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EVENTS PLANNED

There will be a gathering of '48ers at the only afternoon at-home hockey game this season. We have reserved seats together at Ingalls Rink on Saturday, February 19, 2000, at 3pm. We have a group reservation for drinks and dinner at Mory's immediately following the game. We thank Kent Costikyan for organizing this event. If you have questions, please call Kent at (203)351-9325.
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Class luncheons will again be held on the following dates, starting at 12:15 P.M. in the Tap Room of the New York Yale Club, 3rd Floor. The schedule is as follows:

Feb. 29, 2000
March 28, 2000
Apr. 25, 2000
May 2000 - No class luncheon, holiday

Bob O'Connor is investigating the possibility of having a mini reunion in London in the second half of April, 2001.

There will be a brief meeting of the Executive Committee on April 4, 2000 at 4:45 PM in the conference roon of Don Rivkin's law firm, Schnader, Harrison, Segal, 14th floor, 330 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

At the Yale Club on April 4th, the annual class dinner will start at 6:00 PM with an open bar. Dinner will follow at 7:00 PM. Our guest speaker will be Yale Professor Paul M. Kennedy, author of "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers."

REUNION BOOK

Additional copies of the reunion book We of '48, created by Em Stone and Hank Burr, can be purchased for $25 each plus postage. Contact Em Stone.

A supplement to We of '48 was planned so that those who did not send biographies for the first volume would still have a chance to be included in the supplement. Only one additional biography was submitted, and the idea of having a supplement had to be abandoned.

PERSONAL NOTES

Happy new millenium to all of you!

A letter from Bob Rodgers: "Shortly after arriving in Sweden for my usual summer stay, I received a fax from John Norton '58 informing me that the '99 Yale Whiffenpoofs were scheduled to arrive in Stockholm mid-August, and could I please arrange bookings and homestay beds for them in the Stockholm area. With help from the U.S. Embassy, the local American Women's Club, and Alex Meyers '84, president of the Stockholm Yale Club, everything went smoothly. Among the locations for local Whiff concerts was a large, 17th century church with superb acoustics, where the group could be heard at its very best."

Gordy Farquhar reminisces: "During the great time had by all at our 50th reunion, Al and Tita Stack invited several classmates to visit them in Hawaii. Toby and Suzy Murray, Dan and Sarah Wagster, Ginger and I eagerly signed on for two weeks in late January. At that rime Al's mobility was restricted. But there was no limit to their hospitality or to his heart-warming stories and amusing anecdotes. Now A. S. has gone (September 12) but there will be no end to the marks this "world-class gentle giant" made in the pool and out, and in the hearts and minds of all who knew him.

Tad Spencer is in New Haven five times a year as a member of the AYA board and, in the autumn, as a Bulldog booster in the bowl - Boola, Boola. Tad's third granddaughter (fifth grandchild) arrived July 31, 1999, in Mystic, Connecticut. Proud of them all! Congratulations.

George Hastings writes, " My wife retired from public school teaching and since then we have visited England, Scotland, Chicago, Florida, Barbados, Spain, Monaco (Elderhostel), San Francisco, Cooperstown, and Saratoga." George says all this has not helped his golf game. Welcome home!

Bill Metcalf and Byrdie visited Yale in April for "Yale Constructs," put on by the School of Architecture. Bill states, "The improvements in the physical plant, long overdue, are exciting."

Saul Weinberg writes: "Busy as president of Central North Carolina Yale Club. Many talented Yale grads in area who can speak at meetings. Helpers include Dick Ballard and Phil Nelson, former dean of the Graduate School of Music."

Carlyle Weichmann corresponds: "Lois and I spent our 50th wedding anniversary visiting Alaska. The weather was a beautiful 60 degrees and no rain for the entire trip - quite a relief from the 100-plus degrees we've been coping with in the Dallas area."

