Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

New Haven, CT Joined July 2009

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

11 months ago

Yes, it would have been more timely in the summer. My Old Yale column is about the 1924 crew, Yale's own "Boys in the Boat" that won an Olympic gold medal. Clickbait come-on: the crew included the author of one of the bestselling books of the 20th century. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5965-…

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

a year ago

In my latest Old Yale column, I explain why the President’s House is kind of weird-looking. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5934-…

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

a year ago

With everything that's going on on campuses right now, my latest Old Yale column couldn't be less relevant. But if you’re in the mood for a story about elite single-sex colleges, athletic competition, beer guzzling, and runaway hormones, I got you covered. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5856

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

2 years ago

My newest Old Yale column is about a self-described crank who tried to build a replica of Oxford’s Magdalen College in Skull and Bones’s backyard. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5825-…

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

2 years ago

My most recent Old Yale column. It was remarkable to page through McGuinn’s scrapbook—a repurposed almanac of Baltimore vital statistics—in the Yale archives.

Yale Alumni Magazine @yalealumnimag

2 years ago

My most recent Old Yale column. It was remarkable to page through McGuinn’s scrapbook—a repurposed almanac of Baltimore vital statistics—in the Yale archives.

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

2 years ago

I'm too young to remember much about Vietnam, but I do remember the POWs coming home 50 years ago. For the latest "Old Yale" column, I wrote about some of the Yale men who didn't come home. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5778

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

2 years ago

I wrote my latest "Old Yale" column because I think everyone should know that some of the most dominant teams in college football history had a woman as a key member of the coaching staff. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5722

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

2 years ago

My latest "Old Yale" column, in which the Class of 1896 decides to honor Robert E. Lee, and an old Union Army chaplain gives them what for. yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/5685

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

3 years ago

Excited to share this story from the new issue of the magazine.

Yale Alumni Magazine @yalealumnimag

3 years ago

Excited to share this story from the new issue of the magazine.

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

3 years ago

Uterus intumuit! #9lc

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

4 years ago

Mitt Romney also tried to pick a fight with Big Bird. And now he's a failed presidential candidate despised by his own party. I'm just saying—that bird seems nice, but he will CRUSH YOU.

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Dr. Glenda Gilmore @GilmoreGlenda

5 years ago

Josh, Do you remember when you came to my Yale talk on the history of affirmative action? You disrupted it, aggressively held the floor during Q&A, wouldn't let anyone else ask a ?, & refused to sit down. When I said you were rude & had no right to muzzle the audience, you left.

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO

5 years ago

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

Gentle word for journalists: when you report that a hs senior got a "full ride" to an Ivy League school, you're reporting on their family's financial situation. The Ivies don't offer scholarships for athletic skills or academic talent; they only offer aid based on financial need.

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

Has anyone put the Curb Your Enthusiasm closing credits over this yet?

Alex Thompson @AlexThomp

5 years ago

Has anyone put the Curb Your Enthusiasm closing credits over this yet?

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

My annual opportunity to trot out the word “macaronic.” #9LC

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

That “another shore” gets me every year. #9LC

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

Please—Mr. Bojangles is my drunken father’s name! Call me Keith.

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Mark Branch @markaldenbranch

5 years ago

Today, after 21 years, I noticed that the first five notes of Snuffy Walden’s #WestWing theme are the first five notes of Reveille. Did everyone else figured this out decades ago? @WestWingWeekly @HrishiHirway @JoshMalina youtu.be/8r5Ieh0OuQY