Randy Weiner gave very few hints during his time at The Collegiate School for Boys that he would go on to become an award-winning playwright and producer, much less the owner of an exclusive nightclub! His classmates just figured he woul...

Chances are Ray Flores would have taken a different path in life if things had been different. But chances are that's true for everyone. I had a wonderful talk with the guy who should have won "Most Likely to End Up in HR." Collegiate Sc...

For this first episode of the second season of '83 Dutchmen, host Taylor Mali speaks to commercial photographer Jamie Watts about being the absolute youngest member of the class of 1983 and the affect that had on how actively...

August 6th of this year (2023) is the exact day that '83 Dutchmen host Taylor Mali will have outlived his mother by one day and his father by 30. He is on vacation right now, likely without reliable wifi, but he scheduled...

In this final episode of the series before the fiscal year of Collegiate ends on Friday, June 30th, Taylor talks with Thaddeus Bereday, who left after 7th grade but says we did a much better job of celebrating our 40th reunion then the s...

After the 40th reunion, which was spectacularly held on May 5th, class agent Taylor Mali asked everyone in the class—whether they made it to the reunion or not—to send him a voice memo about their experience of the reunion, their experie...

I stayed for my friends and then hid from them.Karl Slovin recounts the stigma of being "held back" by Collegiate and asked to join the class of 1984. And how his parents—on the verge of divorcing themselves—gave him the...

In this final episode of the series—at least before our 40th reunion, which is tomorrow, Friday, May 5th—Taylor speaks with Adam Mansky who has  gone on to do great things despite a self-described lonely, unhappy, and underwhelming ...

I've had a wonderful time over the last couple weeks trading memories of Michael Chalfin with his widow Sharon Jacobs. Mike was so quiet and so decent, and yet so fearless in goal for The Warriors, our gym hockey team (two-time winn...

Taylor spoke with Mark's older sister Lynette Tompkins Engel (Brearley 1980) over Zoom last week, and if you have the chance you should watch this 40-minute video

Although Andrew Kimball is one of the youngest of the Baby Boomer generation (born in 1964), he was one of the oldest in our class. And he says that may have been the beginning of not knowing where he fit in. A self-described "late bloom...

On the page in the yearbook called "Sanctioned Insults," which was supposed to be filled with light-hearted jibes about the graduating seniors, the Dream/Reality written for Antonio Romero was DREAM: systems analyst&nbs...

No one in our class was more impacted by the popularity of Studio 54 in the early 1980s than Peter Allan, who says he partied all night and came to school  for his 8:30 class "more than once, but less than 10 times." It's a miracle ...

NICK GLASS  wants to know if a 7th or 8th grader would be allowed to go to Florida with a friend and no adults to stay in a hotel and go to Spring Training games? Nick seems to think he and David Goldberg did just that in the late 1...

He worked in bunkers on war games about Presidential succession for the national security side of FEMA; he ran global marketing programs for multinational corporations; he's been on both sides of the table; but Ron Vassallo took all...

The host of our December gathering, TONY-award winner Adam Guettel, sits down with Taylor to talk about composition, acquisition, personal growth, how to buy cigarettes at age SEVEN, and what is required to "make way for song." ...

Taylor talks to Jason Stell about being a bullied ballet boy, Russians with wooden sticks, what it means to be elite, a muscle clad teen, the guy whose mom teaches music at the same school you go to, Ashtanga yoga, Tai Chi, psychotherapy...

The story of how HANK BAER left Collegiate in the middle of his freshman year—skipping out on his last two exams!—and went on to have a wonderful time at his next school is a good one, even if it's not one "everyone knows" as h...

With his good looks, athleticism, talent, intellect, and confidence, David Dishy was almost universally considered to be the most popular kid in the New York City private school system in the early 1980s, at least among those who were

Adam Ernster says he's on his 6th career, but the only one any of us knows about is the one-on-one celebrity fitness training in LA getting movie stars ready for their nude scenes. For reasons Taylor never pushes Adam to fully explain, t...

Taylor Mali's oldest friend, Charles "Chip" Brainerd, talks about how he generally dislikes kids (except his own), what he's learned from them, homophobia, being painfully shy, what it's like to come from a family of "poor communicators,...

The new subtitle for this episode is PS: WKRWG? That will make sense after you listen to Ron talk about his life, where he was BEFORE Collegiate, his father Nicola Caporale's inspiring story and the litany of allies who all had his back. Taylor...

In this episode, class agent Taylor Mali talks to Yale Fergang about his journeys in the world of finance, the loss of his younger sister, having "skin in the game," being on the Board of Trustees as the school moved to its current locat...

Lucas Tanner spent 7 years with Collegiate's class of 1983, and then went to Italy for a few years. When he returned, he was "bloomed" (his word) and was suddenly a member of the class of 1984. He is therefore "a hybrid member" (also his...

Taylor Mali speaks with Allan Freedman about an incident in Kabul that served as a turning point in his almost cut-short life, what brought him back home, and the joy that won him second place in a dance contest behind Kerry Cheesboro...