Gil Collingwood is "still sailing; spent Carnival in Trinidad, now sailing north coast of Venezuela - will return home permanently in 2001. "

Donald Shorr writes that they are now spending the winters in Florida.

Nate Cartmell writes, "Joe and Margaret Proctor from Lake Oswego, Oregon, visited us recently, and I told them that we missed them at our 50th Reunion."

Stuart Lovejoy reports, "As of January 1999, formed CrossRoads Development Group with thee other partners to undertake assignments for strategic governance in a wide variety of organizations, including businesses. Challenged in our changing world - having a ball!"

Frank Shivers is honored as Professor of the Year at John Hopkins University. Congratulations, Frank.

Bob Johnson says, "I spotted Charlie Barlow's name in Y'50 YAM notes. This led to a lunch in Baltimore. We had not seen each other in more than 40 years."

Clive Runnells is still working -cable TV and ranching. Clive will cruise the Atlantic in the autumn.

Peter Moffitt writes, "I had great fun at our 50th Reunion. Many thanks to all our class for organizing it all."

Professor James Brian "Tennessee" Quinn just received the Price Waterhouse Coopers World Achievement Award for his seminal role in creating the $350 billion outsourcing industry. Elsewhere, the Quinns continue their travels (Antarctica and Torres de Paine, Chile) combined with mountain hiking and skiing.

Following is a verbatim copy of a letter from classmate Don Rivkin to President Rick Levin:

"Dear Rick: As a fellow Oxonian and Anglophile, I believe that you will be interested to know that Queen Elizabeth has conferred on me the award of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. The award principally recognizes my work as Administrator of the American Trust for Oxford University, but I am told that it also takes into account my service as deputy chairman of the English Speaking Union, director of the British-American Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the advisory council of the Ditchley Foundation. Whatever the reasons for the award, I confess that I am pleased to receive it. I will be invested as CBE in Washington this fall."

Joe Geoghegan, the first secretary of '48, writes enthusiastically about Ted Mason, who has just published his first novel, Hostage to Fortune. Ted's novel follows 30 years of diplomatic assignments in France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Vietnam, and Madagascar. Both Joe and Geney Goehegan say it is a fascinating "page-turner." Hostage to Fortune is a lively mix of diplomatic intrigue, sex, office politics and exotic geography. To order, contact Bartleby Press, Silver Spring, Maryland: 1-800-953-9929. Congratulations, Ted. Thanks, Joe. Ted just completed funding a scholarship to Yale in his father's name (Frederick Griswold Mason, Yale 1901), which he plans to have awarded to a freshman entering in the fall of 2001, a century after his Dad's graduation, as a gift from the 19th century to the 21st.

A Yale faculty member writes to Joe Lebworth: Once again this year a number of young people are being given the opportunity to stretch themselves intellectually and to broaden their lives in many other ways as undergraduates at Yale, due to the assistance they are receiving through the University's special financial aid endowments, including the Marion Joseph Lebworth Scholarship Fund. Your classmates say, "Good going, Joe."

Jack Topial is semi-retired, involved in real estate activity in the South Jersey shore area and still keeping a hand in college teaching, covering the financial and managerial accounting courses at the Wharton School in summertime. "We still find time to travel every year, as on a honeymoon."

We of '48 reunion class book editor, Emerson Stone, and his wife Louisa celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary in late June. Em and Louisa deserve 44 more years of married happiness. With Hank Burr producing what Em Stone was editing, a monumental literary creation came to life. All your classmates will always be grateful to both of you.

Martin Plissner's book, The Control Room,
was recently reviewed by Business Week. The subject of the book is the relationship between politicians and the media. Martin describes the evolution of primaries, polling, and debates since the Kennedy-Nixon debates. He discusses the brouhaha in the mid-1980s over the networks' practice of calling the presidential election soon after the polls closed in the east, angering politicians who wanted the west coast to finish voting. A House subcommittee on elections finally extracted a pledge from network news heads to postpone their calls. Martin Plissner writes, "Meantime, the same lawmakers who dictated the blackout created their own back channels to the networks to get the embargoed information."

