassandra “Kassie” Haro ’18, a Berkeley College alumna who will train, socialize and manage the pup’s public appearances. You can read much more about Kingman here, and read about how Handsome Dan XIX got his name, with a great historic photo and dog story of his famous namesake here.
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