Reunion E-mail -- Check out your spam folder

 Earlier today, YAA sent out a Reunion email.  It seems to be stuck in a lot of spam folders.  Here is what it says:

35th Reunion In Person. In Pierson. June 2 - 5, 2021   Dear Classmates of the Greatest Yale Class Ever! It’s our 35th reunion! Wow! Thirty five years! Has it really been that long?! Come back IN PERSON to Yale on June 2-5, 2022! After a year like no other, let’s reconnect with a class like no other! We all understand that there are far greater – and important – things happening in the world. And each of us is thinking about how we help shape the future. But if the past year has taught us anything, it is how important it is to take the time, and make the time, to get together with the people you love, to share memories and make new ones. Reunions are a chance to do just that – to reconnect, to renew, and to recharge. Great friends, good conversation, amazing pizza … and throw in some fabulous 80’s music. Burning down the house still sounds as awesome today as it did in 1983 blasting out our windows in Old Campus!   What we really need to make reunion special - the only thing we need -- is YOU! Our goal for this reunion is simple: Come Back! Come back to renew old friendships and forge new ones.  Come back to find support and strength! Come back to feel inspired by the ways classmates are making a difference in the world! Come back for the hugs! Come back for the pizza! Just Come Back!       We all -- Darcy, Andrew, Matt (Homer) and Lisa -- are already working hard to make this the best reunion ever! But we cannot do this alone. WE NEED YOUR HELP! We need your ideas and talents on how we drive attendance (we want everyone back!), select programming, and plan service projects! Look for up-to-date reunion information at aya.yale.edu/reunions and more information about registering this winter.   Our fearless communications leader, Margie Whiteleather, will again be championing our social media effort! Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok channel for fun content and reminders. We have already launched a podcast that aspires to help us get to know the real 'us', 35 years later! Let us know if you want to share your story.   Join our tea

New Podcast Episode -- Steve Harper

Listen in as Steve Harper takes along his journey from actor to writer to innovator.  He talks about life and his web series, Send Me, a series that explores characters who ask to be sent back to the time of slavery.  Along the way, we talk about race, the evolution of media and a whole lot more.  For more about Steve, visit his webpage here:  https://harpercreates.com/

For a bit more about Steve, visit his bio.

New Podcast Episode -- Rob Long

The class podcast drops new episodes every Thursday.  Our Thanksgiving episode features classmate Rob Long.  Rob has had a storied career as a writer, working on shows like Cheers.  Listen in as he gives his perspective on the entertainment industry and the future of political discourse.  It is a super interesting episode.

Here is how Rob described himself:

Television writer and producer, author and journalist, cook and general all-around lazybones.

Early career milestones include being writer and co-executive producer of television comedy Cheers.

Later career milestones include a string of cancelled television shows, two books, a weekly commentary on public radio, a column for the English-language Abu Dhabi-based newspaper, The National and occasional writing for Time and (what was then) Newsweek. A contributing editor to National Review magazine.

My weekly radio commentary, “Martini Shot,” is broadcast on the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW, and is distributed nationally. It’s also podcast in iTunes.

My first book, Conversations with My Agent, chronicled his early career in television. It was published in the UK by Faber & Faber, in the US by Dutton, and in France by Actes Sud. My second book, Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, was published in November 2005 by Bloomsbury.

My most recent book is Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse, published in October 2017 by Regnery.

Co-creator and Executive Producer of Sullivan & Son. Executive Producer of "Kevin Can Wait" on CBS.

Available to show-run whatever needs show-running.

Currently writing. Or pretending to.

Co-founder of Ricochet.com, fast growing podcast empire.

More to come, if I can stop eating the entire bread basket in restaurants.

Can be found in New York and Venice Beach.

A moving essay by Doris Iarovici

 Our classmate, Doris Iarovici penned this essay earlier this year.  I missed it then, but came across it today.  Give it a read.  It hit home for me, as I think about the time I have had this year with my father.

Click here for the whole essay.

COMMENTARY

I Didn’t Know My Mother, Not Really, Until The Pandemic

January 29, 2021

• Doris Iarovici

The author as a child with her mother, Mioara Iarovici. (Courtesy)

When I was 10, soaking up the July sun in the Adirondacks, I calculated how many more summers like that one I could expect to have with my parents. Forty? Fifty, I hoped?

Maybe I'd newly learned the concept of life expectancies, or an elderly relative had died. We'd been in the U.S. five years then. We were at Schroon Lake: silky water, rolling green hills, shimmer of sky. We had a cabin with knotty wood-paneled walls; a pebbly beach. The worry creases softened on my parents’ foreheads when we were there. We swam and fished and read and flew on swings. We ate candy bars mid-day. But what we did hardly mattered. It felt like heaven, being in that place with those people: mother, father, brother. I didn't want it to end.