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Notes: November/December 2004
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Notes: November/December 2004
During the university's 2003-04 fiscal year, the class
raised $300,344 from 61.2% of our classmates, thus greatly
exceeding its goal of 53% participation. For that, both
contributors and our hard-working chair of class agents,
Rod Correll, can be thanked.
The class project continues to pick up momentum. Don
Roberts and John Herrmann, two of many who
provide the endeavor's brains and muscle, recently met with
Robert Blocker, the School of Music's dean, about the
project's progress and future. Indicating the project's
influence on the university, the music school has hired
someone to oversee the program at the Lincoln Bassett School
for the forthcoming year, and the New Haven School Board has
hired a full-time music teacher, a School of Music graduate,
for the local school—both "firsts." In addition, the music
school is hoping to lure to Yale one of the nation's
foremost educators of music teachers. He'll take over
responsibility for the city programs the class already
supports, as well as for the music school's biannual
symposia on music in schools endowed by the class. The
symposium's endowment will be one of the goals of the
class's 50th-reunion fund raising.
Bill Keen writes that after a perambulating career
as construction engineer, many years as a volunteer leaders
of the Boy Scouts, and in solid remission from illness, he
and his wife Pat have settled in far-suburban Philadelphia.
He now collects historic military vehicles, most of Korean
War vintage and all "street legal." Federal and local
governments, he says, "take a dim view of one who espouses
his political views with armor."
Under Bob Mobley's direction, last June saw the
birth in Idaho of the Sun Valley Leadership Institute. At
its opening conference on the importance of ethical
leadership in building successful organizations, Bob's
sometime gridiron teammate Vern Loucks was a speaker.
Peter Hare reports that, retired as Distinguished
Service Professor of Philosophy at the University at
Buffalo, he continues, after more than 30 years, to edit the
Transactions of the C.S. Peirce Society, a quarterly
(and, I can report, formidable) journal in the history of
American philosophy. His current writing projects concern
topics as varied as photography, naval history, and
contemporary moral problems as well as American intellectual
history. After Peter's first wife Daphne died in 1995, in
2000 he married Susan Howe, an experimental poet and
professor of literature.
Similarly, my fellow historian Jim Crooks, now
professor emeritus of history at the University of North
Florida, last spring saw published his Jacksonville: The
Consolidation from Civil Rights to the Jaguars
(University of Florida Press), a history of city-county
consolidation and its consequences for race relations, the
environment, and downtown development. Jim has been
vice-chair of the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission, a
facilitator of small group conversations of racially and
ethnically diverse people aimed at building trust in an
increasingly diverse city, and board member of an inner city
after-school and summer camp program for kids.
After moving from Chappaqua, New York, to Guilford,
Connecticut in 2001 while continuing his litigation practice
in New York City, Ed Meyer recently received the
Democratic nomination for State Senate in the Connecticut
District including Branford, Guildford, Madison,
Killingworth, and Durham. All nearby Democrats, as well as
friendly Republicans, are invited to help the candidate out.
Farther north in New England, Art Gardiner still
plies his legal trade from Hanover, NH. His two long-time
clients, investment funds organized as 501(c)(3)
organizations, continue to offer interesting work although
their growing in-house attorneys have reduced Art's
responsibilities. He finds growing up again with his artist
wife and 12-year-old son a source of much happiness; and
while we haven't tried to verify this, his pitching arm is
said to be more flexible than it was ten years ago.
Eastward in Blue Hill, ME, Court and Woody
Haight, whom I saw in August, continue their lives as
high-quality farmers. Their hydroponic tomatoes are the best
tomatoes, bar none, I've ever tasted, their greens a match.
Court plays "cello" steel drums—that is, lower-register
drums, and three of them—in a noted 30-person steel band,
Flash in the Pans (www.peninsulapan.org). It appears that the steel bands of our youth have
sprung free of their calypso roots and now render such works
as Sibelius's Finlandia to audiences' delight.
