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These pages contain all class notes from the Yale Alumni Magazine from 1957
on. The notes appear unchanged from their original publication save for the
correction of misspellings and other small errors. The few gaps in coverage
that exist result from the absence of Class of 1957 notes in a few issues of the
magazine over the years. Also, in keeping with changes in the magazine itself,
the frequency of publication occasionally changes.
Notes: November/December 2011
Notes: September/October 2011
Notes: July/August 2011
Notes: May/June 2011
Notes: March/April 2011
Notes: January/February 2011
Notes: November/December 2011
Note the following dates: 55th reunion, May 31-June 4, 2012. Annual class
dinner, March 29, 2012.
In a recent column, I characterized Phil Levine as "one of our leading
érudits." He's proven me accurate in my so terming him, for he
was the only one of you to spot and chastise me for having misspelled the name
of Sydney, Australia, in an earlier column. Not even my admired editor at this
fine publication noticed. Hereby humble pie eat I.
As you may have noticed, I hesitate to convey news of nearby Washington
classmates, about whom I could report frequently. But the following item is of
such magnitude that I can't withhold it: Andy Glass has been elected to a
three-year term on the board of the Yale Club of Washington. "It was a bruising
contest," Andy complains. And well it might have been: he's the board's oldest
member. He also, apparently, ran unopposed.
Marking the end of an era, Alan Hockstader has retired as Impresario
of Class Trips. Even to those, like I, who never accompanied Alan on one of his
journeys, he was known for his sunny and indefatigable work as planner and Head
Tour Guide on a long string of memorable itineraries throughout the world. He's
surely earned relief from his heavy but always fruitful labors over many years.
Ave, Alan!
Sandy and Marcia Clark continue to split their time between
Darien and Sarasota, at the latter working at the Orioles's spring training
camp. With Sandy's permission, I note here that his twin three-year-old
grandsons suffer from epilepsy "about which we've learned much more than we ever
dreamed. If any classmates have a similar sort of experience," writes Sandy,
"it would be interesting to hear from them."
Frank Muggia will join the fiftieth class reunion at Cornell Medical
College next year. He still works full time at the NYU School of Medicine.
This summer in Ontario he studied Shakespeare and Shaw with Yale Drama School's
Murray Biggs. Oklahoma City's Ed Cook and I have been carrying on a
lively correspondence about the value of college sports at such institutions as
Yale and the University of Oklahoma. While he and I disagree, I can testify
that Ed remains a feisty and good-natured sparring partner, even if misguided!
In Memoriam: Wayne A. Moeller died at his Omaha home on June
22, 2011 from the complications of lung cancer after courageously hanging on to
mark his and Joy's 40th wedding anniversary. Wayne entered Yale on a football
scholarship, Dick Jones calling his size and power "larger than life".
But after an injury in sophomore year, he spent his undergraduate days as the
rest of us did: learning, laughing, and growing up. After Yale, Wayne moved for
business about the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma and then settled in to work
with the Lozier Corporation from 1974 until his 1995 retirement. He hiked the
Grand Canyon rim to rim four times and was a mentor for Big Brothers and
Sisters. Anyone who knew Wayne knew his mischievous sense of humor and how it
evoked others'. His Calhoun roommate Paul Lopata reports on a strip
poker game at Yale with the heiress of a wealthy family (name here suppressed),
a game that Wayne, always an honest sportsman, lost—to what outcome it is not
reported. In addition to his wife, Wayne is survived by their four children.
Contributions in his memory may go to the Lauritzen Botanical Gardens, Garden of
Memories, 100 Bancroft Street, Omaha, NE 68101, Attention: Kayla Scott, or to
the Visiting Nurse Association Hospice, 12565 West Center Road, Suite 100,
Omaha, NE 68144.
