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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

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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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