Welcome to the Yale Class of 1972 Fortieth Reunion Page!

Click the picture for the YouTube 40th Reunion Welcome from our Co-chairs, Mike Schaffer and Andrew Capitman!

The AYA official Yale 1972 reunion site is (click) Yale 1972 40th!

Update list of who's coming: (click) "Look Who's Coming!"

From the Co-Chairs:

Dear Classmates:

This is a brief update on plans for our upcoming 40th Reunion Weekend in New Haven, from Thursday evening May 31 through lunch Sunday, June 3. Our reunion will be headquartered at the beautiful and centrally-located Branford College. After extensive restoration and renovation, the soft yellow stone of the original colleges looks more than ever like the Cotswold stone of Oxford. 

We will kick-off with a dinner at Mory's on Thursday night, May 31.  You'll recall that with the advent of co-education, Mory's, as a private institution was a hold-out for its all-male tradition and a surprising number of us didn't frequent the place.  That was long ago and Mory's, still in the same location, carefully restored, fully democratic and still featuring many of its traditional recipes and famous drinking cups is still open for business.  A great place to start our reunion. We will be entertained by the University Glee Club of New Haven and the Residential College with the highest turnout for the reunion will be awarded unlimited Mory's Cups that evening! 

Throughout the weekend, a special feature of our reunion will be a video interview program organized by classmate William (Sam) Snead from our Branford headquarters.  All classmates will be encouraged to get interviewed on their lives, accomplishments, recollections or whatever is on your minds. The interviews will be available on our class website and Youtube channel or to take home as a dvd. Any classmates who would care to spell Sam and do some of the interviewing should contact Sam at wrsneed@comcast.net. 

Apart  from the Yale faculty lecture series and the Big Blue Read, on Friday and Saturday afternoons, our reunion will feature talks by a few of our class “Stars”.  We’re all stars, of course, to have gotten in to Yale, to have graduated, and in the fantastic array of achievements and contributions we have individually mustered, but we thought it would be fun to hear, in particular, from a few of us. 

•        Mary Pearl, conservation scientist, served as president of the Wildlife Trust and was co-founder of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine. 

•        Bing Gordon, a co-founder of electronic gaming company Entertainment Arts, is a director of Amazon.com and Zynga and a partner at the storied Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm. 

•        Paul Goldberger is the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, He was formerly Dean of the Parsons School of Desig and began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. 

•        Dr. John Elefteriades is the William W.L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Yale University and Yale New-Haven Hospital. He is among the most clinically active academic surgeons in the country. 

•        Ben Giliberti  started his journalism covering Yale hockey for WYBC and is a wine critic  with a national following. His columns and recommendations on wine and spirits have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Providence Journal and other newspapers across the country. 

Dress for our Friday night dinner will be “Come as you were” so dig out your tie-dyed t shirts.  How you get back that pony tail will, perhaps, be more of a challenge.  Music from classmate Ken Barish's  jazz quintet. 

On Saturday afternoon, our non-denominational class memorial service at Battell Chapel is being organized by Jeanne Devine, Connie Royster and a number of others and our Class Dinner that evening will feature the danceable music of classmate Dr. Fred Gale’s Regressions. 

There are lots of extras for this reunion rendition:  Premium spirits, an excellent raw bar during cocktails before our class dinner, tasteful reunion gear you will actually care to use again and much more. 

You will be getting registration materials and full programs in the mail shortly.  We expect this weekend to be fun, memorable and meaningful to all.  

We look forward to seeing you in New Haven. 

Michael Schaffer and Andrew Capitman