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Notes: November 1995
Notes: October 1995
Notes: April 1995
Notes: March 1995
Notes: February 1995
Notes: November 1995
Again, for those making last-minute plans: Frank
and Nancy Mongillo invite visiting classmates to
their home at 12 Oliver Street, near the Yale Bowl, for
drinks and fellowship after the Yale-Harvard Game. Frank has
concluded his service to the class as AYA representative.
Replacing Frank will be David Bowman. David has moved
back to Connecticut after a sojourn in Arizona. He has a
small telemarketing business on a project basis in
publishing, working out of both New York and Connecticut.
Wife Gail is a psychotherapist with a practice in New York
City. Both of David's children live in Arizona: Bruss is
part owner of a software company in the hospital area and is
unmarried. Cindy is married with almost two children. She is
comptroller of the Arizona Biltmore, where David and Gail
enjoy superb room rates.
Shortly, Yale '57 will have its own page on the Internet.
Art Diefendorf (FINN260@aol.com) is
compiling an e-mail directory. Your class secretary may be
reached at BGKOSTO@aol.com.
The annual class dinner will be held at the Yale Club in
New York City on Thursday, March 21, 1996. Featured speaker
will be Vernon Loucks, former senior trustee of the Yale
Corporation and CEO of Baxter International. Sandy
Clark will have details to you shortly. A number of
rooms will be reserved for those of you who wish to make a
weekend of the event.
This past summer Yale 1957 supported two fellowships
through Dwight Hall. Tony Mazurkiewicz was involved in the
Summer Olympics and at City Hall. He developed for the mayor
a new and more consumer-friendly system for obtaining city
permits. Randy Ellis worked with inner-city youth at Camp
2000, where he and the children learned from each other.
Ruben Shapiro is retiring from the private
practice of cardiology. He has a number of projects both
within medicine and without. Ruben and Peggy have three sons
who graduated from Yale. Steven is in the music business and
is married; Roger is a physician; and David works in the
financial world.
Class dues notices have been sent out by class treasurer
Diefendorf. Please respond with news of yourselves and your
loved ones.
—Bernard M. Kosto
Notes: October 1995
Newly appointed chief in charge of our 40th Reunion book,
Tom Perkins, is setting up critical pathways. This is
a fair warning that the class expects to find and hear from
its various members so that we can have a book in your hands
prior to the end of April of our reunion year, which is
approaching faster than any of us realize.
Recent gifts to improve Yale's athletic facilities and
ensure its sporting tradition include those by four Yale
brothers who have teamed up to support improvements to the
80-year-old Yale Bowl, home of Eli Football and the site of
the opening and closing ceremonies of the Special Olympics
World Games, which were hosted by New Haven this past
summer. The renovations included work on the promenade,
electrical upgrades, the creation of telecommunication
channels, and other safety, structural, and cosmetic
improvements. These improvements were supported in part by
contributions from the Jensen family of Sioux City, Iowa,
among whom we count Colin C. Jensen.
In May the William J. Brennan Jr. Center for Justice was
established by his former clerks at the New York University
Law School. Many of you may have seen the public television
broadcast of the event. Included in the group of former
clerks was Richard S. Arnold, now chief judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Little Rock,
Arkansas. Dick is quoted as saying of his clerkship, this
was "probably the best job I ever had." "We think of the
Center for Justice as a way to honor Justice Brennan for his
lifetime of defending individual liberties," Judge Arnold
said.
Under the headline, "Caution Guides Manager of Huge
Fund," money manager Douglas Dial is described as
almost an unknown, both on Wall Street and off. He also
happens to run more money than the Fidelity Magellan Fund.
In fact, he oversees the massive, $55 billion in assets,
college retirement equities-funds stock account, a variable
annuity that's sold to college employees. The majority of
the fund's assets are indexed. Doug Dial, who has spent more
than three decades on Wall Street, makes no apologies for
his careful style. "Our decisions affect an awful lot of
people," he says. "The figure that impresses me is not the
$50-odd billion, but the 1.7 million people that the money
belongs to."
Joining the ranks of the newly remarried is William H.
Cuddy, a senior lawyer at Dayberry & Howard in Hartford.