In memoriam: Stephen M. Mandel died on May 15,
2004, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City
of lung cancer. After Yale, Steve attended Harvard Law
School, then joined the family business, Sumner Stores
Corporation, and rose to become the firm's executive
president. A resident of Hillsdale, Columbia County, New
York, as well as of New York City, Steve was deeply involved
in the opera, art, and historic preservation and at the time
of his death was president of the Columbia County Historical
Society. Contributions in Steve's memory can be sent either
to the Columbia County Historical Society, Box 311,
Kinderhook, NY 12106, or to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center, attn. Dr. Vincent Miller, 1275 York Avenue, New
York, NY 10021.
In memoriam: We have just learned of the death in
Hollywood, Florida on December 11, 2002 of Theodore D.
Klein, a non-resident member of Silliman College. I
hope that anyone knowing of Ted's life will let me know.
For further reading: Calvin Trillin,
Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in
Rhyme (Random House), which a New York Times reporter
says displays Bud's "sharp, uncharacteristic anger…at the
Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq." The
author is said to be uncertain whether what he has written
can really be called poetry.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: September/October 2004
Humbly stand I on the shoulders of the giants—Gary
Bellow, Ed Meyer, Mike O'Hearn, Peter Fritzche, Sandy Clark,
Randy Guggenheimer, Tom Perkins, Bern Kosto, and
Binky Davis—who previously penned these notes. May
what's written here be worthy of their examples, with
special thanks to Sandy for having filled in after Binky's
death.
Since Steve Hopkins and I hope gradually to
coordinate these columns with an active class Web site and
email messages that convey important class news, please
notify the AYA of your current email address if it's not
already registered there. Click on
www.aya.yale.edu/update and follow their instructions
Alan Hockstadter will soon announce details of the
class's 7th annual international trip, this one to South
Africa in September '05. Meanwhile, several veterans of
earlier trips are going to southern India next February.
While this isn't an "official" class event, Alan would be
glad to talk to any classmate who'd like to go
(914-761-3488).
Let's commence news of classmates with Nort
Wright, a show of whose paintings, "Jazz Works,"
appeared last spring at the Schomburg Gallery in Santa
Monica's always lively Bergamot Station. Inspired by the
jazz that Nort and I used to hear at Manhattan's Hickory
House and that he's followed ever since, his abstract
paintings are bright with the colors he picked up from Josef
Albers in New Haven. They're available for viewing—and for
sale!—at
www.schomburggallery.com.
From farther north along the western littoral, Paul
Eisele reports that 11 57ers—Al Boasberg, Karl
Chester, Hank Conlon, Bill Hamm, Stan McCarthy, Don Mafley,
Dick Massey, Joe Mark, Tink Thompson, Pat Wilde, and
Paul himself—spent many hours "munching, lunching, imbibing,
and opining" together in San Francisco in May. Space
considerations must unfortunately suppress Paul's full
report—the kind that eventually will appear on our Web site.
Eastward in Chicago, another city gathering convened in
May when Peter and Ruth Fritzche,
Harold and Margo Russell, and Muller
Davis dined and attended a performance of King
John. By my count, this raises to four (NY, DC, SF, and
Chicago) the locales in which occasional or regular
gatherings of classmates occur. How about those of you in
other places? It's quite easy to arrange these events, and
they're hugely enjoyable, as I can attest from our periodic
Washington lunches, now many years old.
Vic Goodman was the recipient last spring of an
honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Ohio University,
which he has served in many capacities. Ken Gergen,
still teaching part-time at Swarthmore, is chair of the Taos
Institute, which "promotes ideas around social
constructionism" (a term that only a social scientist could
come up with).
The region south of the Mason-Dixon line yields word,
through Otis Graham, that on the occasion of his
retirement from the faculty of UNC Chapel Hill, Towny
Ludington was feted at a dinner featuring remarks by
Bud Trilllin. I recently had a visit from John
Brooke, long of Corpus Christi, now of San Antonio, who,
after a distinguished career in law and civic leadership,
helps manage the affairs of the Episcopal Diocese of West
Texas.
And from far far away, Frank Lin, usually teaching
at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, reports that
he's visiting professor of computer science at Chulalongkorn
University in Bangkok and willing to arrange a class reunion
for anyone visiting there.
