GLIMPSES WEBPAGE INFORMATION
Organizers: Barbara Shore, Rick Schaffer
Science Center Hall B
Kim Batteau
What my faith means to me in my daily life
Susan Bramhall
Being uncomfortable at Southern Comfort
In 2013 Yale sent me with two other staff colleagues to the Southern Comfort Conference, the largest assembly of transgender, researchers, educators, therapists, doctors, and LGBT organizations in the world. It changed me fundamentally from the inside out through a transformation that started with my own understanding of transgender people and ended up including the whole nature of personal and social change.
Robert Dole
Paul Tillich Thought That I Am the Son of Man
I was forced by the Phillips Exeter Academy to undergo psychiatric treatment to be cured of my homosexuality, which resulted in my becoming schizophrenic. I had a beatific vision and presented a written account of it to the German theologian Paul Tillich, who then proclaimed in Harvard’s Memorial Church: « The Son of Man is in our presence. » Unfortunately Tillich was a Marxist, and I wanted to have no part of the socialist apocalypse that he had spent his life preparing.
Michael Dyett
Peace Corps Africa: Expectations and Reality.
Glimpses into my life in Senegal; we were out there, on our own … and how it all worked out (sort of). Some life lessons learned. Illustrated!
Jonathan Hale
Two Projects: A Multi-Thousand-Picture Photo Essay on Architecture, and a Book on American Democracy​.
The photo project comes out of my 1994 book, The Old Way of Seeing. That was a “message book,” but this photo essay is a big gallery to delve into. I was close to wrapping up it up in late 2016, when I restarted a second project, a book about American democracy, working title, A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Still trying to change the world, after all.
David Johnson
My Most Difficult Years
My junior and senior years at Harvard were among the most difficult of my life. I was editor of the 1967 yearbook, and spent summer 1967 as a research assistant to a problematic Harvard professor. I began to experience panic attacks. Those two years did much to shape my life as a journalist, teacher, and writer.
Mark Lapham
The Lady in the Blue Dress
At age 23 I was virtually paralyzed with self-loathing and over-the-borderline suicidal. The Lady in the Blue Dress visited me and begged me to be reconciled to the fact that yes I had made bad mistakes and through fear and ignorance injured people. She enveloped me in warmth and love and convinced me to stop viewing myself as responsible for the universe, to accept that I was damaged goods, and to try to do a just a little good, a little better every day. And she promised that out there would be a green field for happy children, including me, if I would just keep trying.
Michael Mathers
A Glimpse Of Marriage
The Story of a Marriage in 37+1 Christmas cards where dogs are the stars.
Mary Mitchell
Drop-out years, the naked stories
I encountered California culture in 1967 straight out of prep school and Harvard, doing summer backstage theater in San Francisco.
Numb with shock, travelled by psychedelic bus to Big Sur, California where quite a bit happens without people wearing clothes.
How I adapted, including serving a Thanksgiving dinner to my in-laws wearing only an apron!
Marty Perlmutter
The Future isn’t What it Used to Be
Reflections about what we (students and faculty) thought would be coming (and why) and what eventually happened.
Christina Schlesinger
Adventures in Art and Activism
An artist talks about her experiences as an artist, feminist and activist including life as a Guerrilla Girl.
Janet Schofeld
I Haven't Seen a Yeti Yet
I haven’t seen a yeti yet, although I have lived in Bhutan, the birthplace of the idea of Gross National Happiness, for the last 9 years. I have had some improbable experiences there, including becoming friends with a young monk thought to be a reincarnated saint, being adopted by a baby yak separated from his mother in the snow, and having Thanksgiving brunch with the King and Queen at their palace.
Terry Vogt
How I transitioned from Darth Vader’s Team to Luke Skywalker’s
After fifteen years buying and selling companies in Brazil and Chile, I took a position in an organization I’d never heard of, in a country I’d never been to, and in a field I knew nothing about. It was my dream job.
Clay Wescott
50 years of relationships.
Why did we connect or disconnect? How did we unravel the mysteries? What's next?