In Memoriam: Richard Bruce White died on June 28, 2011, in
Danville, KY. Richard showed his colors early in life as an intensive
philosophy major and ranking scholar. After naval service and graduate work in
philosophy at Stanford, he joined the faculty of Centre College and remained
there as professor of philosophy for 32 years until his retirement as emeritus
professor. Though trained as a logician, he was, as befits the faculty member
of a baccalaureate college, broad gauged, teaching everything from 20th-century
to ancient philosophy. A specialist in the work of Charles Sanders Peirce,
mathematical logic, and 20th-century analytic philosophy, he wrote widely and
was published internationally. Richard is survived by his wife, Roberta White,
and a nephew.
Those who like to read about Yale in our college days will enjoy chapters
4-10 of Alvin Kernan's In Plato's Cave. Kernan (PhD '54), at Yale from
1954 until 1973, when he left to become my colleague at Princeton, taught some
of us way back when and wonderfully captures aspects of the university,
especially of its great English department, in his incisive memoir. Messrs.
Trillin, Chauncey, Tripp, Converse, and Franciscus put in
appearances in its pages.
—JMB
Notes: September/October 2011
Class news item #1, from Tom Perkins: "The inaugural Michael H.
Jordan Professor in the Yale School of Management is Andrew Metrick. Mike
set up the professorship as his 50th reunion gift before he died."
Item #2: The Charleston-area minireunion, ably planned by and then held in
memory of Mark Roth, went off without a hitch in March. Sally Sonne has
written a run-down of the gathering's sites and events. It can be found on the
class website under "Class Events."
Item #3: Paul Eisele, San Francisco's '57 impresario, gathered
Terry Carlisle, Hank Conlan, John Hearst, Joe Mark, Stan McCarthy, Wattie
Taylor, Tink Thompson, and Pat Wilde together in April. Tink
reported on his book in progress on the Kennedy Assassination and his conviction
that there was another shooter besides Oswald. "We Bay Area classmates," writes
Paul, "are a healthy, active bunch. Terry continues to be a daily swimmer.
Stan hikes the Bay Area foothills several times a week. I play tennis 2-3 times
weekly along with Pilates and hiking. Joe Mark showed up without a cane less
than a week after a knee replacement. How's that for being in good shape?"
Items #4: The DC '57 contingent welcomed Nort Wright to its May
luncheon. Nort was in town while his wife, Susan Watson, was on the Kennedy
Center stage in a revival of Sondheim's "Follies." Nort and I then drove to
Guilford CT to join Dick Voigt, John Harrison, Gus Kellogg, Ray Lamontagne,
Court Haight, and Crawford Shaw for two days of St. Anthony Hall
fellowship. We toured the new West Campus and attended an inspiring event at a
local school participating in our Music in Schools project. We can match the
West Coast dudes in health and vigor any time.
All Hail Larry Kramer! His masterful stageplay, "The Normal Heart,"
landed a Tony last spring for Best Revival on Broadway. It had not been
eligible for that coveted award when it first went up in 1984 because it did not
then appear on Broadway.
Did you know, by the way, that Chris Sonne has been involved in a
dustup about the origins of the tuxedo? This seismic historical debate has been
roiling Chris's hometown of Tuxedo Park, NY. Don Roberts brought the fray
to my attention after reading the April 30-May 1 edition of The Wall Street
Journal. It's must reading. Google it.
Jeff Freeman reports that in February he joined Doug Almond, Reed
Taylor, and Reid White, Glee Club members of yore, at the Club's
150th Anniversary Celebratory Weekend in New Haven. Then in June, Jeff, Doug,
Reed, and Rob Walker were part of the Yale Alumni Chorus that sang its
way through Turkey, Georgia, and Armenia. When traveling some years ago in
Turkey, I heard nothing but western (mostly rock) music, when I wanted to hear
the Turks' melodies and sounds. I hope that Jeff and the others tested
themselves on some Anatolian and Central Asian tonalities.
