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    James Douglas Woolery, June 13, 2026

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    Editor’s Note: this is “in process,” so we’d welcome people either adding remembrances as a “comment” field (below, login first) or sending thoughts, stories, tributes, etc. to the Editor (Wayne, support@Yale1969.org) for inclusion.  Pictures, especially, are  \welcome. In addition to the formal obituary (see text pasted below), I think the most telling summary of Jamie’s life is found on the “About” page of his personal website – jamieirons.com. From About Jamie Woolery was born in…

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    William John Stanisich, December 29, 2025

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    William John Stanisich (Bill) 78, of San Francisco, died peacefully, on December 29, 2025, after a brief but complicated illness.

    Born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 15, 1947, Bill attended Yale University (1965-69), majoring in English Literature and History of Art. He studied with architecture historian Vincent Scully and Charles Talbot, the Northern Renaissance scholar. Bill graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History of Art in 1969, and was accepted into the Yale Architecture Department but had to return to San Francisco to attend to his ailing mother.

    Bill continued his studies at the S.F. Art Institute, but turned to teaching high school art and English to supplement his career as an artist. He taught at Lick-Wilmerding (1970-71), then at the Urban School (1972-1998), when he retired with disability.  Beginning in the mid-1980s Bill …

  • James Robert Wright, Jr. – January 2, 2002

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    Editor’s Note: Some of our classmates passed away prior to the creation of Yale1969.org and, therefore, never received any “In Memoriam” reports or tributes here. This information was submitted by Dov Ospovat’s widow, Claudia Ospovat (Leopold). If you have information (and preferably some pictures) of classmates who died prior to 2017, feel free to submit the information here, and I’ll post it.

    James R. Wright, Jr. was born November 30, 1946 in Stillwater, Oklahoma to…

  • Richard Stuart Lannamann, January 6, 2026

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    Published in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 15, 2026.    Richard S. Lannamann of Osprey, Florida, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2026, in Stamford, Connecticut, following a heart attack on Christmas Eve. His loving wife, Kate, was at his side. He was 78. Rick was a beloved husband, father, and grandfather and a distinguished leader in the executive search profession. hello. Born on September 4, 1947, Rick was raised in Cincinnati and graduated from Walnut Hills High…

  • Paul Cole Wilkins, November 13, 2025

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    Dr. Paul Cole Wilkins, age 78, of Charlottesville, passed away on Thursday, November 13, 2025. Dr. Wilkins died peacefully at the Hospice of the Piedmont due to complications sustained from a stroke two weeks prior. Born on August 21, 1947, in Buffalo, New York, Dr. Wilkins was a medical psychiatrist who practiced in Charlottesville since 1976. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yale University in 1969, distinguishing himself by winning the Albert Angier award in…

  • Bruce Neuhausen Jones, Octoober 17, 2025

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    Bruce Jones’ daughter Stephanie reports:

    Bruce Jones passed away from metastatic melanoma October 17th, 2025. He is survived by his wife Victoria, his daughter Karen (Cornell & London Business School), his daughter Stephanie (Yale 2000), his son Christopher (University of Maryland) and Christopher’s daughter Chloe.

    After graduating from Yale, Bruce earned his graduate degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School …

  • William Byron Evans, October 13, 2025

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    We recently learned of the death of Bill Evans. He certainly didn’t fit into recognizable categories — an accomplished athlete (captain of Varsity Lacrosse, 3 years of Varsity Football, All-American football, Major Y’s) but relatively quiet and gentle man. Well, let’s have Bill tell us, as he did in his 50th Reunion Essay:

    “Along the way there have been the usual ups and downs and missed directions …

  • Steve Dunwell’s Textile Worker Portraits Return to New England

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    This Labor Day, the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket, RI will open With These Hands: Textile Worker Portraits by Steve Dunwell. The exhibit features 21 striking black-and-white images of New England textile workers from the 1970s, part of Dunwell’s larger archive of over 140 photographs.

    On September 1, Dunwell will present a slideshow and discussion of his work, followed by a screening of the documentary Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village. The exhibit runs through October 24, offering visitors a rare chance to reflect on the human stories behind New England’s once-dominant textile industry.