Dick McKirahan retired in 1987 after 35 years in aerospace airframe production, first at Douglas Aircraft in Tulsa, OK, his hometown, then at Rohr Aircraft in Chula Vista, CA, where at first he established computerized operational and business systems, then went on to technical marketing and contract administration. Dick and Lenore have lived in the San Diego area for over 40 years. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, Lenore pursued her pianistic career, both teaching and performing. Now they are both much involved with the Institute for Continued Learning at UCSD, an organization of over 300 retired professionals pursuing their collective agenda of intellectual exploration and enjoying the social side tremendously. Visit the web site at www.extension.ucsd.edu/icl/ Dick writes about his children that "Laura became a modern dancer, earning her MFA at NYU and performing with the Bella Lewitzky company out of Los Angeles. Ilene earned her teaching credentials at San Diego State and has enlivened her middle school's environment. Marian studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and ha since graced several establishments in that lovely city. With all this, including five grandchildren and two very talented sons-in-law, we have much to be thankful for and even more to anticipate."

George Smith reports: "Joan and I are in Alaska until October. I'm working with a friend to build a 700 sf addition (two stories) to his lake cabin just outside of Walilla, 35 miles from Anchorage. He's an attorney and still working (poor guy). Joan and I are living at the lake in the cabin. I work on the project during the week, and he comes up on weekends. We're out of the T exas heat (90's plus) where it's 50-60 here. 'Will work for cool.' A good trade."

Oscar Gray is still a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Law, living in Washington, working in Baltimore.

Roger Strong keeps in tough with Jim Hellmuth, who doesn't get to the city very often. Jim gets a lot of pleasure from gardening.

Hillard Welch's youngest daughter, Wendell T. Welch, Yale '86, now teaches at Yale, having received her Ph.D. in applied math from the University of Washington.

Our peripatetic pair, Pat and Dick Ballard,
attended a superb Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. They heard Beethoven's Concertos 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Dick and Pat tracked down an old family marble mine and took home some "rocks" to decorate their garden.

Roland Largay is still active in the travel business. Roland went with three generations of brother, nephew, and four grandnephews to the Galapagos. Last year 12 of the extended family went on safari.

Malcolm McLean writes: "I was elected President of the Board of Directors of Compatible Technology, Inc. in April. We are a Twin Cities-based, non-profit organization seeking to help poor people in developing countries through low-cost, sustainable food technologies. We have projects in Zimbabwe (peanuts), Guatemala (corn), India (potatoes mostly) and St. Lucia in the Caribbean (cassava and paper processing). We'd be glad to let classmates know more about what we are trying to do." Malcolm can be contacted through the e-mail directory.

Jack Topiol writes: "I'm semi-retired , involved in real estate activity in the South Jersey shore area, still keeping a hand in college teaching, e. g. covering the financial and managerial accounting courses at the Wharton School this summer, trying to keep up with four daughters (two homemakers, one Citibank VP, one litigation attorney) and three grandchildren, vainly trying to keep up technically with my beloved wife, Florence, who is a mainframe configuration management/migration control expert, recently retired from Boeing/Philadelphia and entering a new web-based endeavor. We still find time to travel every year, as on a honeymoon - Vienna and Prague a few weeks ago - and we enjoy our lifestyle at the shore."

From peripatetic Hugh Sherwood: In June, Hugh had a delightful dinner with Philo Smith in Greenwich, Connecticut. In July, he had a most enjoyable Sunday brunch with John Calhoun and his wife Helen in Antrim, New Hampshire. And in September Hugh went to the Brown game with Roly Nolen. "It was delightful, but the game was a heartbreaker."

Spense Toll sadly reports that his beloved wife, Jean Barth Toll, book editor and city historian, has died of pancreatic cancer.

