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Notes: November/December 2006
Notes: September/October 2006
Notes: July/August 2006
Notes: May/June 2006
Notes: March/April 2006
Notes: January/February 2006
Notes: November/December 2006
First these two sad notes.
In Memoriam: The class lost one of its most
beloved and active members on 25 July 2006 with the death of
Peter B. Fritzsche. Peter's Yale record speaks for
itself: starting right guard for the great '56 Ivy champion
football team, Skull and Bones, then class secretary in the
1970s, "alumnus of the year" at our 25th, finally director
of the university's alumni fund in the early 1990s. When
news reached Cheeb Everitt that Peter had died, Cheeb
responded, "But his ebullience, integrity, and spirited
personality didn't!" Surely so. The class was numerously
represented at Peter's memorial service by Guy Palmer,
Jack Pendergast, Lou DeLuca, Dave Bowman, Sandy Clark,
Charlie Cushman, George Dunn, Bern Kosto, Vern Loucks, Dick
Lumpkin, Mike Oberlin, and Jack Turben. Jacks
Pendergast and Turben offered readings at the service. As
Bro. Clark concluded: "Peter - Go in Peace. You've left us
all with great and loving memories." Peter is survived by
his wife Ruth and seven children. Memorial contributions in
his name may go to Sacred Heart Church, 1077 Tower Rd,
Winnetka, IL 60093 or to Mercy Hospital, 2525 S. Michigan
Ave, Chicago, IL 60616.
In Memoriam: George Lee alerted me soon
after Peter's death to the death from cancer on August 11th
of Thomas T. Crumpacker. After Yale, Tom earned his
law degree at Michigan and later an MA in Latin American
studies at Georgetown. On his business cards, he identified
himself as "Warrior Lawyer." Tom practiced law in Colorado
from 1961 until 1997. Following his retirement, he moved to
Miami, where he wrote political analysis on such issues as
US foreign policy, the "war on terror," and life in Cuba,
which he visited frequently. Tom was active with the
Miami-Dade Green Party and a member of the Miami Coalition
to End the US Embargo of Cuba. He's survived by his wife
Maray, who can be reached at 1633 Waterston Avenue, Austin,
TX 78703-3981.
Now to reunion-related matters:
Cheeb Everitt will soon contact each of us to
request donations from '57 authors of the books (fiction,
nonfiction, or poetry) of which they're most proud. The
works will be handsomely displayed during our 50th in
Sterling Library's Memorabilia Room. "The Class of '56 was
represented," Cheeb writes, "by 83 authors, so we need at
least 84 responses."
Happy news: We've now raised over $1,250,000 in pledges
toward meeting Don Roberts's extraordinary challenge
of $2.5 million to endow, at $5 million, the class's Music
the Schools project as part of our 50th reunion gift.
For the class, I'd like to collect the email addresses of
all widows of our deceased classmates who'd like to receive
class communications and learn of class events. We now have
only three such email addresses. May I ask any widows who
read this column and who wish to be included in class
communications to let me know at my email address above?
Classmates who know of those email addresses are also urged
to let me know them.
From Fred Guggenheim, news that, several years
ago, he became Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Chair of the
Psychiatry Department at the University of Arkansas and
moved with wife Olivia from Little Rock to Providence. Last
fall, the Association for Academic Psychiatry honored Fred
with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In the spring, Brown
Medical School made him Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.
"My retirement," Fred writes, "has really been a
'rehirement.' I get to do what I love doing, but I don't
have to do those things I never liked."
It's been very good to hear from John Swezy in
Illinois. John was with us for but a year, rooming with
Morris Raker. He left Yale for marriage (the first,
only, and happy, he reports) but writes that "I soon
realized that dropping out of Yale was not the wisest
decision I've ever made. But I've had a good life, although
I admit that I've wondered what it might have been if I'd
earned a degree. I've had occasion over the years to pass
through New Haven, and it's still magical to walk through
the campus. Just don't ask me to take the posture exam!
Best regards to any who recall me."
Sharp-eyed readers of New York City's leading broadsheet
will have seen two summertime references to Judge Ralph
Winter. One of his decisions for a unanimous
three-judge federal appeals panel upheld the conviction of
Bernard Ebbers. A second decision, for a divided appeals
panel, gave the go-ahead to federal prosecutors to inspect
reporters' phone records.
An August article in that same newspaper noted that
Peter Wolf had played a central role in helping
preserve artist Thomas Moran's notable house in East
Hampton, Long Island.
