Golf at Reunion

Calling all Golfers: Come join your fellow 87ers at the #1 rated college course in the country. We have reserved consecutive tee times for the Yale Class of 87 at the Yale Golf Course starting at 11AM on Friday May 25^th. High, low and no handicappers welcome. We will have a low key completion in which foursomes keep track of best net score at each hole and can choose to play in a scramble format if desired. Course rates are $80 for alumni, and an extra $10 to finance the prizes. Rental clubs are only $25! Please RSVP if you want to play and indicate whether you want to rent clubs  (left or right handed) to Liz Swisher at swishere@uw.edu to ensure we have enough tee times and rental clubs reserved

Don't forget our Reunion Facebook Page

For those of you on Facebook, you can share pictures, plans, etc. via our Class of 1987 25th Reunion Facebook page.  You can visit by clicking here.

Parents Magazine Launches Limited-Run "Parents Radio" Series on SiriusXM–Featuring Y87’s Diane Debrovner

Diane Debrovner is on the radio . . .  click below for all the details

Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) and Parents magazine today announced the launch of "Parents Radio," a limited-run six week series featuring top editors from Parents as well as a wide range of experts discussing thought-provoking parenting news, tackling common parenthood problems and offering expert advice on health, child behavior and family relationships. The show will include calls from parents across the country and listeners can also ask questions interactively via Facebook and Twitter.

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101014/NY82093LOGO )

"Parents Radio" will launch Saturday, April 14 at 10:00 am ET and air every Saturday through May 19 from 10:00 - 11:00 am ET on SiriusXM Stars channel 107.

Each week Parents Editor-in-Chief Dana Points and Deputy Editor Diane Debrovner will be joined by fellow mom, host and radio veteran Wesley Weissberg. Together, the three hosts have six kids worth of parenting experience to share via hilarious stories, honest and entertaining commiserating and "it worked for me" advice. Many of the show's topics will come directly from the pages of Parents, which reaches 15 million readers each month and another 4.5 million unique monthly visitors via Parents.com.

Parents Magazine Launches Limited-Run "Parents Radio" Series on SiriusXM - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee

How Green is Your Bulldog?

1987 Goes Green


Thanks to the leadership of Darcy Troy Pollock, our reunion will be green this year, very green.  Please click here to read how we will be making our reunion sustainable.

“We hope to instill in our students, staff and faculty a full understanding of what it means to be a part of a sustainable tomorrow. I look forward to having the entire Yale community join as we work to create a sustainable environment.”



President Richard Levin 2010

Kathy Edersheim Gets New Role at Yale

I recently learned that Kathy Edersheim will be joining the AYA team as Senior Director of Yale Educational Travel and as Director of International Alumni Relations in the Office of International Affairs. In this new role Kathy will be responsible for the coordination of Yale’s international alumni efforts in travel, education, and service.


As many of you know, Kathy has been integral in the success of the AYA Strategic Plan by inspiring and motivating alumni to be “Ambassadors for Yale.” She is Chair of the Yale Global Alumni Leadership Exchange -- having produced nearly all of the YaleGALE trips ‑ and has been a producer for the Yale Alumni Service Corp and the Yale Alumni Chorus. Kathy served as an officer on the AYA Board of Governors and has long served on the Council of the Yale Club of New York City, becoming the first women to serve as President of the Club in 2006 – 2008. In 2011 Kathy was awarded the Yale Medal for her outstanding service to Yale.

Reunion Attendance

We are looking at the registrations for Reunion pour in.  It looks like we will have a great crowd.  Here is a breakdown by Residential College:

College                     Percentage of Registered Classmates

Calhoun                                 16%
Silliman                                  14%
Davenport                               9%
Stiles                                      9%
Branford                                  9%
Morse                                     9%
TD                                          8%
Trumbull                                  6%
JE                                            6%
Pierson                                     5%
Saybrook                                 4%
Berkeley                                    3%

Although this isn't a competition, some colleges clearly have some work to do here.

How my 'pink slime' petition took off | Bettina Elias Siegel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

You might find Bettina Elias Siegel’s piece in the Guardian very interesting.  I did.  It details how her pink slime petition impacted the meat industry and brought about real change.  Click below for the whole piece.