Bill and Vivian Blackbird tied the knot at their home in
East Haddam in May. Vivian is a management consultant. Bill
has three children: Amy (33), a public relations director at
the Oregon/Yale Festival, is Yale '83 and married to a
classmate; Laurie '85, age 31, teaches at the Kildonan
School in Amania, New York, a school for dyslexic kids;
Casey (28), a "Brown" sheep, is now working at the South
Pole. (As I write this it is 95 degrees in Hartford.)
Ben Debold of 63 Boulevard CDT Charcot, 92200
Neuilly, France, informs the class of his marriage in 1978
to a "delightful French woman, Anne Marie Barau, whose love
and devotion are a gift from above." (L'amour,
l'amour.)
Walter J. Loesche continues to earn honors in
dentistry with his receipt in 1994 of the International
Association for Dental Research's award for dental caries
research.
Ed Cooke is now cabinet secretary and executive
director of the tourism and recreation department of the
State of Oklahoma, having been appointed to the post by
Governor Frank Keating in February. The department has 1,500
employees and an annual budget of $45 million. Ed has five
grandchildren and is hoping to attend our next class dinner
in New York in 1996.
Timmi Smallens writes for her husband Alex,
who is afflicted by multiple sclerosis. He is maintaining
the level that he's been at for at least ten years. He leads
a quiet, rather lonely existence at home with his two cats
for entertainment and talking books for pleasure. Occasional
visits from family, friends, and grandsons spark up his
days. The Smallens became grandparents when Meredith
Smallens Lenette '84 gave birth in December and Sandy
Smallens '87 also produced another grandchild. Timmi has
been working at public relations at the Scarsdale Library.
There are thoughts of moving to the warm southwest, but
emptying out the house of 30 years of living seems a
formidable task. "All in all, things could be worse — you
know about the alternative!"
In another blockbuster deal, Michael Jordan and
Westinghouse Electric Corporation have purchased CBS for
$5.4 billion. Michael, the chairman and chief executive of
Westinghouse, says the deal would create a "premier,
topnotch, outstanding company" with 15 television stations
and 39 radio stations that combined would give it direct
access to more than a third of the nation's households.
Two weddings of class interest took place in June.
Jack Turbin's son Nicholas, a bond broker, married
Carolyn Elias in Kingston, New York. Both are graduates of
Hardwick College. In attendance were Messrs. Perkins
and Diefendorf. Later in the month, Art Diefendorf's
son Donald married Jennifer Owens in Baltimore, Maryland.
Jennifer is a physician's assistant at Hopkins where Don
hopes to join her in a similar position. Present at the
wedding were Perkins, Turbin, and the ever-lovely Susie
Abuza.
From Winchester, Virginia, comes word that William
Ellis has decided to hang up his shingle and go into
active retirement. His first venture is a month in France
with Harriet.
Several death notices were received through the alumni
office over the summer. Larry Rentchler died in 1985.
He had been an engineer with both Ford and TRW. Larry left
two sons and a brother, Ambassador James Malone Rentchler of
Paris, France. Jay Schocket died in December of 1994.
He left his wife Sandra of 19 Barton Road, Mountain Lakes,
New Jersey, a son Andrew '90, and a brother Alan '63.
Another son, Barry, age 30, died one day after his father.
Donald Spillman died of cancer in November of
1994. After graduation from Yale he served on the U.S.S.
Kearsarge and then received a law degree from the
University of Pennsylvania. He spent his career working for
the Interior Department, first in Los Angeles, where he
worked on the Navaho Project distributing power to various
districts, and then later in Atlanta where he worked mainly
on matters involving the National Park Service. Don retired
in 1991. He had married a childhood sweetheart from
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who now lives in Atlanta where she
runs a translating business for corporations. Their daughter
Jennifer, age 28, was recently married.
James R. Deer of Temperance, Michigan, died on
January 7, 1995. He leaves his wife Martha of 1091 Birchwood
Road, three children, and two stepchildren, as well as a
brother, Robert.
See you all at the Mongillos' after The Game.
—Bernard M. Kosto
Notes: April 1995
John A. Joh retired from Delta Air lines in
January. He had been a captain on an L-1011 flying to
Europe. He will still maintain an active law practice in
Atlanta. His new address is: 2528 Chestatee Point,
Dawsonville, GA 30534. George Hutchinson returned
from San Francisco where his daughter Elizabeth '88 married
Rob Frankel '88. Liz is working toward her doctorate in fine
arts at Stanford.
