Yale Alumni Magazine Class Notes

                                                      March/April 2007

                                                  Robert B. Semple, Jr.

                                               Corresponding Secretary

Winston Lord is now serving as co-chair of the Overseers of the
International Rescue Committee; the recently-retired NBC anchorman Tom
Brokaw is the other co-chair. Winston served for several years as
co-chair of the board. IRC helps refugees in more than two dozen
countries, with a budget of $250 million. Admirable in its dedication,
IRC 's growing responsibilities -- its territory includes Darfur, the
Congo and Afghanistan -- reflect the miserable state of millions of
people displaced by sectarian and tribal violence and political
upheaval, a situation that can only grow worse if everything goes to pot
in Iraq, which I suspect it will despite the recent "surge" in American
forces.

Alexander Gaudio, a quiet voice over the years, is practicing
medicine with his son Paul, an arrangement that takes him from Hartford
to Boston's Eye and Ear Infirmary one day a week, where he "gives back,"
in his words, for all he learned there years ago. That, in turn,
springs Paul to teach one day a week at Yale. Another son is a
cardiologist and a third a professor in anthropology linguistics, while
wife Christine has a family therapy practice in Hartford. A busy and
productive bunch.

Among Rabbi Bill Cutter's many missions is "enhancing awareness
of critical health issues in the American Jewish community", as well
as a pastoral work project in Israel. All this will cause him to reduce his
work load at Hebrew Union College. Even so, he remains our class's only
bi-coastal rabbi.

Terry Weaver and his wife Lois continue to battle multiple
illnesses but are bouyed by the extraordinary exploits of son Patrick,
an Olympic cross-country skier who will ski this winter for the Subaru
factory team and who ran a marathon at the Great Wall of China over New Year's.
In November, Ed Werner and Georgia traveled northward from
Washington, D.C., scooped up Jim and Dot Tracey in Wilton and trundled
off with various offspring to the Bowl for the Princeton game, then
hooked up the following week in what he described as a "dismal' bar"
back in D.C. with Charlie Hoyt, where they and a bunch of other alumni
watched a much more satisfying game against Harvard. The first weekend
in December, Ed returned to New Haven for the dedication of the new
Catholic Students' Center attached to St. Thomas More Chapel, and
while there he encountered Alex Ercklentz and Margilde, and the four
went to Mory's for dinner. Then back to Washington where he and Georgia
hosted Mike and Yvonne Dixon at dinner. It occurs to me that Ed is doing
all my work for me.

Sometimes, after we publish the news of a classmate's death,
more news comes in after that issue has gone to press that deserves
notice in a later issue. We received a lovely letter the other day, for
instance, from Beverley Brockus, the wife of John Dorsey
Heinberg, whose death and stellar career as a public servant were noted
here several issues ago. She reports that among those at the funeral
were Bob Ferguson, Toby Terrell and Art Hotchkiss. She also said that on
impulse, and with the encouragement of Ed Greenberg, she decided to
attend the class's mini-reunion in Santa Fe, where, as the class's only
widow in attendance, she met with a "rewarding and thoroughly
heartwarming" reception. "John cherished his Yale connection," she
wrote, "and I was glad for the opportunity to be there for him."

Also in the catch-up department, it should be noted that 24
classmates ranging from Bob Arias at the front of the alphabet to Bill
Waldorf at the back attended the memorial service in New York for Kathy
Gertz, Ben's wife -- a tribute to both Kathy and Ben -- and that Jim
Hinkle, Jim Sheffield , Woody Ives and David Schroeder were among the
large gathering at Gerry Studds's memorial service at the Kennedy
Library, where the speakers included Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank, a
Massachusetts Congressman.

The sad news this month is the death of Wallace Emmett "Toby" Tobin
III, who died Dec. 21 after a long battle with brain cancer. Toby was one
of those endlessly youthful, generous, full-of-life people with a
zillion friends and no adversaries except possibly rival navigators whom
he regularly and cheerfully outfoxed on the high seas. . Apart from his
family -- Harriet and three children, Briggs, Ashley and Bliss -- his
greatest love was the sea, a relationship born during during his
childhood days in Massachusetts and reinforced during his Naval R.O.T.C.
days at Yale and (after time out for a Clare Fellowship at Cambridge)
six years in the Navy navigating large ships. He held several management
positions over the course of his life, most recently at the Bear Island
Paper Company in Maine, but he was happiest on a sailboat, whether
racing or merely cruising the seven seas, often in the company of
classmates . Toby was the youngest crew member of the 1958 America's Cup
defense, aboard "Columbia," and later served as navigator in two
subsequent America's Cup campaigns, aboard "Intrepid" in 1967 and
"Valiant" in 1970. He was also a stalwart advisor to many sailing
organizations. A memorial is planned for April 14 at MidCoast Presbyterian Church in
Topsham, ME. Probably the best place to get further details is from
Bliss, who relayed the sad news, at blisstobin@hotmail.com.