From coastal California comes news from Buck Jordan, who lives in
delightful Cambria. Buck and wife Connie "enjoy being on the ocean and watching
otters, whales, an occasional skinny-dipper, and the ever present diarrhetic sea
gulls." They were pleased to miss a March non-event—a feared tsunami that never
rolled in.
Will Reimann, retired from Harvard's Department of Visual Studies,
remains the rower of his youth. Having marked his 50th anniversary with wife
and family in Italy this past summer, he was also recently a crew member of a
winning eight-oared shell in the masters/veterans/aged category on the Charles.
In Memoriam: George A. Fisher died October 28, 2010, in
Alexandria, VA after a year-long battle with cancer. An attorney, George was in
private practice and, from 1976 to 1987, Clerk of the US Circuit Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit with particular responsibility for
the special division of that court that appoints independent counsels under the
Ethics in Government Act of 1978.
In Memoriam: Stephen Jay Mottus died peacefully at his home in
Pikesville, MD, on June 2, 2011. After obtaining an MBA after college, Steve
held a variety of high-level management and corporate planning and development
positions and later in his career was a securities analyst and financial
planner. Steve was always warm, sunny, and wittily serious as he remained when
I'd see him in Washington. His wife Jill having predeceased him after 50 years
of marriage, Steve is survived by his three children Keith, Kevin, and Karin, a
sister, and a grandson.
In Memoriam: Richard S. Massey died at home on June 12, 2011,
in Naugatuck, CT. Dick earned two Yale degree, including a Masters of Arts in
Teaching in Yale's then distinctive program for aspiring teachers. After
teaching for a few years, he worked in the insurance business before opening his
own financial services firm, which continues in existence under his son Steven's
management. Dick served in many community organizations and remained very much
involved in athletics, at one time serving as president of the Connecticut
Badminton Association, a position no doubt unrivaled by any other 57er. Hal
Hochman writes that "as a person Dick was as steady as they come, loyal,
never flashy, totally trustworthy, and though quiet and private in many ways,
funny and warm." Dick is survived by his wife Roberta, son Steven, daughter
Laurel Anne Liebowitz, and an extended family. Another son, Brian, predeceased
him.
—JMB
Notes: July/August 2011
55th reunion dates for your calendars: May 31-June 3, 2012. Inscribe them in
indelible ink.
I try to apply whatever suaviter in modo I possess to induce
long-unheard-from classmates to report in. One recently has been John
Spender, perhaps our only Aussie '57er. After law school in London, John
returned to his native Sydney, where he's lived ever since. Practicing law
until 1980, he spent ten years in the Australian House of Representatives in the
opposition and as shadow minister for four ministries, including foreign
affairs. After losing his seat in 1990, John became ambassador to France,
Morocco, and Portugal (thus joining Messrs. Pelletreau, Wendt, and
Towell in ambassadorial ranks) and, in 1998, Australian Special Envoy to
Cyprus. Since then, he's written two unpublished works of fiction and is at
work on another, "which," he writes, "I hope to finish before I hit the class
memorial column." John's full, lively bio, to supplement those in our 50th
reunion book, is now on the class website under Classmates' Biographies.
Bob Conkey, out of San Diego, fetched up at our March class council
meeting in Manhattan looking every bit the youth I knew him to be even before
Yale. That's not to disparage the elasticity of skin of everyone else, just to
single out the man who set a good example for all who didn't attend the meeting.
The council reached its usual weighty decisions with comity and ease, its
participants then adjourning for drinks and dinner and an informative and
engaging talk about Yale's new West Campus by Scott Strobel, the Henry Ford II
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry recently named vice-president
of West Campus Planning and Program Development.
One of our leading érudits, Phil Levine, tells me that he's
re-reading some of the books of his youth, including Tom Jones, Don
Quixote, and Tristram Shandy. How many of you have done that?
Larry Kramer's previous, influential off-Broadway hit, The Normal Heart,
is enjoying its Broadway debut in a widely and favorably reviewed revival.
This, among other news that I harvest, shows that class members continue to make
their contributions to life and letters as well as to law, medicine, enterprise,
and golf.