Herb Shaffer reports on an AYA trip. the Elbe River, Crossroads of Europe. "A Yale river boat trip is the best, especially when there are former Whiffs aboard. This cruise focused on Martin Luther - a great trip."

Tony DeMayo has been honored for his lifetime of outstanding contributions to the judicial system. From the New Haven Register, "Superior Court Judge Trial Referee Anthony V. DeMayo was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the New Haven County Bar Association." Superior Court senior judge, Edgar W. Bassick III, said of Tony, "Judge DeMayo conducts one of the most judicious courtrooms ever seen. He's the trouble solver of the Connecticut bench. Anytime there was a problem to be solved, lo and behold, Tony DeMayo showed up to solve it."

Joe Geoghegan and Genie visited classmate, Fred Rozell and Ruth , in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire. "Fred is active in the town government of Sandwich and in educational and charitable endeavors. While President of the Lakes Region Conservation Trust, Fred was named Conservationist of the Year."

Guy Miller writes that he has been working on a Yale in Kentucky project this summer that involves bringing 31 Yale undergraduates to metropolitan Louisville for nine weeks of summer employment and exposure to area cultural, social, educational, and business events. Rowan Claypool of the class of '80 chaired the event, and Guy was the jobs committee chairman. Guy reports that it has been a most successful and enjoyable project and one that they expect to repeat annually and see replicated around the country.

Guy can be reached through the e-mail directory (F. Guion Miller) by those who would like to know more about the program.

Bob O'Connor reports that he attended the annual cocktail party given by Kent Costikyan on May 26 at the Noroton Yacht Club announcing that the sailing season had begun for Kent's sloop, Amulet. Others attending the party were Ken Weeks, Dick Whitmore and Penny, Joe Kilbourne and Elaine. On Sunday afternoon, June 6, Bob O'Connor and Julie were invited on board for lunch and a sail. It was a perfect day. Bob says "we were happy to crew and took turns at the wheel."

The Berger Collection, featuring 200 paintings and objects of British art and spanning 600 years of British history, is on loan to the Denver Art Museum. It can also be viewed on the Internet at www.thebergercollection.org. The collection was assembled by William M. B. Berger, recently deceased (See necrology).

Keith Zook writes from Boulder, Colorado: "I have retired from the active practice of law and joined by wife, Betty, as a broker associate in her real estate office, Aspen Realty, Inc."

Patricia (Pat) Squire writes: "Thank you for including me in your mailings. I loved being involved with the '48 reunion, both before and during." Pat is the widow of Christopher Anthony Squire, and she served as the chairperson for widows at our fabulous 50th Reunion. Thanks ever so much, Pat.

Robert Fry writes: "It has been slightly over one year since the 50th reunion. Not having attended any of the past reunions, I really had mixed emotions about 'signing up.' I am sure glad I did as it was a wonderful experience! For years my wife, Dolores, has heard various references about Yale; however they were sort of 'in a vacuum.' Now she has seen Yale and experienced the warm friendship of the '48 reunion. All year we have had mutual references to that wonderful weekend about one year ago."

Ed Ward and Audrey came east for the class dinner, bringing with them news of California. It was especially good to learn about the activities in California of a number of Yale classes.

Dick Ballard and Pat sent a postcard from Pompeii with a picture of the amphitheater there. As ancient as it is, it certainly does look as if that design was used for the Yale Bowl.

Dick and Saul Weinberg, current president of the Yale Club, North Carolina, co-sponsored an appearance of the Dukesmen of Yale (19 of them, with an audience of nearly 300) at Carolina Meadows in Chapel Hill.

Hugh Sherwood wrote a very nice letter, saying that the class if now reaching out to its members, a very good thing.

David Twigg-Smith writes from Honolulu "All seven kids are now married! All is well but no one of the family is in Yale yet. Maybe by the 60th Reunion, one of our grandchildren..."

