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  • 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.

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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.

  • Sleeper Essay on Salon.com Rankles Breitbart

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    Our prolific classmate, Jim Sleeper, has been publishing political commentary on the election in The Guardian, Salon and Commonweal magazine. Most of the essays use rich historical analyses comparing the current rightward movement in our politics to prior periods of American and world history, specifically ancient Rome and Weimar Germany.

    Last week, on Presidents’ Day, Salon published an essay comparing the current Administration with the fall of the Roman Republic.  That essay, “Is Donald Trump more like Hitler or Augustus Caesar?   Honestly, it’s both” attracted a lot of eyeballs online and on social media. 

    A few hours after Salon published the article, Breitbart News took exception to the thesis of Jim’s essay in a prominent article, set forth below. Read the Breitbart critique and Jim’s original. Who’s right?

  • Steve Dunwell’s Photographs Now A Part of History

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    The Boston Public Library recently acquired one of the limited edition portfolios Steve Dunwell recently published, “With These Hands.” Each set contains nine archival silver prints showing New England textile mill workers 1973-1977. There are only 12 sets in this Limited Edition.

    This purchase is an excellent start on Steve’s goal of getting all the important archival repositories in New England, plus some key national institutions, to purchase and preserve these silver-process prints of a bygone era that he was able to document shortly after we graduated.

    This project began in early 1973 when Steve was invited to visit a textile mill in ….

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    “We Are All One Family” – Richard Seltzer

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    Our prolific classmate, Richard Selzer, has done It again – by publishing his newest book, One Family.  This one is very different from his other books, many of which have been profiled in these pages.  This is not a novel; it’s an exploration, a meditation on the nature of human connectedness.

    The book starts with a mind-blowing thought experiment (and proof) that, if you have European ancestry, it’s likely that you are related to every other person with European ancestry on Earth today.  We are indeed … ONE FAMILY. 

    Richard also makes a generous gift at the end of the article — access to a free copy of the book!

  • Class Notes, Jan-Feb 2025

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    A long-overdue update on Paul Severtson: “I became interested in music because “my mother was quite an accomplished cellist in her youth. She made sure that all five of her kids learned an instrument. Somehow she managed our musical training in such a way that she got a string quartet out of the first four. The youngest rebelled. He took up the oboe.” Paul majored in music theory and composition at Yale, and then received…

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    Marty Cohen’s latest book of poetry is now available

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    Per his 50th Reunion Essay, Marty Cohen retired in 2015 with six goals, two of which were to publish works in process and create new ones. 

    He’s made good on at least one of those goals by publishing Stone Seeds, which Amazon describes thusly: “Stone Seeds is about paying attention to the connections between people and places, poetry and birds, songs and silence, spirituality and the material world.

    Marty has been publishing poetry and essays on literature and the arts in periodicals and anthologies since 1970. Stone Seeds brings together the best of his work since A Traveller’s Alphabet (1979).

    In this post, Marty makes a generous offer to classmates and shares some personal news, too – read more.

  • Peabody’s Mineral Galleries Reopen – David Friend Hall

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    Editor’s Note: Those who attended the Reunion last summer had an opportunity to get a private tour of the newly renovated Peabody Museum, including the expanded exhibits of dinosaurs and replicas of other prehistoric flora and fauna. We also got to see the work being completed on the David Friend Hall, a section of the Peabody dedicated to the mineral collection donated by David Friend, ’69 Calhoun.

    This story is reprinted from this month’s Roskin Gem News Report, a leading journal focused on the natural gemstone industry. It reports on the formal debut of the completed exhibition, well documented with some stunning pictures.