Yale Alumni Magazine Class Notes

                                             November/December 2007

                                                 Robert B. Semple

                                             Corresponding Secretary

Our gala New York mini-reunion had yet to occur when these notes
went to press. There will be a complete report on that, our various
gatherings in Princeton and New Haven, and tons of other great
stuff in the next issue.

As forecast, your hardy band of football faithful, minus
Barbara McLendon, who was in London, and your corresponding
secretary, who was felled by flu-like symptoms, gathered at the Bowl
for Yale's opener, in which they beat Cornell by what seemed a
million points when it was over. Yale's expansionist dreams have
overwhelmed parking lot B with construction machinery but Herb
Hallas, Charlie and Barbara Griffith and George and Rose Piroumoff,
among others, made the scene and would welcome more company at future games.

Dick Grainger , our Tonawanda, N.Y. correspondent, kindly sent
us an enormous and enormously laudatory feature in the Spotlight
section of the Buffalo News about Dave Shire, who was honored by
(and played with) the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, which devoted an entire
evening to Dave's music. The program included his Oscar-winning "it
Goes Like It Goes" from the Sally Field movie, "Norma Rae," plus
other material from Broadway and from soundtracks of films like "All the President's Men." I have known Dave for 50 years, and listened to
his music for nearly that long, but until now I had not known that
in Buffalo he is, in Dick's words, a "hero around town," even though
he moved away shortly after high school. What a marvelous tribute!

On a sadder note, we report the death of Stuart Pringle, Jr.,
at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Stuart, a
graduate of Choate, the University of Michigan Law School and the
United states Navy, retired in 1989 from the New York law firm of
Thacher, Proffitt and Wood, and then became an avid farmer after
settling full time in Vermont in 1998. His wife, the former Ann
Brueggemann, to whom we offer our condolences, can be reached at 612
Wild Apple Road, South Pomfret, Vt., 15067. Stuart also maintained a
home in New York and an of-counsel relationship with the firm.
More anon.