Dave Graham and his wife, Lois, took a two-week pleasure trip through China. Dave reports that there is a Yale Club in Beijing, and when you go to China you should contact the Beijing Yale Club.

Frank Logue, former mayor of New Haven, writes that he had a great time at reunion playing tennis with classmates on the various surfaces Yale offers outdoors.

John Du Gan writes "I was very sorry to have missed the reunion. Unfortunately I had to be out of the country; but at least my daughter was with me. I have commitments there every year for several months, and these usually coincide with the reunion times. As a result of all this, I have a house in Italy as a base, and I do find time to travel around the Continent. So right now I am in Florida about to leave for Italy. My four children have so far escaped from a successful marriage, although I think one of the girls is about to jump, again. The boys seem to have little inclination to take on such responsibilities." Good to hear from you, Jack.

Fred Miller and his wife, Leslie, report that they are quite active on Cape Cod teaching computers to the senior citizens. Fred writes: "We are in the process of building a house - don't ask me why at this stage of the game, but it certainly provides plenty of interest. Plan to move in sometime this March."

Don Rivkin, the Class of '48 delegate to the AYA, attended the AYA 1998 Fall Assembly, which was devoted to "The Internationalization of Yale." Yale is already an international university; 7.5% of undergraduate students come from outside the U. S., and the university has a long and distinguished record as a center of scholarship and teaching in the fields of diplomacy, languages, and foreign cultures. Yale will inevitably acquire an even more international character because of, among many other things, the advent of cyber-education. The Assembly considered the possible desirability of resident faculty to perform research abroad, broadening the international scope of undergraduate courses, creating satellite campuses through video-conferencing, and creating a School of Foreign Affairs or School of International Public Affairs. One of the panelists, David Gergen, stated his belief that Yale must remain a preeminent American institution that prepares students for international leadership; an increase in students from abroad, he cautioned, should not be at the expense of minority admissions.

Carlyle Weichman writes from Texas that he and his wife, Lois will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on August 19, 1999. Congratulations to you both.

Judson Gooding reports that he has no world-shaking news. He is busy with local "do-gooding" projects for the town of Walpole, N.H. The class believes that is more important than shaking the world.

James Bausman writes: " Our youngest daughter (37) is serving in the Peace Corps in N.E. Poland. We spent two exciting weeks with her in September.

Bob Johnston, his wife Nancy, and Nancy's mother in January embarked on the QE2, still a great old ship, for a four month cruise around the world, stopping at 38 ports. Bon voyage, Bob, Nancy, and Mom.

Gil Collinwood wrote: "Leaving tomorrow to go back to our boat in Venezuela to continue our trip which commenced in December 1996. Have logged about 4,000 fascinating miles through Bahamas and Caribbean. Next port: Trinidad, for Christmas and Carnival." Live it up, Gil. We're all with you in spirit.

About the AYA tours, Charlie Arnold
says,"Great trips! Our third in two years. Classmates abound."

From Santa Barbara, California, Cornelius Ham states, "We thoroughly enjoyed our 50th Reunion. It was the highlight of our summer! I am now semi-retired and enjoying it to the fullest extent of the law." Wow! Sometime, Cornelius, would you describe this to all of us in more detail?

Charlie O'Neal is retired (sort of) as of February '98, but is doing occasional real estate appraisal and consulting independently. Made China tour with Yale Alumni chorus this past summer. Good to hear from you, Charlie.

Dan Wagster chips in from California. IN December '97, Dan retired from the boards of directors of Kaiser Foundation and Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.

A lovely letter from '48's first class secretary, Joe Geoghegan, in which he states,"Geney and I thoroughly enjoyed Reunion! We were proud to be present at the exciting unveiling of our class gift of the president's portrait. The laid-back manner of our classmate, George Bush, and his tribute to his Yale education were a nice touch to a very impressive ceremony - one that will be long remembered as one of Yale's best 50th Reunion ceremonies."

