The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

The Future of Communications: Reed Hundt on Current Issues and Tough Choices

ByDaniel Seiver

The 3rd Class Colloquium in our series was a huge success as Reed Hundt took us on a Greyline Tour of the issues being debated right now in Congress and how revolutions in communications and computing amplify both the possibilities and the threats coming soon. Here is the recording of Reed’s presentation and the Q&A.  It’s well worth listening to. After revealing “the seven tech stocks I own” — partly for fun and partly as…

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ClassColloquium 3: Reed Hundt on the Future of Communication: Data, Privacy, and State Control

ByDaniel Seiver

In 1996, as midwife to the last major overhaul of the US telecommunications policy, Reed was exquisitely prepared to address the knotty problems arising from — and possible policy responses to — the issues attendant to social media, e-commerce, and online privacy, and the dangers of media concentration, Russian trolls, Chinese hackers, “deep fake” videos, and other ills of our internet-based future.

Register now to attend: July 22nd, 1:00 PM EDT.

Class Notes – Jul/Aug 2020

Class Notes – Jul/Aug 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Three more times the bell has tolled:  Dick MacKay, Jim Steffenburg, and Terry Miller are gone. Howard Newman reported Dick’s death on March 26: “Dr. Richard MacKay died today after a life of service to others and a cruelly unfair illness.” Howard and others are working on a full memorial of Dick’s life which will appear in my next column and, much sooner, on the class website. Jim Steffenburg died peacefully on February 27 at…

Class Notes – May/Jun 2020

Class Notes – May/Jun 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Ted Van Dyke remembers John Nelson: John Eric Nelson died of colorectal cancer on February 5, 2020.  He fought it bravely, tenaciously and optimistically.  When I last saw him on January 24, we parted with a long-held fist bump and his saying, “It’s not looking good, but I’m not giving up.” John was an excellent athlete, winning the class of 1969 intramural athlete of the year award and leading the JE Spiders football teams to…

Class Notes – Mar/Apr 2020

Class Notes – Mar/Apr 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Jim Grew writes: “I was inducted into the International Waterski & Wakeboard Hall of Fame this year, the International Governing Body of all Towed Water Sports recognized by the IOC to go along with my 2013 induction into the U.S. Water Ski & Wake Sports Hall of Fame, the national governing body recognized by the USOPC.”  Related story. Mike Schonbrun (mks@balfourcare.com): “Loved seeing everyone at the 50th. My appreciation for Yale gets stronger every year,…

Class Notes – Jan/Feb 2020

Class Notes – Jan/Feb 2020

ByDaniel Seiver

Ralph Swanson reports: “It is with a great deal of sadness that I inform you of the passing today (9/26/2019) of our good friend and classmate, Eric Prosnitz. I just learned this from his long-time girlfriend, Kathi Willis. As you know, Eric was being treated for cancer, but he was very upbeat about the prognosis (I spoke with him last in August).  Apparently, he developed a fast-moving blood infection and there was nothing they could…

Eric Prosnitz, September 24, 2019

Eric Prosnitz, September 24, 2019

ByDaniel Seiver

Eric was a practicing nephrologist and professor of medicine at Arizona State  University in Tucson, where he served since 1978.  You can get more details from his reunion essays (linked on his profile page), where you can learn about the loss of his first wife (and Yale prom date) in 1992, the twists and turns of early career and post-Yale study, and great humor and insight expressed in the 50th reunion essay. From Tucson.com/The Arizona…

Martin Hoffmeister, December 2018

Martin Hoffmeister, December 2018

ByDaniel Seiver

Martin Hoffmeister, an American architect, has died, but we don’t have a specific date. Your scribe, in spite of much searching, has not found much about his life. Here is what we have from prabook.com: Martin was born on August 27, 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to Vaclav Rohlik and Milena (Hoffmeister) Klikova. He came to the United States in 1966. After getting his Yale BA in 1969, he earned a Master of Architecture from Yale…

Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2019

Class Notes – Nov/Dec 2019

ByDaniel Seiver

Martin Hoffmeister, an American architect, died several years ago. Your scribe, in spite of much searching, has not found much about his life. Here is what we have from prabook.com:  Martin was born on August 27, 1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia to Vaclav Rohlik and Milena (Hoffmeister) Klikova. He came to the United States in 1966. After getting his Yale BA in 1969, he earned a Master of Architecture from Yale in 1972. He did postgraduate…

Class Notes – Sep/Oct 2019

Class Notes – Sep/Oct 2019

ByDaniel Seiver

Edward Jay Ferraro died on January 3, 2019. Terence Lenahan writes: Ed was my oldest friend. We met in the summer of 1962 at the end of ninth grade. We went the same way, so we often walked home together talking though his trip was much longer, all the way to Yankee Stadium, about four miles or more. After that we were debate teammates for three years and traveled all over the country together competing….

You CAN Go Home Again!

You CAN Go Home Again!

ByDaniel Seiver

You can go home again!

Your scribe and nearly 400 classmates, with 300 spouses and family members, returned to Yale for a fabulous 50th. My limited word allowance cannot do justice to the rediscoveries of old friends, and, yet again, the making of new ones. Add in nonstop intellectual stimulation, animated conversations day and night, a steady supply of libations and tasty comestibles, all topped with two servings from our gentlemen songsters, the superb 1969 Whiffenpoofs.

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Daniel Alan Seiver – 50th Reunion Essay

ByDaniel Seiver

Daniel Alan Seiver 117 Florin St. Pismo Beach, CA 93449 seiverda@miamioh.edu Spouse(s): Sharon (Cherie) Seiver (2003) Child(ren): Elizabeth (1981), Robert (1985) Education: Yale PhD, Economics 1974 National Service: US Army Reserve/National Guard, SSG, ’70–’76 (5 months active duty for training) Career: College Professor Avocations: basketball, track and field, gardening, reading, writing College: Saybrook As I enter the autumn of my years, I have found a modicum of contentment. This concept was not even on my…

Edward Jay Ferraro, January 3, 2019

Edward Jay Ferraro, January 3, 2019

ByDaniel Seiver

Ed’s widow updated our information: “When my husband Edward passed away at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, one of the hardest things to do was pack up the books that were piled on every available surface in the room. Never one for small talk, Edward loved to engage the hospital staff in discussions about his books on philosophy and religion.

A roommate that Edward had after college wrote “I never tired …

Class Notes – Mar/Apr 2019

Class Notes – Mar/Apr 2019

ByDaniel Seiver

Your scribe has learned from Barbara Plyer that her husband Bruce Plyer died on November 15, 2018. In an email to your scribe, she reports that “He had just finished lifting weights and came upstairs. His death was a sudden catastrophic event and took only minutes. He loved his time at Yale. He was a member of the Dramat; he rowed for four years; he was an architecture major.” “Bruce was also a talented artist who…