A revival of Larry Kramer's pathbreaking 1985
play, The Normal Heart, opened April 21st at New
York's Public Theatre. One reviewer called the work "one of
the most remarkable plays of the 20th century," and the
Royal National Theatre of Great Britain selected it as one
of the 100 greatest plays of the same 100 years. Another
one of our stagemen, George White, was accompanied to
the Hermitage in St. Petersburg by John Shaw, Alan
Schiffer, and Jack Curlette for the March opening
of George's production of "Captain's Daughter" at the
Catherine the Great Theater.
Finally, Pam and Ambassador Bob Pelletreau have
taken up new challenges as co-directors of Search for Common
Ground in the Middle East. Living in Jerusalem, they'll
lead the regional office of a non-profit that seeks to
substitute cooperative for adversarial approaches to
regional and other conflicts. We wish them coraggio and
good speed.
In Memoriam: News comes of the death on April 20, 2004 of
Charles Sollo, Jr., at the age of 70. A member both
of our class and of '58, for many years after college he was
an engineer with TRW. His closest survivor, his sister
Gabrielle Renfro, can be contacted through www.
TribuneFuneralHomes.com.
As the class speeds toward its 50th, help is needed in
finding classmates whose whereabouts were unknown at the
time of our 45th. I'll list some of their names in each
column. I hope that those who were their earlier
schoolmates, roommates, friends, fraternity and secret
society brothers, and organization colleagues and teammates
will help try to locate them or, if you know where they can
now be found, let me know. Let's start with ten of those
whose photos and information appeared in our 1957 Classbook:
Palmer Bannerot, Clay Briggs, George Bronson, Richard
Burhoe, Albert Butler, John Chambers, Richard Coleman,
William Cupps, Jared Curtis, and Alexander
England.
A final note: All are likely to find Geoffrey
Kabaservice, The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle,
and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment greatly
compelling. It has much to say about the days preceding
Brewster's—those of Whit Griswold's and ours—and about the
modern, greater university Yale has become. Classmates
Inky Clark and Sam Chauncey of course figure
prominently in the tale.
—James M. Banner, Jr.
Notes: July 2004
Hank Conlon writes, "My wife Getty and I moved to
Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley six years ago, and love it.
It's not a retirement community; however, most of our
friends are retired or near it. Getty is booked up almost
every day with her friends playing bridge, golf, 'stitch &
bitch,' book club, etc. She is a constant source of comfort
and steadfastness to them. We have five children, four in
the Bay area and one in Sacramento. No marriages yet, but
one planned in the fall for our son, David.
"I spend a lot of time reading and some playing golf. I
hate to practice, but I enjoy the game. I play with some
Yalies out here, including my old roomie, Joe Mark.
Can you believe we live ten minutes apart? Joe and his wife
Sheila are dear friends. We are planning a trip east with
them in October that will also include a stop in New Haven
for the 95th reunion of the Whiffs. I hosted the 2004 Whiffs
on Memorial Day on the first stop of their World Tour. How
things have changed. We used to sing for our supper. Now
they 'red shirt' for a year and travel all over the world.
Boola, boola!"
John Crosby has moved from a house to a loft with
a view of the Mississippi River, shucking the
responsibilities of keeping up a house. He's an active
volunteer, learning to play the banjo and into yoga. Of
course, there's some traveling. He adds, "We're working hard
for a regime change here in the USA this fall, which will
mean another Yalie."
In keeping with that political mode, Jesse Lemisch
sent a long, news-filled note, which is summarized here. "I
gave a paper on 'History and Activism' at the 2004 annual
meeting of the American Historical Association. As a member
of the Steering Committee of Historians against the War, I
was part of a successful effort at the AHA business meeting
to put the organization on record in favor of civil
liberties, open debate, and academic freedom in this time of
crisis. I helped to pass a resolution challenging Yale's
intimidation and coercion of efforts by the Graduate
Employees Student Organization (GESO) to form a union."
Father Bob Pelton sent a nice note with a check to
Yale in honor of Rex Robbins and John Halpern, who
passed away recently. Bob is giving up the administrative
duties of his house and, as he says, "moving on to the next
stage of my religious life." I did ask him to remember the
many sinners in our class.
Doug Wright and this correspondent had a very nice
lunch in Sarasota. Doug and his wife are active in the
cultural scene in Sarasota and I gather that his tennis game
is in pretty good shape, for those of you who want someone
to measure up to. The Wrights do manage to get out of
Florida in the summer to the wilds of New Hampshire.
