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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.”

  • The Glee Club meets the “wand’rin’ star”

    “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
    Jim Weber ’70 | October 27 2020 10:52am

  • Thicker than water: former roommates learn they're cousins

    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 | Ico comments 3 comments

  • One loss—of many—in the Great War

    A hundred years ago, the US entrance into the Great War in Europe ruined the chances of a rematch between the two top milers of the day—Joie Ray from... Read on
    Brooks Clark | April 6 2017 10:19am

  • Defending the Bard in a time of strife

    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
    Nathan Wise ’72 | July 21 2016 03:14pm | Ico comments 2 comments

  • From May Day to iTunes, Yalie musicians reunite

    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
    Reid Spencer ’72 | June 13 2016 01:24pm

  • The swimming lesson

    Even after I passed all the important entry requirements for Yale—SATs, interviews, essays, and high school transcript—one final test... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | August 1 2016 08:55am | Ico comments 1 comment

  • The naked truth about Yale’s posture program

    My first weeks at Yale in 1953 were filled with all sorts of interviews and tests, written and physical. I got through the written ones with no problems.... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | June 22 2015 02:09pm

  • 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

  • Light, truth, and Peter Rabbit

    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
    Amy Kaufman Burk ’80 | May 28 2015 03:00pm | Ico comments 1 comment

  • ‘We smoked our pipes and took our ease’

    Back in the 1950s, smoking a pipe was as much the fashion at Yale as button-down Gant shirts and scuffed white bucks. I wasn’t a smoker, but when I... Read on
    Andrew Letendre ’58 | May 21 2015 02:54pm | Ico comments 4 comments

  • Clothes made the (Yale) man

    When the seasons change I go upstairs to my daughter’s childhood bedroom and open the closet where I keep my off-season clothes. My eye never... Read on
    Marty Nichols ’52 | July 10 2013 07:49am | Ico comments 3 comments

  • Old school ties

    One cold winter day long ago, in the middle of freshman year, I was almost kicked off campus for wearing someone else’s tie. It was 1963, and... Read on
    Ron Meister ’67, ’70JD | April 24 2013 09:55am

  • When the World Barged In (Mar. 1997)

    The important events of the outside world, inside Yale.  When the World Barged InMarch 1997by Peter Beinart ’93 Part of a series... Read on
    Peter Beinart ’93 | March 1 1997 03:22pm

  • A Not Unwelcome Senselessness (Mar. 1997)

    Falling in love with a boy in a long dark coat during freshman year.  A Not Unwelcome SenselessnessMarch 1997by Jane Mendelsohn ’87... Read on
    Jane Mendelsohn ’87 | March 1 1997 03:08pm

  • Diary Daze (Mar. 1997)

    Four years in New Haven, documented in diary entries. Diary DazeMarch 1997by Hugh Kennedy ’87 Part of a series entitled "The Yale... Read on
    Hugh Kennedy ’87 | March 1 1997 03:06pm

  • Surviving “Grim Professionalism” (Mar. 1997)

    College at Yale's closest thing to a vocational school: the Yale Daily News. Surviving “Grim Professionalism”March... Read on
    Melinda Beck ’77 | March 1 1997 02:58pm

  • Chronicling a Cauldron (Mar. 1997)

    Stirring controversy, through the pages of the Yale Banner. Chronicling a CauldronMarch 1997by David W. Dunlap ’75 Part of a series... Read on
    David W. Dunlap ’75 | March 1 1997 02:53pm

  • A Confusion of Lures (Mar. 1997)

    An undergraduate finds himself in the "confusion of images and lures and ideas and friends" of a Yale career. A Confusion of LuresMarch... Read on
    Steven Brill ’72 | March 1 1997 02:34pm

  • Of Reading, and a Wink (Mar. 1997)

    Homosexuality in the classroom, before Yale acquired the nickname "the Gay Ivy." Of Reading, and a WinkMarch 1997by Stuart Kellogg ’70... Read on
    Stuart Kellogg ’70 | March 1 1997 02:20pm