In Memoriam: We unexpectedly lost Mark D. Roth on December 29,
2010. An attorney in his post-Yale Law School days, after military service Mark
commenced 40 years in the broadcasting business, most of it as an ABC sports
producer in charge of ABC's Monday Night football telecasts. Widely admired in
sport television circles, he had ringside seats at Olympic and other contests.
Ron Bland describes Mark as a master of "good stories, good wine, and
good restaurants." As most of us know, Mark produced our Santa Fe and
Charleston minireunions, although he didn't survive to enjoy the latter. He is
survived by his wife Caren and two children.
In Memoriam: Composer and choral director Johannes Somary died
in New York on February 1, 2011 of complications from a stroke. Born in Zurich,
Hannes was a music major in college and member of the Pundits, Aurelian, and the
Lizzy. From college he moved to the Horace Mann School and became head of its
arts and music department, where his wife Anne also taught. (The violinist Gil
Shahan was his student there.) After retiring from Horace Mann Hannes became
musical director of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He also conducted European
orchestras and ensembles, including the Royal Philharmonic and the Vienna
Philharmonic. His Amor Artis ensemble, which he founded in 1962, was known for
offering some of the first-ever performances and recordings of both well-known
and neglected composers' choral works. Artists he worked with included Elly
Ameling, Maureen Forrester, John Shirley-Quirk, David Bar-Ilan, Garrick Ohlssen,
and Dizzy Gillespie. Everyone who knew Hannes was drawn to him by his childlike
qualities of wonder and playfulness, coupled with starchy firmness, deep
knowledge, and expansive musical feeling and spirit. Tom Perkins, who
long served on the Amor Artis board, reflects that "Hannes was absolutely true
to his principles and to his Catholic faith. He never compromised, be it with
Leonard Bernstein, Cardinal Egan, or whomever. He always did what he was
convinced in right. Now, this wonderful, wonderful man is trying to shape up
the heavenly chorus and God bless him. They will sing everything his way."
Dean Robert Blocker of the Yale School of Music, where Hannes had taught, called
him "a musical giant." In addition to Anne, Hannes is survived by their sons
Stephen and Geoffrey, a daughter Karen Healy, a brother and sister, and seven
grandchildren.
In Memoriam: Edward M. Ajello died in Ormond Beach, FL, in
February 2011 after a battle with brain cancer. Ed was probably the oldest
member of our class. He entered '57 after having served in the Pacific
submarine service during World War II and first attended the University of
Connecticut. He put himself through Yale working with the Bridgeport Wire and
Cable Division of General Electric, the corporation with which he spent much of
his career. Upon retirement, Ed switched sharply--in our 50th reunion book he
termed it "a second career"--to painting award-winning portraits in Florida. He
is survived by his wife Gloria and their three children Michael, Elaine Vice,
and Joyce McCormack.
I regret the lack of room to report other news, including coverage of the
Charleston minireunion. That will follow.
—JMB
Notes: May/June 2011
While yrs. truly missed the class's midwinter gathering (New Haven being a mite
far for this capitalcityist, as much as I love my classmates), Larry
Bodkin writes me of the well-attended and "most rewarding" day. The class
council meeting focused on the Music in Schools initiative, Steve
Wittenberg giving its annual report. He was followed by associate dean
Michael Yaffe's discussion of the program's impact on public schools nationwide.
The day's other events included hockey and basketball games, tours of the Art
Museum, a concert, and an exhibit at the Peabody Museum. Steve and Edie
Flagg again hosted dinner at their home. As usual, Gus Kellogg
and Dick Jones expertly arranged events.
John Harrison, serving a two-year term as trustee of the Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center, reports that Bud Trillin was at Dartmouth for a
February week as a Montgomery Fellow (similar to a Chubb Fellow). Addressing a
large audience on the subject of food in America, "Bud kept the crowd laughing
with one humorous insight after another." Bud also recently received the
prestigious John P. McGovern Award for Literature from Washington's Cosmos Club
Foundation, thus joining such previous recipients as Saul Bellow, E. L.