Washington mini-reunion update: Nearly 90 of our
classmates and guests — too many to list all by name —
came to Washington for a long weekend, taking in a special
set of sights, renewing old friendships, and making new
ones. By all accounts, the attendees had a grand time.
The festivities opened on Thursday, April 29 with a
dinner at the historic Metropolitan Club. Briefings,
lectures, and tours followed on Friday, including stops at
National Public Radio and the Smithsonian's National Museum
of American History. The evening session began with dinner
in the Senate Caucus Room (home of such important events as
the Army-McCarthy Hearings) and concluded with a special
"candlelight tour" of the U.S. Capitol.
On Saturday, our colleagues had their choice of a walking
tour of Georgetown, a guided tour of the National Cathedral,
or "Washingtonian's Washington" that took them well off the
capital's beaten tourist tracks. That night dinner was at
DACOR-Bacon House, a mansion steeped in capital history near
the White House. A shoot-the-works Sunday brunch capped the
weekend's events.
New Zealand and Australia were the destinations for Y57's
sixth annual international trip in late March and early
April, again ably led by Alan Hockstader. The
highlights included hiking up ancient glaciers in New
Zealand, snorkeling among colorful fish and delicate coral
at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and attending the ballet
or theater in Sydney's unforgettably monumental Opera House.
Perhaps the most memorable adventure was an effort to
navigate the otherwise scenic Dart River in a speedy jet
boat during a driving hailstorm. (Result: Hail 22, Yale 0).
Those participating in this year's trip were: Tip and
Janice Atkeson; Ammon and Kathy Dunton;
Alan and Birgitta Hockstader; Steve and
Judy Hopkins; George Hutchinson; Len and Judy
Katz; Frank and Rosemary Kimball; Chuck and
Susan Schaller; Sandra Schlocket; Bill and Glenn
Sheffield; Phil and Peggy Weymouth; and
Bill and Wendy Wrean.
Alan Hockstader wants you to pencil in September
2005 for the next class trip. It's planned for South Africa
and will include great sightseeing and plenty of wild
animals, not including the Yalies that go on the trip.
This is my last class notes, as Jim Banner will be
taking over in the fall. He can be reached at 1847 Ontario
Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009, or at jbanner@aya.yale.edu.
To all who have helped me put this column out, many thanks.
I look forward to Jim's fine efforts.
Remember Tom Shoop's advice, "Call a roommate or two this
month."
—Sandy Clark
Notes: May 2004
These notes are written from Florida. Mike
O’Hearn lives in Naples enjoying his boat and golf, and
had a visit from Towny Ludington, which included
plenty of golf and one day of snook fishing in the
Everglades. Apparently Ludington caught more and bigger
fish than his host and beat Mike on the golf course as well.
But let Towny speak for himself. "I am teaching this
semester, my last at Chapel Hill, where I began in 1966. I
directed the American studies curriculum for many years,
during which I taught abroad, most notably as a Fulbright
lecturer at the University of Lyon. Our entire family lived
in Ecully, near Lyon. It was one of the very best years of
our lives. I've done a fair amount of scholarship, the
'biggest' work being biographies of John Dos Passos and the
artist Marsden Hartley. Bud Trillin visited Chapel Hill as
the annual Morgan Writer in Residence. For us it was a
tremendous pleasure, and many people remarked that he was
the best of a line of major literary figures who have been
here. I visited Mike O'Hearn. The most intriguing day for
me was fishing in the 'back country' of the Everglades,
where we caught snook among the mangroves, casting at
alligators, seeing all sorts of wildlife [see O'Hearn's
version]. After this semester Jane and I will spend time in
Old Lyme, Connecticut, where I grew up, but Chapel Hill will
remain home."
The Clarks took the long way to Sarasota through Key
West. This gave us the chance to look up Albert Lynn
Williams, a 1957er who is in KW. He's been relatively
out of touch with the class. I suspect that we've lured him
back in ... a bit. Lynn, after Yale, traveled with a friend
to Europe, bought a car, and took two years following the
route of Alexander. Then wandered the Far East, winding up
in Australia. Lynn was lured back to NYC by his father to
use his analytical skills to predict the market. This led
to a lifelong interest in statistics and analysis. His next
move was to KW where he became active in real estate. Of
late he has been raising a daughter.
