Walter Joseph Cummings III Date of Death: 12-Nov-2000 College: Timothy Dwight (Walter’s 1994 essay for the 25th Reunion is reprinted in part here.) In 1966, on a family trip, I’d taken one look at San Francisco. Its beauty was (and is) captivating. So, on graduation, Westward Ho. A Judy Collins concert-inspired blind date led me, in 1970, to Polly Field, visiting San Francisco from Milton, Massachusetts. My father married us on Cape Cod in 1975….
WALTER JOSEPH CUMMINGS, III (Walt). Born April 3, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, son of Walter Joseph Cummings, Jr. (Class of ’37) and Therese Farrell Murray Cummings. Attended Canterbury School, New Milford, Connecticut. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. History major; Dean’s List, 1965-66. Resident: Timothy Dwight (Mott Wooley Council, 1966-68; Soccer, 1965-67). Delta Kappa Epsilon, 1966-69, Social Chairman, 1967-68. Political Union, 1965-68; Track, 1966. Roommates: Atwood Collins, III, William Worthington Scranton, Eric Young Johnson, Duncan D. Ebersol….