Alan Lovins and wife Trish were scheduled to go to
Kenya in January and February. George White has two
children who graduated from Yale, Caleb with the Class of
'87 and Juliette with the Class of '89. George received an
honorary degree of doctor of arts from Connecticut College
last year. Charlie Brown partially retired from the
private practice of internal medicine last year. His new
address is 7020 East Rivercrest Road, Tucson, AZ 85715.
Will Reimann continues to collect medals: two
gold, one silver, and two bronze at the U.S. Masters
National Rowing Championship in Atlanta last September.
Steve Flagg was there, as well. Will reports that
daughter Katya is close to completing her dissertation at
Oxford. She has also sold her novel to a New York publisher
as part of a three-book contract. John Poinier
reports that daughter Sara (28) is in her second year
teaching seventh-grade English in Denver. Ann (26) is a
first-year medical student at the University of Washington,
Jennifer (25) married Brian Bollinger in Chester, Vermont,
last October. She works in Seattle. Kate (21) is a senior at
Seattle University and assistant soccer coach at Roosevelt
High School.
Professor Ken Goergen is heading up a new
concentration field at Swarthmore College called
interpretation theory, which is a way of doing
interdisciplinary work with faculty, colleagues, and
students. Ken is enjoying new work challenges — extending
ideas of social constructionism to family therapist
audiences and to organizations as well as management
consultants. Although the "R" word is not in his current
vocabulary, he is celebrating a "big birthday" and a silver
wedding anniversary with wife Mary.
Keith McEligot checks in from New Jersey with "two
thumbs up." Jim Cunningham corrects my spelling of
Rabobank Nederland, which is a large, strong (still
AAA-rated) bank, the second-largest in Holland. Jim has
become single. He writes that he has come to terms with that
very well, and that life in general is very good. Neill
Schoonmaker married Joyce R. Fulton in November of 1993.
Their new home address is 159 Upper Church Street,
Gilbertville, MA 01031.
Seib Adams, after 32 years as a college publisher,
found himself forced into early retirement by the "friendly
people at McGraw Hill." His 59th birthday included a
four-page memo that informed him that he was no longer
needed as a vice president. On the other hand, life since
Yale has been good. He has two great children. Sharon is an
editor for West and Cheryl, a sales representative for the
same publisher. His second wife, Ruth, is vice president at
Gar land Publishing. Is it true that Seib is the first in
the Class of '57 to have a grandchild in college? Grand
daughter Samantha is a freshman at Bard College.
Kim Cheney had his first book published. It is a
338-page legal treatise on Vermont labor law, called
Labor and Employment in Vermont. It grew out of his
experience as chairman of the Vermont Labor Relations Board
for ten years and a labor arbiter for the American
Arbitration Association.
Guy Diana retired from Sterling Winthrop. He is
one of the founders of a new start-up company called
Viro-Pharma, devoted to the discovery and development of
antiviral drugs. Guy has two grandchildren, Emily Ruth and
Elliot Jacob Diana.
Al Boasberg was visited in San Francisco by old
roommate, Dr. Lennie Katz. Phil Wedemeyer celebrated
his eighth year of his second marriage, to wife Josephine.
He has two sons in graduate school, Bill in physics at
Cornell and Christian in Buddhist studies at Columbia.
Daughter Hope is pursuing a successful career in advertising
in New York.
Fred Guggenheim is in his tenth year as Marie
Wilson Howells Professor and chair of the Department of
Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences. He was just elected president of the American
Association of Chairmen of the Department of Psychiatry.
Fred enjoys creating and sustaining a community of scholars.
Managed care may make the task more challenging.
Henry Payne objects to Yale's "pandering to
political correctness. ... I cannot contribute with such
continuing foolishness on (your) part." Enclosed by Henry is
an article by Jane Levin, Yale '75PhD, in which she uses the
word "freshperson."
Best Little Stories from the Civil War, by C.
Brian Kelly, has been published by Montpelier Press.
Brian is editor of the magazine Military History and
lectures in newswriting at the University of Virginia. This
is his third work in the series Best Little Stories.
Virgil Lee Highland II died of cancer on Decem ber
29, 1994, at the age of 59. After he received his degree in
physics in 1957, he was awarded a Fulbright for study in
Tubingen, Germany. Returning to the United States, he
completed a doctorate in physics at Cornell University.