Terry Carlisle, formerly of Ft. Lauderdale and now
of San Rafael, California (the other coast!), returned for
his 50th high school reunion, which was a great experience.
Terry is with Nautilus of Marin and has renewed hypnotherapy
certification. As he says, "Hopefully this will become my
full-time endeavor." His wife Susan runs Carlisle Coaching
and they both have a hand in raising their granddaughter.
The Clarks enjoyed the company of Gale and Dave
Bowman in Siesta Key. They divide their time between
Norwalk and NYC. David is substitute teaching in the
Norwalk and Darien schools.
Bern Kosto arranged a successful Y'57
hockey/basketball event for 20 classmates. It started with
a leisurely luncheon. The highlight of the meal was
provided by Dick Jones who, after excusing himself
for an hour or so, came back and announced he'd just been
elected a director of the Yale Hockey Association. Dick and
Ellie recently moved from their long-time home in Woodbridge
to Madison, Connecticut. After lunch, the group went to
Ingalls Rink to watch Yale go down to Brown, 4-1. Yale fared
better in BB, beating Cornell. Pictures from this event
are on our class web site.
Don Roberts passed along a letter from William
Bidwell, the Recording Secretary of Yale, regarding the
Donald K. Walker Scholarship that the Class of 1957
supports. Because of an increase in income, they have
increased this to four scholarships: Robert Carr '04, Eric
Diamond '04, Andrew Burke '06, and Matthew Murray '07. All
four are great students and involved with Yale football.
Carr is the starting halfback who led the team in rushing.
This scholarship was started by Bill Wrean, Don, and
many others. Walker was in the Admissions office in 1953.
Wedding Announcement: If you haven't received an
invitation to Tom Perkins's and Sarah Brown's wedding
on Memorial Day, you may not have made the "A-list." There
are some questions where the couple reside — upstate New
York? Brooklyn Heights? Baltimore? Send Tom a
congratulatory note ... and maybe he'll invite you to the
party that follows. This event is the result of matchmaking
by Tom and Wendy Chittenden. Congratulations
to the bride and groom and the matchmakers.
Class dinner on March 4: More than 90 classmates
and wives attended the class dinner in NYC, which was a
great success thanks to hard work of George
Hutchinson. Brian Walsh gave the invocation and
observed, "It's the 50th anniversary of our Freshman Prom."
Steve Hopkins reported on the state of the class.
Planning for our 50th has begun. Bern Kosto has
agreed to serve as our reunion chair; Don Roberts
will head up the class gift effort.
Malcolm Mitchell reported that "Music in the
Schools," through a pilot project in New Haven, has brought
not only great praise from the city fathers but, in a
bittersweet announcement, the dedication of one of the music
rooms at Lincoln Bassett School in memory of Ellsworth
Davis. Binky was devoted to the class project. His
family asked that donations be given to the Yale Music
School in his memory for the Project (Music in Schools
Initiative, c/o Yale School of Music, Dr. Paul Hawkshaw,
P.O. Box 208246, New Haven, CT 06520).
The high point of the evening was the discussion of
"Mideast Challenges Facing the U.S.," led by Bob
Pelletreau, whose 35-year State Department career
included service as ambassador to Bahrain, Tunisia, and
Egypt and as assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs.
Bob reviewed Egypt, Israel, Palestine, and Iran. Then he
moved to Iraq and concluded that the U.S. is in "a race
against time" — the Iraqis are a "proud and nationalistic
people" whose resentment toward U.S. occupation will only
grow over time. The U.S., after a slow start, is now making
better use of its assets in order to return sovereignty to
the Iraqis under a stable and democratic form of government.
Bob announced that he and his wife Pam have just been made
co-directors of the Jerusalem office of Search for Common
Ground. They expect to move to Jerusalem early this summer.
The class council met, and minutes of that meeting can be
found on our web site (address above).
Many thanks to those mentioned above for their help in
putting these notes together. Remember Tom Shoop's
advice: "Call a roommate or two this month."