I apologize for misspelling Randy Heimer's name in
a previous column.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: September/October 2006
Our New York City correspondent and man about town, Don
Roberts, reports that he and Mary attended a May dinner
of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical
America at which Hartman-Cox Architects, the distinguished
Washington, D.C. firm, won one of the Institute’s
prestigious Arthur Ross Awards. The firm’s co-founder and
principal is our very own Warren Cox.
I spent a June week working—yes, working—in that
celebrated hardship post, Hailey, ID (up against Sun Valley)
with Bob Mobley, a management consultant now
specializing in leadership issues. Bob was then recovering
from a major, albeit not grave, back operation under the
vigilant care of Melinda, all the while exhibiting his
characteristic enthusiasm and idealism. When in the
Sawtooth Mountains, I also spent time with Lyman and
Debra Drake in their lovely home perched on the banks
of the Wood River. Lyman owns and operates Lyman Drake
Antique Imports in Ketchum.
Sheila Keaten relays news from Randolph, NJ that
in 2000, after 40 years in business, Bob retired and
took Episcopal orders. Now may he help his denomination
survive!
I have in hand from Bill Reimann, on the Harvard
faculty, what I can only describe as the curriculum vitae of
a champion rower. It goes on for many lines. Its gist is
that Bill has been the recipient of frequent, recent, and
repeated gold and other medals in master’s rowing
competitions in all kinds of sculls and shells around the
world.
It’s good to learn that we '57ers don’t limit our
gatherings to formal class dinners and reunions. Hugh
Peterson reports that he and Mary Jane gathered last
September with Chuck and Susan Leahy, Andy and
Carol Kner, Mike and Snookie Kohler, Tink and
Nancy Thompson, Dick Lumpkin, and Jeanne Charn, widow
of our late classmate Gary Bellow, at the Newport
Beach, CA house of Stew and Emily Wright.
This crowd of worthies isn’t the only one to gather
annually or nearly so. Ron Ragen tells me that "our
little band of crazies"—his TD entry mates—joined together
also in September 2005 in Cooperstown, NY, just before
losing Dick Sargent. Another rally is planned for
2008 in Provence. But most impressive, Ron writes that he
has "already obtained commitments from all ten" of these
TDers to attend our 50th. Will some of the rest of you
follow Ron’s sterling example and lasso classmates for the
event?
John Ryan writes that "after 14 years together,
Mary Gregg and I married in mid 2005. And are still
together. I’m still working about three-quarters time as a
professional director and angel investor in IT companies.
Health still good, but running times slower."
If you’re looking for distinctive products and niche
markets, then perhaps you should get advice from Ted
Palen. He sells antique scientific instruments,
primarily surveying equipment. "The market is tiny—we
aren’t making any money—but the people we meet are great,
and we’re having lots of fun."
Buell Neidlinger continues to provide music for
films, such as Brokeback Mountain. "Not bad, he
writes, "for a 69-year-old bass player with no college
degree." (Yet better that, dontcha think? than a cycle of
Harvard degrees.) Buell’s latest CD is This Way is
West. "Buy one, will you, please?" he beseeches.
A photo in the fall 2005 issue of the Lawrenceville
alumni magazine reveals Vern Loucks tooling down some
school path on a Segway. Does this suggest that he’s no
longer in as good shape as Bill Reimann (above)? No.
He’s a Segway investor and former CEO of the company.
Last May found Bob Rosefsky cruising the islands
of WWII’s Pacific Theater—Guam, Truk, Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo
Jima, and Hiroshima. "Those were little more than words in
headlines when we were pups, but they've become mythic over
the decades. Studying their histories and seeing them today
chills the bones. Let’s not forget the lessons of the
past."
Finally, while most of us get attention—if we let
attention be paid—when we turn 70, Larry Kramer has
gotten it upon turning 71. "I was meant to be dead some six
years ago," he writes. "I’m proud I’m still able to fight
the fight that’s so important to me, for the rights of gay
people and those with HIV…. It’s done with the constant
realization of how difficult it usually is to get my message
out via the mainstream media at all." But Larry hit the
jackbox this time: a front-page article about him in the
New York Times and a segment on CBS Sunday Morning,
both in June.
