Class

By Tahia Reynaga, BR’98

On May 24, 1998, on the last weekend we shared as a class, Tom Brokaw addressed us under a brilliantly sunny sky that belied the deluge that soon followed.

Foreshadowing the sentiments to be expressed in his bestseller The Greatest Generation, he implored us to receive our Yale education with gratitude and to commit ourselves to serve and promote “the fundamental values” of our generation.

This Reunion, our most significant yet, is being designed by our Class for our Class, so as to raise our profile and set in motion a momentum that will build with us to our 50th Reunion and beyond. We are investigating and producing initiatives never before accomplished by a Yale class, including programming innovations that will make that weekend in June impossible to forget.

Along these lines, it has been suggested that we may identify and invite a speaker who will address the Class of 1998, much like Mr. Brokaw did nearly ten years ago, and who will speak to our interests and anxieties, our careers and our ambitions. Read the rest of this entry »