Doctorow, and Norman Mailer. Andy Glass and Steve Hopkins report
that Bud enthralled and delighted the SRO audience with his talk, "The Writing
Game."
The February 13th edition of the New York Times quoted a 1967 filing
from Eric Pace, then in Cairo, reporting that Nasser had said he'd remain
in power. Wrote our classmate, "Nasser's decision…set off a wave of dancing and
cheering among the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who had thronged Cairo's
dusty streets to demonstrate their support for the 49-year-old President....The
dry air abruptly rang with the zagrouta -- the Arab woman's traditional shrill
cry of joy." And thus 44 years later we go.
Charlie Strong remains on the active-traveler list with journeys to the
Colorado Rockies and Florida. But he's outdone by John Ryan. "I climbed
Kilimanjaro last October," writes John, "with one of my sons. A great bonding
experience—two weeks in a two-person tent with no running water or
electricity—but an arduous climb at our age. The guides and porters called me
Babu - Swahili for grandfather." All hail Babu—and all the rest of us
babus (babas?)!
I try to keep up with classmates' deaths, but sometimes I'm overwhelmed and
fall behind, for I try to report them in the order of occurrence. Viz.,
In Memoriam: John W. Chambers died on November 25, 2010. John
entered Yale with '55, stopped out for military service in Panama, then
re-entered college with us. While the class until recently had lost touch with
him, he appears to have lived a full and varied life. He was the author of six
young adult novels and long worked in the wine industry for which, clearly
highly esteemed, he served for two decades as a judge of the New York State Wine
Competition. John is survived by his wife Carole, a son, and a daughter.
In Memoriam: Charles E. Lafferty, Jr., died on December 1, 2010 of
kidney cancer. Chuck had an unconventional college career. He entered the Air
Force right out of high school and was posted to Korea during the Korean War.
He received a medical discharge after having been, as he wrote in our 50th
reunion book, "banged up" on an airborne intelligence mission. He then spent
three years at Hofstra before transferring to Yale. Upon graduation, he entered
the corporate world in marketing and eventually switched to real estate. He is
survived by his wife Susan, two sons, and three daughters. Contributions in
Chuck's memory may be made to the Kidney Cancer Association.
In Memoriam: Bert Bradford III died in Mocksville, NC on
December 10, 2011. Bert was a businessman throughout his career, first in the
private sector, then as industrial director of the State of West Virginia.
Following his public service, he was an agent for New York Life. Playing a
significant role in professional associations, he was also chairman of the West
Virginia Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Bert is survived by his wife
Sandra and three daughters. Contributions in his memory may be sent to Prayers
and Squares, c/o First United Methodist Church, 310 N. Main Street, Mocksville,
NC 27028.
In Memoriam: We also lost James E. "Tuck" Halbkat, Jr. , on
December 18, 2010, after several years of illness. Anyone who knew this warm
and witty man knew him as a person of the Rocky Mountains, a place he loved, as
did his schoolmate and roommate Kit Dobbins. After naval service, Tuck
entered business and rose to be a director of T. Rowe Price Associates in
Baltimore. Among his many pleasures was restoring boats and sailing them.
Roommate Lyman Drake writes that "Tuck was one of the most open and
trusting people I've ever known. He also had an inner strength that allowed him
to share his vulnerabilities with someone he trusted." In addition to his wife
Sandy, Tuck is survived by their five children. Gifts in his memory may be sent
to Hospice of the Carolina Foothills, 130 Forest Glen Drive, Columbus, NC 28722.
—JMB
Notes: March/April 2011
Jim Crooks is enjoying the publication of his historical essay
Creating a University: University of North Florida Faculty and Staff Remember
35 Years. It describes how a young faculty recruited in the 1970s, Jim
included, created an institution in the largest US city without a state
university. Now, Jim writes, "UNF with 16,000 students is seen by the greater
Jacksonville community as a major cultural institution and player in the
economic development of the region." Bern Kosto has helped catalog,
photograph, and display Yale Medical School's collection of antique medical
instruments and related objects long buried in a sub-basement.