For Further Reading: I strongly recommend Jerome
Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and
Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. You’ll learn
much about your admission to Yale—and much you may not want
to learn.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: July/August 2006
Attention all readers! Our 50th reunion dates are now
firm—May 31- June 3, 2007. Inscribe them firmly on your
calendars. More important, plan to attend. By the time you
read these notes, full information about the reunion, the
reunion classbook, and the reunion gift will have begun to
arrive in your mailboxes. All those involved in planning
the reunion hope that you’ll read each mailing closely and
take appropriate action.
Don Roberts, who has already made an extraordinarily
generous $2.5 million challenge gift to the 50th reunion
goal of endowing the class’s Music in Schools project, has
outdistanced most of us in yet another way: in April, he
completed his 31st Boston Marathon. What was he sporting on
his running bib as he sped through the streets? The number
1957.
Fred Guggenheim, now with Brown University Medical
School, was honored last fall with the Lifetime Achievement
Award of the Association of Academic Psychiatry. Similarly
last spring, at a gala celebration at New York’s City
Center, Ray Lamontagne received the Fiorello H.
LaGuardia Award for distinguished service to New York City
and the performing arts. Congratulations to both!
Jack Hughes keeps me informed about his and others’
continued participation in alumni song. Last winter, he,
Jeff Freeman, Todd Kendrick, and Doug Almond
joined the Yale Alumni Chorus in an enthusiastically
reviewed concert in Ely Cathedral—all, fittingly, serious
music. No New Haven glees, no “Boola Boola.”
Ron Sharp reports to say that, “still on the green
side of earth,” he continues to practice law and is an
arbitrator of the national panel for the American
Arbitration Association.
Eric Pace, retired from the New York Times,
will have the satisfaction of seeing his two daughters
receive their M.D. degrees in 2007, one from the University
of California Medical School in San Francisco, the other
from Harvard.
Our Bill Clinton, retired from Lukens Steel Company
in 1994, recently celebrated 52 years of marriage to Ginger.
Bill Reimann, having stepped aside from his Harvard
faculty post, hasn’t let that stop him from accumulating a
still growing list of rowing and sculling awards. Bart
Vincent has also retired—after 43 years as a physician
and child psychiatrist. From Mercer Island, Washington, he
and his wife keep traveling “in defiance of the grim
reaper.” Travels are the subject of many reports these
days. Charlie Strong ventures forth with his wife
from Georgetown, Texas, to such places as Ireland and Great
Britain. Randy Heimer, checking in after what he
admits is too long a time and also retired (from the
advertising business), travels with his wife, has
substituted easier-on-the-joints golf for his squash playing
of yore, and gains weekend retreat from New York City in
Wainscott, Long Island.
Jim Cunningham was recently found in Dublin.
Recalled from almost 4 years of retirement by his former
employer, Rabobank, he writes that he’s enjoyed the fresh
work more than he expected but looks forward to his
re-retirement in London.
In Memoriam: John L. Hurley died in Albany,
New York, on 19 January 2006 after a brief illness.
Entering Yale at 17 on a Ford Foundation scholarship, Jack
was associated all his life with the arts. He made his
greatest mark in the world of music in association with the
celebrated conductor and musicologist Newell Jenkins, Jack's
partner of 35 years, who predeceased him in 1996. Among
other things, Jack taught at the American School in Lugano,
Italy, then helped found the American School in Milan. He
also managed the Clarion Music Society in New York. Gifts
in Jack's memory may be made to Gilmmerglass Opera, PO Box
191, Cooperstown, NY 13326; Musicians of Ma'alwyck, 511
Mohawk Avenue, Scotia, NY 12302; the Clarion Music Society,
965 Fifth Avenue (#5B), New York, NY 10021; or the
Reconciling Ministries Team at First United Methodist
Church, Syracuse, NY.
In Memoriam: Gordon Bellis was the first to
convey news of the death on 24 March 2006 of Brayton
Wilbur, Jr., also after a brief illness. After Yale and
US Army service, Brayton earned his MBA at Stanford. He
then joined Wilbur-Ellis Co., a national and international
marketer of agricultural and industrial products founded by
his father. He became CEO in 1988 and chairman in 2000. A
major figure in San Francisco cultural life, Brayton joined
the Symphony board in 1969 and served as its president from
1980 to 1987. He was also a director of the San Francisco
Opera and co-chaired the committee to restore the Opera
House after the Loma Prieta earthquake. In addition,
Brayton served as chairman of the Asia Foundation from 1991
to 1995. As a trustee of the Asian Art Museum, with his
wife Judy he devoted much time and energy toward the move of
the museum to the Civic Center in 2003. In addition to his
wife, Brayton is survived by four children and eight
grandchildren.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: May/June 2006
Jerry Jones sends news that the American
Philosophical Society has awarded Frank Michelman its
Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence. One of only 17
university professors at Harvard, Frank is also one of only
20 recipients of the Phillips Prize in over a century. An
extraordinary recognition!