  • Robert Edward Arras, Jr., July 9, 2025

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    Dick Livingston and Henry Fuller passed on the news that Robert Arras died peacefully at his home in Heredia, Costa Rica (a suburb of San Jose, Costa Rica) in early July.  Dick added: Rob graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1965.  He played soccer for Yale and was the varsity lacrosse goalie.  A resident of Pierson College and a member of DKE fraternity, Rob was a gregarious, fun-loving and very humorous individual, always with a…

  • Lloyd Suttle To Be Honored at The Game

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    The Blue Leadership Ball returns this fall to celebrate Yale’s legacy of leadership on the eve of the 141st playing of The Game. As part of this marquee biennial celebration, the Yale Athletic Department will bestow its highest honor, the George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award, on five outstanding individuals and one Special Award recipient.

    The 2025 honorees are standouts in athletics, academics, and their professional fields. They are Keith Flaherty ’93 B.S.; Wendell Mottley ’64 B.A.; Lorraine Pratte Lewis ’78 B.A.; Margot Putukian ’84 B.S.; Victor Staffieri ’77 B.A.; and J. Lloyd Suttle ’69 B.S., ’73 M.Phil., ’75 Ph.D.

  • Karlis Peter Ameriks, April 28, 2025

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    Karl Ameriks was the Emeritus McMahon-Hank Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Munich, Karl graduated summa cum laude from Yale—A.B. (1969), Ph.D. (1973)—and wrote his thesis under the guidance of Karsten Harries.

    He joined the faculty at Notre Dame in 1973 and taught there for over forty years.  He was regarded as one of the leading scholars of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy and has written extensively on the history of late modern and Continental philosophy.  Ameriks co-edited the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy.  He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

  • Thomas G. Stanko, April 7, 2025

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    Tom technically is affiliated with the Class of ’70, but he was in our class, in TD, until the spring semester of our senior year. He missed our graduation because while on spring break in Bermuda, he broke his leg when he crashed his motor bike into a stone wall. According to his son, Johnnie, Tom passed away peacefully at Johnnie’s home owing to complications of a constellation of cancers called BPDCN. Johnnie reported that…

  • Gregory Gorelik, August 4, 2014

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    Not much is known about Greg.  He lived in a single in Ezra Stiles and had an irascible nature.  He graduated but never participated in any alumni events and had no internet presence.  We only recently learned about his death, which occurred in 2014. San Diego Union Tribune SAN DIEGO – A 66-year-old San Diego man who died when his car veered into a parked pickup Friday, was identified, the Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday….

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    Eugene Linden’s New Sci-Fi Thriller Lands Strong Reviews

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    Editor’s Note: You heard from Eugene at the 55th reunion about his environmental book, Fire and Flood: A Peo­ple’s His­tory of Cli­mate Change, from 1979 to the Pre­sent.  Well, he has some novels, too — and this is his latest, complete with a very positive and informative review.

    Fol­low­ing his sci-fi novel Deep Past (2019), au­thor Eu­gene Lin­den has picked up where he left off with Res­ur­rect­ing Bart (2025). The idea for the for­mer book, he told The Hud­son In­de­pen­dent, grew out of a pon­der­ance: “If nat­ural se­lec­tion could pro­duce hu­man scale in­tel­li­gence in just sev­eral hun­dred thou­sand years – the blink of an eye on a ge­o­log­i­cal scale – who’s to say other highly in­tel­li­gent crea­tures haven’t come and gone over the past mil­lions of years.”

  • We Need A New Listserv.  Your Input Needed.

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    Editor’s Note: Yale retired our old system. Which of the new offerings should we use? The old system was broken and fell into disuse. It’s time to resurrect it. This article briefly discusses what a Class listserv is, what it’s good for and how it would benefit you. We share a few of the design choices we face and solicit your input.

    One of the lesser-known tools for communicating with other members of our class is the class listserv. It hasn’t been used very often over the past couple of years.

    What is a listserv, you ask? Well, it’s just a piece of software that manages a mailing list of its members. Any member of the list can send an email to a single address, and that message will be forwarded to all the other members.

    What do 69ers want from a listserv? Here are the design choices we are juggling. Your input would be helpful.

  • Ted Van Dyke is published in academic history journals

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    What actions should you consider upon learning that your grandfather was like Reuben Markham—a missionary, educator, journalist, intelligence officer, and a significant American figure who played a vital role in the social and political lives of pre-war Bulgaria? What steps should you take when research reveals a wealth of historically important actions and writings associated with his life?

    Well, if you’re like Stuart (“Ted”) Van Dyke, you dust off your PhD in European History, ignite your research skills, and dive into the archives of the US State Department, the Christian Science Monitor, and several Bulgarian and other primary sources. You seek to uncover exactly what your grandfather did and how his contemporaries responded. And with a scholar’s dispassionate eye, you document that for history — maybe for a book, but for now in some academic journals.