Bill Everett attended a recent concert of early music in Noank, CT to
celebrate Chip Anderson's 75th birthday. The two have sailed together on
a sloop that Chip built. Both are involved with music, and both have practiced
law, Bill with General Dynamics' Electric Boat Company, Chip with a New London
firm of which he is now of counsel. Bill and his wife Joyce have become expert
duck pin bowlers and won some local contests. Another attorney, Muller
Davis, was recently named Family Lawyer of the Year 2010 in the Chicago Area
by Best Lawyers in America.
In Memoriam: I learned from Don Bain of the death in Littleton,
CO, on December 9, 2010 of F. Lawrence Singer. Larry became an
electrical engineer while an undergraduate, going so far, Pat Wilde
reports, to have built a transistor radio in 1955, "long before transistors were
commercially available or affordable." Larry joined Bell Labs fresh out of Yale
and was soon working on developing the first modem that could transmit and
receive data over telephone lines. He then became a manager and, when Bell Labs
ceased to exist, turned to consulting. Ray Ellison recalls his "dry wit
and deep voice that I still envy." Larry is survived by his wife Jane and their
three children Robert, Nancy Parrett, and William, as well as seven
grandchildren.
In Memoriam: William H. Sheffield died suddenly from unknown
causes at his home in Webster Groves, MO on December 12, 2010. Within a few
years of his medical schooling after Yale, Bill commenced a 41-year career as a
pathologist at St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood, MO, then at St. Clare Medical
Center in Fenton, also as owner of his own medical practice. All who knew him
recall him for his warmth and quiet solidity. His Trumbull roommate Bob
Young recollects how he and Bill hit it off early in their undergraduate
years and spent much of their time together playing pranks on others--one of
which, on the night of the Junior Prom, was sneaking into the rooms of Erwin
Fleissner and roommates and filling their outer room from floor to ceiling
with loosely wadded newspapers. But, writes Bob, and as all who knew him will
agree, Bill was at heart also a very serious man. Alan Hockstader
characterizes Bill, who with his wife Glenn joined all twelve of the class trips
abroad, as "one of the sweetest and most caring individuals I have ever known
with a great sense of humor expressed in many different ways." In addition to
his wife, Bill is survived by their children John, Ellen Pace, and Jamie Melchor
and five grandchildren. Memorial gifts in Bill's memory can go to Ducks
Unlimited, One Waterfowl Way, Memphis, TN 38120, or to a charity of the donor's
choice.
In Memoriam: George A. Votja died of cancer on December 22,
2010. His life and career were full of variety and achievement. A ranking
scholar and president of Dwight Hall at Yale, he rose to high offices in
Citigroup, First National City Bank, and Bankers Trust. A specialist in
financial strategy and risk management, he was deeply involved in the
restructuring of the global financial system in recent years. George was also a
leading participant and senior member of organizations and charities too
numerous to mention. He was perhaps best known as a paladin of financial
standards and corporate reform and the author of influential articles and books
on those subjects. A roommate, Otis Graham, writes that "George was as
multitalented a man as I encountered at Yale." "When he studied," Ernie
Pepples, another roommate, writes,"tobacco smoke would billow out of his
room, the reason he gave for his immense enjoyment of Uncle Sid Lovett's 'Cokes
'n' Smokes.'" More important, Ernie notes, George made "profound contributions
in elucidating the nature of the 21st-century economy." George is survived by
his wife Susan, his sons Timothy and Christopher, and three grandchildren. A
service in his memory will take place at 11 a.m. in the Reformed Church of
Bronxville, NY, on Saturday, January 29, 2010. Donations in George's memory may
be made to the Lawrence Hospital Cancer Center, 55 Palmer Avenue, Bronxville, NY
10708.