In early February, the ’56 lacrosse team, which defeated
Princeton for the first time in 24 years back then, was duly
honored at the Yale Club on the 50th anniversary of its
spectacular season, which also gained it the first-ever Ivy
League lacrosse championship. Attending the Manhattan
affair were ‘56 First-Team All-American Jack
Pendergast (who wrote me of the event), as well as
Jack Curlett, Charlie Cushman, Bob Neff, and Hugh
Young.
All-knowing Tom Perkins spotted news of the
creation of Yale Bowl’s Jensen Family Plaza. Part of the
Bowl’s restoration and named after donors Colin
Jensen (of the magnificent ‘56 football squad) and three
of his brothers, all Yale graduates, the plaza, at Portal D
at the Bowl’s main entrance, is intended to serve as a
gathering place for players and fans.
And this from Bern Kosto: TheYale Art Gallery has
acquired "Bibliotheque," a 1927 work by American painter
Gerald Murphy with funds donated in part by Alice Kaplan in
memory of her husband, Allan S. Kaplan, formerly a
member of the gallery's governing board.
A November ’05 issue of the university’s daily bulletin
carries the moving story of Vince Marchesi’s care of
his wife, Sally, who has long suffered from Alzheimer’s
disease. Vince, who heads the Boyer Center for Molecular
Medicine in the medical school’s Pathology department, where
he and Sally have long been colleagues, has now turned his
deep knowledge and experience to work on Alzheimer’s
research.
Ted Palen writes that “with Bill Kean’s
passing, Ralph Winter and I are the only ones left of
5 roommates senior year, yet life is good and Fay and I are
having a grand time. With children and grandchildren in
Florida and Australia, we'll for the most part spend the
winter in climates more comfortable than Pennsylvania.”
Dave Johnson, a retired teacher of city and
regional planning, keeps his hands in consulting and
academic work from Ashville, NC. I erred in reporting
earlier that Reuben Shapiro took the class prize for
having three children—all sons—graduating from Yale. Dave
didn’t catch my error, but he, too, has had three Yale
children—all daughters.
I have the heavy duty of conveying news in this single
column of four deaths.
In Memoriam: Art Diefendorf writes of the
death from cancer of Robert M. Driscoll on December
11, 2005, in Westerly, RI. With us for but two years before
stopping out to join the army, Bob returned to graduate in
1960. Close to many in our class, he was an accomplished
actor, television producer, and magazine publisher. He’s
survived by his wife Elizabeth, four daughters, two
brothers, and three stepchildren. A full obituary appeared
in the Boston Globe of December 15, 2005.
In Memoriam: Allan Wendt was first to send
news of the death, also from cancer, of Richard Maxwell
Sargent, Jr., on December 16, 2005. After Army service,
Dick joined Chubb Corp., where he spent his entire career in
many executive positions, his final 15 years as president
and CEO of the Chubb Institute, later named Chubb Computer
Services. Dick was an avid outdoorsman—golfer, skier,
marathoner, bicyclist, canoeist. George Doty, a
roommate, writes that Dick "was one of the most enthusiastic
people I've ever known. He gave his all to everything he
ever did." The 41-year husband of Ann M. Sargent, Dick also
leaves Richard M. Sargent III of Los Altos, CA and Louisa B.
Sargent of Basking Ridge, NJ. Those who wish may contribute
in Dick's memory to the Morris Land Conservancy, 19 Boonton
Avenue, Boonton, NJ 07005.
In Memoriam: Rob Walker has reported the
death after long illness of Harry King Cross, Jr. on
January 18, 2006. After service as a naval officer, King
worked his entire career as writer/editor for the business
practice division of Prentice Hall. He’s survived by his
wife Elizabeth and two stepdaughters and their families.
Donations in King's memory may be made to the MGH
Transplantation Unit, c/o Development Office, 165 Cambridge
Street, Charles River Plaza (Suite 600) Boston, MA 02114 or
the Dennis Conservation Trust, c/o C. Bell, 69 Beach Street
Dennis, MA 02638. A celebration of King's life will take
place this coming summer. For further information, contact
his brother David ’60 at 401-751-6425. Rob recalls King as
a lover of the English language, passionate about cars, and
“a loyal, caring friend, serious about life, and brave in
his medical adversities.”