—Sandy Clark
Notes: March 2004
It is a sad duty to report to the class that Ellsworth
(Binky) Davis, muse, class corresponding secretary, and
pal of so many, died shortly after Christmas after a long
battle with a series of ailments. We last saw him at the
Yale-Harvard game, and even his presence couldn't turn the
tide for Yale that day. His "presence" has meant so much to
all of us and he will be missed terribly.
There was a funeral service held for Binky in Old Lyme,
Connecticut, on January 3 in St. Ann Church. As one
parishioner said of the crowd, "This is bigger than Easter!"
The size of the crowd was augmented by 25 members of the
Class of 1957: Jack Prendergast, Lou Deluca, Nick
Tingley, Dave Bowman, Tony Hogan, Dick Jones, Rod Correll,
Bern Kosto, Malcolm Mitchell, Don Roberts, Tom Perkins,
class secretary Steve Hopkins, Art Diefendorf, David
Laventhol, Tom Chittenden, Alan Hockstader, Ed Meyer, Joe
Clayton, Larry Bodkin, Peter Fritzsche, and Sandy Clark.
Bill Cuddy read a passage at the service and visited
frequently during Binky's last week or so. In the interest
of space, it should be noted that there were 11 wives
attending, lead by Nancy Mongillo.
In a note, Tom Shoop said of Binky's death, "It
makes you wish you had stayed in better touch all of these
years...." Tom says that he and his wife are "blessed" with
great health, two sons, and three grandchildren. He and Judy
seem to travel a good bit. Tom did attend the Andover
reunion last year but not our 45th. Would the 50th reunion
chairman make note and see that we have Tom at the 50th?
Bob Mobley has announced the starting of the Sun
Valley Leadership Institute. It has as its focus mentoring
and coaching of individuals who want to improve their impact
and behaviors as leaders of "great character." Bob plans to
use all of the wonderful facilities in Sun Valley as a part
of the Institute's experience. For those of you who can
benefit from the fine teachings of Mobley, contact him at
mobley@sunvalley.net.
Henry Von Maur remains in Davenport, Iowa. We try
to pry him out periodically, but so far we've had little
success. Hopefully Charlie Grimes can step in here and
produce Henry at some point.
Turning to class activities, Nancy Mongillo again
hosted an open house for the class after the Harvard game.
Yale played well but Harvard played better; the party and
the mild weather were much more enjoyable than the game's
score. Among the attendees were: Atkeson, Breslav, Clark,
Trippe, Tingley, Diefendorf, Fritzsche, Hockstader, Roth,
Roberts, Kosto, Binky Davis, Kellogg, and
Hopkins.
At the meeting of the class council before the game,
Secretary Steve Hopkins explained that the class is in good
financial shape and that it's not too early to start
planning for our 50th. More specifically, we have to begin
to select leadership and make such basic budget decisions
such as how costly a yearbook we want. These matters are to
be considered at the next meeting, before the class dinner
in New York. The complete minutes of the meeting are posted
on the class Web site.
It is not too late to sign up for the Weekend in
Washington April 29-May 2. If you're interested, get in
touch with Steve Hopkins to see if there's still space
(202-333-2099 or stphhopk@aol.com).
As a reminder, class treasurer Tom Chittenden
urges you to pay your class dues ($75) if you've not already
done so — that's how you pay for your subscription to this
magazine and a host of important class activities including
much of our 50th. Please make your check payable to Yale
University, Class of 1957, and mail it to P.O. Box 205, New
Haven, CT 06501-0205.
This column was prepared by Sandy Clark and
Steve Hopkins. Clark will be filling in for Binky
until the class council names a new reporter of the class
doings. You can reach Sandy at the above addresses.
Finally, in keeping with Tom Shoop's "wish," make
it a point to contact a couple of classmates whom you
haven't talked to in a good while. Call them today and if
they have news, report back to Clark.
—Sandy Clark
Notes: January 2004
The Good Book suggests three score and ten as a
reasonable expectation for a life span. I can hear Louis
Armstrong saying, "Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but
nobody wants to die." Rex Robbins, New Yorker, died
in September on a visit to family in South Dakota. Rex was
a product of Yale's undergraduate theater program and
appeared in 18 different Broadway shows from 1963 to 2000.
