Lectures on art, Daniel Boone and black holes will be among the activities highlighting the first of two reunion weekends sponsored this spring by the Association of Yale Alumni AYA . Ten Yale College classes will return to campus Thursday- Sunday, May 29-June 1, to socialize or reacquaint themselves with old friends, attend classes and special lectures, and participate in campus tours.
Four of the lectures offered by the AYA in conjunction with class reunions are free and open to the members of the Yale community. All of the lectures, which will be presented by faculty or staff members, take place in the Law School's Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. Three of the lectures will be held on Friday morning, May 30. The titles of the talks and the featured speakers are:
"Paul Mellon and the British Imagination" by Patrick McCaughey, director of the Yale Center for British Art," at 9 a.m.
"But a Common Man: The Paradox of Daniel Boone" by John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of History, at 10 a.m.
"Women, Public Policy and the Arts in Ancient Rome" by Diana E. E. Kleiner, deputy provost for the arts and the Dunham Professor of Classics and History of Art, at 11 a.m.
The final lecture, "How To See a Black Hole," by Charles Bailyn, associate professor of astronomy, will be on Saturday, May 31, at 9:30 a.m.
The AYA will also offer smaller classes and tours of the main libraries and collections for returning alumni, as well as a special program for alumni children ages 7-16. In addition, each class has developed its own program of panels and speakers. The headquarters and reunion chairs for the alumni classes are: 1932 and older alumni -- Jonathan Edwards College, John D. Upton; 1937 -- Jonathan Edwards College, Salvatore Ducibella and Charles E. Rogers; 1942 -- Trumbull College, Howard Johnson; 1947 -- Pierson College, Louis A. Savarese; 1957 -- Silliman College, Ellsworth Davis and Howard Gillis; 1962 -- Saybrook College, Amos Tappan Wilder; 1967 -- Calhoun College, Christopher Kule; 1972 -- Old Campus, John Moore and Deborah Rose; 1977 -- Branford College, Patrick Noonan; and 1982 -- Davenport College, Jeffrey Loeb.