Sam Weisman remembers Dave: In the fall of 1965, my freshman counselor, Hardy Brereton, found out I was a musician. He asked me if I had an interest in joining one of Yale’s acapella groups. I had no idea what he was talking about. He then spirited me off to the Music Room in Silliman…
Nicholas (aka Nick) Hawkin was a bit older than the rest of us, and he carried himself with a grace and wit that were truly enviable. His father was an Oxford grad and a British diplomat assigned to various offices in Mexico and South America. His mother was Peruvian, and Nick was educated in South…
Ken Brown, who roomed with Richard Sophomor and Junior years offered the following for the class notes. Richard L. Farren of New York City, age 76, died suddenly at his home on December 3, 2023. Richard was a practicing attorney at the time of his death. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1965. He…
from: Erie Times News The Rev. John Randolph Elliott (“Randy”) was an extraordinary, ordinary man. Randy will be long remembered as a man of prayer with deep faith, warm spirit, unwavering integrity, rigorous self-discipline, large intellect, and contagious laughter most often heard with a big family that he loved and gave him great joy—a family…
Founder of Center for Alcohol and Drug Research Education had a ‘true passion’ for helping alleviate others’ pain William R. “Bill” Caltrider Jr., the founder and president of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Research Education, who also played a major role in the rehabilitation facility Tuerk House, died of heart failure July 15…
Summary from Wired Magazine: Charles Apel’s resume: drops out of Yale in 1967 to become a hippie and get high with Jim Morrison. Lives in the jungles of Colombia to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Eventually pardoned by Jimmy Carter. Fathers seven children. Returns to school and earns a BA in 1999 and a chemistry PhD in 2003. Now works in the Astrochemistry Lab in the Space Science Division at NASA researching the origins of cellular life. Associate editor of Biosystems.
Michael Harrington reports that he noticed in Class Notes of ’71, David Porter died recently: “Porter entered with our class in Sept 1965 but ended up in the Class of 1971 before finally graduating in ‘76. Quite an academic odyssey.” His freshman roommate, Greg Montes has an extensive recollection of David below, following this obit…
UPDATED comments, posted 4/8/24 Remembering Donald P. Ferguson, ’69 Mark Alden Branch’s “Old Yale” article, “The Stories Behind the Names,”, in Yale Alumni Magazine, November/December, 2023, focuses on five of the 35 Yale alumni killed in the Vietnam War. One of them, Donald Ferguson, ’69, is also part of another group of five men killed…
Editor’s Note:
John ran the music program for the 2019 Reunion; see Classmates In Concert>
As the Music Editor of Yale1969.org, he featured Rick Drost, Norm Zamcheck, John O’Leary, Derek Huntington, Mike Folz, the Plastic Visitation, the Lunatic Fringe and The Morning. He even supported The Whiffs CD (from 35th Reunion). Click thru to enjoy his writing and listen to the music!
Bruce was born May 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Skokie, Illinois and attended Niles West High School where he became a state champion gymnast.
He studied economics as an undergraduate and for his PhD.(Yale, 1972). For his graduate research he studied how human behaviors can cause departures from the principles of rational economics, a topic that was not well received at the time, but which (as Bruce would wryly note) led to a Nobel Prize for some later researchers.
from Legacy.com William Barnum Wick wire, 76, of North Haven, passed away peacefully on Sept. 30, 2022, at the CT Hospice in Branford. He was the loving and devoted husband for 42 years of Joellen DeRoma Wickwire. Bill was born Aug. 15, 1946, in Syracuse, NY, a son of the late Lyman and Jeanne Barnum…
We only recently learned of Paul’s passing and there is no online obituary we could find.
Paul had returned to Cleveland, and we were able to find some info from Atom Yee, Keith Nelson, his 50th reunion essay, his Facebook page and LinkedIn.
This was initially posted when John died in February 2020. The memorial service was postponed twice for COVID but was finally held on September 25th. Here is a YouTube recording of the service. Several classmates attended; Ted Van Dyke and Steve Haworth both spoke (at 16:07 and 22:02, respectively).
David Lawrence passed away on June 25, 2022. Here is the profile he contributed to Yale1969.org just prior to the 50th reunion. Following my life backwards from the present (2018). A retired commercial photographer of politicians (hired by the campaigns of three Presidents), movie stars, celebrities, and Titans of Industry, I live with my wife…
(from Legacy.com) GREEN, Joseph Benjamin Of Cambridge, Massachusetts, passed away on August 17, 2022 at 74 from pancreatic cancer. An accomplished attorney and tennis player, Joe was known for his integrity and agility, both in court and on the court. Born in 1947 in New York City, Joe attended Horace Mann School for junior high…
Editor’s Note: The Hopkins School in New Haven was Jim’s high school, and here are some remembrances from his HS friends, as well as some pix from their 50th reunion in 2015.
James (Jim) Stanford Nippes died unexpectedly Monday evening, May 16, 2022, at his home in Madison, Mississippi. Jim was born on July 10, 1947, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1965; from Yale University in 1969 with a double major in Physics and History; and from the University of Mississippi Law School in 1973. After receiving an LLM Degree in …