We will miss seeing his familiar face at the Yale events he
regularly attended. He will be remembered at the Long Wharf
Theater in New Haven, and the Williamstown Summer Theater
Festival. His national tours included Gypsy with Angela
Lansbury, Hello, Dolly! with Carol Channing, and Into the
Woods with Cleo Laine. We extend our condolences to
Patricia and their children and we share their loss.
Another New Yorker, John Halpern, succumbed to
cancer after a long, courageous struggle. I never heard
John complain, despite really tough times. He was a notable
sprinter for the Yale track team, and achieved significant
"wins" here and abroad. He became a top-ranking squash
player as an adult, and it's hard to think of him as gone.
Frank Campbell's was packed on October 13 at his memorial
service. Classmates Mike Sweedler and Larry
Kramer spoke and recalled his skills and virtues.
Larry's remarks were poignant and added up to a tribute to
friendship. "It is a great gift to be a great friend."
Larry concluded his remarks with a visual of John as "White
Bucks and a smile." We extend sympathy to his family and
many friends.
Pete Greer spent the summer on the water. Marion
Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race in June, back to the boat's
homeport in Maine, summer in Martha's Vineyard, followed by
a river cruise on the Douro River in Portugal and home to
Alabama in late October. As winter moves in, these are good
pictures to keep.
Jonathan Brewlav has had medical problems,
"hospitalized due to massive mismanagement of multiple
medications." His children and grandchildren are great
sources of satisfaction, and he loves his bride of 38 years,
more each day. Jon is another classmate hampered by
Parkinson's. He has our sympathy and we're glad to say he's
doing much better now.
Victor Goodman sends news from Columbus Ohio. "I
was elected for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2002,
as a member of the board of directors for the Council for
Higher Education Accreditation. CHEA is a national private,
nonprofit membership organization of 3,000 degree-granting
colleges and universities and 60 institutional programmatic
accreditors. It is the sole coordinating organization of
the accreditation, quality assurance, and quality
improvement of higher education in the United States. I was
also appointed by Governor Bob Taft on May 12, 2003, to be a
member of the commission on Higher Education and the
Economy."
Reuben Shapiro has had four grandchildren in two
years, and the fifth is on the way. He is taking one class
a semester at Trinity College in Hartford and is on his 11th
semester. English literature, music, and poli sci are great
fields for a retired cardiologist!
It's great to see how many classmates continue to be
involved with music and education. Johannes Somary's
Amor Artis Chamber Choir presented a concept "Mary's music
through the ages" at the Saint Thomas More Chapel in New
Haven on October 18, 2003. Palestrina, Donizetti, Poulenc,
Stravinksy, and Mozart were represented, and the reception
was highly favorable. Congratulations to you, Johannes, for
keeping up your busy and productive life in music.
Robert Weinmann has brought us up to date with his
efforts to unionize medical doctors, an ongoing and uphill
battle which he conducts with zest.
Tom Rhum and Mimi are again singing in the chorus
of G&S, Iolanthe. Tom is teaching finance for the fourth
fall semester at St. John's College of Business in Queens
and still writing his bimonthly financial newsletter. Son
Tom (25) is in his second year as an assistant elementary
school teacher at the Brunswick school in Greenwich.
Daughter Wendy has passed level one of the CFA exam, and has
been promoted to analyst.
Louis Franzoni's grandson is a freshman at Yale,
and looks like our only child/grandchild on campus this
semester.
Anyone with memories to share of Paul Frank
Rosenstein with his daughter Suzy, please contact her at
e-mail address,
Deesrr@eol.ca. He died in 1976.
The Music in Schools Initiative is continuing to make an
impact in New Haven and ambitious future plans are beginning
to take shape. The Lincoln Bassett School is the New Haven
grade school where our initial contributions are resulting
in a richer music and academic program for the students and
growing interest on the part of the students and faculty of
the Yale School of Music. The Music School has welcomed our
efforts and feels that the impact on student behavior and
academic performance has been enhanced by the programs in
music. Our meeting of October 13 with Dean Blocker in New
Haven was very upbeat. Stay tuned. Steve Hopkins is
committed to improving utility of our Web site. Jim
Ziegler is open to offers of help. If you have any
ideas on this issue, contact Steve.
—Ellsworth Davis
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