Al Ford writes that it is hard to believe that he can be retired and still so busy. The week after his 50th in New Haven, he and Marion celebrated her 50th at the University of Massachusetts, and in July they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by taking their six kids and spouses and 11 grandchildren to a resort for a week of togetherness.

Professor Don Iodice reports their first grandson, Landon Anthony Iodice, was born to son James and daughter-in-law, Rebecca, October 1, 1998.

Joseph Fitzgerald reports that their daughter, Nora Fitzgerald, and her husband, Peter Finn, are in Warsaw, Poland, for three years. Peter has been appointed foreign correspondent for the Warsaw bureau of the Washington Post. Nora is also a journalist and covers special events for the Post.

George Hastings, in West Hartford, has been honored by the Bridge Family Center with its annual "Build No Fences" award. George was commended for his work while on the board, including providing legal counsel, raising money, and recruiting other board members. Judy Bierly, director of community services at The Bridge, said, "I feel inadequate to the task of honoring this man appropriately. I don't think there are words sufficient to describe him and his contributions."

William Metcalf spent a week in Seattle attending Bill Baker's marriage to Myra Gamburg. Bill Martyn was there, too.

George Arthur became a great grandfather on December 8, 1997, through the birth of Madeline Margaret Williams.

Joe Lebworth is especially interested in helping Yale students. The following paragraph is taken from a letter to Joe from a Yale administrator: "We are grateful for the direct personal impact that the Marion Joseph Lebworth Scholarship Fund has been having on students by helping them to meet their educational expanses. Such support remains critical for the continued success of Yale's mission to assist our students in reaching their full potential and to prepare them for positions of leadership and service within their chosen fields."

Lowell I. Goodman, MD send: "Good news! I am un-retired, working about 10 to 15 hours per week on a new anti-convulsant drug."

With regard to our reunion, Win Eldredge said our 50th was tops. Win has done a fine job running more than one class reunion in the past.

Ed Peaslee and Sally, Roger Mayer and Pauline and Lynn Miller joined the AYA Mandarin China trip in October, The itinerary included Beijing, Xian, A riverboat cruise on the Yangtze River from Wuhan through the scenic Three Gorges to Chongqing, then Shanghai and Suzhou. Yale-China President Nancy Chapman and Bill Watkins, Vice President for Medical Programs, provided informative lectures. Not on the official agenda was Barbara Bush joining the group for breakfast at the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Shanghai.

- Lesser Three Gorges, Yangtze River.
(top photo)

- Embarking at Yueyang

AYA Mandarin China trip, October 1998. (Photos by Terry Holcombe, AYA representative)

Click to hear:
The Girl from Ali Mountain (Ali Shan de Guniang)
Jasmine Flower (Molihua)
Road Building Song (Dalu Ge)
Love Without End (Buliao Qing, Mandarin song, sung in Tagalog)

Joe Kilbourn has been elected governor general of the order of Founders and Patriots of America, a patriotic society. Membership requires that a direct male ancestor came to the colonies prior to 1657 and that in the same direct male line an ancestor participated in the Revolutionary War on the Colonial side.

Saul Wineberg M.D. is very busy as the president of the Central North Carolina Yale Club and encourages all Yale people in the area to join the club. Saul is also a volunteer adjunct professor of psychiatry at UNC School of Medicine, supervising residents.

John Masters is living in Denver and can see Pikes Peak from his south window. He and his wife Lenora do enjoy family life.

Joe Julianelle is recovering from total knee replacement. Joe's wife, Brenda, has passed her registered nurse exams.

At an October 16 Department of Commerce "Services 2000" conference, which was called to help the U.S. government formulate its position in the next round of World Trade Organization negotiations, Bill Metcalf represented the architecture profession and Don Rivkin spoke for the legal profession.

David Graham discovered a Yale Club in Beijing and spent a wonderful evening with its president, Po-Wen Huang Choo '57. David says, "If you go to Beijing, look him up."