Virgil initially took a physics research teaching position
at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he became a
professor of physics at Temple University, where he taught
for 28 years. He developed an international reputation for
his research in high energy groups at Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Virgil is
survived by his wife Anne and three daughters: Jennifer,
Sarah, and Nathalie. The Highland address is 1208 Narcissa
Road, Bluebell, PA 19422.
—Bernard M. Kosto
Notes: March 1995
Yale should immediately devise a plan to double its
student population, primarily undergraduate, over the next
ten years. I believe that what is good for Yale is also
good, if not absolutely essential, for the future of New
Haven. Conversely, if New Haven has no future, Yale will
suffer irreparable damage. Yale has lost market share over
the last 50 years relative to both population and applicant
growth. The day that we accepted women we should have
planned to double the undergraduate size of the University.
Kingman Brewster sort of agreed at the time by making an
implied promise that Yale would never have fewer than 1,000
men in each entering class.
From the late 1930s through the middle 1960s 1,000
students entered Yale each year, out of a total applicant
pool of between 2,000 and 3,500. The population at the time
was around 150 million people. Today, the entering freshman
class is 1,300 out of an applicant pool of more than 13,000
and a population in excess of 270 million.
While we have become more diversified in all areas of
race, religion, geography, and gender (a very good thing),
we are no longer diversified academically. With very few
exceptions, most of Yale's incoming students are in the top
5 percent of their high school class with SAT scores in
excess of 1350. The students here are the best in all
respects. Our argument is not with the quality of the
students who are here, but the lost leadership potential of
those who aren't. We have become too compressed academically
by not expanding the size of the student body.
If increasing the size of the University is good for
Yale, it is unquestionably the salvation for New Haven. A
great deal of Yale's future is tied up in New Haven's being
a vibrant, growing, and secure community with reduced crime,
which in turn is tied to low unemployment. Conversely, the
long-term viability of New Haven is dependent on Yale as the
only engine for significant job growth within the city.
At the present time, Yale has approximately 11,500
students (5,000 undergraduate and 6,500 graduate and
professional) and employs over 9,800 people, an astounding
85 percent conversion rate of jobs to students. It is also
estimated that Yale's presence adds more than $290 million
annually to New Haven's economy. An increase of 5,750
students would provide approximately 4,900 new jobs to the
city, over 90 percent of which would be jobs that New Haven
needs most, i.e., low- to moderate-skill jobs in maintenance
and repair, food service, and clerical and technical
administration. These jobs are permanent, too. They won't
ever move to North Carolina or Tennessee because of lower
wages. In addition, this increase in jobs would provide New
Haven almost $150 million in additional purchases of goods
and services.
Let's not hear any complaints about Yale's not paying any
taxes to the city, because the first thing the city would do
if Microsoft, IBM, or Baxter International brought this many
jobs to town would be to give them about 35 years of tax
abatement. We would also require that at least 80 percent of
these jobs would have to be filled by residents of New
Haven, leading to a greater willingness and ability to pay
more in property taxes. It would certainly lead to a more
vibrant retail community.
How to pay for all of this, you say? The governor and
state legislature of Connecticut were willing to commit $250
million to bringing the New England Patriots football team
to Hartford and to building them a new stadium, which would
have generated fewer than 250 permanent jobs. The state
legislature should commit $400 million to New Haven, to be
shared by Yale and the University of New Haven, Southern
Connecticut State University, Albertus Magnus, Gateway
College, and Quinnipiac College, thereby creating its own
version of a Research Triangle similar to that of
Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina. Additional financing would
come from the Yale Endowment, which has far outperformed its
peers and is the best-run operation within the University.
Well, that's it. One man's master plan for addressing the
needs of both Yale and the city of New Haven. By the way, do
you think the junior faculty who can't get tenure might like
this? Let's discuss all of this at our next class dinner.
The class dinner is scheduled for March 16 at the Yale
Club. There's still time to get a reservation!
—Peter Fritzsche
Notes: February 1995
Bill Keene checks in from Harleysville,
Pennsylvania. After 52 weeks on unemployment, he is now back
to doing school additions and construction. The house looks
pretty nice, due to his maintenance effort over the past
year. As an educator, the job loss presented "culture
shock." I guess the question is whether he will continue
pre-dinner manhattans now that he is back to work.
From Ian Jones in Rancho Palos Verdes, California,
comes a note that daughter Maren '82 received her PhD in
clinical psychology from UCLA in June.
