Yale Medicine Autumn 2006: Archives

January 1956
Alumni Bulletin

Special reunions to be held in June

“Since 1953, special alumni programs and class reunions have been arranged annually in September for the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th year medical classes. These programs were planned to supplement the annual February 22 Alumni Day and allow the special classes to meet as individual groups ten years or more following graduation. In 1954 and 1955, the 30th year classes also were included; however, the 10th year classes preferred to hold their reunions in June.
“Although the September programs have been enthusiastically received by the reunion classes, attendance by some classes has been poor. After careful consideration of the problem of scheduling these reunions, the executive committee of your Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine has decided that a June program offers definite advantages. Beginning this year, special alumni reunions for 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, and 30th year classes will be held annually in June.”

Spring /Summer 1981
Yale Medicine

Yale and New Haven Area Health Professionals Appeal for the Prevention of Nuclear War

“In a full page advertisement in local newspapers, almost 500 Yale-New Haven Medical Center and New Haven area health professionals issued a ‘warning from health professionals for the prevention of nuclear war. ’ The ad urged readers to join its authors in appealing to President Reagan and Chairman Brezhnev to defuse the current tensions between our countries; to ban the use of all nuclear weapons; and to recognize the threat posed by the very existence of our enormous nuclear arsenals. …

“In a letter to his colleagues, urging them to support the appeal, Dean Robert W. Berliner wrote, ‘Although nuclear war has been a possibility for three decades, recent world events have made that possibility even more likely. We who concern ourselves with human health have a unique stature and responsibility in our society. As physicians and health professionals, therefore, we have an important opportunity to emphasize to our fellow citizens the magnitude and immediacy of this very grave public health danger.’ …”