NECROLOGY

Jim Eliason died July 12 after a long illness. Jim received an MBA from Wharton in 1953. A non-profit fund has been established by the Eliason family to help provide for the health, dignity, and spiritual well-being of the aged.

Tom Chaffee died calmly and at peace in his sleep on September 28, 1999. Tom's daughter Elizabeth wrote to us, "I had the opportunity to work with my dad preparing his autobiography for the 50th Reunion yearbook. It was a very rewarding project for both of us. Dad was very proud of his Yale roots." We thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing with us this beautiful memory.

Frank Treco died November 11, 1999. Further information will be reported when available.

James M. Flint died August 12, 1999. No further information is available at this time.

Edward F. Keating Jr. died September 1, 1999 after a long illness.

Arthur T. Beach died on March 20, 1999 of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital. Arthur was a prolific illustrator and a very fine painter. During his career he painted over 100 commissioned portraits and a 30-foot American historical mural for the Lebanon, CT public library. Rip Camp mentions that Arthur's wife, Jean Beach, wrote to him: "Sad news about Arthur, but George and Laura Hastings came to his funeral. We both enjoyed the 50th reunion last spring. I am glad we were able to attend."

John Ghoreyeb died April 2, 1999 in Yale New Haven Hospital. John was a retired educator and psychologist.

J. Philip Nordeck died of cancer on March 23, 1999. We have no further information at this time.

Henry White passed away October 14, 1997 of Alzheimer's disease. His wife, Jean White, wrote "Yale meant a lot to him and he would have loved to attend the class dinner. I hope you have a wonderful evening."

Donald Drews passed away on November 19, 1998. No further information is available at this time.

Stanley Tucker died May 13, 1999 at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut. We have no further information now.

Allen Stack died on September 12 at his home in Honolulu. He achieved fame as a swimmer, breaking six world records and 22 American records in the backstroke from 1948 to 1951. In the 100 meter backstroke, he won gold medals in the 1948 Olympics in London and the Pan American Games in Buenos Aires and 10 national championships. He entered the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1979. Born in New Haven in 1928, he graduated from Yale in 1949, and after a stint in the Navy, graduated from the Columbia University Law School in 1956. He moved to Honolulu and practiced law there until last year. After the 1952 Olympics he married Elizabeth Loy Marks of Honolulu. He is survived by his wife, a son, Allen Jr. of Honolulu, and two daughters, Tiare of Pacific Palisades, California, and Lee of Honolulu.

Lois Rivkin, wife of Don Rivkin, died April 27 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Lois was founder and president of an organization linking business organizations and cultural institutions to New York City public schools. Lois was loved and appreciated by all her family, by friends and associates, and by the Yale Class of 1948. Our heartfelt sympathy to Don and family.

Peter DeCamp of Sutton's Bay, Michigan. died April 4, 1999. Early in his career he served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Peter joined the Michigan Department of Transportation as a civil engineer in 1954 and retired as a senior district engineer in 1984.

William M. B. Berger, who was instrumental in making Denver a leading center for mutual funds, and later assembled a vast collection of British art, died in Denver on June 29 at the age of 73. A detailed record of his accomplishments was carried in the New York Times on July 1. He is survived by his wife, Bernadette, a brother, W. Bart Berger, four children - William B. Berger, George B Berger, M. Merriam Berger-Johnson and Katherine M. B. Berger - three step daughters - Susan Tweedy, Sheri McPhail, and Cynthia Hayes and five grandchildren.

John Gillen died December 9, 1998 at the Health South Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital. John was born in New Haven in 1921 and was the husband of Elizabeth Gillen.

Karl Edward Treffinger died on January 11, 1999. He was also a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture. Karl had a very successful architecture career in the San Francisco Bay area.