Charlie Strong is still vice president of Monterey
Power, a division of a large, French-based utility
conglomerate which specializes in engineering, building, and
operating waste and energy plants. The two sons are out of
the nest. Charlie spends a lot of time in financial
planning, investments, and sports. The new professional
teams have livened up the Miami scene. Charlie's office is
in the Dade County Waste and Energy Plant in northwest
Miami.
Dick Lewis, who is currently vice president of the
American College of Cardiology, is scheduled to become
president in 1996-1997.
Charlie Gold's wife Barbara completed a master's
degree at Yale Divinity School. Daughter Elizabeth married a
fellow Middlebury College graduate, Dane Sobek, this past
August.
Franz Gimmler retired from federal service after
33 satisfying years. There was a reception along the Potomac
River, which included a number of classmates: Don Backe,
Andy Carothers, Steve Hopkins, Bob Joost, Steve Weiss,
and Steve Weitz. Also calling in were Jim Banner,
Dick Curran, Mike O'Hearn, and Phil Pillsbury. In
lieu of the usual retirement gift, a donation was made to
the Chesapeake Regional Accessible Boating Group, which was
dedicated to making sailing on the bay available to persons
with disabilities. Franz now hopes to consult, advocate,
volunteer, and relax. He has a bunch of causes, including
transportation alternatives, non-motorized transportation,
water trails, transportation in the parks, clean air, and
reinvention of government. (It sounds like he will be busier
than before he retired.)
John Mackiewicz, an attorney with an
intellectual-property law firm with the short name of
Woodcock, Washburn, Kurtz, Mackiewicz and Norris, has become
a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Membership, which is a position of honor, is initiated by
the board of regents. The College includes 4,800 fellows
whose purpose it is to improve the standards of trial
practice, the administration of justice, and the ethics of
the profession. Franco Muggia is saving all of his
money to give to the Democratic Reelection Campaign of 1996.
(I'll have to see whether he sent in his class dues.)
Peter Greer has a new address at 9230 Clark Ridge
Road, Foley, AL 36525. All the Greers are thriving. Daughter
Donna is vice president of corporate development at Health
South. Lisa, who got married in June, is teaching in
California. Pete and Joan sailed in the British Virgins in
June, spent August and September in Martha's Vineyard, and,
in September, Peter left to sail a 43-foot boat to Spain.
Bob Healy retired to the Olympic peninsula of
Washington State.
John Miller reports no new grandchildren, books,
or television projects. He is resting before starting the
great American novel with the working title, With All Due
Respect or maybe Forty Years at Parade Rest.
From the alumni office comes word that John
Onthank died in May of 1992. John had been fighting lung
cancer. I will try and track down his wife for further
information.
"Trillin — Wit at Home in House of Twain."
Bud was in Hartford to deliver the Mark Twain House's
fall Clemens lecture. He got a full house and a nice review
in the Hartford Courant. One would never have
suspected that a talk on farm price supports would have been
so well received in Connecticut.
The New York Times on November the 6th had a
profile on Mike Jordan, titled, "He's trying to lift
Westinghouse by its scruff. (Mike's) outsider's
down-to-earth style is something new for the wobbly giant."
In the synopsis box, Mike and wife Kathryn have two
children. Mike drives a Jeep Cherokee and a BMW 735. His
hobby is golf. He has not played basketball since high
school. Latest reading includes Diplomacy by Henry
Kissinger and A Nation of Victims by Charles J.
Sykes. Favorite vacation is backpacking in the New Mexico
mountains.
For those within hailing distance of New Haven, there
will be a mini get-together for the Yale-Cornell hockey
game, to be preceded by a pre-theater supper at the
Fritzches' on Prospect Avenue. News should be coming
from the alumni office.
Finally, another reminder that the class dinner will be
held at the Yale Club on Thursday, March 16. You will
receive information from our impresario, Sandy Clark.
I'm delighted to report that the speaker will be Ambassador
Bob Pelletreau. Again, note that the date is
Thursday, to give those of you who would like to make it a
long weekend in the Big Apple the opportunity to do so.
Your class secretary reports with paternal pride the
marriage of son Adam '89, to Andrea Troxell '91. Both are
doctoral candidates at Harvard, Adam in medieval history and
Andrea in biostatistics.
—Bernard M. Kosto
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