… In the first ten years of his career, he worked with the National Indian Health Service treating hantavirus on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico and measles outbreaks in remote tribal areas near the Arctic Circle. He then transferred to the Peace Corps and served for ten years as a Chief Medical Officer in a number of countries in Africa. He was the first medical person to reach the US Embassy in Kenya after […]
David Roe 1061 Walker Ave. Oakland, CA 94610 davidroe@mail.com Spouse(s): Robin Gilleland (1970–1976), Sukey Lilienthal (1987) Child(ren): Nathan (1990), Celeste (1993) Education: Yale BA 1969, Oxford 1969–1971 (no degree); Yale Law JD 1974 Career: www.davidroe65.com College: Silliman It’s reassuring at least to recognize that mid-40s person who wrote my submission for the 25th reunion, extolling the new-to-him pleasures of marriage and children after two decades devoted to the infancy and childhood of the modern environmental…
Coed Week was our class’s unique and history-changing contribution to Yale; and there’s
a live recording of its key moment, pitting Youth against Experience in the
Trumbull dining room. See how the confrontation strikes you, from 50 more years of perspective.
DAVID BENSON ROE (Dave, Bense). Born May 10, 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Benson B. Roe, M.D. and Jane Rignel St. John Roe. Attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Entered Yale Sept., 1965. Intensive English major; Dean’s List, 1965- 66, 1966-67; Ranking Scholar, 1966-67 (fall term). Resident: Silliman (Squash, 1966-67; Tennis, 1966-69). Elihu; English Dept. Student Advisory Committee, 1967-69; Political Union, 1965-66; Yale Daily News, 1966- 69, Copy Editor, 1967-68, Associate Managing Editor, 1968-69; Freshman…
