August 5, 2002

They didn’t have a climbing wall when we were students!

A trip down memory lane today. It's our first time back to Yale in eight years, and we decided to spend most of it the way we spent our four years here: eating pizza! Our first stop was Naples Restaurant, after swinging by our old Residential College - Silliman (and trying out the new climbing wall there) - and inviting the Dean along with us. Apparently, after years of under-age drinking, Naples finally lost its liquor license. That'll change the face of New Haven a bit.

The Dean!

From there we went off to the spectacular Sterling Library to do some research - both of us have ancestors who attended (or were reputed to have attended) Yale graduate programs in the past. In our undergrad years, we never bothered to look - we figured it was about time! In the evening, we had a gathering back at our friends' place with a wide variety of folks, including Yale faculty and colleagues who share an interest in the area.

We were able to reconnect with folks we first met at the Coptic Evangelical Seminary in Cairo last Christmas who have since relocated to New Haven. It's a small world...