Losing My Mind … and My Good Health

Something on the order of half of us will deal with dementia — either our own or our spouse’s. Sadly, Alzheimer’s Disease and other degenerative diseases will be a fact of life … and ultimately of death … for some of us.

Fortunately, two physicians on the ’69 Class Council have recruited two nationally prominent experts to discuss the issues with us. They’ve been asked to speak briefly on your likely questions about Alzheimers and what, if anything, you can do to forestall it or care for those suffering from it, including terminal care. For example, some classmates have asked about planning for assisted living, nursing or palliative care during the progression of diseases they or their loved ones might face. But mostly, we’ll listen to these experts, and after their opening remarks, we’ll open the floor for questions.

Click to register for this Yale Boom event, hosted by the Class of ’69.

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Rock & Revolution: How The Electrifying Sounds Of Our Youth Transformed America

Those were revolutionary years, the late 1960s and early ’70s, and anyone who grew up then knows how the music we danced to helped galvanize support for then-radical goals like an end to war, Black Power, women’s liberation and even “sex, drugs, rock & roll.” Join us on May 20th as we uncover the radical foundations of some of the period’s most stirring songs, from artists like the Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Carole King and more.

Our host, Angharad Davis, created and taught the “Music and Revolution” course at Yale Department of Music during the past semester. Davis will focus specifically on American popular music of the time – the shared soundtrack of our lives. How did those songs help, or fail, to drive social change? And what can we learn from them about the revolutionary movements of today, now that we and our classmates are – like all America – divided into camps from left to right? REGISTER NOW.

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Brian Dowling & Calvin Hill, Rescheduled, 2/23; Sign Up Now!

“In sports, it’s all about how you get up when you get knocked down,” said Brian in our original planning call.  “Dealing with adversity is the coin of the realm.”

Well, after getting knocked down by technical issues in December, the dynamic duo will reconvene and try again on February 23rd at 3:00 PM EST. The Yale Boom Steering Committee is calling this a “Feb Club” event, thereby joining with later generations in fighting off the Winter blahs with a lighthearted, fun party celebrating the “friendships formed at Yale.” Be sure to Register Now! and get it on your calendar!

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The First Yale Boom Event

Note: Welcome Classes of 1967 to 1973 to the Yale Boom group! Our Yale Boom Steering Committee persuaded the Class of ’69 to use an event it already had planned as the inaugural event offered to our six classes. Check it out, and come if you can.

 On October 28th at 1:30 pm ET, we are hosting Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar, a noted constitutional scholar who will talk about the Executive branch and the US Constitution.  This is the Wednesday before the election. Do you think the Constitution will be in the news and of interest? 😉

Click through for details, or register now for the event.  We hope you can make it!

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How Yale Boom Came To Be

After its 50th Reunion, the Class of ‘69, in the hopes of drawing in a wider assortment of its highly diverse members, created a new, larger class council.  And one of the first ideas generated was to stage a series of talks by, and subsequent discussion with, some of our more ‘illustrious classmates.’  Titled ‘Class

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Who We Are; What We Do

  • We are an ad hoc group of class leaders (see below) of the Yale Classes of 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973.
  • Each class organizes events, but here, “on the back nine” of life, we recognize that our numbers are dwindling, sometimes below the threshold for a successful event.  Inviting Yalies of “our generation” creates a viable audience, especially for specialized subjects,
  • Friendships often span class-year boundaries: It’s common to be friends with people a year or two ahead … or behind … your graduating class.  And, the generational glue that binds all of us who came of age in “the Sixties” makes sharing our events even more sensible. 

So, “Yale Boom” is born, a group defined as Yalies who came of age during the counter-culture and the reactions to it; during psychedelia and the Nixon prohibition; during The Beatles; during racial unrest and anti-war fervor and Kent State and so on.  This generation of Yalies was different from the Brooks-Brothers-buttoned-down group that preceded us and the “proto-professionals” who succeeded us.

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My Generation: About YaleBoom

Although the people who rewrite history have been busily rewriting that period of time known as ‘The Sixties’ (in actuality primarily the years between 1965 and 1973), those of us who came of age back then know that, whereas politics and protests were a part of it, in the end they were only, at best,

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