Class Events

Our 60th reunion was great fun!

Our 60th reunion was on May 23-26, 2024. Co-chairs John Evans and Ted Wagner managed the event, and Bill Galvin edited the 60th Reunion Book, which was shipped to classmates’ homes and can also be downloaded here. Discover the identities of classmates on the cover here. On Thursday, golfers played the Tashua Knolls Golf Course, led by organizer Ted Jones. See Ted’s write-up below. Many of the non-golfers toured the newly refurbished Peabody Museum.

For a walking tour of Yale locations honoring the Class of 1964, see this guide.

For a complete schedule of events, click here. Friday and Saturday morning sessions featured presentations by Yale faculty. The afternoon sessions featured parallel sessions on various topics, led by ’64 classmates as listed below.

Friday, 1:45pm-2:45pm

• Len Baker on “Technologies for Remediation of Climate Change.”
• Steve Bingham introduced a biographical film of his life, titled A Double Life.
• Ed Massey, with classmate authors, conducted a workshop on how to write memoirs and how to get them published.
• Paul Steiger and a panel discussed the need for more journalists more skilled at following the twists and turns of the economy.
• Howard Gillette led a panel on “Yale and New Haven: Perfect Partners?”

Friday, 3:00pm-4:00pm

• Ward Wickwire joined with Professor Tim Snyder of Yale in discussing “Democracy vs. Autocracy.’
• Bob Archer on “Climate Policy Crossroads: Finding the Path to Innovative Carbon Pricing. ”
• Tom Barnard explained artificial intelligence and ChatGPT. See his talk here.
• Jim Hart discussed the outreach and ministry of Christian Union Lux at Yale.
• John Meigs discussed, with fellow Peace Corps volunteers, the impacts on their host countries and on their lives.

Saturday, 1:45pm-2:45pm

• Len Baker and Joe Wishcamper discussed, with a former special assistant to two Yale presidents, how Yale works — as seen from the inside.
• Steve Bingham introduced a repeat showing of the documentary film on his life.
• Sam Francis discussed “Evolution ... From Soup to Nuts,” spanning the history of life including its origin, its evolution, and its inevitable extinction. See his talk here.
• Tony Lee will introduced Professor Leiserowitz of Yale, who discussed national attitudes toward climate change.

Saturday, 3:00pm-4:00pm

• Jon McBride on the pros and cons of continuing-care retirement communities (CCRCs) — “There's a pig coming through the python.”
• Tony Lee, Margie Lee, Bill Woodfin,  and Jon Greene led a session on what you can do to fight climate change.

• John Wylie described his experiences in using artificial intelligence to create illustrations for his book The Rise of Authoritarianism in Homo sapiens.
• John Doane discussed why the Bible is the reliable history book of the universe, from beginning to end, including discussion of science and Biblical prophecies.

Slides from Classmates

Here is a video slideshow consisting of the slides provided by classmates who attended the reunion. To enlarge the video, click the "Full screen" icon visible at the lower-right corner when the video is playing.

The Golf Event

The “opening” event of our 60th Reunion was the iteration of the semi-annual ’64 golf outing, held at Tashua Knolls golf in Trumbull on Thursday, because the Yale Course is undergoing restoration. As the day dawned, things looked gloomy as thunder and lightning lit the sky. And by 11:00 only 5-6 players had shown up for the 11:30 tee times. It looked like our day would be a "wash", but at 11:15 the skies cleared and the club said "OK to go,”, though cart path only and the course very wet. But ... showing the true mettle of '64 golfers, by 12:00 we had 20 ready to play. And play we did!! Because of the later start and slower conditions, most opted to play only 9, so that we could get back to TD in time for the bar to open, but several did complete 18. The afternoon weather was very accommodating.

The course was really very interesting and challenging, with dramatic elevation changes and tough doglegs, but very fun to play. We may go back there for our next outing. Joining the fun were Mike Arons, Deb and Larry Capodilupo, Kari and John de Brun, Don Edwards, Doug Hershey, Butch Hetherington, Ted Jones and Diana, Dave Lindsay, Steve Norman, Martin Padley and Melissa, Chuck Post, Bill Schmidt and Mary, Jan Truebner, and Ward Wickwire. Though the competition was fierce, the clear winners were the Jones group of three ladies (after Jones' sex change operation) including Diana and Jan.