As noted above, names of Yale College alumni that appear in
the magazine get numbers only, and the numbers are the same whether or not the
alumni in question completed their degrees. (Famous examples include Oliver
Stone ’68 and Dick Cheney ’63.)
A few letters denote unusual kinds of undergraduate degrees:
S
An
“S” following a class year means that the alumnus attended the
Sheffield Scientific School, which was separate from Yale College (and offered
a different degree) until 1956.
E
The letter
“E” following a class year shows that the alumnus received the
Bachelor of Engineering degree that was once offered by the School of
Engineering.
W
A “W” can only
be attached to a ’45 (as in “John Smith ’45W”). Together, they refer to a
specific Yale College class—separate from the Class of ’45—that entered in the
summer of 1942 and graduated, on an accelerated schedule, in 1945.