In Memoriam: Long after the fact, we’ve learned
from Jack Berlet of the death from colon cancer of
Albert C. Vosberg in Winter Park, FL, on October 10,
1999.
Let’s “fly after summer merrily.” Then more in the fall.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: March/April 2006
Apologies for belated information in these columns. I try
to balance current news, or news I judge everyone should
learn quickly, and convey other items in roughly the order
they arrive at my desk. I try also to report about those
whose names don’t often appear here.
Carter Volz writes from Hamburg, NJ, that October
saw publication of his Healing Yourself, a self-help
book based on his personal and clinical experience.
In Honolulu, Dick Simons has retired from
full-time teaching at Punahou School while continuing to
tutor students and travel with his sons, Peter (’82) and
Kiff (who’s on the Hokkaido University faculty).
Richard Jordan reports in from his inviting
California coastal town: “A range of medical problems seems
to be past tense for both Connie and myself. Walking one or
two miles daily (truly a lifetime first!). Cambria is a
wonderful spot to live and a grand place to visit.
California's smallest 2nd BR welcomes classmates. Enjoying
stamp collecting, reading, writing a bit, and
correspondence.”
A professional geologist, Pat Wilde has his own
website (http://www.marscigrp.org ) where you can
learn about his career and work. A roving fellow, he’s
lately been in London, Berlin, and Vienna and continues
active in his discipline, having recently given papers in
Calgary and Salt Lake City. “Thanks to the computer and the
Internet,” he writes, “I’m probably more productive now than
before I ‘retired.’ Lots of ideas, but not enough arms and
legs!!!”
Our ever-observant NYC correspondent, Jesse
Lemisch, sends a New York Magazine article
picturing Paul Chevigny dancing. While it’s unclear
how great a terpsichorean Paul is, the piece relates how our
NYU law professor is challenging cabaret laws that require
licensing for bars and restaurants where there’s dancing by
more than three people at once. So take care all you
still-quick-of-foot trippers: a single couple’s ballroom
dancing gets by in my native city, but no group do-si-dos
unless Paul prevails.
But here’s more upbeat news from Manhattan: the New
York Times in November reported a gathering of the Eli’s
Chosen Six to mark the 70th birthday (familiar?) of one of
its founding members, Roswell Rudd. Among those making
music at the event were our very own Buell Neidlinger
and Dick Voigt. “Buoyancy and brightness were common
undercurrents,” wrote the Times’s astute critic.
Now to sad news, all reported, as always, earlier and in
greater length to email-ready classmates and placed in
extended form on the class Web site:
In Memoriam: Joel Colker alerted me in
October to the death of cancer of Francis A. Slowick,
Jr., an orthopedic physician, on October 19, 2005. A
graduate of Williston, after Yale Frank attended Tufts
Medical School and served as a military doctor in Vietnam
with the rank of major. He then returned to his native
Pittsfield, MA, to practice with his father, remaining there
for the rest of his life. He’s survived by his wife of 31
years, Donna, as well as by his father, a son, and two
daughters. Memorial donations may be made to HospiceCare in
the Berkshires' Hospice House Fund.
In Memoriam: Frank’s death was shortly followed by
that of William J. Keen, of Harleysville, PA, of lung
cancer on October 15, 2005. An engineer who served during
the Korean War, Bill worked as construction manager for
various large firms throughout his career. His
irrepressible wit shone through to the last. Ted
Palen reports that Bill referred to making funeral home
arrangements as “a dress rehearsal.” Asked when arriving
for one of his hospital visits “What are you doing HERE?” he
answered, “There wasn't room in maternity.” Bill’s survived
by his wife Patricia, a son, and a daughter. Gifts may be
sent in his memory to the American Cancer Society.