In the most dramatic way possible, my story has demonstrated the unprecedented reach of social media to bring about real change. But what pleases me most is that we now seem to be in the midst of a broader national conversation about what is in our food, how that information is disclosed, and whether corporations or consumers are best served by our regulatory agencies. It's my hope that the LFTB episode will lead to a demand for ever-greater transparency in our food supply, a development which is long overdue.

How my 'pink slime' petition took off | Bettina Elias Siegel | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Honoring James Esseks

Read about James Esseks, our classmate, and the work he is doing for the LGBT community:

Every day is a day to celebrate James Esseks, director of the ACLU's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and AIDS Project. How could we not? He's wicked smart, strategic, organized and charming to boot.

But today there's even more reason to toot his horn. Last night, James was awarded the 2012 Community Vision Award from the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York. It is an award presented annually "to honor individuals or organizations with a distinguished record of service to the LGBT community, including a sustained commitment to achieving equal rights for all members of the LGBT community." It makes us proud to see James recognized for what he is; a true leader in the effort to achieve equal rights for the LGBT community.

Honoring James Esseks

Home | Check out the Latino Reunion at Yale at latinoreunion.alumni.yale.edu

LATINOS AT YALE: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
New Haven, CT    April 20-22, 2012

Preparations are under way for the second Yale Latino Alumni Reunion (YLAR2) to be held in New Haven, April 20 through April 22, 2012.  We know that those of you who attended the first reunion can’t wait to come back and we’re excited about hosting those of you who were unable to make it the first time around. Your second chance to attend is finally here!  

Home | latinoreunion.alumni.yale.edu

YaleNews | Seven new Open Yale Courses now available free online

The Class of 1987’s own Tamar Gendler is the professor of one of Yale’s new open courses.  Can’t wait to take Professor Gender’s class.  Click below for more details!

Seven new Yale College courses — in subjects ranging from the great 20th-century American novelists and the philosophy of human nature to financial markets and organic chemistry — have been added to Open Yale Courses, the University's open educational initiative. The content for each of these courses is available for free to anyone with access to the Internet.

The seven courses, along with 35 posted previously, are featured on a redesigned website, which offers many new user-friendly options and is optimized for mobile devices. Participants may select courses by professor, course title, and recording date, and watch lecture videos directly from their browsers with the most up-to-date embedded video format. Chapters highlighting key lecture topics have been added to the videos and transcripts, allowing users to navigate forward and backward with greater ease.

Each course, recorded in its entirety as it was presented to Yale College students, is taught by one of the University's most distinguished faculty members. Open Yale Courses may be accessed at http://oyc.yale.edu/. The courses are available in high-definition video and audio formats, and they offer the experience of the Yale classroom. Closed captioning is provided for each course, as well as searchable transcripts, syllabi, reading assignments, problem sets, and other materials. Users have the option of downloading video and audio files of Open Yale Courses to follow at their convenience. No registration is required for these courses, and participants do not earn academic credit from Yale nor do they interact with the professors.

Open Yale Courses is one of the most frequently visited Yale websites. It has received over 3.8 million unique visits since its debut in December 2007 and has delivered over 40 million page views since May 2009. In an effort to increase accessibility and to allow faster downloading of the materials, Open Yale Courses media content is also available at Yale's YouTube and Apple iTunesU channels.

The material has been accessed approximately 27 million times through these channels alone. Apart from the United States, the greatest number of visitors to Open Yale Courses comes from China, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea, Germany, Brazil, India, Russia, Australia, and Taiwan.

The new courses and their instructors are:

• “African American Studies 162: African American History: From Emancipation to the Present” (Jonathan Holloway, professor of history, African American studies, and American studies)

• “American Studies 246: Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald” (Wai Chee Dimock, the William Lampson Professor of English and American studies)

• “Chemistry 125b: Freshman Organic Chemistry II” (J. Michael McBride, the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Chemistry)

• “Economics 252: Financial Markets–2011” (Robert Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics)

• “Geology and Geophysics 140: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Environmental Change” (Ronald Smith, the Damon Wells Professor of Geology and Geophysics)

• “History 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000” (Paul H. Freedman, the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History)

• “Philosophy 181: Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature” (Tamar Gendler, professor of philosophy and cognitive science)

YaleNews | Seven new Open Yale Courses now available free online