Thursday, July 5, 2012

Yale AIDS Memorial Project

We lost classmates to AIDS, so many of you might be interested to know about the Yale AIDS Memorial Project.  If anyone you remember from our class died of AIDS,you should click below.  The tributes are moving and well worth the time it takes to read them.

The Yale AIDS Memorial Project (YAMP) is an alumni-led initiative to honor and document the lives of hundreds of men and women from the University who perished during the AIDS epidemic. YAMP will pay homage to the deceased—students, faculty, and staff—by building a memorial website with their biographies, photos, and reminiscences from friends and family. By telling the story of AIDS through the lens of a single institution, YAMP will make the epidemic palpable for a younger generation and help stimulate an AIDS memory boom.

To provide a preview of what the online memorial aims to accomplish, YAMP has published a Journal featuring a small set of profiles.

We've taken excerpts from the Journal and created a 2MB PDF that you can download by clicking the icon below. The PDF also contains information about the Project, as well as information on how to receive a print copy of the full, unabridged Journal. We plan to produce more volumes of the Journal. This is our first one.

Yale AIDS Memorial Project

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