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Tony Lavely ’64 speaks at YAA Assembly

November 6, 2021

Tony Lavely was asked to be part of a YAA Assembly panel presentation via Zoom on November 6, 2021. The theme was “What We Have Learned: Effective Virtual Programming for Yale Groups.”

Tony took as his case study the earlier 1964 Minireunion webinar “Sixty Years of Change to Yale’s Academic Canon.” Tony documented how 1964 classmates planned this successful event, with classmate subject-matter experts participating as presenters.

The 15-minute video can be viewed below.

Ward Wickwire ’64 attended the session and commented:

Great job with your presentation. I agree totally that the future is hybrid. Not only for the reasons you mentioned, but also it is much easier to schedule speakers that are most relevant to the subject virtually as opposed to having them travel. This is very relevant to remote locations like Maine. Last year’s Camden Conference (“Global Politics of the Arctic”) involved no live speakers; our virtual speakers were located in such places as Moscow, Helsinki, London, and Anchorage, and they were great. Also, our normal audience of 1200 in live venues became 1600 logons with multiple viewers at each logon.