In Memoriam: We’ve belatedly learned of the death at his
home in Santa Monica, CA, on June 13, 2005 of Christopher
Spencer Foote. Aged 70, Chris died of complications
from brain cancer. Professor emeritus of chemistry at UCLA
and the foremost authority on chemical reactions of singlet
oxygen, he had made groundbreaking discoveries that led to
important new findings about why molecular oxygen is both
essential to life processes and is a major agent of
biological damage. After Yale, Chris studied on a Fulbright
at Gottingen and received his PhD from Harvard. It was then
on to UCLA, where he spent the entirety of his career and
was the recipient of many prestigious awards. It’s
noteworthy that he was a direct descendent of Benjamin
Silliman, Yale’s first professor of science. Chris is
survived by his wife Judith L. Smith and two sons. Donations
in his memory may be made to the UCLA Foundation with a
notation that they’re for the Christopher S. Foote Graduate
Fellowship in Organic Chemistry and sent to Chair's Office,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, P.O. Box
951569, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: January/February 2006
Andre Schiffrin sends news that since 2003, when he
and his wife spent twelve months in Paris, his birthplace,
they now spend half each year there. Andre continues to
edit books for The New Press, which he founded in l990 after
some 30 years at Pantheon, most of it as director. He
records the story of that change and changes in publishing
in The Business of Books, which has appeared in over
20 countries. In France, he wrote a new book for European
readers, Le controle de la parole, which appeared
this year. He also teaches at Sciences Po, the French
political science university.
Through go-between Jack Hughes comes a report from
Dave Laurence in Georgetown, TX. As with so many of
us (including Jack), music remains a great avocational
pleasure. Dave sings with a local chorus that frequently
joins forces with Chorus Austin and the Austin Symphony. No
isolated group this one; it has sung in New York.
Larry Strasburger has filed an informative
dispatch from Belmont, MA. He writes that he’s practiced
psychiatry for the past forty years, enjoying “the vantage
point on the human scene this has given me. A career in
medicine, I used to think, would be a way to apply my
interest in science, but I've discovered that English
courses I took at Yale have been the source of as much
professional wisdom. I’ve been particularly interested in
the kinds of issues that arise at the interface between
psychiatry and law—civil cases of personal injury, child
custody, and competence matters as well as criminal law
determinations of responsibility and fitness for duty. Much
of the work has been bridging the language gap that keeps
lawyers and doctors from being able to understand one
another. I've had a lot of fun teaching and writing.”
Ever-observant Don Roberts has sent yrs. truly a
copy of The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt from NY’s
Metropolitan Museum. It contains a short essay by last
spring’s annual dinner speaker Dave Mininberg
suggesting his contributions, as physician, to new
understanding of that ancient realm.
Two ‘57ers have recently fetched up in Washington. They
are George Schuyler, retired east from Arkansas, who
joined some of us for one of our periodic class lunches
here, and John Bowen. Big Red retains the
mischievous humor of his youth. Mr. Bowen has yet to put in
an appearance, which we hope he will do.
Though it’s my duty to report classmates’ deaths, I do so
always with a heavy heart. The toll to convey this time is
a high one.
In Memoriam: I was able to confirm recently that,
as I’d heard some time ago by happenstance, Cade Spencer
Ware had died almost 20 years ago—on 12 March 1986. If
anyone has information about his life, I ask that he send it
to me.
In Memoriam: Also delayed is news of the death, on
4 November 2002, of Isaac “Ike” Harter III. While
this fact was reported here in 2001, the university hadn’t
passed on fuller information until now. A more rounded
obituary is on the class website. I can report here that,
while at Yale for only a year, Ike made fast friends
(including John North and freshman year roommate
Ned Baldwin), many of whom remarked on his lifelong
romance with boats. Ike long worked for Newport News
Shipbuilding, sailed boats from his earliest years, and even
built a steamboat in his backyard!
In Memoriam: Rufus S. Goodwin died on 10
July 2005. From a long obituary in the Boston Globe,
I learn that, poet and novelist, Rufus was the
great-grandson of a J.P. Morgan business partner and thus
appears not to have had to work for a living. But he did
so, not only writing novels and poetry, but also laboring
and residing among the homeless, about whom he wrote
sensitively. After Yale, Rufus studied linguistics at
Georgetown. In the 1960s, he was Vatican correspondent for
UPI and then a free-lance writer in Switzerland and England.
As I recall his telling me, he had to struggle against
periodic depression and managed to do so through work,
non-churchgoing spirituality, and the care and support of
his wife Irmgard, who may be reached at 55 Brackett Pl. Apt.
A, Marblehead, MA 01945-4664.
In Memoriam: Finally, and just as I must submit
these notes for publication, I’ve learned from Ted
Palen of the death on 25 October 2005 of William
James Keen and from Joel Colker of the death on
19 October 2005 of Francis Arthur Slowick, Jr. I
will convey further news about them both in future notes.
Those interested in the university during the 1960s and
1970s will find of interest Warren Goldstein’s biography of
Bill Coffin: William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy
Impatience (Yale University Press).
—James M. Banner, Jr.
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