It is with regret that we note the passing of Peter Thatcher on April 3, 1999 in Mystic, Conn. Peter had a distinguished career as a State Department official and as deputy executive director of the United Nations Environmental Program. He was an early advocate of environmental protection, and in 1971 became program director in Stockholm for the UN Conference on the Human Environment, and subsequently director of the UN Environment Program's European office in Geneva. In 1977 he went to Kenya as the organization's deputy executive director, with the rank of Assistant Secretary General of the UN. Since his retirement in 1993, he has advised various non-profit organizations and town commissions in Connecticut, and was Chairman of the Earth Council Foundation U.S.

Peter is survived by his wife, Mary, three children, Ann T. Tate, Linda T.
Visscher, Peter Jr., and one granddaughter.

The death of Alan J. Pakula in November '98 is a loss to everyone who knew him and to those who watched the drama of his cinematic masterpieces. His creativity was widely admired. Actors who have made statements expressing their affection for him. Jane Fonda said "He was the most supportive director I ever worked with."

Roger Strong obtained an invitation which enabled Rip Camp to represent the Class of '48 at "A Celebration of the Life of Alan J. Pakula" on February4 at the Broadhurst Theater in New York. Family and friends gave eloquent eulogies. Warmth and praise flowed from the stage to the audience. Rip especially remembers the oration by Gregory Peck, not only for what he said, but for the wonderful way he said it. The Broadhurst Theater was filled to capacity. Alan Pakula was an extraordinarily creative and much loved man.

Our sympathies are with the families and friends of our departed classmates.

Ted Polumbaum,'48, died January18,2001, in Boston after a long struggle with meningitis. After graduation he became a reporter, then a television news writerfor United Press in Boston.iN 1953 theHouse Un-American Activities Committee, investigating ''subversion in education,''subpoenaed him regarding his activities as a Yale student. Ted defied the commitee, was threatened with contempt charges, and promptly fired for ''endangering UP's good will among subscribers,'' although the company admitted that a search through his scripts had turned up no evidence of bias. The American Newspaper Guild championed Ted's case in an era when most journalists were running for cover. After winning a mediator's decusion, the Guild lost a court appeal on a technicality. When the ensuing blacklist shut the doors to print journalism, Ted turned to his childhoo.d passion for photography. The policies of another Yale alumnus,Time-Life founder,Henry Luce, of hiring the best talent without opinion testing, gave him his break. Until the demise of the weekly, Life, Ted free-lanced as a photojournalist, primarily for that magazine, but also for every other national publication that featured pictures. Over the years his camera brought him to many places, including India, Vietnam in the early days of our involvement (reinforcing his strong and premature opposition to that war), Mississippi during the civil rights movement, and Latin America. He documented historic events and ordinary moments;baseball, politics, disasters at sea and in the coal mine, Coney Island, disident priests, home birth, autistic children. When the glory days of photojournalism waned, he shot ads and glossy annual reports. His last book-'' Today is not like Yesterday; a Chilean Journey;''-- spanned a generation of history, featuring the same people during their easrly years of hope, and again after prison, torture and exile. The book was highly ppraised in 1993by many publications, including this one. Throughout Ted maintained his gentleness, trenchant humor and a commitment to social justice that permeated his work and his life. He never succumbed to the temptation to ridicule his subjects. A physician friendwo has Ted's picture of a Kashmiri healer in his office reported that when a famous dying actress arrived for a final consultation, she said she had only come to see that photograph once more. His only regret during a completely fullfilled life was that his clarinet couldn't match Benny Goodman's. He worked and played fierce tennis until his illness overtook him. He leaves behind three offspring; Miki, ailversmith/piano tuner; Judy,a teacher of journalism at the University of Iowa; and Ian, ex-journalist, now Boston domestic violence proNynasecutorm grandsons Nathaniel, Gabe and Arun, daughter-in-lawNalina and his wife, Nyna Brael Polumbaum (Drama School '49). nYNA I srael Polumbaum polumbaum@bostonbbs.org