—JMB
Notes: January/February 2011
As I write, another Alan Hockstader-led trip, this one to Egypt, is
underway. Up-coming also is the fall class get-together in New Haven around the
Princeton game, with the customary after-game reception at Nancy Mongillo's
home. Reports on both events will be along in due course.
A discouraged Dick Jones has written me about a recent, lost contest
at Yale Bowl. But more light-heartedly, he had this to write about the program
in his hands: "It contains a great picture of Messrs. McGill, Loucks, and
Ward at rest on the bench in the era of the yellow pants. Denny is also
wearing high cut shoes. My, how things have changed!"
Page 12 of the Sept/Oct 2010 issue of this magazine carries an ad for
Evergreen Woods Home. In the pool in the far left picture you will find
Tony and Katrina DeLude looking active and fit. The Deludes
continue to reside in Neptune Beach, FL. Dick "Psi" Simons writes that in
August he and son Peter ('82) drove around the Midwest visiting baseball parks
and taking in games. "Many hot-dogs and mugs of beer later, we looked back on
exciting days and nights at Coors Field, Busch Stadium, Wrigley Field, Miller
Park, and Target Field. (Baseball fans will know the cities involved!). All in
all, a great experience for a life-long fan and son. I've known other fathers
and sons/daughters who've made the same kind of pilgrimage to ball parks of
their youth, and I can recommend it as an adventure you'll never forget. Peter
now talks of an East Coast whirl through New England & southward. We'll see
about that."
Peter Wolf is enjoying publication of his newest book, Land Use and
Abuse: A Call to Action. The work's subject is conveyed by its title. Our
very mod Malcolm Mitchell has joined the ranks of bloggers with his own
sharp and disenthralled views about the state of the nation's Social Security
system. One of his most recent columns can be found at www.
socialsecuritywatch.wordpress.com.
Classmate Folke E. Nyberg died at home in Seattle of prostate cancer
on August 15, 2010. Born in Sweden, Folke emigrated with his family to Seattle
in 1947. Attending Yale on a full scholarship, he earned undergraduate and
graduate degrees in architecture. A fervent Seattlian, he wrote his graduate
thesis on the city's Pike Place Market. Folke soon established his own firm.
He also served as urban design section head of the Seattle Planning Commission
and helped preserve Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. He was also a
Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington.
Passionate about urban design and regionalism and an activist, we was also an
avid collector of books and art. An eternal optimist, he worked and created
into the final months of his life. He is survived by his wife, Lisa, three
children, two grandchildren, a sister and cousin, and family members in Sweden.
In Memoriam: Gordon Bellis, Gil Merritt, Tom Rohner, and
Steve Weitz recently notified me of the death on October 18, 2010 of
Donald H. Maffly at his home in Lafayette, CA, near Berkeley. Don died
of the complications of bile duct cancer. At Yale, he was an editor of the
Yale Daily News, then earned law degrees from the Fletcher School of
Tufts and Boalt Hall of Berkeley, where he was Note and Comment Editor of the
California Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After
clerking for California Supreme Court justices Roger Traynor and Matthew
Tobriner, Don practiced civil and business law. His love of classical music was
a major part of his life as, toward its end, was his immersion in the inner,
contemplative life, which had long been his interest, as evidenced by his
service as a member of the board of governors of the C. G. Jung Institute of San
Francisco. As Gil, Tom, and Steve write, "Those of us who spent time with Don
in recent months were much impressed with his acceptance of his inevitable fate
with understanding , grace, and a very real sense of peace." Don is survived by
his wife Valerie, their five children, eight grandchildren, and his brother.
Donations in his memory may be sent to the Cancer Support Community, 3276 McNutt
Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA 94597; Vitas Hospice Care, 365 Lennon Lane, Walnut
Creek, CA 94958; or the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, 2040 Gough
Street, San Francisco, CA 94109.
—JMB
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