Note: Harry reports his experience creating a free, walking tour app for his hometown, Lexington, MA. More importantly, he created an authoring system where YOU can create tours of your hometown … or other places of interest.
He’s looking for volunteers to create their own tours. He’ll provide tech support. Is this something you might want to do?
The Class Notes published prior to 1995 were never digitized by YAM. We wanted them available to you, so I drove down to the Reference Library at Sterling with my scanner and physically scanned back issues of YAM, from 1969 to 1995.
I then ran those scans through an optical character recognition (OCR) program to convert the images to searchable text. And then I converted all those pages to one, very large PDF file, available below!
What follows is a large (245mb, 453 page) document holding the scanned copies of Class Notes columns for the Class of 1969 which have appeared in the Yale Alumni Magazine between the 1969 and 1994. Depending on your browser, either click or right-click and open a local copy of the .pdf file. Use page-search (control-F / command-F) to find the text you are interested in. Be patient: It might take a minute or two to…
Don’t pack that 8-pound ClassBook for the Reunion! First, we’ll have some copies in the Davenport Common Room. And second, all of the essays are now online.
If you want to read anything in the ClassBook, just whip out your phone/tablet/laptop, log in to Yale1969.org, type the name into the search bar at the top, and proceed. If you want to see your essay online, just go to your profile page. It’s linked there under …
Use this list to browse through ALL of the 50th reunion essays. Scroll down to your name — start there. Then click the next one and the next one and so on. Each one will open in a separate window. And after you’ve clicked on a link, it will turn a different color (indicating you’ve “visited” that link.) Please let me know if you find any errors. (See also, 50th Reunion ClassBook Now Online.) Enjoy! Paul…
Harry C. Forsdick 46 Burlington St. Lexington, Massachusetts 2420 harry@forsdick.com 781-799-6002 Spouse(s): Marsha Baker, 1977 – now Child(ren): Benjamin 1981 and William 1984 Education: Yale College BS, 1969; MIT MS 1973 Career: Internet Research, Bolt Beranek and Newman 23 years, 8 years in .COM hyperbole and aftermath. Avocations: Travel, Art, Photography, Internet, Computers College: Pierson Enough, Basta, Dayenu. This may not be perfect, but it’s overdue. Story of my life. Just in case I missed…
One of the more interesting submissions I received following my request for classmates to send me artifacts from our days at Yale, was a 3-minute, 16mm film Steve Bemis created for Art 50b, a second semester, senior year seminar. The film shows his roommates, Ralph Schmidt and Mabry Rogers, playing squash, set to an Erroll Garner jazz soundtrack.
Check it out.
Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of private equity giant Blackstone, is donating $350 million to a new $1 billion college for the study of artificial intelligence at MIT. In most universities, the study of artificial intelligence is centered in engineering and computer science departments. The new MIT school will seek to cultivate AI scholarship across disciplines, including the sciences and the humanities.
Here is a scanned copy of a May ’68 issue of an “underground” journal that frankly I had forgotten about: the alternative. This issue drilled into the “Crisis At Columbia,” as reported by a ’67 Yalie who was a grad student at Columbia at the time. Re-reading this now was eerie — partly because it was more complex than I remember, and the threat of violence was …
The New Journal began in 1967, the brainchild of Yale Daily News expatriates Pete Yeager and Dan Yergin, both ’68. It was student-run and free — one of the first serious, college publications that didn’t require a subscription.
A few of us ’69ers joined that first year: Paul Malamud, Howard Newman, Jean-Pierre Jordan. (Any others? if so, leave a comment.) The next year more people got involved: According to the Yale Banner a total of 12 of our classmates were involved: John Adams, Milton Anderson, Paul …
Has Wikipedia become the 21st-century version of Who’s Who, and if so, how many members of the Class are profiled there? What does having a Wikipedia biographical profile published mean anyway? Is it a fair indicator of “success?” Are classmates listed there representative of the broader Class? Curious, I investigated. Here’s the report.
Over the past month, with the help of a program, I sifted through articles in Wikipedia, looking for biographies of members of our class. The program returned 456 possible articles; manually checking that list, I found 50 biographies, linked below. Note: If you know of other Wikipedia articles referring to you or any classmate, please send me (harry@forsdick.com) the classmate’s name and the URL of the Wikipedia article. Thanks. Classmate’s Name Primary reason mentioned in…
“To Be A Man” was a film commissioned by the Admissions Office in 1966, and it features many of our classmates. We now have a copy you can watch right here.
When I went to Yale, there was one Department of Engineering & Applied Science. When I went to MIT for graduate school, there was one Department of Humanities.
HARRY CLARKE FORSDICK. Born August 26, 1947 in New York, New York, son of Harry W. Forsdick and Helen E. Clarke Forsdick. Attended Garden City High School, Garden City, New York. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Engineering and Applied Science major; Dean’s List, 1965-66 (fall term). Resident: Pierson. Tau Beta Pi. Roommates: Steve Loewenberg, Roger Rahtz. Future study: Computer Science, Ph.D. Future occupation: Undecided. Address: 148 Cambridge Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530.
